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Chess Master Wed, Mar 22, 1972 – 53 · The Indianapolis News (Indianapolis, Indiana) · Newspapers.comBobby And All Those Russians!
The International Union of Chess Reporters has given pause to those who might think that Bobby Fischer has single-handedly changed the picture of world chess. True, for the second time the reporters named Bobby the top player of 1971. But after that, of the next nine, eight were Russians--Petrosian, Korchnoi, Smyslov, Hort (of Czechoslovakia), Spassky, Sawon, Tal, Polugajevsky and Stein. (Imagine the World Champion, Spassky, rating only sixth! Yet his 1971 record was no better than that.)