ANew York Times, New York, New York, Sunday, November 07, 1971 - Page 244
What Has Bobby Fischer to Do With Music? by Harold C. Schonberg
So Bobby Fischer has done it again. The young genius of American chess has eaten up Tigran Petrosian of the Soviet Union. That now out of the way, he will play Boris Spassky for the world's championship in the spring. There must be a lot of dithering at the Moscow Chess Club. It was not so much that Bobby beat Petrosian; it was the way he did it. Petrosian, one of the great chess technicians in history, draws more and loses less than any grandmaster. The morning line on the Fischer-Petrosian match had Fischer only a slight favorite. The betting had only a one-point spread, and the handicappers figured on a 6½-5½ finish in the 12-game match (the first player to reach 6½ points being declared the winner). But Bobby finished with a four-game winning streak, and the final score was 6½-2½.
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No music student in history has spent more time on his art than the young Bobby Fischer spent on chess; it occupied every waking minute of his life (and still does, to the exclusion of everything else).
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When You Think About It Chess and Music Are Alike Sun, Nov 7, 1971 – 75 · The News and Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina) · Newspapers.com
