AThe Central New Jersey Home News New Brunswick, New Jersey Thursday, March 30, 1972 - Page 30
They Just Want The Check, Mates
The one-time “enfant terrible” of chess, Bobby Fischer, has replaced temper tantrums with dollar deliriums. But for one raised in capitalist United States, that's not strange.
Fischer, who admits he moves pawns these days only for money, is seeking the most profitable deal he can get to meet the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky for the world title.
The plan was to split the matches between Iceland and Yugoslavia. All was going well, when Fischer decided he wanted more. What he wanted was for Spassky and himself to split all the money left after the cost of the matches.
Both Iceland and Yugoslavia said no. The Communist Yugoslavia representatives argued that the organizers, bearing the financial risk, were entitled to any profits that ensued.
Comrades, you sound like a pack of capitalist dogs.
