ATampa Bay Times St. Petersburg, Florida Sunday, July 16, 1972 - Page 6
Private Spassky-Fischer Chess Match Proposed
Reykjavik (UPI) — In a final attempt to get Bobby Fischer to return to the chess board, the world championship match committee proposed Saturday that Sunday's game in his contest with Russia's Boris Spassky be played privately with only the players and judges present. That way the American challenger would escape the TV cameras in the chess hall. He refused to play the second game Thursday because the organizers would not remove the cameras ([the men operating the cameras]) which he said distracted him.
But Arbiter Lothar Schmid of West Germany and other chess officials said they were still pessimistic about the possibility of continuing the match, in which Spassky leads, 2-0, after beating the American in the first game and winning the second by default. ([So, remove the obstacles created by Soviets such as disruptive camera men and let's see what Fischer is capable of.])
