The Sydney Morning Herald Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Sunday, March 26, 1972 - Page 81
Chess: One Against 25 by David D. McNicoll
The Atmosphere in Farmer's Blaxland Gallery is very tense. […] “…In June he will be traveling to Yugoslavia for the first session of the world championship series between Bobby Fischer of American and the titleholder Boris Spassky of Russia.
Late this week he was notified that both players had accepted his ruling that 12 games should be played in Yugoslavia and 12 in Iceland.
When he finished his 25 simultaneous games at Farmer's on Friday, the Professor's manner changed.
The look of intense concentration that had creased his brow faded and he stood erect and smiled for the first time.
“I don't know who will win the championship,” he said.
“Fischer will be in top form but I am not sure about Spassky.
“If he is at his best then it will be a very strong and close match.”
Professor Euwe said government sponsorship was the reason for the Russian domination of chess since he lost his world title in 1937.
He said that an aspiring world champion would have to devote his life to the game.
“But if you had only to play all the time you would get very bored,” he said.
As one of the world's leading experts on computer chess, Professor Euwe spent several years programming a computer to play but he believes that men will always be able to beat machines.
“A computer, unlike a man, has no creativity,” he said. “You can tell a computer all the moves and all the rules but you can still beat it because it cannot see the exceptions to the rules that chess allows.
Chess: One Against 25 Sun, Mar 26, 1972 – Page 81 · The Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) · Newspapers.com
