AAsbury Park Press Asbury Park, New Jersey Wednesday, February 09, 1972 - Page 36
Chess Site Choice Near Time Limit
New York (AP) — The chairman of the U.S. Chess Federation, Ed Edmondson, said yesterday Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky have until tomorrow to decide where they will play their match for the world chess championship.
If the American challenger and the Soviet holder of the championship do not decide by 8 a.m. EST, tomorrow, Edmondson said, Max Euwe, head of the International Chess Federation, will choose the site.
Euwe lives in the Netherlands, one of four places Spassky has listed as sites he considers suitable.
The others are Iceland, France and Dortmund, West Germany.
Fischer said he prefers a city in Yugoslavia, Buenos Aires, Argentina, or Montreal.
The American won the right to challenge Spassky by beating former world champion Tigran Petrosyan of the Soviet Union at Buenos Aires last year.
Edmondson returned yesterday from what he called “cordial discussions” of the problem with Viktor Baturinsky of the Soviet Chess Club in Moscow.
