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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.
The competition is going to be fierce. Samuel Reshevsky, who is an international grandmaster and has become, I suppose, ‘the grand old man’ of American chess, even though he is only in his forties, will be one of the brilliant foes Fischer will have to face. Another is William Lombardy, a young man, only a few years older than the teen-aged champion, who has in recent years become an international grand master himself. Lombardy is a top man. In addition, here are the other challengers: Robert Byrne, Pal Benko, Arthur Bisguier, a former titleholder, Raymond Weinstein, Anthony F. Saidy, James T. Sherwin, Hans Berliner, Herbert Seidman and Charles Kalme. It will be a tense, close tournament.”
