AThe Argus Rock Island, Illinois Tuesday, November 02, 1971 - Page 4
Other Editors Say — King of Chess? (Chicago Daily News)
Bobby Fischer, considered by many (including himself) to be the world's best chess player, has earned a chance to become champion in fact. Overturning his grand-master opponents like so many pawns in the elimination rounds, Fischer totted up an unprecedented number of victories in his relentless march toward a confrontation with the world title-holder, Boris Spassky of Russia, next spring.
The 28-year-old Fischer's daring play has won him worldwide acclaim, even in the Soviet Union, which has held a lock on the world championship for years and where Fischer had been regarded as a brash, sometimes barbaric, chess prodigy who never quite grew up. If it were anyone else but Bobby Fischer bearing this challenge to Soviet superiority, we might caution him not to let all this adulation go to his head. But Bobby seems to have room to spare for it in there.
We're also tempted to wish him luck in his matches with Spassky, but there's little margin for the whims of fortune in world tournament chess. So we bid him peace — distraction-free, concentration-filled peace.
