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Chess Sat, Dec 18, 1971 – Page 133 · The Ottawa Journal (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) · Newspapers.com
Chess by D.M. Le Dain Saturday, December 18, 1971 The Ottawa Journal Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Problem by N.Petrovic....
Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Thursday, December 3, 2020
Problem by N.Petrovic. White mates in two moves.
FEN 8/8/2qn2n1/2Qbrrb1/6B1/3N2P1/R3PP1K/1N3kB1 w - - 0 1
Key: P-B4/f4
Echoes From Buenos Aires
Some of the sidelights to the big match between Bobby Fischer and Tigran Petrosian at Buenos Aires are cropping up from various sources.
To begin with, considerable difficulty was encountered in securing a match referee with suitable qualifications (international Chess Judge ICJ). Although this was not a soccer match, nobody wanted the job. Finally, a few days before the scheduled start, Lothar Schmid, West German master, was persuaded to leave a tournament in which he had completed two rounds, to fly to Buenos Aires pronto. Dr. Max Euwe, president of FIDE, who helped smooth out some of the difficulties in the earlier match at Vancouver, between Fischer and Taimanov, arrived for the closing session and was astonished to see that a scaffold had been erected on the stage. Mr. Schmid reassured him that it had been placed there by stagehands preparing for a showing of George Bernard's Shaw's “The Devil's Disciple”! After the match Schmid commented, “I didn't have the difficulties I feared to get initially. Both players behaved sportingly and I have no complaints. I believed that I could bring the match to a good end because I am a friend of Petrosian and Fischer considers me as his older brother.”
The San Martin Theater could hold only 1,200 spectators and at one session 3,000 more stormed the place breaking the front glass door. They were finally accommodated in the foyer with a large demonstration board and commentator. During the critical sixth game a number of stink-bombs were thrown and the hall had to be cleared. The principals remained undisturbed. Later it was learned that the stink-bomb incident had nothing to do with chess. It was remembrance day for Peron! Journalists from all over the world poured in and Fischer became angry over the insistence for interviews. “Life” for Nov. 12 had a cover picture with a long article. “Time” and “Sports Illustrated” covered it in the issues of Nov. 8, “News Week” also, on Oct. 18.
Fischer is just as preeminent at speed chess as in serious play. Here is a five-minute game four a tourney at NY which he won with 21½-½ points ahead of A. Soltis 18; R. Byrne, 17½ A. Feuerstein, 11; E. Mednis and W. Shipman, 10½ each, etc.
Robert James Fischer vs Robert Eugene Byrne Manhattan blitz (1971) (blitz), New York, NY USA, rd 1, Aug-08 Sicilian Defense: Classical. Anti-Fischer-Sozin Variation (B57) 1-0 https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1044342
