AThe 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!’”
RUMOR MILL: Vlastimil Hort "Force Bobby Fischer to Play" Tho Week Earlier Fischer Confirmed He Would Wed, Apr 26, 1972 – 73 · The Indianapolis News (Indianapolis, Indiana) · Newspapers.com
