Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan Wednesday, April 13, 1977 - Page 10
Chess by Whose Rules?
The March 20 People Page ran a feature by George Cantor on Bobby Fischer, retired world chess champion, implying that Mr. Fischer is a fractious, overgrown brat who brutalizes his opponent's psyches, issues conflicting ultimatums, and is in effect saying to the chess world: Play by my rules, or I won't play.
Bobby Fischer is a grown man of 34, a dedicated athlete at the top of his field and is respected by his peers.
His problem is not with chess or its rules, but with its organizers, the World Chess Federation, who has essentially been saying to play by their rules, or not at all.
JIM MARFIA
President
Michigan Chess Association
Royal Oak