The Indianapolis News Indianapolis, Indiana Wednesday, April 26, 1972 - Page 73
SOVIET RUMOR MILL: Czechoslovakian-Communist Vlastimil Hort “Force Bobby Fischer to Play” (Tho Week Earlier Fischer Already Confirmed He Would!)
“The World Chess Federation should take tougher measures against American challenger Bobby Fischer to force him into playing, Vlastimil Hort, Czechoslovaki's chess grand master in Prague.
Fischer has refused to play world champion Boris Spassky of Russia because, Fischer said, the financial conditions for the matches were not good enough.
‘The American evidently forgets that he belongs to the large family of chess players. He resembles, even in the eyes of his friends, increasingly a business-man,’ Hort said. ‘How many sympathies and friends he has lost over the past few months!’”
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The Sydney Morning Herald Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Wednesday, April 26, 1972 - Page 4
Puerto Rico Bids For Chess
Singapore, Tuesday.
— Puerto Rico has offered to be host for the world chess championships between defending champion Boris Spassky, of the Soviet Union, and Bobby Fischer, of the United States.
This follows Yugoslavia's withdrawal of its offer to stage the first half of the championships.
The Puerto Rican offer was made by radio telephone this morning to the president of the International Chess Federation, Dr Max Euwe, who is now in Singapore.
Puerto Rico offered to be host for either the full championships or either half of the championships.
The 24-game final is scheduled to be held in two 12-game matches.
Iceland is still prepared to stage half the series, despite the uncertainty over Fischer's refusal to play until certain conditions are changed.
Dr Euwe said that he would not be able to decide on a site for the games until he returned to Amsterdam in the next few days.
(AAP)
