AThe Journal Herald Dayton, Ohio Tuesday, August 31, 1965 - Page 41
Chess Champ Has Problems With Play By Cable
NEW YORK — (UPI) — U.S. chess champion Bobby Fischer was scheduled to play a match with Alberic O'Kelly of Belgium yesterday after failing to further his position in the Capablanca memorial chess tournament in play with a Romanian champion.
The 22 - year - old American played to a draw in 48 moves with Romania's Victor Cioaciltea yesterday morning. Both players received a score of one-half point for the match, which began Sunday.
Fischer fired his referee, Frank Brady, an hour before the Cioaciltea match was to begin. Brady had been supervising the young chess champion move on a demonstration chessboard in a chess club here.
The moves are relayed by teletype to Havana where the tournament is being played.
Fischer is playing the 22-game tournament via cable because the state department would not issue him a visa to Communist Cuba.
Brady said he received a call from Fischer's attorney in Massachusetts saying it “disturbed Fischer's concentration” to have Brady in the same room with him.
“The problem is the book I wrote about him,” said Brady. “He didn't like it. It isn't flattering.”
Fischer defeated Russia's former world champion, Vassily Smyslov, who conceded after 43 moves last Thursday. He also won his second match. The Cioacaltea match was his third.
