AThe Sydney Morning Herald Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Sunday, May 14, 1972 - Page 47
Australian Gambit
So Australia, after its belated flurry of big bids to stage the world chess championships, has missed its early chances. Only little Iceland will do, it appears, for the two giants from East and West to use as a battleground.
Interested in the discussion about fabulous sums available for televising the Spassky-Fischer contest, and what the interested viewer might see, I questioned Garry Koshnitzky, who is “The Sun-Herald” chess editor as well as organising secretary of the Australian Chess Federation. How, I asked, would a television audience react to a player gnawing his lips for half an hour while pondering a move?
Koshnitsky felt the best effect would come from an edited version of highlights inside the battle ground, with a commentator and a demonstration board outside. Otherwise filling in those long minutes might strain the most imaginative cricket broadcasters—and not even a seagull in sight.
Australia might put in a bid for the next title contest in 1975. Don't be surprised if the challenger is himself an Australian.
No, that is going too far at the moment, but one of the little heralded chess success stories is of Sydney-born International Grandmaster Walter Shawne Browne, living in New York but still an Australian citizen, who is ranked next to Bobby Fischer in the latest US ratings. Browne, at 23, and a professional full-time player, still has years of chess ahead of him—but then so has Fischer.
Australian Gambit Sun, May 14, 1972 – Page 47 · The Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) · Newspapers.com
Australian Gambit Sun, May 14, 1972 – Page 47 · The Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) · Newspapers.com
