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St. Louis Post-Dispatch St. Louis, Missouri Sunday, August 14, 1960
“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. A friendly game often takes less time that a rubber of bridge. They know also that it is useless to try to convince the layman: his mind is made up and he doesn't want to be confused with facts.”
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U.S. Chess Meet—Quiet, Please
Country's Leading Players Concentrate in Silence in Open Tournament Here
View of the 87-board United States Open chess tournament at Sheraton-Jefferson hotel.
Lisa Lane of Philadelphia . . . women's champion.
Robert Steinmeyer of St. Louis, left, opposing Maxwell Sokoler of Mamaroneck, N.Y.
Arthur Bisguier, New York City, last year's champion
U.S. Chess Meet -- Quiet, Please 14 Aug 1960, Sun St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri) Newspapers.com
