AThe Daily Notes Canonsburg, Pennsylvania Thursday, November 11, 1971 - Page 4
Bobby Wins
Bobby Fischer recently decisively defeated the last man who stood between him and the world chess champion, Russia's Boris Spassky. Fischer won over Tigran Petrosian in the ninth of twelve programmed games, his fourth straight elimination series triumph.
Thus the 28-year-old high school dropout became the first American ever to reach the final battle in world championship eliminations. Next spring he and Spassky will meet in the most closely watched chess match in the history of the game.
Whether he wins or not, Fischer has electrified the chess world, and like Winston Churchill before him, has proved that an unimposing school record need not be a permanent handicap in life. Interest and learning concentration, as many teacher know, are often the roads to achievement, regardless of academic grades.
