Fischer Wins Title Third Year In Row

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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.
The tourney, co-sponsored by the United States Chess Federation and the American Chess Foundation, was held at the Manhattan Chess Club.
Robert Byrne, Indianapolis, was second. Samuel Reshevsky, New York, five-time winner of the title, was third. Paul Benko, a Hungarian refugee, was fourth, followed in order by Arthur B. Bisguier and Raymond Weinstein of Brooklyn.