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January 01 1960

Samuel Reshevsky vs Robert James Fischer United States Championship (1959/60), New York, NY USA, rd 11, Jan-01 Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense. Pillsbury Variation (D41) 1/2-1/2

• New York Times, New York, New York, Friday, January 01, 1960 — Fischer Captures 10th-Round Game — Brooklyn Player Sets Back Benko in 68 Moves and Keeps Lead in Chess Bobby Fischer, United States chess champion, yesterday defeated Pal Benko, a Hungarian refugee, in sixty-eight moves in their adjourned game from the tenth round of the national championship at the Manhattan Chess Club.
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January 02 1960

• New York Times, New York, New York, Saturday, January 02, 1960 — Denker and Reshevsky Adjourn After 41 Moves in Title Chess — 1944 Victor Declines Offer to Draw—Weinstein Beats Mednis and Seidman — Samuel Reshevsky, seeking to reduce Bobby Fischer's lead in the national championship chess tournament for the Lessing J. Rosenwald Trophy at the Manhattan Chess Club, encountered Arnold S. Denker, the 1944 titleholder, yesterday in their postponed game from the eighth round.
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January 03 1960

• New York Times, New York, New York, Sunday, January 03, 1960 — Fischer, 16, Keeps U.S. Chess Crown — Bobby Fischer, 16-year-old Brooklyn schoolboy, won the United States chess championship for the third time in succession at the Manhattan Chess Club last night. The victory came to him automatically with the tenth-round defeat of Samuel Reshevsky.
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• Sunday Gazette-Mail, Charleston, West Virginia, Sunday, January 03, 1960 — Fischer Leads Reshevsky by Half-Point — After completion of seven of the scheduled eleven rounds of play in the United States championship tournament, defending title-holder Bobby Fischer led Samuel Reshevsky by one-half point (5½-1½ to 5-2). As it was the two previous times, the tourney is again a two-man fight for first place, with Fischer again having a slight edge.
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• Detroit Free Press, Detroit, Michigan, Sunday, January 03, 1960 — Onions, Smoke and Legs —They Win in Chess By Bob Pille — The magic number of chess, if anybody cares to toss knowing remarks into unrelated conversation, is 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000. That's the count of possible combinations in the first 10 moves of a match.
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• The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, Sunday, January 03, 1960 — Fischer Leads In U.S. Championship — Bobby Fischer, after a slow start in the tournament for the United States Chess Championship, has gained ground steadily and after eight rounds is well in the lead with a score of 6½-1½, according to a report from the New York Times.
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• The Journal Times, Racine, Wisconsin, Sunday, January 03, 1960 — Holiday Tournaments — The usual rash of Christmas Holiday chess tournaments are taking place. In the Rosenwald event in New York, Bobby Fischer leads with 4-1, followed by Jim Sherwin with 3-1. No report has yet been received from England on the annual Hastings Christmas tourney, but Mikhail Tal and Boris Spassky are competing in the Riga tournament in Europe, with Spassky topping the challenger in their individual game.
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January 04 1960

• New York Times, New York, New York, Monday, January 04, 1960 — Fischer In Draw With Reshevsky — Deadlock After 40 Moves Allows Byrne To Take 2d Behind Brooklyn Youth — Although the United States chess championship was clinched by Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn Saturday night, his last game with Samuel Reshevsky commanded a full house yesterday at the West Side Y.M.C.A.
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• The Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Indiana, Monday, January 04, 1960 — Chess — Bobby Fischer, 16-year-old Brooklyn schoolboy, won the U.S. championship for the third straight year in New York.

January 05 1960

• New York Times, New York, New York, Tuesday, January 05, 1960 — Benko Gains Fourth Place — Decisions in the three adjourned games from the final round of the national tournament, co-sponsored by the United States Chess Foundation, were reached last night at the Manhattan Chess Club. Already determined had been the three leaders: Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn, who won for the third straight year; Robert Byrne of the University of Indianapolis, and Samuel Reshevsky, a world-famous grandmaster and five-time winner of the United States title.
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January 06 1960

• The News Tribune, Tacoma, Washington, Wednesday, January 06, 1960 — Chess Champ, Only 16, Wants To Beat Russ — New York. (NANA)—Fresh from winning his third consecutive national chess championship, 16-year-old Bobby Fischer is taking aim at a new target—to beat the Russians and capture the world crown in 1962. The Brooklyn High School junior, who played against this country's elite in winning the U.S. title, said he hopes—and expects—to whip all comers in the '62 play for the world championship.
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• Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Arizona, Wednesday, January 06, 1960 — Bobby Fischer Wins Chess Tournament — New York (UPI)—Young Bobby Fischer, of Brooklyn, has won the national chess tournament for the third year in a row. The tournament, co-sponsored by the U.S. Chess Federation and the American Chess Foundation, was held over the weekend at the Manhattan Chess Club.
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• St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Wednesday, January 06, 1960 — Fischer, 16, Again Wins National Chess Meet — New York, Jan. 6 (UPI) — Bobby Fischer, 16 years old, of Brooklyn, is still young enough so that he looks out of place at the national chess tournament. But his skill apparently hasn't declined since he first won the tournament at 14.
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January 10 1960

• Sunday Mirror, London, London, England, Sunday, January 10, 1960 — Bobby Fischer, Chess Funding — CHEQUE-D: Mrs. Fischer, mother of America's sixteen-year-old chess champion, Bobby Fischer, doesn't think her boy gets enough expenses to meet his world travels. “My son is sacrificing his schooling trying to compete abroad and earn his own financial backing,” says Mrs. Fischer.
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• The Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts, Sunday, January 10, 1960 — Bobby Fischer's Third Successive U.S. Championship — Bobby Fischer won his third successive United States championship tournament last week. Fischer's victory was clinched before his last round game with Samuel Reshevsky when the latter lost his adjourned eighth round game to Arnold Denker.
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• The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington, Sunday, January 10, 1960 — Ancient Game, but Young Local Group — Chess is a game at which Russians excel, for reasons which no one ever has made clear to me (I am also seeking elucidation on the hows and whys of our acquiring a national debt). The Russ have done so for years and continue to do so.
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• Sunday Gazette-Mail, Charleston, West Virginia, Sunday, January 10, 1960 — The Final Round — meeting of Bobby Fischer and Samuel Reshevsky in the U.S. chess championship tournament was something of an anti-climax as young Fischer had already clinched his third straight national chess title. For the record, their game was a draw but it dropped Reshevsky to third position when Byrne won his final round contest.
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• The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, Sunday, January 10, 1960 — Fischer Wins Again In U.S. Title Chess — For the third year in succession Brooklyn schoolboy Bobby Fischer walked off with the Lessing J. Rosenwald challenge trophy, emblematic of the United States Chess Championship, according to a report from the New York Times.
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• The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky, Sunday, January 10, 1960 — Fischer Wins Title Third Year In Row — This department's candidate to bring the United States the world chess championship within the next decade took another long step in that direction last week. Brooklyn's youthful Bobby Fischer won the National Chess Tournament for the third consecutive year.
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• The Journal Times Racine, Wisconsin Sunday, January 10, 1960 — Rosenwald Tournament — In the U.S. Championship (Rosenwald Memorial) tournament now under way in New York, Bobby Fischer leads his arch-rival Sammy Reshevsky by a half-point, 8½-1½ to 7-2 at the end of ten rounds. Fischer and Reshevsky will meet in the eleventh and final round.
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January 13 1960

• Courier-Post, Camden, New Jersey, Wednesday, January 13, 1960 — Bobby Fischer Wins U.S. Championship Third Year in a Row — Bobby Fischer has won the U.S. championship for the third year in a row. The Brooklyn schoolboy's triumph is not so surprising as the fact that Samuel Reshevsky lost two games and finished third behind Robert Byrne.
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• New York Times, New York, New York, Wednesday, January 13, 1960 — Chess Aid Is Sought — Group to Petition Congress for Funds for Fischer —A committee headed by Anthony Santasiere, a former national champion, is drawing up a petition to seek Congressional aid in obtaining funds to further the career of Bobby Fischer, 16-year-old United States chess champion from Brooklyn.
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• The Tampa Tribune, Tampa, Florida, Wednesday, January 13, 1960 — Congress Asked to Help U.S. Chess Champion — New York, Jan. 12 (AP)—Chess enthusiasts are petitioning Congress for government help in furthering the career of Bobby Fischer, 16-year-old national champion from Brooklyn. Petitions are being circulated nationally by a group known as the Committee for U.S. Chess Champion Bobby Fischer.
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January 15 1960

• The Morning News, Wilmington, Delaware, Friday, January 15, 1960 — Why Not Chess? — The Russian government subsidizes chess players. Russia has the best chess players in the world today, including world champion Botvinnik and most of the leading challengers for his title. The American government doesn't subsidize chess players. Since the best of them aren't rich, they can't even enter international competition unless they find a patron to finance them.
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• The Morning Call, Allentown, Pennsylvania, Friday, January 15, 1960 — Send Chess Champ Abroad — It has been observed with regrets and disgust that in recent years, the Olympic Games have been used more and more as a propaganda medium and less as an emphasis upon skills and training. That we can expect repetition in the current Olympiad is indicated in the difficulties already cooked up by the Red Chinese for athletes of Nationalist China.
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January 16 1960

• Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Saturday, January 16, 1960 — Fischer, 16, Wins U.S. Chess Championship Third Time — International Grand Master Robert Fischer, 16, has won the U.S. championship for the third successive time without the loss of a game. He scored nine wins and four draws, for a 9-2 rating. The fact that he is an International Grand Master instead of a Grand Master, the highest title, is a reflection on the Federation International des Echecs.
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January 17 1960

• Sunday Gazette-Mail, Charleston, West Virginia, Sunday, January 17, 1960 — Bobby Fischer vs. Robert Byrne in Championship Tournament — While Bobby Fischer won his third straight United States chess title in the recent championship tournament, Robert Byrnes turned in what was probably his best tournament performance to date. He finished a point behind Fischer, and like him was undefeated.
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• Fort Lauderdale News, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Sunday, January 17, 1960 — Tourney Results — “Once again 16-year-old Bobby Fischer has proved his supremacy in American chess circles by winning the U.S. Championship by the convincing score of 9-2. He won seven games, drew four and lost none. Second was R. Byrne with 8-3. S. Reshevsky was third with 7½-3½.
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January 23 1960

• Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Saturday, January 23, 1960 — Petitions Bombard Congress For U.S. to Sponsor Fischer — Congress is being bombarded with petitions to sponsor chess master Robert Fischer in his trips abroad. That he is a tremendous asset to American good will is without question. He is so popular in Europe and South America that there is the chance he may receive assistance from foreign countries before Congress gets around to acting on the petitions.
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January 24 1960

• The Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts, Sunday, January 24, 1960 — Chess Notebook — Chess is very important in the Soviet Union and the government there worked hard and gave many a subsidy to support chess promotions and bring the world title to Russia. The world title has rested in the capable hands of M. M. Botvinnik since 1948, except for a brief period when the championship was “on loan” to V. Smyslov.
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January 27 1960

• The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Wednesday, January 27, 1960 — Chess Champion Subsidy — To the Editor of The Inquirer: Your front page article (Jan. 13) regarding the petitioning of Congress to finance Chess Champion Bobby Fischer's international competition has prompted me to write. This is just one of the many straws that are slowly but surely breaking the taxpayers' back.
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February 03 1960

The Express, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, Wednesday, February 03, 1960
Chess Whiz. Plans to top the Soviets. Bobby Fischer. Fresh from winning his third consecutive national championship, this Brooklyn Kid has a new target—To beat the Russians and Capture the World Crown. Released by The Associated Newspapers. 02-03-1960.

February 05 1960

Fischer Wins U.S. Championship Third Year In Succession. Robert Byrne Second-Reshevsky Third-Benko Fourth. U.S. Championship, 1959-60, New York.

February 07 1960

• The Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Corpus Christi, Texas, Sunday, February 07, 1960 — Do you believe Bobby Fischer will be world champion some day? — ANSWER: Bobby has good possibilities. Why not? If at the age of 16, he plays in the highest tournament possible, he will if he can stand the strain, and become a “gentleman” too; become world champion.
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February 11 1960

• The Guardian, London, Greater London, England, Thursday, February 11, 1960 — Seidman-Reshevsky — Some of the most forceful king's side attacks occur when one or more minor pieces are sacrificed so as to expose the king to the crossfire of the opposing queen and rooks. This fine illustration from the United States championship helped to ensure that Bobby Fischer, Reshevsky's great rival, retained the title for the third year running.
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February 13 1960

• The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Saturday, February 13, 1960 — Chess Is A War Of Nerves — Another example of “bad journalism” riddled with contradictions, absurdities and ahistorical accounts about Robert J. Fischer and Paul Morphy. Starting with the false claim, “Morphy could not pass examinations to qualify as a lawyer” which is false in light of documentation to the contrary, presented from Morphy's contemporary era.
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February 14 1960

• Express and News, San Antonio, Texas, Sunday, February 14, 1960 — Bobby Fischer and Nievergelt — The following game won the brilliancy prize in the Swiss Championship of 1956. The opening is the Sicilian and it appears that the game could have been played yesterday, as Black employs a line very much in vogue at the present time, and White also continues in the current fashion.
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• The Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, California, Sunday, February 14, 1960 — A Few Bobby Fischers — “Will we ever attain their heights in this game? Possibly, but it will take a great deal of work, and a few Bobby Fischers!

• The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky, Sunday, February 14, 1960 — Congress Is Asked For Funds To Groom Fischer For Title — U.S. Prestige Held At Stake — The “Committee For United States Chess Champion Bobby Fischer” informs me it is petitioning Congress for funds “that may help us win our immediate goal of securing support for Fischer or our basic goal—the promotion of chess in America and of American prestige abroad.”
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February 15 1960

• The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Monday, February 15, 1960 — “Chess Is A War Of Nerves” — Sir,—James Holledge, in “Chess is a War of Nerves” (“Herald,” Feb. 13), states that Paul Morphy, the American chess genius of a century ago, “could not pass examinations to qualify as a lawyer.”

February 21 1960

• Sunday Gazette-Mail, Charleston, West Virginia, Sunday, February 21, 1960 — U.S. Championship Tournament — The current issue of Chess Life, publication of the U.S. Chess Federation, carries, without notes, 15 games of the recently completed U.S. championship tournament. Chess Life intends to publish the remaining matches, too.

February 24 1960

★ Pasadena Independent, Pasadena, California, Wednesday, February 24, 1960

Chess Champ
In writing that the U.S. has never had a world champion in chess we did not overlook the record of Paul C. Morphy (1837-1884) as stated by B. Smith.
Staunton, of England, who held the title, refused to play Morphy officially, so Mr. Morphy was never accorded the honor. They did play two unofficial games, both of which were won by Morphy.
The one useful value of chess is to discover genius, as, for example, fifteen-year-old Bobby Fischer, U.S. chess champion.
Had Paul Morphy, after discovering his talent, taken up science he would no doubt have made an even greater name for himself.
Pasadena, E. H. Woodard

• Daily News, New York, New York, Wednesday, February 24, 1960 — Bobby Fischer to Soviets: Your Move — Tentative plans for an international chess match next fall between U. S. champion Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn and Russian chess players have been outlined by the People to People Sports Committee, headed by Col. Edward Egan.
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• Courier-Post, Camden, New Jersey, Wednesday, February 24, 1960 — The Committee for U.S. Chess Champion Bobby Fischer — The Committee for U.S. Chess Champion Bobby Fischer is promoting a campaign to persuade Congress to make an appropriation to our sensational 16-year star “on a continuing basis, to enable him properly to carry on his invaluable service to our country.”
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Bobby reportedly visited Bamberg in 1960. Hans-Günter Kestler, (left), Bobby Fischer, and Lothar Schmid are seated. Helmut Pfleger is the spectator.

March 05 1960

• The Bridgeport Telegram, Bridgeport, Connecticut, Saturday, March 05, 1960 — Chess Enthusiasts — A group of chess enthusiasts hopes to petition Congress for some loot to finance tours by 16-year-old U.S. chess champ Bobby Fischer . . . Bobby has been abroad five times, is rated by U.S. experts as a potential threat to Russian dominated world championships.
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March 06 1960

• The Courier-Journal,Louisville, Kentucky, Sunday, March 06, 1960 — Russians, Losing Face, Start Training Center — If there's one thing the Russians hate to lose even more than a chess game, match, tournament, or title, it is “face”. And face they did lose with the dropping in recent months of the Junior World Chess Championship and the Students Team Championship.
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• Oakland Tribune, Oakland, California, Sunday, March 06, 1960 — Chess Game In The 'Sky' Intrigues U.C. — Then the winning hall will challenge 16-year-old Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn, a three time United States Chess Champion, to a match. “We think we can beat him,” said Lynn Waterman and Russ Barlow.

March 09 1960

• New York Times, New York, New York, Wednesday, March 09, 1960 — Youth Chess Group to Meet — The Youth for Chess Committee will hold its first meeting tomorrow at 8 P.M. at the Advertising Club, 23 Park Avenue, at Thirty-fifth Street. Among other goals, the organization hopes to increase interest in chess among the young and to secure Federal aid for the game.
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March 10 1960

• New York Times, New York, New York, Thursday, March 10, 1960 — Prins Scores In Chess — Takes 8 Matches and Draws 3 in Simultaneous Play — Notables in the chess world, including the United States champion Bobby Fischer, Dr. Reuben Fine and Dr. Edward Lasker, turned out last night to greet Lodewijk Prins of Amsterdam at the Marshall Chess Club.

March 18 1960

• The Guardian, London, Greater London, England, Friday, March 18, 1960 — Bobby Fischer's Games of Chess — The first collection of tournament games of the remarkable chess prodigy, the youngest international grandmaster of all time. With full analysis and annotations. With chess diagrams. 12/6. Museum Press

March 20 1960

• Fort Lauderdale News, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Sunday, March 20, 1960 — Chess Queen's Gambit — By Neil Hickey — The darkly beautiful girl you see at the left is neither an aspiring dramatic actress, a cheesecake Hollywood starlet, nor a $100-an-hour high-fashion photographer's model. At 22, she's the reigning Queen of American chess players, the top-ranking woman manipulator of kings, rooks and pawns.
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March 21 1960

Caption: The only tournament where David Bronstein, Fridrik Olafsson, Robert Fischer and Boris Spassky (out of picture) played together.

• Des Moines Tribune, Des Moines, Iowa, Monday, March 21, 1960 — Fischer to Play — Mar Del Plata, Argentina (AP) — The young U.S. champion, Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn, will come here to play in the International Chess tournament next week, the Argentine Federation announced.

March 22 1960

• The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, Maryland, Tuesday, March 22, 1960 — Fischer In Chess Event — Mar Del Plata, Argentina, March 21 (AP)—The young United States champion, Bobby Fischer, of Brooklyn, will come here to play in the international chess tournament next week, the Argentine Federation announced. Other international masters also have been invited.
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March 24 1960

• Brooklyn Daily, Brooklyn, New York, Thursday, March 24, 1960 — Boro Chess Whiz, Bobby Fischer Off To Argentina — Brooklyn's chess whiz, 17-year old Bobby Fischer of 560 Lincoln Pl., is off this morning for Mar del Plata, Argentine, to represent the U. S. in the international chess competition being held there. Sen. Javits of New York has indicated his interest in the young Brooklynite's phenomenal popularity abroad, both in an out of chess circles, and has stated that he would ask the U.S. Government to underwrite the chess champ with special appropriation so the borough youth can accept some of the invitations which have been extended to him by foreign governments.
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March 26 1960

• The Province, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Saturday, March 26, 1960 — The Masters Meet for a Tournament — Some twenty of the leading chess masters of the world, invited by the Argentine Chess Federation, will compete in the annual international tournament at Mar del Plata, famous South American health resort. Play will start on Tuesday after drawings of numbers for the pairings have been held a day earlier.
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• New York Times, New York, New York, Saturday, March 26, 1960 — Fischer Gets Invitation For Chess in Moscow — Ever since Bobby Fischer, the Brooklyn schoolboy chess wonder, competed at Moscow two years ago he has been eager to return for another crack at the Soviet masters. On Thursday he left for an international tournament at Mar del Plata, Argentina.
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• Asbury Park Press, Asbury Park, New Jersey, Saturday, March 26, 1960 — Fischer Gets Delayed Wish — New York (AP)—Ever since Bobby Fischer, Brooklyn schoolboy chess wonder, competed at Moscow two years ago he had been eager to return to Russia for another crack at the Soviet masters. Thursday he left for an international tournament at Mar Del Plata, Argentina.
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• The Gazette, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Saturday, March 26, 1960 — Bobby Fischer Goes South — Youthful U.S.A. champion, Robert Fischer, will be one of the favorites to win the Mar del Plata, Argentina, international which starts March 29th. Russia will send B. Spassky and D. Bronstein, and F. Olafsson will come from Iceland. Veterans M. Najdorf and E. Eliskases will provide the chief opposition from Argentina.
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March 29 1960

Bernardo Wexler vs Robert James Fischer Mar del Plata (1960), Mar del Plata ARG, rd 1, Mar-29 King's Indian Defense: Petrosian Variation. Normal Defense (E93) 0-1

March 30 1960

Boris Spassky vs Robert James Fischer Mar del Plata (1960), Mar del Plata ARG, rd 2, Mar-30 King's Gambit: Accepted. Kieseritsky Gambit Rubinstein Variation (C39) 1-0

March 31 1960

Robert James Fischer vs Olicio Gadia Mar del Plata (1960), Mar del Plata ARG, rd 3, Mar-31 Sicilian Defense: Fischer-Sozin Attack. Flank Variation (B87) 1-0

Participants in the 1960 Mar del Plata tournament. Original b/w photo from Skaksogufelagid Iceland.

• Asbury Park Press, Asbury Park, New Jersey, Thursday, March 31, 1960 — Fischer Wins Chess Opener — Mar Del Plata, Argentina (AP)—Bobby Fischer, U.S. champion from New York and three other foreign grand masters won their opening matches in the Mar Del Plata international chess tournament Tuesday night. Fischer beat Argentine Bernardo Wexler in 40 moves.
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• New York Times, New York, New York, Thursday, March 31, 1960 — Fischer Defeats Wexler In Chess — Forces Argentine Champion to Resign in 40 Moves at Mar Del Plata — Bobby Fischer, the United States chess champion, started with a victory yesterday in the Argentine Chess Federation tournament at Mar del Plata, according to a report received through South American news sources last night.
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• The Tennessean, Nashville, Tennessee, Thursday, March 31, 1960 — Fischer Wins First Match In Argentine Tourney — Mar Del Plata, Argentina—(AP)—Bobby Fischer, U.S. champion from New York and other foreign grand masters won their opening matches in the Mar Del Plata international chess tournament Tuesday. Fischer beat Argentine Bernardo Wexler in 40 moves.
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April 01 1960

• New York Times, New York, New York, Friday, April 01, 1960 — Spassky Defeats Fischer In Chess — Soviet Player Subdues U.S. Champion in 29 Moves, Tying Letelier for Lead — Boris Spassky, a former world junior champion and one of the two Soviet players in the chess tournament at Mar del Plata in Argentina, defeated Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn, the United States champion, in the second round yesterday.
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• Asbury Park Press Asbury Park, New Jersey Friday, April 01, 1960 — Fischer Beaten — Mar Del Plata, Argentina (AP)—Boris Spassky, Russian grand master, needed only 29 moves yesterday in defeating Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn, 17-year-old United States chess champion.

• The Gazette Montreal, Quebec, Canada Friday, April 01, 1960 — Chess Victor — Mar Del Plata, Argentina, March 31.—(AP)—Boris Spassky, Russian grand master, needed only 29 moves today in defeating Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn, 17-year-old United States chess champion. They met in an International tournament.

April 02 1960

Julio Saadi vs Robert James Fischer Mar del Plata (1960), Mar del Plata ARG, rd 4, Apr-02 English Opening: Anglo-Indian Defense. Queen's Knight Variation (A16) 0-1

• Star Tribune Minneapolis, Minnesota Saturday, April 02, 1960 — Sports In Brief — Bobby Fischer, 17, United States chess champion, defeated Olisio Gadia of Brazil in 23 moves in an Argentine international tournament…

• The Times Record Troy, New York Saturday, April 02, 1960 — Fischer Wins Chess Match — Mar Del Plata, Argentina (AP)—Bobby Fischer, 17-year-old U.S. chess champion from Brooklyn, defeated Olisio Gadia of Brazil in 23 moves last night in the third round of an international tourney. Boris Spassky of Russia, leads with three straight triumphs.
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• New York Times, New York, New York, Saturday, April 02, 1960 — Spassky Wins Again — Boris Spassky, one of the two Russian representatives among sixteen players in the tournament at Mar del Plata, yesterday gained his third consecutive victory at the expense of A. Redolfo of Argentina, whom he defeated on the black side of a Sicilian defense.
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April 03 1960

Robert James Fischer vs Erich Eliskases Mar del Plata (1960), Mar del Plata ARG, rd 5, Apr-03 Spanish Game: Closed Variations. Chigorin Defense (C98) 1-0

• The Courier-Journal Louisville, Kentucky Sunday, April 03, 1960 — Fischer Defeated By Russian — by Merrill Dowden — Russia's Boris Spassky, former world junior champion, defeated Bobby Fischer, 17-year-old United States champion, as the International Chess Tournament got under way last week at Mar del Plata, Argentina. The New York Times News Service reports that Spassky, meeting the American for the first time, resorted to a King's Gambit along the lines of the Kierseritsky Variation.
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April 04 1960

Alberto Foguelman vs Robert James Fischer Mar del Plata (1960), Mar del Plata ARG, rd 6, Apr-04 Sicilian Defense: Prins Variation (B54) 0-1

• New York Times, New York, New York, Monday, April 04, 1960 — Botvinnik Beats Tal in 9th Game — Cuts Challengers' lead to 5-4 in World Chess Play—Spassky, Fischer Win — Mikhail Botvinnik, the defending world chess champion, reduced the lead of Mikhail Tal of Latvia yesterday when he won the ninth game of the title series in Moscow, according to Soviet news sources.
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• Asbury Park Press Asbury Park, New Jersey Monday, April 04, 1960 — Fischer Beats Saddi in Chess — Mar Del Plata, Argentina (AP)—Bobby Fischer, teen-age U.S. champion, advanced into a tie for second place in the international chess tournament Saturday night when he defeated Argentina's Julio Saddi in 34 moves. The victory gave Fischer three points and a deadlock with Russia's David Bronstein and Argentina's Bernardo Wexler and Alberto Fogelman.
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• The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Monday, April 04, 1960 — Bobby Fischer Tied for Second in Chess Meet — Mar Del Plata Argentina, April 3 (AP) — Bobby Fischer, teen-age U.S. champion, advanced into a tie for second place in the International Chess Tournament last night when he defeated Argentina's Julio Saddi in 34 moves. The victory gave Fischer 3 points and a deadlock with Russia's David Bronstein and Argentina's Bernardo Wexler and Alberto Fogelman.
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April 05 1960

Robert James Fischer vs Fridrik Olafsson Mar del Plata (1960), Mar del Plata ARG, rd 7, Apr-05 Sicilian Defense: Canal Attack. Main Line (B52) 1-0

• New York Times, New York, New York, Tuesday, April 05, 1960 — Fischer Scores Narrow Triumph — Wins From Argentine in 44 Moves and Takes Second in Mar del Plata Chess — Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union extended his winning streak for a 5-0 lead in the chess tournament at Mar del Plata in Argentina. However, Bobby Fischer, the 17-year-old United States champion, has taken second place with a score of 4—1, according to a report that arrived last night.
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• The Times Record Troy, New York Tuesday, April 05, 1960 — Bobby Fischer Tops Argentine In Chess Match — Mar Del Plata, Argentina (AP)—Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn defeated Argentina's Erich Eliskases in 44 moves Sunday night in a fifth round match of the international chess tournament. Fischer, with four points, is second to Russian Boris Spassky, who has five on five straight victories.
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• Chicago Tribune Chicago, Illinois Tuesday, April 05, 1960 — To Complete the Report — Bobby Fischer, 17, United States chess champion, beat Erich Eliskases of Argentina in 44 moves in the international tournament in Mar del Plata, Argentina. Fischer, having won four and lost one, is in second place behind Boris Spassky of Russia.

• St. Louis Post-Dispatch St. Louis, Missouri Tuesday, April 05, 1960 — Russian Still Leads Chess Event, American Second — New York, April 5—While Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union continues his winning streak to lead in the international chess tournament at Mar del Plata with a score of 5-0, Bobby Fischer, 17-year-old United States champion, took second place with a score of 4-1, a report which reached here last night says.
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April 06 1960

• New York Times, New York, New York, Wednesday, April 06, 1960 — Fischer Triumphs In 72-Move Game — Beats Foguelman to Retain Second Place in Argentine Chess—Spassky Wins — Bobby Fischer, the three-time chess champion of the United States, yesterday retained second place in the international tournament at Mar del Plata, Argentina, with a brilliant effort in the sixth round against Alberto Foguelman of Argentina.
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April 07 1960

Osvaldo Manuel Bazan vs Robert James Fischer Mar del Plata (1960), Mar del Plata ARG, rd 8, Apr-07 Queen's Gambit Declined: Ragozin Defense (D38) 0-1

• Asbury Park Press Asbury Park, New Jersey Thursday, April 07, 1960 — Fischer Only Half-Point Behind Russ — Mar Del Plata, Argentina (AP)—Bobby Fischer defeated Frederick Olafsson of Iceland, in 42 moves Tuesday night and the 17-year-old Brooklyn youth closed to within a half-point of the Russian leader in an international chess tournament.
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• New York Times, New York, New York, Thursday, April 07, 1960 — Fischer Outplays Olafsson — Bobby Fischer, the United States chess champion, gained an important victory yesterday in the seventh round of the international tournament at Mar del Plata in an English opening lasting forty-one moves. The American youth outplayed Fridrik Olafsson of Iceland in the first session of an English opening, winding up two pawns plus.
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• The Morning News Wilmington, Delaware Thursday, April 07, 1960 — U.S. Chess Ace Wins — Mar Del Plata, Argentina, April 6 (AP).—Bobby Fischer defeated Frederick Olafsson of Ireland, in 42 moves last night and the 17-year-old Brooklyn youth closed to within a half-point of the Russian leader in an international chess tournament. Boris Spassky has 6½ points, the young U.S. champion, 6.
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• The Palm Beach Post West Palm Beach, Florida Thursday, April 07, 1960 — Brooklyn Teener Nears Chess Lead — Mar Del Plata, Argentina, (AP)—Bobby Fischer defeated Frederick Olafsson of Iceland, in 42 moves Tuesday night and the 17-year-old Brooklyn youth closed to within a half-point of the Russian leader in an international chess tournament.

April 08 1960

Robert James Fischer vs Carlos Bielicki Mar del Plata (1960), Mar del Plata ARG, rd 9, Apr-08 Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation (B90) 1-0

April 09 1960

Rodolfo Argentino Redolfi vs Robert James Fischer Mar del Plata (1960), Mar del Plata ARG, rd 10, Apr-09 Sicilian Defense: Canal Attack. Main Line (B52) 0-1

• New York Times, New York, New York, Saturday, April 09, 1960 — Spassky, Fischer Again Win — —Boris Spassky of Russia and Bobby Fischer, the United States champion, the two leaders in the international chess tournament at Mar del Plata, Argentina, won again in the eighth round yesterday, according to last night's report through South American news sources.
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• Tampa Bay Times St. Petersburg, Florida Saturday, April 09, 1960 — Fischer Still Down Half Point in Chess — Mar Del Prata, Argentina (AP) — Boris Spassky of Russia maintained his half-point lead over Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn, Thursday night in the international chess tourney. Spassky, who was held to a draw once in the eight rounds to date, has 7½ points.
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April 10 1960

Robert James Fischer vs Carlos Incutto Mar del Plata (1960), Mar del Plata ARG, rd 11, Apr-10 Spanish Game: Morphy Defense. Chigorin Defense Panov System (C99) 1-0

• New York Times, New York, New York, Sunday, April 10, 1960 — Fischer Defeats Bielicki In Chess — Wins in 38 Moves to Retain 2d Place in Argentina—Spassky Scores —The United States chess champion, Bobby Fischer, won again in the ninth round of the international chess tournament at Mar del Plata, Argentina, yesterday, according to a report reaching here last night through South American news sources.
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• The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Sunday, April 10, 1960 — Spassky Beats Fischer, Leads In Mar Del Plata — Bobby Fischer, brilliant 16-year-old United States chess champion, accepted an invitation to participate in the annual international master tournament at Mar del Plata, Argentina, according to a report from the New York Times. Among the most highly regarded of the 16 competitors are David Bronstein and Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union and Fridrik Olafsson of Iceland.
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• Sunday Gazette-Mail Charleston, West Virginia Sunday, April 10, 1960 — Boris Spassky vs Bobby Fischer-One Point Trailing — He now trails his younger opponent by only one point and there are still fourteen games left to play, unless one player gains 12½ points first. Another young Soviet master, Boris Spassky, is setting a blazing pace in the tournament at Mar del Plata, Argentina, with six straight wins.
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• The Racine Journal-Times Sunday Bulletin Racine, Wisconsin Sunday, April 10, 1960 — Mar Del Plata, Boris Spassky, David Bronstein and Bobby Fischer — Bobby Fischer of the U.S. drew to within ½ point of tournament leader Boris Spassky by defeating Frederik Olafsson of Iceland, while Spassky was drawing with David Bronstein. Fischer's only loss was to Spassky on the Black side of a King's Gambit.
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• The Courier-Journal Louisville, Kentucky Sunday, April 10, 1960 — Fischer Wins Chess Match — Mar Del Plata, Argentina, April 9 (AP)—Both Boris Spassky of Russia and Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn won again Friday night in an international chess match and continued their race toward the finish separated by only a half point. After nine rounds, Spassky has 8½ points, the 17-year-old U.S. champion 8.
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April 11 1960

• The Times Shreveport, Louisiana Monday, April 11, 1960 — American Champ Wins Chess Game — Mar Del Plata, Argentina, April 10 (AP)—Russia's Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer, the American champion, won their tenth round games Saturday night in the international chess tournament. The 16 contestants each have five games to go. Spassky leads with 9 points.
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• New York Times, New York, New York, Monday, April 11, 1960 — Spassky, Fischer Advance In Chess — The keen race between Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union and Bobby Fischer, the United States champion, continued yesterday in the international chess tournament at Mar del Plata, Argentina. Both were winners in the tenth round, according to a report received through South American news sources.
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• Tampa Bay Times St. Petersburg, Florida Monday, April 11, 1960 — Fischer Trails Red By Only Half Point — Mar Del Plata, Argentina (AP) — Russia's Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer, the American champion, won their 10th round games Saturday night in the International Chess Tournament. The 16 contestants each have five games to go.
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April 12 1960

David Bronstein vs Robert James Fischer Mar del Plata (1960), Mar del Plata ARG, rd 12, Apr-12 Indian Game: General (A45) 1/2-1/2

• New York Times, New York, New York, Tuesday, April 12, 1960 — Leaders Advance At Mar Del Plata — Spassky Beats Letelier in 49 Moves—Fischer Downs Incutto in Ruy Lopez — Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union and Bobby Fischer, the United States champion, posted victories again in the eleventh round of the chess tournament at Mar del Plata yesterday, according to a report from Argentine news sources.
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• Tampa Bay Times St. Petersburg, Florida Tuesday, April 12, 1960 — Fischer, Spassky Stay Tied In Chess Tourney — Mar Del Plata, Argentina (AP) — Russia's Boris Spassky and young Bobby Fischer of the United States, kept their one-two positions in the International Chess Tourney at the end of the 11th round Sunday. Spassky maintained his half-point lead over Fischer by defeating Rene Letelier of Chile in 49 moves.
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April 13 1960

Robert James Fischer vs Jose Luis Alvarez del Monte Mar del Plata (1960), Mar del Plata ARG, rd 13, Apr-13 Spanish Game: Closed Variations. Delayed Exchange (C85) 1-0

April 14 1960

Rene Letelier Martner vs Robert James Fischer Mar del Plata (1960), Mar del Plata ARG, rd 14, Apr-14 Trompowsky Attack: General (A45) 0-1

• New York Times, New York, New York, Thursday, April 14, 1960 — Fischer Is Victor And Ties For Lead — Brooklynite Downs Alvarez in Argentine Chess—Tal and Botvinnik Draw — Mar Del Plata, Argentina, April 13 (AP)—Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn moved into a first-place tie today in the international chess masters tournament. Fischer defeated Luis Alvarez of Uruguay in thirty-seven moves in the thirteenth round.
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• The Times Shreveport, Louisiana Thursday, April 14, 1960 — Fischer in Tie For Chess Lead — Mar Del Plata, Argentina, April 13 (AP)—Young Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn moved into a tie with Russia's Boris Spassky in the international chess tournament today. The teenage New Yorker defeated Luis Alvarez, Uruguay, in 37 moves, during the thirteenth round.
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• Courier-Post Camden, New Jersey Thursday, April 14, 1960 — While worshiping high-salaried baseball, golf and basketball stars — many of whom don't deserve either the adulation or the remuneration they get, couldn't sports lovers spare a polite hurrah or two for Bobby Fischer, the 17-year-old Brooklyn high school boy, now holding his own with two top Russians and 13 superior chess players, down in the Argentine, with no one to encourage him in what he is doing to dispel the misconception prevalent in foreign lands that America, which excels in sports and living standards, doesn't produce cultural or intellectual talent?
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April 15 1960

Robert James Fischer vs Luis Marini Mar del Plata (1960), Mar del Plata ARG, rd 15, Apr-15 Sicilian Defense: Classical Variation. General (B56) 1-0

• New York Times, New York, New York, Friday, April 15, 1960 — Spassky Gains Lead Over Fischer Again In Argentine Chess — Boris Spassky of Russia, with a 12-1 record, has regained his lead over the United States champion, Bobby Fischer (11½—1½), in the international masters' chess tournament at Mar del Plata, according to reports received yesterday from the Argentine.
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• Clarion-Ledger Jackson, Mississippi Friday, April 15, 1960 — Chess Lead Swaps — Mar Del Plata, Argentina, (AP) — Boris Spassky, Russian Grand Master, regained first place in an international chess tournament Thursday by winning an adjourned game. Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn slipped to second by losing to David Bronstein, another Russian.
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• Asbury Park Press Asbury Park, New Jersey Friday, April 15, 1960 — Spassky Has Edge Over Fischer Again — Mar Del Plata, Argentina (AP)—Boris Spassky, Russian grand master, regained first place in an international chess tournament yesterday by winning his adjourned game. Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn slid to second by losing to David Bronstein, another Russian.
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• Chicago Tribune Chicago, Illinois Friday, April 15, 1960 — Bobby Fischer Moves Into Second Place — Bobby Fischer, 16 year old Brooklyn wizard, slipped to second place in the invitational chess tourney in Argentina by losing to David Bronstein of Russia, in 66 moves…

April 16 1960

• The Montreal Star, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Saturday, April 16, 1960 — Bobby Fischer — The Mar del Plata International Tournament, in Argentina, has turned into a fantastic race to the wire between 17-year-old United States Champion Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky, one of Russia's top-rated grandmasters. Last week, we erred in stating that Fischer and Spassky had not played as yet in this exciting event.
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• Tampa Bay Times St. Petersburg, Florida Saturday, April 16, 1960 — Fischer Still Trails In Chess Tournament — Mar Del Plata, Argentina (AP)—Boris Spassky, Russian chess grand master, leads Bobby Fischer, 17-year-old United States champion, by a half-point with only one more round left in the international tourney. In Thursday night's competition Spassky defeated Osvaldo Bazan of Argentina in 25 moves while Fischer defeated Rene Letelier of Chile in 36 moves.
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• New York Times, New York, New York, Saturday, April 16, 1960 — Spassky, Fischer Are Victors Again In Masters' Chess — Boris Spassky of Russia defeated Osvaldo Bazan of Argentina yesterday to maintain his half-point lead over Bobby Fischer of the United States in the masters' chess tournament at Mar del Plata, Argentina. Spassky, who is undefeated, sacrificed a pawn and won a piece in a Sicilian defense lasting twenty-five moves, according to a report from Argentina.
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• St. Louis Post-Dispatch St. Louis, Missouri Saturday, April 16, 1960 — Fischer Trails Spassky After 14 Rounds of Chess — New York, April 16—After the fourteenth and semifinal round of the international chess tournament at Mar del Plata, Argentina, yesterday, the two leaders, both of whom were again winners, were still half a point apart. Boris Spassky of Russia, still undefeated, remained in first place with a score of 13 and 1, while Bobby Fischer, 17-year-old United States champion, was second with 12½ and 1½.
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• Asbury Park Press Asbury Park, New Jersey Saturday, April 16, 1960 — Fischer Half Point Behind — Mar Del Plata, Argentina (AP)—Boris Spassky, Russian chess grand master, leads Bobby Fischer, 17-year-old United States champion, by a half-point with only one more round in the international tourney to be played. In Thursday night's competition Spassky defeated Osvaldo Bazan of Argentina in 25 moves while Fischer defeated Reno Letelier of Chile in 36 moves.
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• Pensacola News Journal Pensacola, Florida Saturday, April 16, 1960 — Pushing The Pawns In Moscow — Chess players, that hardy, silent breed, will be following with keen interest the matches being played in Moscow these days by two masters of the game named Botvinnik and Tal. Botvinnik is world champion; Tal, who at twenty-three is less than half his age, is the challenger.
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April 17 1960

• Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, Sunday, April 17, 1960 — Spassky, Fischer Lead In Argentine Tourney — Bobby Fischer, youthful United States chess champion, has won seven games in succession to achieve a score of 8-1 after nine rounds of the international master tournament at Mar del Plata, Argentina, according to a report from the New York Times.
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• New York Times, New York, New York, Sunday, April 17, 1960 — Outlook Is Good For Tal In Chess — Latvian's Quest for World Title Helped by His Play in First Seven Games — At the halfway mark in the world chess championship match in Moscow, with twelve games decided, the outlook was favorable for Mikhail Tal. The Latvian challenger had a score of 7—5 against the champion, Mikhail Botvinnik.
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• Sunday Gazette-Mail Charleston, West Virginia Sunday, April 17, 1960 — Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer's Amazing String of Wins — The world championship match continues in Moscow with Mikhail Tal adding another win to raise his score to 6½ to 4½ over the defending Mikhail Botvinnik. However, at the time of adjournment, Botvinnik seemed to have a win in game number 12.
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• New York Times, New York, New York, Sunday, April 17, 1960 — Chess Rivals Set For Final Round — Spassky, Leading Fischer by Half-Point, Will Face Wexler of Argentina — Fourteen rounds of the international chess masters tournament at Mar del Plata were completed yesterday, when two adjourned games were played to a finish, according to a report from Argentina.
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April 18 1960

• New York Times, New York, New York, Monday, April 18, 1960 — Fischer Gains Tie For Chess Honors — Beats Marini in Final Round at Mar del Plata—Wexler Holds Spassky to Draw — Bobby Fischer gained a tie for first place in the final round of the chess tournament at Mar Del Plata yesterday according to a report from Argentina. Fischer, the United States champion, defeated Luis Marini of Argentina in thirty-five moves, while Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, who had held the undisputed lead, drew with Bernardo Wexler of Argentina in twenty moves.
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• Asbury Park Press Asbury Park, New Jersey Monday, April 18, 1960 — Fischer Gains Tie in Chess — Mar Del Plata, Argentina, (AP)—Bobby Fischer, 17-year-old United States champion, and Russian Grand Master Boris Spassky finished in a tie yesterday for first place in the International Chess Tournament. Each had 13½ points in the 19-day tourney.
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• St. Louis Post-Dispatch St. Louis, Missouri Monday, April 18, 1960 — Fischer, Spassky In Tie As Chess Tourney Ends — New York, April 18—Bobby Fischer gained a tie for first place yesterday in the final round of the chess tournament at Mar del Plata, Argentina, according to a report from Argentina. Fischer, the 17-year-old United States champion, defeated Luis Marini of Argentina in 35 moves, while Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, who had held the undisputed lead, drew with Bernardo Wexler of Argentina in 20 moves.
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April 20 1960

• Courier-Post Camden, New Jersey Wednesday, April 20, 1960 — Bobby Fischer Makes Perhaps His Greatest Tournament Showing To Date — Bobby Fischer, our 17-year-old U.S. champion, made perhaps his greatest tournament showing to date in finishing in a tie with Boris Spassky, Soviet grandmaster, in the international tourney at Mar del Plata, Argentina.
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• The Guardian London, Greater London, England Wednesday, April 20, 1960 — Another Draw In Chess Match — There may be a pointer to the prospects for the next title match in 1963 in the fact that two of the chief contenders, Boris Spassky of Russia and Bobby Fischer, of the United States, have just tied for the first prize at Mar del Plata, Argentina, with 13 out of 15, ahead of Bronstein and Olafsson.
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April 23 1960

• The Gazette Montreal, Quebec, Canada Saturday, April 23, 1960 — Spassky Is Half Point Ahead of Fischer — At Mar del Plata international Boris Spassky, USSR, and Bobby Fischer, USA, have almost run away from the rest of the field. Spassky defeated Fischer but is only half a point ahead of him, with one round to go.

• The Province, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Saturday, April 23, 1960 — Challenger Maintains Lead in World Chess — In the international tournament at Mar del Plata, Argentina, there was an exceptionally close struggle. The contenders were Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union and Bobby Fischer, of Brooklyn, the United States champion. They have been well matched and never more than a point apart in the standing.
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• The Montreal Star, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Saturday, April 23, 1960 — Fischer, Spassky in Draw In International Contest — United States Champion Bobby Fischer, 17-year-old Brooklyn Grandmaster, tied for first place in the Mar del Plata International with Russian Grandmaster Boris Spassky. Their scores were 13½-1½. Both players had won in round one of this 15-round event.
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April 24 1960

• New York Times, New York, New York, Sunday, April 24, 1960 — Fischer Games Shown — The details of four games played by the United States chess champion, Bobby Fischer, in the the recent international tournament at Mar del Plata, wherein he shared the first and second prizes with Boris Spassky of Russia, are included in the latest selection reaching here through South American channels.
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• The Journal Times Racine, Wisconsin Sunday, April 24, 1960 — Mar Del Plata — Thanks to Bernardo Wexler of Argentina, who drew with Boris Spassky in the final round, Bobby Fischer managed to tie Spassky in the final round of the Mar Del Plata event at Buenos Aires. Fischer lost to Spassky in the second, and later drew with Bronstein, who finished third ahead of Iceland's Frederick Olafsson.
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April 29 1960

• Lansing State Journal Lansing, Michigan Friday, April 29, 1960 — Decision Making Seen Machine's Next Step — Within ten years, he says a machine will be able to defeat any human in chess—Tal, Botvinnik, or Bobby Fischer … ★ ★

• The Morning Call Allentown, Pennsylvania Saturday, April 30, 1960 — Chess Fund — Harvey Breit, co-author of “The Disenchanted,” is raising a fund to bring the Soviet chess team here to play against Bobby Fischer . . .

April 30 1960

Is it true that Bobby Fischer was never a “high school drop out”?

The Montreal Star, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Saturday, April 30, 1960
Let's Play Chess, By William Oaker
Small-fry chess giant Bobby Fischer, the Brooklyn prodigy, is making the news in other ways besides winning chess tournaments. According to the British magazine Chess, Bobby's high school has resolved its worry over the interference of chess with his normal scholastic career by deciding that his achievements in international chess shall qualify him for honorary graduation. ★

NOTE: “…An honorary graduation ceremony at a high school is a special event to honor someone who is unable to participate in the regular graduation.”

May 01 1960

• Daily News New York, New York Sunday, May 01, 1960 — Checkmate Mischief With Chess for Kids — By Stephen Unsino —Boys who plot moves across a chess board seldom plot mischief on the streets, according to the Chess For Youth Committee, a group recently set up in New York City. The committee intends to introduce this game of fierce skill and concentration to one million children in one year, and to promote it across the U.S.
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• New York Times, New York, New York, Sunday, May 01, 1960 — Argentine Seeks Chess Standouts — Tourney Opening on June 10 Has Top Prize of $1,000 — Fischer Gets Bid — The Government of Argentina has made a grant equivalent to $10,000 to the Argentine Chess Federation for the purpose of staging an international tournament as a part of the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the revolution that made that country a republic.
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• Express and News San Antonio, Texas Sunday, May 01, 1960 — Championship Chess By Blake Stevens — One of the most dramatic chess tourneys in recent times has been concluded at Mar Del Plata, Argentina, and I am proud to report that Bobby Fischer of the USA tied for first place with Boris Spassky of Russia. The young United States Master, only 17, lost the first game to Spassky, who is about 21, and then trailed by a half a point for 13 rounds, finally overtaking the pace-setting leader in the last round.
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May 07 1960

• The Gazette Montreal, Quebec, Canada Saturday, May 07, 1960 — Russia's Invitation — Russia is organizing an important international tourney starting the end of May. Bobby Fischer is among those invited.

• The Province, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Saturday, May 07, 1960 — American and Russian Share Honors in Chess — The details of games played by United States chess champion Bobby Fischer in the recent international tournament at Mar del Plata, wherein he shared the first and second prizes with Boris Spassky of Russia, are included in the latest selection reaching here through South American channels.
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May 08 1960

• Sunday Gazette-Mail Charleston, West Virginia Sunday, May 08, 1960 — More Formidable Opponents on the Horizon — Mikhail Tal won the 19th game of his world championship match over Mikhail Botvinnik and raised his lead to 11½ to 7½. One more point in their scheduled 24-game match will give Tal the title. Quite possibly by the time this appears in print Tal will be the new champion, and it would seem quite unlikely that Botvinnik would ever regain the title as he did following his loss to Smyslov.
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• New York Times, New York, New York, Sunday, May 08, 1960 — A Daredevil at the Chessboard — Tal once played with the American prodigy Bobby Fischer. One of the grand masters writing about that game said the youth from Riga “simply laid Fischer on the carpet.”

May 09 1960

• Press and Sun-Bulletin Binghamton, New York Monday, May 09, 1960 — Chess Ace Returns — Buenos Aires—(AP)—Bobby Fischer, the United States' 17-year-old chess champion, left today to return to his home in Brooklyn. He said he had decided against going to Moscow and would return here for another international chess tournament next month.
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May 15 1960

• Fort Lauderdale News Fort Lauderdale, Florida Sunday, May 15, 1960 — Let's Play Chess — by Frank Rose — Bobby Fischer, 17-year-old U.S. champion, tied for first place with Boris Spassky of Russia in the recent Mar Del Plata tournament. Bobby won 13, lost one and drew one for one of his greatest victories. … I'm sticking my neck out again and predicting that in four years Fischer will win the world title.
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• Hartford Courant Hartford, Connecticut Sunday, May 15, 1960 — Chess, Anyone? — Almost as exciting to the people of the Soviet Union as the political sensations of the day is the finale of the world chess championship match. It was won recently by a young Latvian, 23-year-old Mikhail Tal. Tal defeated Mikhail Botvinnik of Moscow in a tournament lasting two months, by a score of 12½ to 8½.
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May 21 1960

• The Gazette Montreal, Quebec, Canada Saturday, May 21, 1960 — Title Re-Match A Possibility — The chess world would unquestionably like to see M. Botvinnik exercise his right to a return match in 1961 with M. Tal, his recent conqueror for the world title. Whether he will do so remains his decision. His recovery against V. Smyslov in 1958 may induce him to try again, now that he understands better the strength and weaknesses of his opponent.
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June 11 1960

• The Chronicle, Chesters, Nantwich, Cheshire, England, Saturday, June 11, 1960 — Chess For All —Bobby Fischer, with 13½ points from fifteen games, has shared first place with B. Spassky in the Mar del Plata tournament, above Bronstein, Olafsson and other strong players. This 16-year-old genius has had a phenomenal rise to fame. In the 1956 U.S. “Open” he came third, a point behind the winner.
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• The Sydney Morning Herald Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Saturday, June 11, 1960 — Chess Experts — The main interest in Bobby Fischer's book of his own games lies in the personality of the author. When a 16-year-old boy reaches nearly to the top of the chess ladder of fame the astonished world wants to know how he does it.
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June 19 1960

• New York Times, New York, New York, Sunday, June 19, 1960 — Fischer in Buenos Aires — Buenos Aires, June 18 (AP)—Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn, the North American chess champion, arrived from New York yesterday to play in an international tourney as part of Argentina's 150th Independence anniversary celebration.

• New York Times, New York, New York, Sunday, June 19, 1960 — Argentine Chess Lists 3 From U.S. — Fischer, Reshevsky, Evans in Event Opening Tomorrow at Buenos Aires — With the United States contributing three grandmasters—Bobby Fischer, Samuel Reshevsky and Larry Evans—another South American international chess tournament will start tomorrow.
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June 23 1960

Robert James Fischer vs Alberto Foguelman Buenos Aires (1960), Buenos Aires ARG, rd 1, Jun-23 Caro-Kann Defense: Classical. Flohr Variation (B18) 1/2-1/2

• The News, Paterson, New Jersey, Monday, May 23, 1960 — Champ! — Two years ago a chess master told her—“If you work hard you can be national champion.” Lisa worked and is now the national champ. She and Bobby Fischer, 17-Year-Old Men's Champ, will represent the U.S. in an international match against the Russians.

June 24 1960

Laszlo Szabo vs Robert James Fischer Buenos Aires (1960), Buenos Aires ARG, rd 2, Jun-24 English Opening: Anglo-Indian Defense. Queen's Knight Variation (A16) 1/2-1/2

June 25 1960

Robert James Fischer vs Hector Rossetto Buenos Aires (1960), Buenos Aires ARG, rd 3, Jun-25 Sicilian Defense: Lasker-Pelikan. Sveshnikov Variation (B33) 1-0

• New York Times, New York, New York, Saturday, June 25, 1960 — Fischer Gains Tie After 23 Moves — U.S. Champion Draws With Szabo in Buenos Aires—Guimard Tops Taimanov — The United States chess champion, Bobby Fischer, drew with Laszlo Szabo of Hungary yesterday after twenty-three moves of a King's Indian defense in the second round of a chess masters' tournament in Buenos Aires, according to a report from South America.
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June 26 1960

Robert James Fischer vs Borislav Ivkov Buenos Aires (1960), Buenos Aires ARG, rd 4, Jun-26 Caro-Kann Defense: Panov Attack (B14) 1/2-1/2

June 27 1960

• New York Times, New York, New York, Monday, June 27, 1960 — Uhlmann Upsets Gligoric In Chess — Loss Drops Yugoslav to Tie With Pachmann and Szabo in Argentine Tourney —Wolfgang Uhlmann of West Germany upset Svetozar Gligoric of Yugoslavia in the third round of the chess masters' tournament at Buenos Aires yesterday, according to a report from South America.
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June 28 1960

Erich Eliskases vs Robert James Fischer Buenos Aires (1960), Buenos Aires ARG, rd 5, Jun-28 Queen's Gambit Declined: Ragozin Defense (D38) 1-0

• New York Times, New York, New York, Tuesday, June 28, 1960 — Fischer Adjourns With Ivkov In Chess — The United States champion, Bobby Fischer, and Boris Ivkov of Yugoslavia adjourned after forty-one moves last night in the fourth round of the international chess masters' tournament in Buenos Aires, according to a report from Argentina.
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• Asbury Park Press Asbury Park, New Jersey Tuesday, June 28, 1960 — Reshevsky Cops Chess Match — Buenos Aires (AP)—Sam Reshevsky, of New York, defeated Osvaldo Bazan in 43 moves in the Argentine International Chess Tournament last night. Two other Americans played suspended matches. Bobby Fischer and Boraslav Ivkov suspended their match after 41 moves.
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June 29 1960

• San Angelo Standard-Times, San Angelo, Texas, Wednesday, June 29, 1960 — Evans Leading Chess Tourney — Buenos Aires (AP)—Larry Evans of New York led the field with 3 points yesterday at the end of four complete rounds in an international chess tournament. Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn was in a multiple tie for second with 2½, and Paul Benko, also of New York, was in a nine-way tie with two points.
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• New York Times, New York, New York, Wednesday, June 29, 1960 — Evans Gains Lead At Buenos Aires — New Yorker Beats Rossetto in Chess—Fischer Draws in 2 Adjourned Games — In another adjourned game yesterday, Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn, the United States titleholder, drew a first-round contest with Alberto Foguelman of Argentina. Fischer also drew in the fourth round with Boris Ivkov of Yugoslavia.
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• The Times Shreveport, Louisiana Wednesday, June 29, 1960 — Evans Is Leading In Chess Tourney — Buenos Aires, June 28 (AP)— Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn was in a multiple tie for second with 2½, and Paul Benko, also of New York, was in a nine-way tie at 2 points. Fischer drew with Borislav Ivkov of Yugoslavia in 60 moves and with Alberto Foguelman of Argentina in 58 moves in suspended matches continued last night.
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June 30 1960

Robert James Fischer vs Ludek Pachman Buenos Aires (1960), Buenos Aires ARG, rd 6, Jun-30 Sicilian Defense: Paulsen. Szen Variation (B44) 1/2-1/2

• New York Times, New York, New York, Thursday, June 30, 1960 — Evans, Korchnoi Play Chess Draw — New Yorker Is Held Even in Argentina and Is Tied for Lead by Unzicker — Larry Evans, a former United States chess champion, was held to a draw in forty-two moves yesterday in the fifth round of the international tournament at Buenos Aires, according to a report received here through South American news sources.
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July 01 1960

Bernardo Wexler vs Robert James Fischer Buenos Aires (1960), Buenos Aires ARG, rd 7, Jul-01 English Opening: Anglo-Indian Defense. Queen's Knight Variation (A16) 1-0

• New York Times, New York, New York, Friday, July 01, 1960 — Reshevsky of U.S. Outplays Bazan — Wins in 40 Moves in Chess at Buenos Aires—Evans in Tie for First Place — Samuel Reshevsky of the United States yesterday won his adjourned fourth-round game from Oswaldo Bazan of Argentina in the international masters' tournament at Buenos Aires, according to South American news sources.
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July 02 1960

Robert James Fischer vs Wolfgang Uhlmann Buenos Aires (1960), Buenos Aires ARG, rd 8, Jul-02 French Defense: Winawer. Advance Variation (C19) 0-1

1960 Gran Torneo Internacional Sequicentenario Federacio Argentina de Ajedrez Wolfgang Uhlmann and Robert James Fischer (score sheet)

• New York Times, New York, New York, Saturday, July 02, 1960 — Benko and Szabo Share Chess Lead — Hungarian Refugee Defeats Taimanov in Argentina—Wexler Is Beaten — Pal Benko, a Hungarian refugee from New York, and Laszlo Szabo of Hungary, with scores of 4—2 each, yesterday took the lead in the chess masters tournament at Buenos Aires, according to a report reaching here last night through South American news sources.
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July 03 1960

• New York Times, New York, New York, Sunday, July 03, 1960 — Unzicker Paces Argentina Chess — German Turns Back Wade and Draws With Gligoric—Fischer Is Beaten — Wolfgang Unzicker of West Germany gained a tenuous hold on first place in the Buenos Aires chess tournament yesterday, according to South American news sources.
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• The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Sunday, July 03, 1960 — Four U.S. Masters In Argentine Tourney — The Argentine Chess Federation, easily the most active chess organization in the Americas, is sponsoring an international masters' tournament in Buenos Aires, with 20 top-ranking stars in attendance. With partial results after three rounds, the lead was shared by Svetozar Gligoric of Yugoslavia, Ludek Pachman of Czechoslovakia and Laszlo Szabo of Hungary.
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July 04 1960

Mark Taimanov vs Robert James Fischer Buenos Aires (1960), Buenos Aires ARG, rd 9, Jul-04 Nimzo-Indian Defense: Ragozin Defense (E46) 1/2-1/2

July 05 1960

Robert James Fischer vs Samuel Reshevsky Buenos Aires (1960), Buenos Aires ARG, rd 10, Jul-05 Sicilian Defense: Paulsen. Szen Variation (B44) 1/2-1/2

• New York Times, New York, New York, Tuesday, July 05, 1960 — Reshevsky Leads Argentine Chess — Sets Back Foguelman in 39 Moves—Unzicker, Evans Trail by Half a Point — After eight rounds of the chess masters tournament in Buenos Aires, Samuel Reshevsky, a former United States champion, leads a field of twenty by a half-point, according to a report received Sunday night from South America.
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July 06 1960

• New York Times, New York, New York, Wednesday, July 06, 1960 — Reshevsky Plays Draw With Szabo — American Retains Lead in Ninth Round of Buenos Aires Chess Tourney — Samuel Reshevsky as the United States drew in seventeen moves with Laszlo Szabo of Hungary yesterday in the ninth round of the chess tournament at Buenos Aires.
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July 07 1960

Wolfgang Unzicker vs Robert James Fischer Buenos Aires (1960), Buenos Aires ARG, rd 11, Jul-07 Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation. Traditional Line (B98) 1-0

• New York Times, New York, New York, Thursday, July 07, 1960 — Reshevsky, Fischer Draw In Argentina — Samuel Reshevsky, the leader in the international chess masters' tournament at Buenos Aires, drew in the tenth round yesterday with Bobby Fischer, his successor as the United States champion. Reshevsky played a Sicilian defense, according to information from Argentina, and the match ended after thirty-seven moves.
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July 08 1960

Robert James Fischer vs Fridrik Olafsson Buenos Aires (1960), Buenos Aires ARG, rd 12, Jul-08 Sicilian Defense: Fischer-Sozin Attack. Flank Variation (B87) 1/2-1/2

• New York Times, New York, New York, Friday, July 08, 1960 — Reshevsky Holds His Lead In Chess — Unzicker Ties Evans for 2d After Drawing Adjourned Game In Buenos Aires — Two American grand masters continued to pace the field last night in the international chess tournament at Buenos Aires, according to South American news sources.
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July 09 1960

Larry Evans vs Robert James Fischer Buenos Aires (1960), Buenos Aires ARG, rd 13, Jul-09 Spanish Game: Classical Variation (C64) 1/2-1/2

• New York Times, New York, New York, Saturday, July 09, 1960 — Three Share Lead In Argentine Chess — A triple tie for first place in the chess masters tournament at Buenos Aires resulted last night from the play in the eleventh round, according to a report received through Argentine news sources. Samuel Reshevsky, who drew an English opening with Boris Ivkov of Yugoslavia in twenty-four moves, was tied at 7½—3½ by Larry Evans, United States and Wolfgang Unzicker, West Germany.
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• Hartford Courant Hartford, Connecticut Saturday, July 09, 1960 — Q. How old was Bobby Fischer when he first became the U.S. chess champion? T.H. — A. Bobby Fischer, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was 14 years old when he won the U.S. championship on January 7, 1958, at the Manhattan Chess Club in New York City. He started playing chess when he was six.
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July 10 1960

• New York Times, New York, New York, Sunday, July 10, 1960 — Reshevsky Remains Tied For Chess Lead — Samuel Reshevsky of New York and Wolfgang Unzicker of West Germany remained tied, 8—4, for the lead in the international chess masters tournament yesterday at Buenos Aires. Reshevsky drew with Erich Eliskases of Argentina in forty-four moves of an English opening in the twelfth round.
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• The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Sunday, July 10, 1960 — Reshevsky Leads In Argentine Tourney — Samuel Reshevsky of Spring Valley, N.Y., former U.S. chess champion, recovered from an early setback to take the lead with a score of 6½-2½ after nine rounds of the international masters' tournament in Buenos Aires, according to a report from the New York Times.
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July 11 1960

Robert James Fischer vs Viktor Korchnoi Buenos Aires (1960), Buenos Aires ARG, rd 14, Jul-11 Sicilian Defense: Smith-Morra Gambit. Accepted Classical Formation (B21) 1/2-1/2

• The Evening Independent, Massillon, Ohio, Monday, July 11, 1960 — Chess Champ at 16! — FISCHER, a normal youngster who gets just average grades in school, is himself optimistic about someday winning the world crown. “The Russians have the edge on us right now,” he says, “but give us a few years and we'll be better than them.” The talented youth, who says he plays chess simply “because I like to,” admits that Americans have little popular interest in the game (“I guess we're not artistically minded”) but notes that the ancient art is receiving more and more publicity and, at least, seems to be coming out of the doldrums of years gone by.
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• New York Times, New York, New York, Monday, July 11, 1960 — Reshevsky Leads In Chess Tourney — Goes Ahead in Masters at Buenos Aires After He Defeats Pachman — Samuel Reshevsky of the United States took the lead from Wolfgang Unzicker of West Germany yesterday in the thirteenth round of the international chess masters tournament at Buenos Aires, according to South American news sources.
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July 12 1960

Carlos Guimard vs Robert James Fischer Buenos Aires (1960), Buenos Aires ARG, rd 15, Jul-12 Torre Attack: Fianchetto Defense (A48) 0-1

July 13 1960

• New York Times, New York, New York, Wednesday, July 13, 1960 — Reshevsky Vanquishes Wexler In Chess Match at Buenos Aires — Samuel Reshevsky of the United States strengthened his hold on first place in the international chess masters' tournament in Buenos Aires yesterday with a score of 10— 4, according to South American news sources. In his fourteenth-round match Reshevsky defeated Bernardo Wexler of Argentina in thirty-five moves.
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July 14 1960

• The Guardian London, Greater London, England Thursday, July 14, 1960 — Buenos Aires tournament — Fourteen grandmasters are taking part in the strongest international event of the year. After 10 rounds, Reshevsky (United States) led with seven points, followed by his countryman Evans with six and a half. Reshevsky was a last-minute entry after his challenge to Bobby Fischer for a match for stakes of $1,000 a side was rejected.
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July 15 1960

• New York Times, New York, New York, Friday, July 15, 1960 — Fischer Defeats Guimard In Chess — Passed Pawn Decisive After 58 Moves—Wexler Also Wins at Buenos Aires — Bobby Fischer, the United States chess champion, yesterday won an adjourned fifteenth-round game from Carlos Guimard of Argentina in the Buenos Aires international chess tournament, according to South American news sources.
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July 16 1960

• New York Times, New York, New York, Saturday, July 16, 1960 — Caution Is Stressed In Game By Masters — Although Bobby Fischer succeeded Samuel Reshevsky as the chess champion of the United States and has become a world figure in the sport, it is Reshevsky who has been faring the better of the two in the tournament at Buenos Aires. There Reshevsky has been leading consistently since he lost his first game to Larry Evans, a former United States titleholder.
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• The Province, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Saturday, July 16, 1960 — Chess Champions in Action — While Larry Evans, former United States champion, was hard pressed by Wolfgang Unzicker of West Germany to hold the lead the international chess masters tournament at Buenos Aires, he as well as Pal Benko, Bobby Fischer and Samuel Reshevsky were doing their full share to keep American representatives well up among the leaders, including many of the world's outstanding grandmasters.
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• The Gazette Montreal, Quebec, Canada Saturday, July 16, 1960 — Blistering Pace at Buenos Aires — The strength of the Buenos Aires international is such that half the field of 20 masters and grandmasters are so closely bunched together after eleven rounds that any among the first dozen can be considered as potential winners. The Americans, Larry Evans and Sam Reshevsky, are doing especially well.
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July 17 1960

Robert James Fischer vs Osvaldo Manuel Bazan Buenos Aires (1960), Buenos Aires ARG, rd 16, Jul-17 Sicilian Defense: Paulsen. Szen Variation (B44) 1/2-1/2

• Sunday Gazette-Mail Charleston, West Virginia Sunday, July 17, 1960 — International Chess Tournament Buenos Aires, Argentina — Samuel Reshevsky of the USA continues to show the way in the international chess tournament at Buenos Aires, Argentina, with a score of 9 to 4. There yet remain six rounds of play. One-half point behind the leader follow the Russian champion, Victor Korchnoi, and Wolfgang Unzicker of West Germany.
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• The Courier-Journal Louisville, Kentucky Sunday, July 17, 1960 — Reshevsky Still Leads Argentina Chess Meet — By Merrill Dowden — I have just learned through the New York Times News Service that United States Champion Bobby Fischer won his adjourned game Thursday from Carlos Guimard of Argentina in 58 moves. Fischer, on the Black side of a King's Indian, succeeded at long last in promoting a passed Pawn.
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July 18 1960

Svetozar Gligoric vs Robert James Fischer Buenos Aires (1960), Buenos Aires ARG, rd 17, Jul-18 Spanish Game: Classical. Central Variation (C64) 1/2-1/2

July 19 1960

Robert James Fischer vs Robert Wade Buenos Aires (1960), Buenos Aires ARG, rd 18, Jul-19 Spanish Game: Closed Variations. General (C92) 1-0

• New York Times, New York, New York, Tuesday, July 19, 1960 — Reshevsky Keeps His Lead In Chess — New Yorker Beats Rosetto in 40 Moves at Buenos Aires—Benko Wins —Buenos Aires, July 18 (AP) — Samuel Reshevsky of New York retained his half-point lead in the international chess tournament tonight by defeating Argentino Rossetto of Argentina in forty moves.
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• Daily Gleaner, Fredericton, York, New Brunswick, Canada, Tuesday, July 19, 1960 — Reshevsky Keeps Chess Meet Lead — Buenos Aires (AP)-Samuel Reshevsky of New York retained his half-point lead in the International chess tournament Monday night defeating Argentino Rossetto of Argentina in 40 moves. Reshevsky has 12 points to 11½ for Victor Korchnoi of Russia with only two rounds still to be played.
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July 20 1960

• New York Times, New York, New York, Wednesday, July 20, 1960 — Two Share Lead At Buenos Aires — Korchnoi Beats Wexler and Ties With Reshevsky in Chess in Argentina — As Samuel Reshevsky was held to a draw by Wolfgang Unzicker of West Germany in the eighteenth round last night, the former United States champion was tied for the lead at 12½—5½ by Victor Korchnoi of the Soviet Union at Buenos Aires, according to a wireless report received through South American news channels.
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July 21 1960

 

YOUTHFUL CHESS CHAMPION
In its record of outstanding achievements of 1959 the Book of Knowledge Annual mentions that 16-year-old Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn won the chess championship of the United States for the second straight year.

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Pal Benko vs Robert James Fischer Buenos Aires (1960), Buenos Aires ARG, rd 19, Jul-21 King's Indian Defense: Fianchetto. Karlsbad Variation (E62) 1-0

July 24 1960

• The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Sunday, July 24, 1960 — Reshevsky Favored In Argentine Chess — With two rounds to go, Samuel Reshevsky of Spring Valley, N.Y. and Victor Korchnoi of the Soviet Union maintained their 1-2 position in the stiffly contested International Masters' Tournament at Buenos Aires, according to a New York Times report.
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July 27 1960

• Tampa Bay Times St. Petersburg, Florida Wednesday, July 27, 1960 — U.S., Russia Tied In Argentina Chess — Buenos Aires (AP) — With only one more round left to play, Samuel Reshevsky of New York and Victor Korchnoi of Russia are tied for first place in the Argentina international chess tourney with 12½ points each. Reshevsky has been leading since the outset but was held to a draw Tuesday night by Wolfgang Unzicker of Germany in 17 moves.
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July 28 1960

• The Guardian London, Greater London, England Thursday, July 28, 1960 — Buenos Aires — Reshevsky (United States) and Korchnoi the Russian champion shared first prize at Buenos Aires with 13 out of 19, followed by Szabo with 12. The two Argentines, Guimard and Rossetto, shared fourth place with Taimanov and Evans, and thereby qualified for the grandmaster title.
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July 30 1960

• The Gazette Montreal, Quebec, Canada Saturday, July 30, 1960 — Reshevsky Tied At Buenos Aires — It was not Bobby Fischer, on whose young shoulders most hopes were placed, but veteran Samuel Reshevsky who upheld the chess prestige of the free world by tieing for first in the Buenos Aires international with Victor Korchnoi, champion of all the Russians.
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July 31 1960

• Express and News San Antonio, Texas Sunday, July 31, 1960 — Championship Chess — by Blake Stevens — One of the strongest tournaments ever to be conducted in the last 25 years is in progress in Buenos Aires. Chess stars from all over the world are competing. Missing from the roster are Botvinnik and Tahl, both recuperating from their World Championship Match, and Keres and one or two other high Russian players.
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• The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Sunday, July 31, 1960 — Korchnoi Wins Final, Ties With Reshevsky — Samuel Reshevsky of Spring Valley, N.Y., losing the slight lead he had maintained most of the way, finished in a tie for first place with Victor Korchnoi of Russia in the International Masters' tournament at Buenos Aires, according to a report from the New York Times.
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August 01 1960

• The Times-Transcript, Moncton, Moncton Parish, New Brunswick, Canada, Monday, August 01, 1960 — Yank, Russian Are Deadlocked — Buenos Aires (CP)-Samuel Reshevsky of the United a States and Viktor Korchnoi of Russia tied for first place in the month-long International chess tournament that ended here. In his final match Reshevsky was held to draw by Fridrik Olafsson of Iceland in 20 moves while the Russian got a draw with Wolfgang Uhlmann of East Germany in 74 moves.
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August 02 1960

Robert James Fischer vs Pedro Galarraga Simul, 47b (1960) (exhibition), Caracas VEN, Aug-02 Sicilian Defense: Dragon Variation. Yugoslav Attack Main Line (B77) 0-1

August 06 1960

• The Gazette Montreal, Quebec, Canada Saturday, August 06, 1960 — Madrid Zonal — Particular interest for Montrealers in the Madrid Zonal of the new world championship series, centers in the fine showing made by Arturo Pomar, of Spain, who tied for top honors. Pomar visited this city seven years ago and made many friends here by his fine play and modest demeanor.
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August 10 1960

Muskogee Daily Phoenix and Times-Democrat, Muskogee, Oklahoma, Wednesday, August 10, 1960
No Support Offered
Oklahoma City (UPI)—The U.S. State Department has not offered to support a U.S. team at the 1960 World Chess Olympics in Leipzig, East Germany, Jerry Spann, president of the U.S. Chess Federation, disclosed Tuesday.

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August 14 1960

• St. Louis Post-Dispatch St. Louis, Missouri Sunday, August 14, 1960 — U.S. Chess Meet—Quiet, Please — Chess players are accustomed to being the butt of stale jokes about being chess-nuts, and complaints that chess is for graybeards and that one game lasts forever. They know that none of these things is true: that men and women from all walks of life enjoy chess, that the Open championship was won by Bobby Fischer at the age of 14 and that the length of a game depends on the players.
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August 20 1960

• The Gazette Montreal, Quebec, Canada Saturday, August 20, 1960 — Mrs. Roosevelt On Chess — Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, who played an important part in assuring Bobby Fischer's participation in the Challenger's tourney held in Yugoslavia last fall when the financial problem threatened his withdrawal, has commented on the general chess situation in the press: “I think there is no reason why we should not have as good chess players in our country as there are in other countries.
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August 24 1960

Brooklyn Daily, Brooklyn, New York, Wednesday, August 24, 1960

TO ALL LOVERS OF CHESS
TO ALL WHO VALUE AMERICA'S PRESTIGE ABROAD
Help send a fighting team headed by U.S. champion Bobby Fischer to the 1960 Chess Olympics, Leipzig, East Germany, October 14-November 9. All contributions acknowledged. Contributions tax deductible. If team fails to go for any reason (Note: team needs $6,000 minimum) all contributions will be used to send U.S. champion Bobby Fischer to represent USA chess in Europe and Asia in 1960, or returned if preferred.
REV. FRANK P. BEAL, Chairman,
People to People Chess Committee, Community Councils of City of New York, Inc.
1118 54th St., B'klyn 19, N. Y.
GEdney 6-8052.
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August 25 1960

Bobby Fischer, 17, leans over table to move in one of the twenty games he played at City Penitentiary. Beside him is Frederick C. Rieber of the Department of Corrections. Original b/w photo publication credit, New York Times, August 26, 1960.

August 26 1960

• New York Times, New York, New York, Friday, August 26, 1960 — A Captive Audience of 2,400 Cheers Bobby Fischer — Bobby Fischer, 17, leans over table to move in one of the twenty games he played at City Penitentiary. Beside him is Frederick C. Rieber of the Department of Correction. — Bobby Fischer, a champion chess player, played before his largest American audience yesterday at Rikers Island.
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• Courier-Post Camden, New Jersey Friday, August 26, 1960 — Ex-Missionary Seeks Chess Team Funds — New York (UPI)—A former missionary in China today appealed for funds to finance an American team to compete in the chess Olympics to be held later this year in Leipzig, East Germany. The Rev. Frank P. Beal, chairman of the People to People Chess Committee, said that if his fund drive is successful a team headed by three times U.S. chess champion Bobby Fischer, 17, would be sent to represent this country.
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September 18 1960

• New York Times, New York, New York, Sunday, September 18, 1960 — Chess Rally Is Listed — Group Meets Here Tomorrow on Fund-Raising Mission — A meeting of chess enthusiasts will be held tomorrow night at the Community Church, 40 East Thirty-fifth street, at 8 o'clock. The primary topic will be ways and means of raising funds to send an American team to the world chess Olympics in Leipzig, East Germany.
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September 21 1960

Mother of Bobby Fischer pickets the American Chess Foundation at the White House
Washington, DC - September 21: Regina Fischer, of Brooklyn, NY, is picketing the American Chess Foundation at the White House in an effort to gain support for sending a United States chess team to the World Chess Olympics in Leipzig, East Germany. Regina Fischer's son, Bobby, 17, is a three-time national chess champion. Photographed September 21, 1960 in Washington, DC.

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Regina Fischer Pickets the American Chess Foundation to allocate funding for American Team participation at Leipzig Chess Olympiad, in front of the White House, September 21, 1960. Larry Evans went on to conduct a hit piece on Fischer some 12 years later, and one of his highly fanciful allegations was that Mrs. Fischer was “chained” to the White House fence. Search for what your lying eyes will tell you: No chain exists. Furthermore, the sign Mrs. Fischer is wearing confirms she has no protest with the White House as, the sign affirms, President Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower supports Mrs. Fischer's goal to acquire funding for a Chess Olympics Team. Rather, the source of Mrs. Fischer's contention is with the American Chess Foundation who says “NO” to funding.

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September 22 1960

• Medford Mail Tribune Medford, Oregon Thursday, September 22, 1960 — Protests Decision — Mrs. Regina Fischer of Brooklyn, N.Y., mother of Bobby Fischer, 17-year-old national chess champion, pickets the White House in an effort to gain support for sending the United States chess team to the world chess olympics in East Germany next month.
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September 28 1960

• New York Times, New York, New York, Wednesday, September 28, 1960 — Chess Office Picketed — Fischer's Mother Wants U.S. Team in World Olympics — Mrs. Regina Fischer continued yesterday to picket the headquarters of the American Chess Foundation at 1372 Broadway to get it to send a team to the World Chess Olympics opening at Leipzig, East Germany, on Oct. 14.
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September 30 1960

Sun-Journal, Lewiston, Maine, Friday, September 30, 1960

The American Chess Foundation may be the only sports group in the world being picketed by the disgruntled populace in this case one by the name of Mrs. Regina Fischer. It so happens that the lady is the mother of a 17-year-old chess whiz, the U.S. national champion and mother wants someone to pay his bills overseas to compete in the World Chess Olympics to be held at Leipzig, East Germany, on the 14. Mama insists that the ACF has the cash to pay the bills and insists that Pres. Eisenhower favors having a team in the tournament. She has paraded back and forth with a sign expressing her indignation. The ACF officials in rebuttal say that the lady can walk back and forth as many miles as it is from New York to Leipzig and that “that's that” but say they, the chief hitch is that the State Department is NOT in favor of sending a team to East Germany, which is behind the Iron Curtain, and therefore will not furnish passports and give their blessing. Then too, says the ACF, the United States Chess Federation is the group which decides the matter as far as chess authorities are concerned, and adds that the matter hasn't been settled and that the Federation awaits further orders or information from the State Department. And so Mama may wear out shoes but Bobby looks due to stay here in The States, wearing out the seat of his pants, until Uncle Sam feels on more friendly terms with those East Germans who happen right now to be throwing their weight around over in “the homeland”… ★

• New York Times, New York, New York, Friday, September 30, 1960 — Fischer Off To Iceland — U.S. Chess Champion to Play in Leipzig Tourney Later — Bobby Fischer, the 17-year-old United States chess champion, left for Iceland last night. He is the only American invited to participate in that country's tournament celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of its national chess program.
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Bobby Fischer at blitz, Leipzig, October 1960. Original b/w photographer and rights information currently unknown. For fair use, all credits must be kept intact. Color photo version created by the developer (me, yours truly) of https://bobby-fischer-1960.blogspot.com

Bobby Fischer, Leipzig, October 1960.

Bobby Fischer, Leipzig Olympiad, October-November 1960. Original b/w photographer undetermined, via Picture Alliance/DPA. For fair use, all credits must be kept intact. Color photo version created by the developer (me, yours truly) of https://bobby-fischer-1960.blogspot.com https://www.bridgemanimages.com/en/noartistknown/bobby-fischer/photo/asset/2644470

Bobby Fischer, Leipzig Olympiad, October-November 1960. Original b/w photographer undetermined, via Picture Alliance/DPA. For fair use, all credits must be kept intact. Color photo version created by the developer (me, yours truly) of https://bobby-fischer-1960.blogspot.com https://www.bridgemanimages.com/en/noartistknown/bobby-fischer/photo/asset/2644469

October 01 1960

• The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Saturday, October 01, 1960 — In German Tourney — Times Chess Editor Will Head U.S. Team — Times Chess Editor Isaac Kashdan will captain a six-man chess team to represent the United States at the Chess Olympics to be held in Leipzig, East Germany, Oct. 16 through Nov. 9. Others on the U.S. team with Kashdan are Bobby Fischer, 17, of Brooklyn, U.S. champion for three years and the youngest in history; Robert Byrne, of Indianapolis; Arthur Bisguier and Nicholas Rossolimo, both of New York City, and Raymond Weinstein, of Brooklyn.
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• The Gazette Montreal, Quebec, Canada Saturday, October 01, 1960 — Reshevsky Defeats Benko — Veteran grandmaster Samuel Reshevsky scored a close victory over Paul Benko, Hungarian freedom fighter now resident in the U.S.A. in their ten game match at New York, scoring 5½ points to 4½. Benko started off well winning the first in good style but Reshevsky came back to take the 2nd, 5th and 7th games.
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October 02 1960

• Sunday Gazette-Mail Charleston, West Virginia Sunday, October 02, 1960 — International Chess Team Championship — The International Chess Team Championship Tournament will start soon in Europe, but unfortunately, the U.S. will not be represented. One reason is that it is being held in East Germany where we have no diplomatic representation.
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October 05 1960

Robert James Fischer vs Ingi Randver Johannsson Reykjavik (1960), Reykjavik ISL, rd 1, Oct-05 Spanish Game: Morphy Defense. Modern Steinitz Defense (C75) 1-0

• Courier-Post Camden, New Jersey Wednesday, October 05, 1960 — Chess Champ Kin On Hunger Strike — New York (UPI)—Mrs. Regina Fischer went on a hunger strike today in an effort to get the American Chess Foundation to finance a U.S. team to participate in the 1960 Chess Olympics that begin next week in Leipzig, East Germany. Mrs. Fischer, mother of U.S. chess champion Bobby Fischer, 17 of Brooklyn, has been picketing the foundation for the past week.
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• The Pittsburgh Press Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Wednesday, October 05, 1960 — Iceland's 60th Anniversary Chess Tourney — Bobby Fischer, the young American chess champion, finally has been able to accept the invitation to play in Iceland's 60th anniversary chess tourney. His transportation expense problem was solved: Harvey Breit, the playwright, gave him the money for the plane trip.
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October 06 1960

Arinbjorn Gudmundsson vs Robert James Fischer Reykjavik (1960), Reykjavik ISL, rd 2, Oct-06 Gruenfeld Defense: Botvinnik Variation (D95) 0-1

• New York Times, New York, New York, Thursday, October 06, 1960 — Mother of Chess Titlist Goes on Hunger Strike — The mother of 17-year-old Bobby Fischer went on a hunger strike yesterday in an effort to persuade the American Chess Foundation to finance the participation of the United States team in the 1960 Chess Olympics. Her son is the United States champion.
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• The Des Moines Register Des Moines, Iowa Thursday, October 06, 1960 — 1960 Chess Olympics in Leipzig — Mrs. Regina Fischer, mother of Bobby Fischer, U.S. chess champion, went on a hunger strike in New York in an effort to persuade the American Chess Foundation to finance an American chess team in the 1960 Chess Olympics in Leipzig, East Germany.
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October 09 1960

Robert James Fischer vs Fridrik Olafsson Reykjavik (1960), Reykjavik ISL, rd 4, Oct-09 Sicilian Defense: Najdorf. Opocensky Variation (B92) 1-0

• Sunday Gazette-Mail Charleston, West Virginia Sunday, October 09, 1960 — Chess Team at Leipzig, East Germany — It seems that I was in error when I stated that the United States would not be represented in the forthcoming international chess team championship tournament at Leipzig, East Germany Oct. 16 to Nov. 9. It looks now as though we will have a team there.
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• The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Sunday, October 09, 1960 — Russians Favored In Leipzig Tourney — The Soviet Union is sending a team of six grandmasters to the Chess Olympics in Leipzig which is probably the strongest aggregation ever to represent one country in a single event. Leading the line-up will be recently crowned world championship Mikhail Tal, and the man he succeeded, Mikhail Botvinnik.
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October 10 1960

Freysteinn Thorbergsson vs Robert James Fischer Reykjavik (1960), Reykjavik ISL, rd 5, Oct-10 Nimzo-Indian Defense: Normal Variation. Bernstein Defense (E58) 1/2-1/2

October 11 1960

• The Belleville News-Democrat, Belleville, Illinois, Tuesday, October 11, 1960 — Chintzy on Chess — While 17-year-old Bobby Fischer three-time national chess champion stands in Iceland with a ticket to Leipzig in his hands his mother, Mrs. Regina Fischer has been picketing the White House in Washington and the American Chess Foundation headquarters in New York writing letters to editors and in desperation going on a hunger strike.
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• Stockton Evening and Sunday Record, Stockton, California, Tuesday, October 11, 1960 — Where U.S. Won't Challenge Russia-In Chess — Chess is a game that finds comparatively few takers in the United States, and hence the Chess Olympics opening in Leipzig Friday list no entry of an American team. Thirty-nine nations, including tiny Puerto Rico, will participate.
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October 12 1960

• New York Times, New York, New York, Wednesday, October 12, 1960 — Chess Protest Is Over — Bobby Fischer's Mother Ends 6-Day Hunger Strike — The mother of 17-year-old Bobby Fischer, the United States chess champion, said yesterday that she had ended her hunger strike Monday afternoon after six days without food. She had stopped eating in an effort to persuade the American Chess Foundation to provide more money for the United States team in the 1960 Chess Olympics.
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October 14 1960

• New York Times, New York, New York, Friday, October 14, 1960 — Chess Captain Arrives — Kashdan Here to Direct U.S. Six in Leipzig Tourney — Isaac I. Kashdan of Los Angeles, the former co-champion of the United States, yesterday arrived here from Los Angeles to act as the non-playing captain of the American team in the chess Olympics at Leipzig, East Germany, from Oct. 16 to Nov. 9.
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October 17 1960

Theodor Ghitescu vs Robert James Fischer Leipzig Olympiad qual-4 (1960), Leipzig GDR, rd 1, Oct-17 Nimzo-Indian Defense: Ragozin Defense (E46) 0-1

• New York Times, New York, New York, Monday, October 17, 1960 — 250 Gather for World Chess — Some 250 chess players from forty nations assembled yesterday at Leipzig, East Germany, for the International Chess Federation's biennial team championships, according to a radio report. Bobby Fischer, William Lombardy, Robert Byrne, Arthur B. Bisguier, Nicholas Rossolimo and Raymond Weinstein are representing the United States.
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• The Guardian London, Greater London, England Monday, October 17, 1960 — The World Chess Team Championships — Leipzig, October 16. England face a formidable task in their preliminary group of the world chess team championships which begin here tomorrow. There is a record entry of 40, and the teams in Group 3 in order of the draw are Tunisia, Greece, Mongolia, Sweden, Bolivia, Hungary, England, Czechoslovakia, Iceland, and Denmark.
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October 18 1960

Robert James Fischer vs Cesar Munoz Leipzig Olympiad qual-4 (1960), Leipzig GDR, rd 2, Oct-18 Sicilian Defense: Dragon Variation. Yugoslav Attack Main Line (B77) 0-1

Bobby Fischer and Cesar Munoz, Leipzig, 1960.

• The Guardian London, Greater London, England Tuesday, October 18, 1960 — Golombek Draw First Game — Chess at Leipzig. Leipzig, October 17. Only one game was completed in the first session of England's match with Sweden in the world team chess championship. Golombek had the better opening against Lundin and reached an ending with the advantage of the two bishops; but a slight inaccuracy enabled Lundin to reach a drawn position.
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• Henryetta Daily Free-Lance, Henryetta, Oklahoma, Tuesday, October 18, 1960 — US Chess Experts In Leipzig Contest — Oklahoma City (UPI) — A team of American chess experts has gone to Leipzig in East Germany to challenge Soviet Russia in the 14th World Chess Olympiad. Jerry Spann, captain of the world champion student chess team said 38 nations are competing in the Leipzig event for the title now held by Russia.
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• The Norman Transcript, Norman, Oklahoma, Tuesday, October 18, 1960 — Chess Players Open Olympics — An American chess team is participating in the 14th World Chess Olympiad in Leipzig, East Germany, Jerry Spann, Norman, said Monday. Spann, captain of the world championship U. S. student team which played in Leningrad this summer, said the captaincy of the Olympic team was held open for him until last week but that he was unable to accept it.
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• The Moncton Transcript, Moncton, Moncton Parish, New Brunswick, Canada, Tuesday, October 18, 1960 — Soviets Win — Leipzig, East Germany (AP) The defending Soviet champion team swept Monaco 4-0 in the first-round match Monday of the 14th Chess Olympics here. Other clean victories were registered by Cuba over Lebanon, Argentina over Italy, and Norway over France.
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October 19 1960

Eleazar Jimenez Zerquera vs Robert James Fischer Leipzig Olympiad qual-4 (1960), Leipzig GDR, rd 3, Oct-19 Spanish Game: Classical. Central Variation (C64) 1/2-1/2

Robert 'Bobby' J. Fischer (playing black) against Cuban opponent Eleazar Jimenez, Chess Olympiad in Leipzig, October 19, 1960.

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• New York Times, New York, New York, Wednesday, October 19, 1960 — U.S. Leads Rumania In Chess Olympics — The United States team led Rumania, 2—1, with one game adjourned, in the first round of Section 4 in the chess Olympics at Leipzig, according to reports from East Germany yesterday. Forty nations are competing in four groups in the tournament being conducted by the International Chess Federation.
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• The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Wednesday, October 19, 1960 — U.S. Scores in Chess Olympics at Leipzig — Bobby Fischer, 17, Defeats Rumanian in 14 Moves; Americans Win Match, 3-1 By Isaac Kashdan, Times Chess Editor. Leipzig. — The United States scored its first point in the chess Olympics in this East German city when its 17-year-old champion Bobby Fischer defeated Ghitescv of Rumania in 14 moves Tuesday.
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• Courier-Post Camden, New Jersey Wednesday, October 19, 1960 — U.S. Team Last-Minute Olympic Competitors — Last-minute financial arrangements permitted the United States to send a team to represent it at the 1960 Chess Olympics after all. Heading the team is our national champion, 17-year-old Bobby Fischer, plus William Lombardy, Nicholas Rossolimo and Arthur Bisguier.
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October 20 1960

Pages 42-43 of XIV. Schach-Olympiade Leipzig 1960, published by Sportverlag Berlin.

Pages 42-43 of XIV. Schach-Olympiade Leipzig 1960, published by Sportverlag Berlin.

Pages 42-43 of XIV. Schach-Olympiade Leipzig 1960, published by Sportverlag Berlin.

Pages 42-43 of XIV. Schach-Olympiade Leipzig 1960, published by Sportverlag Berlin.

• The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Thursday, October 20, 1960 — U.S. Champion Suffers Chess Olympics Upset — Miscalculation by Fischer Loses Game to Munoz of Ecuador After Early Lead by Isaac Kashdan — Leipzig—After being first winner in the opening round of the Chess Olympics here, U.S. champion Bobby Fischer suffered a stunning upset Wednesday, losing to Munoz of Equador. Fischer had an early advantage with an apparently winning attack.
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• The Guardian London, Greater London, England Thursday, October 20, 1960 — A Grueling Day For England — Chess championship. Leipzig, October 19. The surprise of round two was Bobby Fischer's loss to Munoz. Although the United States boy prodigy had the white pieces in one of his favourite variations of the Sicilian his Ecuador opponent developed an overwhelming attack.
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• The Richmond News Leader, Richmond, Virginia, Thursday, October 20, 1960 — Of Bishops, Kings and Things — The handwriting looms upon the wall. A new impasse appears imminent. An East German woodcarver, simple soul with rough hewn hands, has designed a chess set composed exclusively of figures representing the proletariat in place of the aristocracy.
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October 21 1960

Alberic O'Kelly de Galway vs Robert James Fischer Leipzig Olympiad qual-4 (1960), Leipzig GDR, rd 5, Oct-21 Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation. Main Line (B99) 1/2-1/2

Alberic O'Kelly and Bobby Fischer, Leipzig, East Germany, October 21, 1960 end in a drawn game.

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The Daily Item, Port Chester, New York, Monday, October 24, 1960 — Teenage Terror Bobby Fischer — In Leipzig, teenage terror Bobby Fischer, acknowledged U.S. champ, got a meatball wedged up in his Sicilian defenses. Bullet Bob thusly had to content himself with a draw decision against one Alberic O'Kelly de Galway, a heavyweight thinker fighting out of Brussels, yet, in the belated Olympic chess competition.

• New York Times, New York, New York, Friday, October 21, 1960 — U.S. Defeats Cuba By 3-1 as Bisguier Triumphs in Chess — The United States team gained a 3-1 victory over Cuba in the third round of the Section 4 preliminaries of the chess Olympics at Leipzig, according to a report yesterday from East Germany. Arthur B. Bisguier clinched the match by scoring in a Nimzo-Indian defense over Juan Gonzalez in their adjourned game.
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• The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Friday, October 21, 1960 — U.S. Team Beats Cuba, 3-1, in Chess Olympics — Americans Win Third Straight Match Victory at Leipzig With Some Luck by Isaac Kashdan, Times Chess Editor — Leipzig. With a big assist from Lady Luck, the U.S. team defeated Cuba three to one Thursday for its third straight match victory in the Chess Olympics here.
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October 22 1960

• The Gazette Montreal, Quebec, Canada Saturday, October 22, 1960 — American Representation at the World Team Championship in Leipzig, East Germany — by D.M. Le Dain — A last minute effort, initiated by a group outside the U.S.A. Chess Federation, has assured American representation at the world team championship Leipzig, E. Germany.
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October 23 1960

Francisco Jose Perez Perez vs Robert James Fischer Leipzig Olympiad qual-4 (1960), Leipzig GDR, rd 7, Oct-23 Sicilian Defense: Chekhover Variation (B53) 0-1

• New York Times, New York, New York, Sunday, October 23, 1960 — U.S. Chess Team Defeats Belgium — Lombardy, Byrne, Weinstein Score in East Germany—Fischer Held to Draw — The United States chess team yesterday defeated Belgium, 3½—½, in the fifth round of the chess Olympics at Leipzig, according to a report received from East Germany yesterday.
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• The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Sunday, October 23, 1960 — U.S. Wins 5th Straight Match at Chess Meeting — American Team Defeats Strong Belgium Group, 3½ to ½, at International Contest by Isaac Kashdan, Times Chess Editor — Leipzig—The United States won the fifth straight match in the chess Olympics here Saturday, defeating the strong Belgium team 3½ to ½.
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• Sunday Gazette-Mail Charleston, West Virginia Sunday, October 23, 1960 — U.S. Representation at Leipzig, Germany — The USA is represented, after all, in the world team chess championship tournament at Leipzig, East Germany. The Americans won their first match in their section. As there are 40 teams entered, the event is being run off in four preliminary sections of ten teams each.
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October 24 1960

Rene Letelier Martner vs Robert James Fischer Leipzig Olympiad qual-4 (1960), Leipzig GDR, rd 8, Oct-24 King's Indian Defense: Normal Variation (E70) 0-1

• Tampa Bay Times St. Petersburg, Florida Monday, October 24, 1960 — U.S., Spain Tied In Chess Olympics — New York — The United States chess players gained another victory by the score of 3½-½ against Belgium in section 4 of the Chess Olympics at Leipzig in the fifth round, according to a report received from East Germany Saturday. United States and Spain are now tied for the lead in their section with 16-4 records.
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October 25 1960

• The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Tuesday, October 25, 1960 — U.S. Defeats Spain in Chess Olympics Play — by Isaac Kashdan, Times Chess Editor — Leipzig—The United States scored 2½ to 1½ over a strong Spanish team Monday for its seventh straight victory in the Chess Olympics being held in this East German city. Bobby Fischer, 17-year-old champion who had been in poor form, outplayed Spain's Perez and won a piece after complicated maneuvering.
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• New York Times, New York, New York, Tuesday, October 25, 1960 — U.S. Defeats Spain In Chess At Leipzig — The United States won, 2½—1½, against Spain in the seventh round of the preliminaries of the chess Olympics in Leipzig, according to a report received from East Germany yesterday. The American quartet, with a total of 22½—5½, heads Section 4.
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October 26 1960

Robert James Fischer vs Wolfgang Unzicker Leipzig Olympiad qual-4 (1960), Leipzig GDR, rd 9, Oct-26 Spanish Game: Closed Variations. Closed Defense (C96) 1-0

Bobby Fischer, Wolfgang Unzicker, Leipzig, 1960.

A photo from the 14th Olympiad at Leipzig (October 26-November 9, 1960). Bobby Fischer read Tal's palm, peers into the future. 'I see that the next World Champion will be a young American! Tal immediately turned to William Lombardy and says, 'Congratulations, Bill!' On the left is Alexander Koblencs. Next to him is Mikhail Tal, followed by William Lombardy and Raymond Weinstein. The lady seated in the foreground is the wife of Vasily Smyslov, Nadezhda Andreevna.

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Bobby Fischer and William Lombardy, Leipzig, 1960.

• The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Wednesday, October 26, 1960 — United States Keeps Lead in Chess Olympics — Bobby Fischer Scores Brilliant Victory; Lombardy, Bisguier, Weinstein Also Win by Isaac Kashdan, Times Chess Editor — Leipzig—With one round remaining, the United States of America is practically certain to finish first in Section 4 of the Chess Olympics. Leipzig beat Chile, 4-0.
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• New York Times, New York, New York, Wednesday, October 26, 1960 — U.S. Tops Chile, 4-0, In Chess At Leipzig — The United States beat Chile, 4—0, in the eighth round of the preliminaries to the Chess Olympics at Leipzig, according to a report received yesterday from East Germany. The Americans lead Section 4 with a score of 26½—5½.
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October 27 1960

• New York Times, New York, New York, Thursday, October 27, 1960 — The Defense Failed — Bobby Fischer of the U.S. ponders move in his match with Munoz of Ecuador in second round of the Chess Olympics in Leipzig, East Germany. Munoz defeated Fischer in 36 moves, but U.S. beat Ecuador, 2½-1½, in team match. 14th Olympiad, Leipzig (DDR).
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• New York Times, New York, New York, Friday, October 28, 1960 — U.S. and Soviet Union Squads Reach Finals in Olympic Chess — The United States team finished in first place in Section 4 of the preliminaries of the chess Olympics at Leipzig, according to a report yesterday from East Germany. The Americans had a score of 29—7. The Soviet Union took the honors in Section 2 with a 32-4 record.
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October 28 1960

Robert James Fischer vs Theodor Ghitescu Leipzig Olympiad Final-A (1960), Leipzig GDR, rd 1, Oct-28 Sicilian Defense: Najdorf. Opocensky Variation (B92) 1-0

Bobby Fischer observes the game between William Lombardy (USA) and Corvin Radovici (Romania). In the Ringmessehaus, Leipzig, XIV Chess Olympiad, October 28-29, 1960.

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• The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Friday, October 28, 1960 — U.S., Russia Win Ninth Straight in Chess Play — by Isaac Kashdan, Time Chess Editor — Leipzig, Germany—The United States and Russia again won their matches in the ninth and last round of preliminary play in the Chess Olympics here, thus becoming the only teams with nine straight victories.
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October 29 1960

Jonathan Penrose vs Robert James Fischer Leipzig Olympiad Final-A (1960), Leipzig GDR, rd 2, Oct-29 Sicilian Defense: Najdorf. Amsterdam Variation (B93) 1/2-1/2

Bobby Fischer and Jonathan Penrose, Leipzig 1960

• New York Times, New York, New York, Saturday, October 29, 1960 — U.S. Team Has Edge In Chess At Leipzig — The finals of the chess Olympics at Leipzig got under way yesterday, according to a report from East Germany. The United States team, which topped Group 4 in the preliminaries, adjourned all four of its games with Bulgaria. Bobby Fischer, playing the top board for the United States, had the white side of a Sicilian defense with Ghitescu.
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• The Gazette Montreal, Quebec, Canada Saturday, October 29, 1960 — Chess Olympics — A record entry of forty-one countries are represented in the world team championship at Leipzig. The U.S.A. team has been strengthened by the addition of W. Lombardy, who was recently accorded grandmaster status by the FIDE. Although both he and Bobby Fischer dropped games in the early rounds of the preliminaries the team is well on the way to qualifying for the championship final.
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October 30 1960

Robert James Fischer vs Milko Bobotsov Leipzig Olympiad Final-A (1960), Leipzig GDR, rd 3, Oct-30 Spanish Game: Closed. Kholmov Variation (C92) 1-0

• New York Times, New York, New York, Sunday, October 30, 1960 — U.S. Beats Rumania In Chess At Leipzig — The United States completed its first-round match with Rumania with a 3½-½ triumph in the final of the chess Olympics for the Hamilton Russell trophy at Leipzig, according to a report from East Germany yesterday. Bobby Fischer, William Lombardy and Robert Byrne won and Arthur B. Bisguier drew.
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• The Courier-Journal Louisville, Kentucky Sunday, October 30, 1960 — U.S. Scores Over Spain At Leipzig — Bobby Fischer Beats Perez At Top Board by Merrill Dowden — Reports on the preliminaries of the Chess Olympics now being staged in Leipzig are sketchy, but I have learned through the New York Times News Service that our side is doing very well, thank you.
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• Sunday Gazette-Mail Charleston, West Virginia Sunday, October 30, 1960 — Chess Champ Wins Seven — With an entry field of 40 teams, representing as many countries or fraction thereof the Chess Olympics at Leipzig, East Germany, are being run off in preliminary sections and finals. The USA will qualify from Section 4 —they were in first place with but one round to go.
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• The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Sunday, October 30, 1960 — U.S. and Russia Win 1st Round in Chess Finals — by Isaac Kashdan, Times Chess Editor — Leipzig — The United States team was paired with Rumania in the first round of the finals in the Chess Olympics here and trounced it 3½ to ½. Bobby Fischer beat Ghitescu, first winning a rook for a knight and then, emerging with a passed pawn, was ahead in the rook end game.
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October 31 1960

Svetozar Gligoric vs Robert James Fischer Leipzig Olympiad Final-A (1960), Leipzig GDR, rd 4, Oct-31 Nimzo-Indian Defense: Ragozin Defense (E46) 1-0

• New York Times, New York, New York, Monday, October 31, 1960 — U.S. Ties for Lead With Soviet Union In Chess at Leipzig — The United States tied the Soviet Union for first place in the chess Olympics at Leipzig, East Germany, yesterday on an adjourned second-round game with England and a 2½-½ victory over Bulgaria. The United States and the Soviet Union now have 8-3 scores, with the one game adjourned.
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• The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, Monday, October 31, 1960 — Chess Olympics: U.S. Misses Chance, Ties British Team — By Isaac Kashdan, Times Chess Editor—Leipzig—The United States missed a great opportunity Sunday to move ahead in the chess Olympics by tying 2-2 with a weaker English tea in the second round of the championship finals.
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• Courier-Post Camden, New Jersey Monday, October 31, 1960 — Regina Fischer Suing the U.S. Chess Federation for Accounting of Funds — Mrs. Regina Fischer of Brooklyn, whose son, Bobby, the U.S. chess champion, was sent to the current World Chess Olympics in Leipzig, East Germany, with only a one-way ticket, is suing the U.S. Chess Federation for an accounting of funds in its $50,000 annual budget.
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• The Guardian London, Greater London, England Monday, October 31, 1960 — England chess team miss chances against Americans — Leipzig, October 30. England had mixed fortunes in their second round match with the United States in the world chess team championship. The result of 2-2 is the best we have ever made against the Americans, yet had all the chances been taken the score could have been 3½-½ to England.
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November 1960

Bobby Fischer / Leonard Barden vs Jonathan Penrose / Peter Clarke Consultation game (1960) (exhibition), London ENG, Nov-?? Sicilian Defense: Scheveningen Variation. Keres Attack (B81) 1/2-1/2

November 01 1960

Robert James Fischer vs Mikhail Tal Leipzig Olympiad Final-A (1960), Leipzig GDR, rd 5, Nov-01 French Defense: Winawer. Retreat Variation Armenian Line (C18) 1/2-1/2

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Robert James Fischer vs Mikhail Tal, November 01, 1960, Leipzig. Original b/w photograph via Leipzig City History Museum. For fair use, all credits must be kept intact. Color photo version created by the developer (me, yours truly) of https://bobby-fischer-1960.blogspot.com (Source)

Robert James Fischer vs Mikhail Tal, November 01, 1960, XIV Chess Olympiad 1960 in Leipzig. Original b/w photo via German Federal Archive (Deutsches Bundesarchiv), by Ulrich Kohls. For fair use, all credits must be kept intact. Color photo version created by the developer (me, yours truly) of https://bobby-fischer-1960.blogspot.com (Source)

• New York Times, New York, New York, Tuesday, November 01, 1960 — Soviets Take Lead In Chess At Leipzig — The Soviet Union scored in the fourth round of the chess Olympics at Leipzig, East Germany, yesterday. The Soviets gained a point in an adjourned third-round match with the Netherlands and with one game adjourned. They scored 2½-1½ victory over Hungary are in first place with an 11½-3½ score.
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• The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Tuesday, November 01, 1960 — U.S. Scores in Chess; Tied With Russ Team — by Isaac Kashdan, Times Chess Editor — Leipzig. The United States team gained a full point over the Russians Monday in the third round of the chess Olympics to tie them for the lead with 9 points each. The Americans defeated Bulgaria by 3½ to ½ while the Russians downed Holland 2½ to 1½.
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November 02 1960

Laszlo Szabo vs Robert James Fischer Leipzig Olympiad Final-A (1960), Leipzig GDR, rd 6, Nov-02 King's Indian Defense: Normal Variation (E70) 0-1

The Miami Herald, Miami, Florida, Wednesday, November 02, 1960

Give 'im a Nimzo, Bob
In Leipzig, the U.S. and Russian teams zipped into the finals of the Olympic chess meet, America's Bobby Fischer playing a Nimzo-Indian defense to the hilt, and William Lombard making hay with a Rubinstein Trap while Arthur Bisguier was breezing through with a — you guessed it — Bogoljubov Variation of a Queen's Pawn Opening. “Ah, but what are they holding back for the Russians?” pondered one dubious sideliner who obviously had forgotten the Bum's Rush.

Robert 'Bobby' J. Fischer (playing black) against opponent Laszlo Szabo, Chess Olympiad in Leipzig, November 02, 1960.

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• Courier-Post Camden, New Jersey Wednesday, November 02, 1960 — U.S. Russian Teams In Olympics Finals — As expected, the United States and the Soviet Union teams have reached the finals of the chess Olympics at Leipzig. The American team of Fischer, Lombardy, Byrne, Bisguier, Weinstein and Rossolimo finished with a score of 29-7 to capture first place in Section 4 of the preliminary round.
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• New York Times, New York, New York, Wednesday, November 02, 1960 — Fischer And Tal Draw In Leipzig — Split Point After 21 Moves—Soviet Union Leads U.S. Chess Team, 2 to 1 — After gaining a victory over Yugoslavia, 2½—1½, yesterday in an adjourned fourth-round match, the United States met the powerful Soviet Union quarter in the fifth round of the chess Olympics, at Leipzig, according to a report from East Germany.
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• The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Wednesday, November 02, 1960 — U.S. Loses Ground to Russ in Chess Finals — Americans Beat Yugoslavia, 2½-1½; Two Leaders Paired in Key Match Today — by Isaac Kashdan, Time Chess Editor — Leipzig, Germany—The United States scored an important 2½-to-1½ victory over highly rated Yugoslavia in the world chess Olympics here Tuesday but lost ground as Russia overwhelmed Hungary, 3½ to ½.
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November 03 1960

Robert James Fischer vs Max Euwe Leipzig Olympiad Final-A (1960), Leipzig GDR, rd 7, Nov-03 Caro-Kann Defense: Panov Attack. Modern Defense Mieses Line (B13) 1-0

• New York Times, New York, New York, Thursday, November 03, 1960 — Soviet Team Adds To Lead In Chess — Routs Argentina, 3½ to ½, at Leipzig—Fischer Beats Szabo of Hungary — The Soviet chess team defeated Argentina, 3½—½, in the sixth round of the chess Olympics at Leipzig, East Germany, yesterday, according to a report received here.
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• Tampa Bay Times St. Petersburg, Florida Thursday, November 03, 1960 — Fischer Ties Tal In Chess Test — New York—After gaining a victory over Yugoslavia, 2½ 1½, in their adjourned fourth-round match, the United States took on the powerful Russian quartet in the resumption of the Chess Olympics, according to a report received from East Germany Tuesday.
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November 04 1960

Robert James Fischer vs Miguel Najdorf Leipzig Olympiad Final-A (1960), Leipzig GDR, rd 8, Nov-04 Sicilian Defense: Scheveningen Variation. Keres Attack (B81) 1/2-1/2

Miguel Najdorf, standing, awaits Robert Fischer's move.

Fischer vs Najdorf, 1960 Leipzig Olympiad.

These photos could not be from the same game played on the same day in the tournament at Leipzig unless there was an adjournment and change of venue. Only one game, a draw was played between Najdorf and Fischer in Leipzig, 1960.
Robert James Fischer vs Miguel Najdorf
Leipzig Olympiad Final-A (1960), Leipzig GDR, rd 8, Nov-04
Sicilian Defense: Scheveningen Variation. Keres Attack (B81) 1/2-1/2
Examine the style of chair, location of clock vs corresponding player. All over the internet its claimed both photos are from the 1960 Leipzig tournament. How?

Anonymous: “They must have moved rooms/tables, (most likely after an adjournment? It was a longer game, after all), since things like the chairs are different.
(It doesn't help that one photo is made with the flash engaged, while the other uses no flash. This makes certain reflective surfaces appear different in color.)
Perhaps, they were the only game still in progress after all others finished, so they moved to the “main” board? (Although, why weren't they on the “main” board to begin with… weren't they the main attraction?)
Anyway, from the position of the pieces in the photos, the first photo (on the left in the collage) seems to be taken around move 11, while the second photo (on the right) seems to be from near the end of the match, around move 54.”
(See attached collage).

The Astoria and the Park Hotels, Leipzig. (The Hotel Astoria was opened in Leipzig on December 5, 1915 and operated until December 30, 1996. It is located immediately west of the main train station on Willy-Brandt-Platz between Kurt-Schumacher-Straße and Gerberstraße. The closure was followed by the vacancy of the building complex, the facade of which is a listed building.) The Park hotel of Leipzig, may still be in operation.
GM Isaac Kashdan answers the main question, “…The tournament is being held in a three-story building generally used for large receptions and exhibitions. There are 40 chess games in a large central area on each of two floors. The building is exceptionally well lighted, a prime requisite that is not always available in chess events…" but doesn't give the actual name of the building that served as the venue for the games. The full story can be found in The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Sunday, November 06, 1960

The game between Fischer and Najdorf were adjourned.

New York Times, New York, New York, Saturday, November 05, 1960
“…Bobby Fischer and Robert Byrne, adjourned their matches—Fischer with Miguel Najdorf and Byrne with Bernardo Wexler. The Americans were in favorable positions at adjournment.”
New York Times, New York, New York, Sunday, November 06, 1960
“…their unfinished eighth-round match with Argentina by 2½—1½ when Bobby Fischer, the United States champion, halved the point with Miguel Najdorf and Robert Byrne drew with Bernardo Wexler.”

• New York Times, New York, New York, Friday, November 04, 1960 — U.S. Chess Team Gains — Leads the Netherlands, 2½-½, in Leipzig Tourney — Leipzig, East Germany, Nov. 3 (AP)—The Soviet Union retained its lead in the Chess Olympics today although the United States closed ground by leading the Netherlands, 2½-½ with one game adjourned. The Soviet players took two games from West Germany and adjourned two for 20½ points after the seventh round.
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• Daily Press Newport News, Virginia Friday, November 04, 1960 — Soviets Lead Chess Tourney; U.S. 2nd — Leipzig, Germany (AP)—The Soviet Union held to the lead in the Chess Olympics Thursday although runner-up United States closed in by defeating Holland 2½-½ with one game adjourned. The Soviet chessmen took two games from West Germany and adjourned two for 20½ points after the seventh round.
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• The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Friday, November 04, 1960 — Russian Chess Team Beats Argentina 3½-½ — Isaac Kashdan, Times Chess Editor — Leipzig, Germany—The Soviet Union widened its lead in the international chess Olympics here Thursday by trouncing Argentina, 3½ to ½, behind the brilliant play of Vasily Smyslov and world champion Mikhail Tal.
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November 05 1960

Wolfgang Unzicker vs Robert James Fischer Leipzig Olympiad Final-A (1960), Leipzig GDR, rd 9, Nov-05 Spanish Game: Classical. Central Variation (C64) 1/2-1/2

Bobby Fischer playing black pieces against Wolfgang Unzicker, November 05, 1960, Leipzig Olympiad. Original b/w photo by Herbert Kronfeld/Ullstein bild Appears to be after 12. Nxe4... Wolfgang Unzicker vs Robert James Fischer Leipzig Olympiad Final-A (1960), Leipzig GDR, rd 9, Nov-05 Spanish Game: Classical. Central Variation (C64) 1/2-1/2 https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1044530

Wolfgang Unzicker plays the white pieces against Bobby Fischer at 14th Chess Olympiad, Leipzig, East Germany, 1960.

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• New York Times, New York, New York, Saturday, November 05, 1960 — Soviet Chess Team Leads Czechs, 2-1, In Leipzig Tourney — Leipzig, Germany, Nov. 4 (AP)—The Soviet Union gained a 2—1 lead over Czechoslovakia, and the United States went ahead of Argentina, 1½—½, tonight in the chess Olympics. After eight rounds, the Soviets, defending champions, have 24 points to 20½ for the runner-up American team.
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• The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Saturday, November 05, 1960 — U.S. Defeats Holland In Chess; Russ Keep Lead — by Isaac Kashdan, Times Chess Editor — Leipzig, Germany—The American team defeated Holland, 3½ to ½, in the seventh round of the international chess Olympics here Friday but failed to gain ground on the pace-setting Russians, who made an equal score against West Germany.
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November 06 1960

Robert James Fischer vs Ludek Pachman Leipzig Olympiad Final-A (1960), Leipzig GDR, rd 10, Nov-06 French Defense: Classical. Burn Variation (C11) 1-0

Bobby Fischer and Ludek Pachman, Leipzig Olympiad, November 06, 1960.

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• New York Times, New York, New York, Sunday, November 06, 1960 — Soviet Players Hold Chess Lead — U.S. Is 2d at Leipzig After Beating Both Argentina and Germany by 2½-1½ — With two rounds remaining in the chess Olympics at Leipzig, the Soviet Union held a 2-point-lead, according to a report from East Germany yesterday. The best the Soviet players could do in the ninth round was to tie East Germany at 1-1, with two games unfinished. The Soviet team had defeated Czechoslovakia, 3—1, in the eighth round.
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• The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Sunday, November 06, 1960 — U.S. Defeats Argentina in Chess Match — by Isaac Kashdan, Times Chess Editor — Leipzig. The American team has defeated Argentina by 2½ to 1½ in the Chess Olympics here, consolidating its second place position. The Russians, who are defending champions, improved their hold on first place by a 3-1 victory over Czechoslovakia.
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• The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Sunday, November 06, 1960 — Leipzig Good Site For Chess Olympics — Arranging and conducting a tournament such as the Chess Olympics is a massive operation, requiring considerable advance preparation and plenty of money and manpower. The East German and Leipzig officials went into action late in 1958, after the completion of the 13th Chess Olympics in Munich, West Germany.
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• The Courier-Journal Louisville, Kentucky Sunday, November 06, 1960 — U.S. Is 2d As Russians Hold Lead In Olympics — by Merrill Dowden — Bright hopes that the strong United States chess team would win the Chess Olympics at Leipzig were dimmed and in fact all but extinguished last week when it was defeated by you-know-who, 2½ to 1½.
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November 07 1960

• New York Times, New York, New York, Monday, November 07, 1960 — Soviet Sets Back Rumania In Chess — Scores, 3-1, in Olympics at Leipzig—U.S. in Draw With Czechoslovakia — The Soviet Union, nearing the team championship in the chess Olympics at Leipzig, East Germany, defeated Rumania, 3—1, in the tenth and semi-final round yesterday.
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• The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, Monday, November 07, 1960 — U.S. Beats W. Germany in Close Chess Match — By Isaac Kashdan, Times Chess Editor — Leipzig—The American team won another close match in the Chess Olympics here defeating West Germany by 2½ to 1½. Once again the Russians gained by overcoming East Germany 3-1.
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November 08 1960

Wolfgang Uhlmann vs Robert James Fischer Leipzig Olympiad Final-A (1960), Leipzig GDR, rd 11, Nov-08 King's Indian Defense: Four Pawns Attack. Exchange Variation (E79) 0-1

Wolfgang Uhlmann and Bobby Fischer duke it out over the board at the 14th Olympiad, Leipzig, November 08, 1960.

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Uhlmann vs. Fischer, Leipzig 1960.

• The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, November 08, 1960 — Russians Win Chess Olympics Fifth Time — By Isaac Kashdan, Times Chess Editor, Leipzig—A team representing the Soviet Union won the chess Olympics here for the fifth consecutive time in a winning streak which started at Helsinki in 1952. With one round remaining, the Russian point total cannot be equaled by the second place Americans.
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November 09 1960

• New York Times, New York, New York, Wednesday, November 09, 1960 — Penrose Tops Tal In Leipzig Chess — World Champion Loses First Game in Tourney—U.S. Leads East Germany — The Soviet Union chess team, winner of the team championship for the fifth time, adjourned with England 1—1 in the eleventh and final round at Leipzig, according to a report received from East Germany yesterday.
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November 10 1960

Robert James Fischer vs Klaus Darga USA - FRG m (1960), West-Berlin FRG, Nov-10 French Defense: Winawer. Advance Variation (C19) 1-0 Outstanding Achievement 10 Nov 1960, Thu Langley Advance (Langley, British Columbia, Canada) Newspapers.com

Langley Advance, Langley, British Columbia, Canada, Thursday, November 10, 1960 — In outstanding achievements of 1959, 16-year-old Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn won the chess championship of the United States for the second straight year.

• New York Times, New York, New York, Thursday, November 10, 1960 — U.S. Chess Team Finishes Second — Fischer Victor, Lombardy Draws in Final Round of Olympics at Leipzig — The United States team placed second in the final standing of the chess Olympics at Leipzig, according to a report from East Germany yesterday. The Americans finished with a score of 29-15.
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• Clarion-Ledger Jackson, Mississippi Thursday, November 10, 1960 — U.S. Finishes Second In Chess — This Associated Press report appears to be in error and in contradiction with the NY Times report of the same event on 11/10/1960, which states, “Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn, the national champion, defeated Wolfgang Uhlmann in his final-round adjourned game in forty-three moves…” Read More

November 13 1960

• Sunday Gazette-Mail Charleston, West Virginia Sunday, November 13, 1960 — U.S. Team Needs Funds — by Edward M. Foy — As was expected, the Russians won the world team chess championship in the recently completed tournament at Leipzig, East Germany. Their score based on game not match results was 34 to (illegible 10?). The United States finished second with 29 to 15.
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• Fort Lauderdale News Fort Lauderdale, Florida Sunday, November 13, 1960 — Appeal for Funds to Help Finance the Chess Team —We have received an appeal for funds to help finance the chess team which is presently representing the United States in the chess olympics at Leipzig, Germany. The team is being sponsored by the USCF, the American Chess Foundation and the People-To-People Sports Committee.
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November 20 1960

• Sunday Gazette-Mail Charleston, West Virginia Sunday, November 20, 1960 — World Chess Team Championship Tournament recently concluded at Leipzig — In the world chess team championship tournament recently concluded at Leipzig, East Germany, the twelve finalists wound up as follows: USSR, 34 to 10, USA, 29 to 15; Yugoslavia, 27 to 17; Hungary, 22½ to 21½; Czechoslovakia, 21½ to 22½; Bulgaria 21 to 23; Argentina, 20½ to 23½; West Germany, 19½ to 24½; East Germany 19 to 25; Netherlands, 17 to 27; England and Romania, 16½ to 27½.
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• The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Sunday, November 20, 1960 — Chess Olympics Results — Following are the final standings of the 40 teams in the 14th Chess Olympics at Leipzig, for the benefit of those who missed the daily reports, which appeared regularly in the news pages of The Times: Championship Class — U.S.S.R., 34; U.S.A., 29; Yugoslavia, 27; Hungary, 22½; Czechoslovakia, 21½; Bulgaria, 21; Argentina, 20½; West Germany, 19½; East Germany, 19; Holland, 17; England, 16½; Rumania, 16½.
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November 27 1960

• New York Times, New York, New York, Sunday, November 27, 1960 — U.S. Title Chess To Begin Dec. 18 — Action Will Start at Empire Hotel Here—Fischer Will Defend Tourney Crown — The Lessing J. Rosenwald tournament for the United States chess championship and the Frank J. Marshall Trophy will be held in New York beginning Dec. 18 and continuing through eleven rounds until Jan. 5.
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• The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Sunday, November 27, 1960 — Fischer, Reshevsky In U.S. Title Match — The tournament for the United States chess championship and the Lessing J. Rosenwald Trophy will be held in New York from Dec. 16 to Jan. 1. A round robin will be contested among 12 of the strongest American masters. Bobby Fischer, brilliant 17-year-old Brooklyn school boy, will be back from Europe in time to defend the title, which he has won for the last three years.
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• Sunday Gazette-Mail Charleston, West Virginia Sunday, November 27, 1960 — Forthcoming Lineup of Players for U.S. Championship Tournament — Belatedly we report that an American, Anthony Saidy, won the Canadian Open championship with a record of 8 to 2. Saidy had previously scored 9 to 3 in the U.S. Open at St. Louis and shortly before that he played on the victorious U.S. team in the world championship student team matches in Leningrad.
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December 09 1960

• The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle Milwaukee, Wisconsin Friday, December 09, 1960 — Championship Chess — There is another ‘moment of truth’ facing United States chess champion Bobby Fischer, who will defend his title in the Lessing J. Rosenwald tournament for the U.S. chess championship, beginning Dec. 18 in New York. The tourney will run until Jan. 5, and Fischer has his work cut out for him if he expects to hold onto his title.
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December 10 1960

• The Gazette Montreal, Quebec, Canada Saturday, December 10, 1960 — World Team Championship — Following are the complete results in the four preliminary sections of the world team championship at Leipzig. The best teams, based on previous records in this event, were seeded among the sections. The top three teams in each section advanced to the Championship Final.
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December 11 1960

• Sunday Gazette-Mail Charleston, West Virginia Sunday, December 11, 1960 — National Championship Chess Tournament — As related last week, the forthcoming National Championship Tournament will commence next Sunday in New York City. The youngest (and most dangerous) of the entrants, Bobby Fischer, three-time U.S. title-holder, will be favored to make it four straight.
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December 18 1960

Robert James Fischer vs Raymond Weinstein United States Championship (1960/61), New York, NY USA, rd 1, Dec-18 French Defense: Winawer. Advance Variation (C19) 1-0

American chess champion and prodigy Bobby Fischer at the National Chess Tournament, New York, 1960.

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• New York Times, New York, New York, Sunday, December 18, 1960 — Fischer Defends Chess Title Today — 11 Other Ranking Players to Compete for U.S. Crown at Empire Hotel Here — Twelve ranking players, all sponsored by the American Chess Foundation and the United States Chess Federation, will begin play today in the Lessing J. Rosenwald tournament for the national championship in the Crystal Room of the Empire Hotel.
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• The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Sunday, December 18, 1960 — U.S. Title Tourney Starts In New York — The tournament for the United States chess championship will start this afternoon at the Empire Hotel in New York City, with 11 rounds to be contested through Jan. 5. Defending champion Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn, who at 17 is the youngest grandmaster in chess history, is favored to retain the title, which he has held for the last three years.
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December 19 1960

William Lombardy vs Robert James Fischer United States Championship (1960/61), New York, NY USA, rd 2, Dec-19 Sicilian Defense: Prins Variation (B54) 0-1

• New York Times, New York, New York, Monday, December 19, 1960 — At the National Chess Tourney: The Head Must Know What the Hand Is About to Do — Fischer Beats Weinstein in U.S. Title Chess — 17-Year-Old Defender Wins in First-Round Play Here — The first round of the Lessing J. Rosenwald tournament for the United States chess championship and the Frank Marshall trophy was held yesterday at the Empire Hotel.
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December 20 1960

Robert James Fischer vs Charles Kalme United States Championship (1960/61), New York, NY USA, rd 3, Dec-20 Spanish Game: Closed Variations. Keres Defense (C92) 1/2-1/2

• New York Times, New York, New York, Tuesday, December 20, 1960 — Fischer Records 2D Chess Triumph — Sets Back Lombardy in Bid for U.S. Championship —3D Round Tonight — Bobby Fischer, the 17-year-old defending champion, yesterday scored his second successive victory in the Lessing J. Rosenwald tournament for the United States chess championship.
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December 21 1960

• The Warren County Observer Warren, Pennsylvania Wednesday, December 21, 1960 — Youngster Takes Lead In Chess Tournament — New York—Bobby Fischer, the 17-year-old defending champion, yesterday scored his second successive victory in the Lessing J. Rosenwald Tournament for the United States chess championship.
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• New York Times, New York, New York, Wednesday, December 21, 1960 — Fischer Is Held To Draw In Chess — Defender Splits Point With Kalme in Title Play— Reshevsky Is Victor — Bobby Fischer, the defender, and Charles Kalme drew last night in the third round of the United States chess championship. Kalme is a former intercollegiate champion and was a member of the United States student team that won in international competition in the Soviet Union recently.
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December 22 1960

Samuel Reshevsky vs Robert James Fischer United States Championship (1960/61), New York, NY USA, rd 4, Dec-22 King's Indian Defense: Orthodox Variation. Aronin-Taimanov Defense (E97) 1/2-1/2

Robert Fischer Playing Samuel Reshevsky in Fourth Round, United States Chess Championship. Original photograph by Kenneth Harkness, Chess Life, January 20, 1961.

• Tampa Bay Times St. Petersburg, Florida Thursday, December 22, 1960 — Fischer Leads U.S. Chess Tournament — New York—Bobby Fischer, the 17-year-old defending champion, Monday scored his second successive victory in the Lessing J. Rosenwald tournament for the United States Chess Championship to lead the field of 12. Also at stake at the Empire Hotel is the Frank Marshall Trophy.
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December 23 1960

Robert James Fischer vs Hans Berliner United States Championship (1960/61), New York, NY USA, rd 5, Dec-23 Alekhine Defense: Exchange Variation (B03) 1-0

• New York Times, New York, New York, Friday, December 23, 1960 — Fischer In Draw With Reshevsky — Champion, 17, Retains Lead in U.S. Chess — Byrne Beaten by Lombardy — Bobby Fischer, the 17-year-old defending champion, played Samuel Reshevsky, the seasoned grandmaster, to a twenty-four-move draw last night in the fourth round of the United States chess championship at the Empire Hotel.
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December 24 1960

DEFENDING CHAMPION: Bobby Fischer competing in the United States chess championship at the Empire Hotel. He captured fifth-round match with Hans Berliner.

• New York Times, New York, New York, Saturday, December 24, 1960 — Fischer Retains Chess Lead Here — Defending Champion Beats Berliner in Fifth Round of U.S. Title Play — Bobby Fischer, the defending champion, retained the lead after the fifth round of the United States chess championship last night at the Empire Hotel. Fischer defeated Hans Berliner, who had defended the King pawn opening with Alekhine's defense.
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December 25 1960

• New York Times, New York, New York, Sunday, December 25, 1960 — Fischer In Front In U.S. Title Chess — Defender Has Score of 4-1 Here After 3 Triumphs and 2 Drawn Matches — Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn is making a strong bid to retain the United States chess championship. The 17-year-old Fischer leads in the twelve-man tournament at the Empire Hotel with a score of 4—1 after five rounds.
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• New York Times, New York, New York, Sunday, December 25, 1960 — Chess — To chess players, the year 1960 was the most significant since Paul Morphy's meteoric ascent to the world title in 1857, the year before the New Orleans genius crossed the Atlantic to lay waste to the battlefield of chess in Europe. Giving definite promise of stepping into Morphy's shoes, Mikhail Tal, a 23-year-old Latvian representing the Soviet Union, developed an aptitude for the game that carried him swiftly to the front.
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• The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Sunday, December 25, 1960 — Fischer Scores In U.S. Title Tourney — The feature of the first round of the United States Chess Championship at the Empire Hotel in New York was the victory of defending champion Bobby Fischer over Raymond Weinstein of Brooklyn College. Weinstein, one of Fischer's teammates in the Chess Olympics in Leipzig, used the French Defense, then castled on the queen's side of the board, Fischer immediately developed an attack, sacrificing first a pawn and then a rook.
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• The Courier-Journal Louisville, Kentucky Sunday, December 25, 1960 — Bobby Fischer Leading In Rosenwald Tourney — As we go to press I am informed that 17-year-old Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn, the defending champion, is leading in the Lessing J. Rosenwald Tournament at New York with a score of 4-1. Fischer held his lead with a victory over Hans Berliner, who had defended a King's Pawn opening with the Alekhine Defense.
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December 26 1960

Robert James Fischer vs Herbert Seidman United States Championship (1960/61), New York, NY USA, rd 6, Dec-26 Spanish Game: Marshall Attack. Steiner Variation (C89) 1-0

• New York Times, New York, New York, Monday, December 26, 1960 — Bisguier Shares Tie With Fischer — Downs Saidy in U.S. Chess and Moves Into Deadlock With Defender for Lead — Two adjourned games were played at the Empire Hotel yesterday in the United States chess championship. Arthur Bisguier won and gained a tie with Bobby Fischer for first place in the point standing.
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December 27 1960

Robert Byrne vs Robert James Fischer United States Championship (1960/61), New York, NY USA, rd 7, Dec-27 King's Indian Defense: Fianchetto Variation. Uhlmann-Szabo System (E62) 1/2-1/2

December 28 1960

Robert James Fischer vs James Sherwin United States Championship (1960/61), New York, NY USA, rd 8, Dec-28 French Defense: Winawer. Advance Variation (C19) 1-0

• Tampa Bay Times St. Petersburg, Florida Wednesday, December 28, 1960 — Bisguier's Loss Gives Fischer Chess Lead — New York—Arthur Bisguier dropped from a tie for the lead in the sixth round of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Tournament for the United States championship Monday by losing to Hans Berliner, former New York State champion. Bisguier had declined white's queen gambit with the somewhat speculative Vienna variation, in which he is expert, in the match at the Empire Hotel.
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• New York Times, New York, New York, Wednesday, December 28, 1960 — Byrne Sets Back Kalme In Chess — Open Champion Also Holds Fischer to Draw—Benko, Lombardy Divide Point — Robert Byrne, the United States open champion, registered his first points in the Lessing J. Rosenwald tournament for the United States chess championship yesterday at the Empire Hotel.
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December 29 1960

Anthony Saidy vs Robert James Fischer United States Championship (1960/61), New York, NY USA, rd 9, Dec-29 Nimzo-Indian Defense: Simagin Variation (E46) 0-1

• The News Leader Staunton, Virginia Thursday, December 29, 1960 — Of Sports And Youth — The top chess players are both Russian, Istaan Hernek for the men and Elizabeth Bykova for the women. In this country, little Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn and Lisa Lane of Philly were the national champs.

• New York Times, New York, New York, Thursday, December 29, 1960 — Weinstein Holds Berliner To Draw — Splits Point in U.S. Chess —Kalme Defeats Benko —Fischer is Victor — Raymond Weinstein and Hans Berliner drew last night in the eighth round of the Lessing J. Rosenwald chess tournament for the United States championship at the Hotel Empire.
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December 30 1960

• New York Times, New York, New York, Friday, December 30, 1960 — Byrne Sets Back Berliner In Chess — Reshevsky, Benko Draw— Bisguier Downs Kalme — Fischer, Saidy Adjourn — Hans Kmoch, the referee, forfeited Hans Berliner when he overstepped the time limit in the Lessing J. Rosenwald tournament for the chess championship of the United States, today at the Hotel Empire.
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December 31 1960

• New York Times, New York, New York, Saturday, December 31, 1960 — Fischer Triumphs And Nears Title — Defender Defeats Saidy in U.S. Chess by Outplaying Opponent in End-Game — Adjourned games were settled in yesterday's play in the Lessing J. Rosenwald tournament for the United States chess championship. In the big game, between Anthony F. Saidy and Bobby Fischer, Saidy weakened in the late stages.
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Fischer / Evans vs Carl B Wagner Tandem simul (1960) (exhibition), New York, NY USA Italian Game: Classical Variation. Albin Gambit (C53) 1-0

Fischer / Evans vs L M Gersch Tandem simul (1960) (exhibition), New York, NY USA Queen's Gambit Declined: Cambridge Springs Variation (D52) 0-1

Robert James Fischer vs Auner Unknown (1960) Sicilian Defense: Smith-Morra Gambit. Declined Push Variation (B21) 1-0

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Bobby Fischer, unknown date, unknown tournament. Estimated 1960. Original b/w photo by Herbert Kronfeld/ullstein bild. https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/robert-bobby-fischer-schachspieler-usa-weltmeister-1972-news-photo/537138713