ASimpson's Leader-Times Kittanning, Pennsylvania Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 7
Capitalistic Chess
Unfamiliar with the profit motive, the Russians were aghast at Bobby Fischer's dilatory approach to his world championship chess tournament with the titleholder, Boris Spassky, at Reykjavik, Iceland.
Americans are much less concerned about the commercial aspects of Fischer's recent moves, accustomed as they are to that springtime phenomenon, the baseball holdout, and its most recent and broadest manifestation to date, the baseball strike.
Still, there has to be latent admiration — even in Russia — for a brash young capitalist who not only put chess on the front pages of the world but also succeeded in doubling the purse to $250,000 — for an intellectual exercise.
The sporting world may never be the same again.
