The Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Monday, July 17, 1972 - Page 8
Letters to the Editor: Challenging Game
To the Editor:
Cheers for publishing the first game of the Spassky-Fischer match. You can hardly imagine how much chess players appreciate being able to play over the games soon after they take place.
Chessplayers are a small minority — some say a misguided minority. Sir Walter Scott pointed out that the time spent learning to play chess could be spent learning a foreign language. Yet chess is a wonderful game, and those who do not play do not know what they miss.
Roland Horner, Margate, N.J.
To the Editor:
Like almost chess players, I am dismayed by Bobby Fischer's uncalled actions in his world title ([a result of not knowing Fischer's side, the full story behind the]) chess contest match, but your cartoon placing his side of the chessboard with dollar insignias is in my estimation a misplaced conception ([actually, that was the intent of Soviet propaganda to paint Fischer as the embodiment of Capitalism… so they misguided the Russians and Americans too]).
Like many other geniuses, Fischer is subject to various ([standards, such as …demanding organizers follow rules, demanding the prize stakes be raised to the fair market value, etc]) and his boycott prior to this chess match are characteristics that have EVERYTHING to do with his love and devotion to a game that is actually life itself to him.
Ely Moskowitz, Shamokin
