AAugust 30 1992
The Wichita Eagle, Wichita, Kansas, Sunday, August 30, 1992
This being Bobby Fischer, few people are ready to count him out. And the thought of his regaining the championship is enough to give chess fanatics goose bumps.
“This would be absolutely fantastic!” said Carol Jarecki, a member of the World Chess Federation's rules committee. “Nobody's ever done this.”
This somebody is capable of moving chess players to rhetorical fireworks of a sort usually lavished on Beethoven, Michelangelo or Muhammad Ali.
“Part of the reason for his greatness,” Arthur Bisguier said, “is that he plays each game of chess as if it's the last thing he's going to do on Earth. I don't care if his score is 9 out of 9, and the nearest opposition is three points behind, he will play to win that 10th game.
“This is his thing-this is his religion, this is his truth. This is his greatness.”
