AFort Worth Star-Telegram Fort Worth, Texas Monday, July 10, 1972 - Page 22
Fischer Gets Special Chair
Reykjavik (Reuter) — The world chess championship is expected to get under way Tuesday now that a special chair for U.S. challenger Bobby Fischer has been flown in from New York. ([So-called western journalists seem more mentally distressed by Bobby fetching his own chair from N.Y., suitably built to accommodate his 6'2" stature, than the suspicious Soviets who reportedly looked it over and left with no comment.])
All that remains to irritate Fischer is the Icelandic stone chessboard which he apparently does not like, preferring a wooden one. However this problem is not seen as a major one.
The 29-year-old grandmaster, who meets world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, also has commented on the overhead lighting in the hall of play.
But Fred Cramer, a vice president of the U.S. Chess Federation and a lighting expert, says it is probably the best Fischer has ever seen.
Fischer Gets Special Chair 10 Jul 1972, Mon Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, Texas) Newspapers.com
