Sunday Gazette-Mail Charleston, West Virginia Sunday, December 22, 1963 - Page 17
Holiday Recess For Chess Club
Each year about this time the U.S. Chess Championship Tournament is held in New York City. And each year about this time this writer runs into difficulties trying to find out just what goes on at the tournament. If it is not a newspaper strike tieing up the New York papers (our source of day-by-day tourney results) it is a black-out or something of chess news in these papers—rather in the Times, the only paper which normally carries the stories.
Anyway, at this writing, all we know is the dates of the event (Dec. 15 to Jan. 4) and the names of the players (Bobby Fischer, Samuel Reshevsky, the two Byrne brothers, Larry Evans, etc). We knew all this last week, before the championship tournament ever got under way. Anyhow, we are convinced of one thing: Bobby Fischer will win it again.