AStar-Phoenix Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada Monday, July 10, 1972 - Page 2
Fischer Unhappy
Reykjavik (Reuter) — Chess genius Bobby Fischer paid a surprise visit early today to the hall where he will play Boris Spassky for the world chess championship and emerged after a two-hour inspection apparently unsatisfied with a number of arrangements. ([Omission of the opening, which is a repetition of Soviet fabrications; labeling a man “temperamental” because he kept the Saturday Sabbath and refused to break it, while in the lead, walked out. Antisemitic reporters claimed Fischer was “Eccentric” & “Controversial” and Sam Reshevsky, an orthodox Jew was labeled “The Reshevsky Problem” by Soviets. Soviet USSR chose Racist and Anti-American Iceland who forbid blacks, for the match to achieve censoring coverage. Much more to tell.])
The 29-year-old American grandmaster, accompanied by two advisers and officials of the Icelandic Chess Federation, entered the hall at 1 a.m., only hours after a special chair he had demanded was flown in from New York.
It was not known just what did not satisfy Fischer who is scheduled to begin play Tuesday with Russia's Spassky, the present world champion.
Spassky and his aides examined the hall Sunday and expressed satisfaction with the arrangements.
Fischer demanded a chair of the same type he used to beat Tigran Petrosian of the Soviet Union in the final match of the candidate series last year in Buenos Aires. ([to psyche the Soviets out is implied, or as the UPI article released on the same date, interviews Cramer, and contains a detailed list of reasonable complaints and the reason for them. So it was known, and that goes without saying, that not every chair is suitable for a man who stands 6 ft. 2 inches])
The Icelandic federation scoured the island for a similar chair without luck. However, the crisis was overcome when a chair was airlifted in from the United States.
Recycled Soviet Political Propaganda / Smear Campaign 10 Jul 1972, Mon Star-Phoenix (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada) Newspapers.com
