AThe Capital Journal Salem, Oregon Monday, August 30, 1971 - Page 4
A Cheer For A Gallant Knight
Russia for many years has been as fearsome on the chess board as on the launching pad, but this coming month it will have to face that American genius of total dedication, Bobby Fischer.
Fischer, as 28, lives for the game and continually analyzes attacks and defenses with a single-minded purpose of defeating the former world champion, Tigran Petrosian of the Soviet Union, in the semifinals of the world chess challenge.
The USSR, with more active chess players than the U.S. has high school football players, has dominated the battle of pawns, knights and castles, and valiantly protected the only kind of king it recognizes. For eight consecutive times it won the world team title and Russia's Elisaveta Bykova three times picked up the women's crown.
However, America's leading hope, the grandmaster of the checkmate sport, has zeroed his computer-like brain in on the Russian.
And all of the fans who thrill at the silent gallop of a queen's knight to square QB-6 will cheer loudly in silence.
