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Chess 05 Feb 1961, Sun The Daily Breeze (Torrance, California) Newspapers.com
Chess by A. D. Carter
From CHESS LIFE, the U.S. Chess Federation's very new and very slick monthly, on the occasion of Bobby Fischer's winning his fourth straight U.S. championship at the tender age of 17: “Fischer … has proven without a doubt that he is both the greatest player that this country has ever produced and one of the strongest players in the world.”
From SHAKHMATY V SSSR, Russia's monthly chess magazine, as reproduced in CHESS LIFE, on the occasion of losing a team match against our U.S. Student Team in Leningrad last summer: “From the sporting point of view, the success of the U.S. chess players was well deserved…the U.S. players studied theory industriously and were physically well prepared … some of our players came to Leningrad ‘on a boat to a ball’ and were not well rested and not in good form.
