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Chess Sun, Jan 30, 1972 – 40 · The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) · Newspapers.com
“Lubomir Kavalek … However, he must wait five years for naturalization unless Congress helps him. His countryman Pachman was beaten savagely as a political prisoner in Czechoslovakia, spent seven months recuperating in a hospital and now has been rearrested.
Kavalek is a mild and extremely courteous man who decline to make chess his sole livelihood or interest. When asked about Spassky-Fischer, he picked Fischer by about three points, characterizing Spassky's style as leaning heavily toward safety. […] We have heard that the game from the Peters-Murphy match, won 5½-4½ by Peters, will be published in booklet form. Here is one game in which Peters fortifies Fischer's low opinion of black's chances against the Yugoslav attack.
