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.
The “striker,” Mrs. Regina Fischer, has been picketing the foundation at 1372 Broadway in an attempt to get it to provide the $6,318.88 for the American team's expenses at the games, which begin in Leipzig, East Germany, on Oct. 14.
“Time is running out for the United States if it is going to send a team to represent this country,” Mrs. Fischer said. She hopes that the hunger strike will dramatize the need, she said. Her son, who has been United States champion three times, is now playing in a tournament in Iceland.
