March 20, 1959 Chessically Yours by Henry Overeem Paterson, New Jersey

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Chessically Yours 20 Mar 1959, Fri The News (Paterson, New Jersey) Newspapers.com

Chessically Yours … behind the dark brown brick and ivy covered exterior is not unusual to find such as Fischer, Evans, Bisguier and other well known players passing the time in skittles. And side by side will be the potsters as Smith and Jones and Davis. For this is the place dedicated to Chess, and for long the hub of New Jersey activity.
The Independent Chess Club of East Orange now publishes a weekly chess bulletin at 15 cents a copy. Editor is none other than Robert T. Durkin, of Knightmare fame. It is easily worth the pennies and it produces many interesting games.
With all the items and articles about Bobby Fischer, the 15 year old chess wizard, the average player might ask, “How does he handle the opening?” With this in mind we checked some of his games and we find he liked the king pawn opening. In the standard reply he goes into the Lopez, this follows:

1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. Bb5 a6
4. Ba4 Nf6
5. 0-0 Be7
6. Re1 b5
7. Bb3 0-0
8. c3 a5
9. h3 Nh5
10. Bc2 f5
11. d4

This covers the first 11 moves. On the other hand, against P-QB4 he adopts the following, listing only his opening ten:

1. P-K4 P-QB4
2. N-KB3 P-Q3
3. P-Q4 PxP
4. N-QB3 N-KB3
5. B-QB4 P-QR3
6. B-N3 P-K3
7. B-K3 B-K2
8. O-O O-O
9. P-B4 N-B3