ATampa Bay Times St. Petersburg, Florida Friday, August 27, 1965 - Page 10
Cable Chess Game Opens
Bobby Fischer, shown above, contemplating a move, the U.S. chess champion, Wednesday began his long distance match by cable with the first of his 22 opponents in Havana.
The match between Fischer, 23, and West German grand master Heinz Lehman, began at 8 p.m., five hours late because of communications trouble. The match was conducted by cable rather than telephone as previously planned.
Fischer, playing from the Marshall Chess Club in Greenwich Village, N.Y., exchanged best wishes by telephone with Lehman at the Havana Libre Hotel before the match began.
