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Chess Notes 22 Feb 1958, Sat Coventry Evening Telegraph (Coventry, West Midlands, England) Newspapers.com
Warwickshire owe much of their success in county chess to the existence of the Birmingham Junior League which provides many of their players, even while the boys are still at school. The British Chess Federation has gone so far as to arrange a special coaching scheme under the international master, R. G. Wade, for promising youngsters in London.
Such organisation while it can do much for the ordinary talented young player can do wonders for the occasional child prodigy who appears in the chess universe with about the same frequency and effect as the super nova star in the astronomical heavens. Such a wonder has appeared in the U.S.A. in the past year.
Fourteen years old Bobby Fischer followed up his win in the U.S. Open Championship ahead of Bisguier and Byrne, two of America's leading players, by winning the U.S. Championship proper a point ahead of S. Reshevsky.
Reshevsky is considered by many to be the strongest player in the world outside the Soviet Union. Reshevsky, who curiously enough was himself a child prodigy, has said that Fischer plays more strongly than he did at the same age.
It seems from this that we have possibly the strongest player the world has ever seen ready to make his appearance in international chess.
D.G.H.
