AThe Record Hackensack, New Jersey Wednesday, August 25, 1965 - Page 44
Chess Champ To Vie By Phone
Miami, Fla. (AP) — The Cuban Government said last night that U.S. chess champion Bobby Fischer has agreed to play in the Cuban chess tournament by telephone.
The announcement, made by Havanna radio, apparently ends a spirited exchange between Fischer and Prime Minister Fidel Castro.
After the U. S. State Department refused Fischer permission to go to Cuba for the tournament, reports circulated in Havanna that Castro considered the move a propaganda victory for Cuba.
Fischer, who had decided to play by phone, then withdrew because he said he didn't want Cuba to make international political hay out of the incident.
Castro replied that he had no need for such fleeting propaganda.
The Government's announcement, monitored in Miami, said that Fischer would be matched against the representative of East Germany. The moves of each will be telephoned between Havanna and New York and corroborated by independent observers on each end.
