AArgus-Leader Sioux Falls, South Dakota Sunday, July 02, 1972 - Page 2
American Chess Master Missing At Time Of Flight
New York (AP)—American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer failed to show up at Kennedy Airport here Saturday night for passage on the last commercial airline flight that could have taken him to Reykjavik, Iceland, in time for the scheduled Sunday start of his world chess title match with Russian Boris Spassky.
The Icelandic Airlines plane departed on schedule without Fischer, and an airline spokesman said the next flight to Reykjavik would not be until 6:30 p.m. EDT Sunday.
Fischer's first game with Spassky was scheduled to begin at noon, CDT, Sunday.
There was some speculation that Fischer, who fled reporters when they spotted him at Kennedy Airport Thursday night, might have taken a flight to another European city and planned to go to Reykjavik from there.
In the past week, Fischer repeatedly canceled his passage on flights to Iceland reportedly because he was dissatisfied with financial arrangements for the match.
