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...result of the Fischer phenomenon has been the spread of chess fever through TIME'S ranks. Alexandra Mezey, who researched the story, uses a pocket chess set to brush up on her king's side defense during spare moments. Kennedy and Leon Jaroff, who edited the story, recently engaged in a cross-country match via telex with Hillenbrand and other Los Angeles bureau members. After 23 moves, when the West Coast wood pushers' victory seemed assured, they revealed that they had used former U.S. Champion Larry Evans to direct their game. This week, with Hillenbrand already...
...cover story, Fischer's rough edges and temperamental demands mean only that he is in fighting trim. Fischer is usually at his best while complaining, says Kennedy. Kennedy himself has been a chessophile since the age of nine, and still spends an occasional evening at an all-night chess parlor...
...intervene "for the good of the country." Kissinger was not referring to his latest secret maneuverings for peace in Viet Nam. He was talking about peace in Reykjavik, Iceland, and the confrontation between Bobby Fischer of the United States and Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union for the world chess championship. After weeks of petty infighting, the stormy encounter of East v. West, of Boris the witty, urbane champion v. Bobby the temperamental, demanding challenger, had grown into an international incident. To avoid a stalemate, Kissinger, a chess player himself, put through a call to Fischer and implored...
...those who know him best, Bobby was merely being Bobby. "He is," says U.S. Grand Master Larry Evans, "the most individualistic, intransigent, uncommunicative, uncooperative, solitary, self-contained and independent chess master of all time, the loneliest chess champion in the world. He is also the strongest player in the world. In fact, the strongest player who ever lived...
...refused to enter the past two world championships, which are held every three years, charging that the long, grueling play-off rounds favored the "Russian cheaters." Four years ago, unable to gain a title match outside the Fédération Internationale des Echecs, the governing body of world chess, he stormed into retirement to "plot my revenge." Then, 18 months later, he suddenly stormed right back with a "new sense of mission," entered the championship play-offs and demolished one grand master after another. Now the knight-errant of the royal game, rated a solid 5-to-2 favorite...