AThe Baltimore Sun Baltimore, Maryland Tuesday, August 10, 1965 - Page 14
Checkmate
The State Department would be in a better position to administer its regulations limiting travel to Cuba by United States citizens if it would make intelligent exceptions to them. The case of Bobby Fischer, the United States chess champion, is an example. The young Mr. Fischer was denied official permission to go to Cuba to take part in an international chess tournament because he didn't fit into any of the categories of Americans who, under the official regulations, may be allowed to go there. Journalists, business men with long standing interests in Cuba and persons on humanitarian missions are eligible under the regulations; Mr. Fischer writes about chess and his attorney suggested, without success, that he might thus qualify for the journalist category. It is reported that Mr. Fischer will take part in the tournament by telephone, but this will satisfy neither the chess experts nor the American onlookers who dislike seeing their Government entangled in its own red tape.
