ACourier-Post Camden, New Jersey Thursday, August 31, 1972 - Page 8
Henry to Bobby: Go Play Chess
Honolulu (UPI) — Presidential Adviser Henry A. Kissinger, who calls himself a “reasonably good” chess player, said yesterday he urged Bobby Fischer to fly to Iceland for the championship match with Boris Spassky.
“I just called him to say a lot of people were rooting for him and it wasn't just a personal thing,” Kissinger told newsmen aboard the presidential jet en route to Honolulu.
Kissinger said he called the American chess genius in New York just hours before Fischer finally boarded a flight for the tournament after threatening not to show for a variety of reasons, including money.
