ANew 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.
The mother, Mrs. Regina Fischer, had also been picketing the foundation, at 1372 Broadway. She said it had provided only $2,000 for the games in Leipzig, Germany, this year, the American team's expenses for the 1958 Olympics in Munich.
