ADayton Daily News Dayton, Ohio Sunday, March 05, 1972 - Page 4
Russians Agree To Chess Sites
Moscow (AP)—The Russian Chess Federation indicated on Saturday it would agree to two sites for the world championship chess match between Bobby Fischer of the United States and the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky.
The indication came in a letter which the Russian federation handed to Dr. Max Euwe, president of the International Chess Federation.
Euwe came to Moscow to try to break an impasse over the location for the championship match.
The Soviet news agency Tass reported that the Soviet federation said in the letter it is “ready, in principle, to discuss conducting the first half of the match in Belgrade and the second half in Reykjavik.”
Belgrade is in Yugoslavia and Reykjavik is in Iceland.
The Russians had said Spassky, the defending champion, had objected to playing all the games in a European city with a hot climate in summer.
In their letter the Russians said the games should begin in Belgrade no later than July 1.
Spassky had picked Reykjavik as his first choice. Fischer had selected Belgrade because it had made the top money offer of $152,000 to host the match.
The championship match will be 24 games.
