ATucson Daily Citizen Tucson, Arizona Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 7
4th Chess Game Gets Under Way
Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI) — An adamant Bobby Fischer threatened another walkout today only minutes before the start of the fourth game of the $250,000 world championship chess match but agreed to play if ([crews of men operating large, bulky, human-operated]) television cameras were not used.
Only 15 minutes before referee Lothar Schmid started the clock for today's game the firm which bought film rights to the match tried to re-install the cameras.
“There will be no play if the cameras are brought in, that is sure,” one Fischer aide said.
An urgent meeting of the organizers was held and the firm, Chester Fox, agreed not to use the ([audibly, and visually disruptive crews of men operating bulky, television]) cameras.
Fischer then sat down in his special black leather and metal swivel chair and made his opening move — his usual king pawn.
Fischer boycotted the second game against world champion Boris Spassky of Russia because of Russia because of ([large, bulky filming equipment, carried by crews up to three men, which according to rules, Fischer was entitled to demand removal, according to Ed Edmondson of the U.S. Chess Federation who aided in drafting the original tournament negotiations in Amsterdam]) the cameras. Fischer said ([the disruptive camera crews of men, who Fischer reported as both visible, and audibly disruptive]) made him nervous.
Schmid awarded the game ([dismissing a valid protest submitted before the deadline, out of hand, and out of Pro-Soviet bias]) to Spassky and it gave Spassky a 2-0 edge. Fischer narrowed the margin to 2-1 with a win yesterday — his first ever against the Russian.
Fischer's first move was his favorite — an aggressive opening.
Spassky, however, chose an unusual response for him. He went into the Sicilian defense, possibly, experts said, to surprise Fischer.
Spassky made his first eight moves in less than two minutes, obviously having prepared his defense well in advance.
Fischer also was prepared, for he played his first seven moves in less than three minutes.
