March 31, 1958 Evansville Press, King's Korner, Evansville CC, Evansville, Indiana

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King's Korner 31 Mar 1958, Mon Evansville Press (Evansville, Indiana) Newspapers.com

As far as brain power is concerned the need for that commodity is very slight. The person with an average grade school education can play a very good game of chess. The proof of this lies in the fact that the most recent U.S. open championship was won by a 14-year-old eighth grader, Bobby Fischer. he provoked his mother because he did not study his home-work and his grade in school were very poor. {This is an inaccurate report. School officials confirmed that Bobby's grades were average to high, and his IQ was in the generally superior range, which would put Bobby around “…an arbitrary category of general intelligence attained by only 15% of the population. It includes individuals with an IQ of 120 or more on both the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale and the Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scale.—American Psychological Association}