AThe Fresno Bee The Republican Fresno, California Thursday, August 12, 1965 - Page 48
State Goofed
The United States Department of State thought it had checkmated young Bobby Fischer, America's chess champion and infant terrible is international chess, when it refused him a visa to visit Cuba and participate in a big chess competition there. However, state had not reckoned with Fischer's instinctive reflex actions. All right, he would accept the edict by state, he said, but there was nothing to prevent him from participating by telephone, and so he will participate—by telephone. Thus he left the department of state as vulnerable as a pawn facing a free moving knight, so far as international criticism over its petty attitude is concerned. Fischer so outmaneuvered state it was not even in the game.
