AThe Record Hackensack, New Jersey Thursday, January 09, 1964 - Page 50 (★)
The Larger Chessboard
Bobby Fischer, the 20-year-old United States chess champion, broke a lot of records in the recently completed national tournament in New York. Since he was 14, when he first captured the title, he has won the championship six times. That breaks a deadlock with Samuel Reshevsky of Spring Valley, a 5-time winner. Young Mr. Fischer won 11 straight games, a perfect score and the first in a major tournament in this country in 70 years. (Dr. Emanuel Lasker won 13 games in a row in 1893.) This man Fischer is a redoubtable champion — in our small corner of the world of chess.
Next comes to mind the world championship tournament, the first games of which are to be played in Holland next June.
The latest six world champions have been from the Soviet Union. The United States has never had an official winner.
This is not the time for Bobby Fischer to rest on his record. The Russians have invaded basketball, hockey, yachting. On, Robert, to Holland!
