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Let's Play Chess 12 Aug 1966, Fri Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah) Newspapers.com
Mrs. Piatigorsky, who has played in several Utah state tournaments and one of the ranking women players of the nation, is the daughter of the late Baron Edouard de Rothchild.
The Piatigorsky Foundation, which she heads, is spending more than $75,000 on the tournament.
Petrosian, the world champion, and his recent challenger, Spassky, played hard to get — until the prize money amounts were announced.
And they arrived at the very time that the USSR track did not arrive for its meets in California. They claimed they were boycotting because of the USA's intervention in Viet Nam. But then again, there were no cash prizes in the track meets.
The only regret of the tournament is that the USSR did not permit ([freedom, democracy??]) either Mikhail Botvinnik and Mikhail Tal, both former world champions to enter.
