AThe Signal Santa Clarita, California Monday, March 27, 1972 - Page 2
Those Americans
Yugoslav chess Grand Master Svetozar Gligoric (his friends call him Gligor) played 26 simultaneous games in Los Angeles last week. He galloped from board to board, pushing pawns and skipping knights. he lost one, won 23. The other two boards were played by ladies, and Gligoric, whose inclination is to chivalry and not Women's Lib, offered them both a draw.
Gligoric, former resistance fighter and a journalist when he's away from the boards, had dinner with local chess fans in Val Val.
He said that this (his fifth) tour of the U.S., is more strenuous than most because everyone's after him for June hotel reservations in his home town of Belgrade. June in Belgrade will see the Chess Match of the Century, with the Soviets' Boris Spassky meeting the U.S.'s Bobby Fischer.
Gligoric winds up his current tour in Houston, Texas, where a tournament will have an imposing list of players and prizes (top $4000). But Gligoric doesn't like to talk about Houston. The tournament is sponsored by an outfit called Church's Fried Chicken, a private-enterprise promotion quite foreign to his Communist homeland. “I'd never be able to explain that in Yugoslavia,” he sighed. “They wouldn't understand what a church has to do with a chicken — or what either have to do with chess.
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