AThe Windsor Star Windsor, Ontario, Canada Thursday, April 27, 1972 - Page 34
Canadians Now Enter Chess Bid
The world chess showdown between Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, the current champion, and challenger Bobby Fischer, could still come about.
Puerto Rico and Canada have both offered to host at least a portion of the 24-match series for the championship that was originally scheduled for Belgrade, Yugoslavia and Reykjavik, Iceland with 12 games to have been played in each city.
International Chess Federation president Max Euwe said from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Wednesday that Puerto Rico had offered to stage a part of the whole of the final in a telephone call to him while he was in Singapore recently. And Phil Haley, president of the Chess Federation of Canada, said from Sarnia that his group has resubmitted a bid made late last year to hold the initial 12 games in Montreal beginning before July 1.
Haley said that the Canadian federation has sent the offer to the International Chess Federation, but has received no answer.
He said he feels the Montreal bid has “probably a very good chance” of acceptance.
