AFort Worth Star-Telegram Fort Worth, Texas Thursday, July 20, 1972 - Page 5
New Quarters Sought For Fischer, Spassky
Reykjavik (Reuter) — Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky relaxed Wednesday in their hotels in preparation for new living quarters for them.
The Russian world champion is leading 2½ points to 1½ in the series after the fourth game Tuesday night was drawn.
Icelandic officials are looking for a private villa in the city to offer Spassky for the duration of the match, which could last another two months.
They say he is fed up with hotel life. He was offered a house at Garda, six miles outside Reykjavik, but decided it was too far away.
THE PRESIDENT of the Icelandic Chess Federation, Gudmundur Thorarinsson, visited Spassky's chief administrative aide, grandmaster Nikolai Krogius, to discuss the world champion's accommodation.
Across the capital, the American challenger was sleeping. Fischer is a “night owl” who appears in public only when going to and from a game, on short sprints to his hotel swimming pool or at the bowling alleys at the nearby U.S. military base.
Alternative accommodations also are being sought for Fischer, American officials have inspected one house and given the challenger a favorable report about it, but they are keeping the location secret.
Fischer's administrative assistant, Fred Kramer, a vice president of the World Chess Federation, told reporters that before going bowling Tuesday night the challenger spent considerable time analyzing the drawn game.
Most experts here say Spassky showed that he was not properly informed by allowing Fischer to slip out of a very nasty situation when he should have won.
THIS IS NOT exactly how Kramer sees it. He said that game was evidently put together in Moscow by Spassky's grandmasters.
“Spassky raced through the first part of the game but Bobby knew how to handle it … as he always will. He was never in serious trouble.”
Kramer added that the question of allowing television cameras into the hall was being decided in New York by Fischer's lawyers and the American Broadcasting Co.
([Note the Soviet Propaganda alluded to: “Most experts here say Spassky… was not properly informed by allowing Fischer to slip out… when he should have won.” Oh! “Blame Spassky! Blame Spassky!…” and they did. Spassky was punished by the Soviet for loss of the crown and blamed, while the Soviet, out of its unbridled stubbornness refused to acknowledge Fischer was a superior gamesman who has more than sufficient skill to tackle whatever moves the Soviet may throw at him.])
New Quarters Sought For Fischer, Spassky 20 Jul 1972, Thu Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, Texas) Newspapers.com
