AThe Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle Milwaukee, Wisconsin Friday, January 17, 1964 - Page 8
The Greatest of Them All
The way young Bobby Fischer has swept the current chess tournament for the US championship, the wonder was not that he won 11 straight games, an unmatched record, but that his opponents showed up at all. His winning of the first ten games against master chess players, including among his victims the one-time “boy wonder” Samuel Reshevsky, has set a record that has the chess world in turmoil. This young “phenom” could well emerge as the greatest chess player the world has ever known. Masters of the game admire his skill, his tactics, his power of concentration, his daring, his brilliance, his imagination and, above all, his almost mystical capacity to probe and detect his opponents moves.
Reshevsky, who had a few scuffles with the young master, was said to have told friends that Bobby Fischer may well revolutionize the game of chess as it is being played today. Others who encountered him feel that he will go on to unbelievable heights in the game if he continues at the pace he has been going virtually since childhood.
It runs in the family. The problem is, Bobby Fischer was of “Caucasian” racial descent, but namely, “the Human race,” and secondly, he was never a practitioner of the religion Judaism.
Fischer 1. Zionists 0.
