BRITAIN'S CHESS DECEMBER 2007

The Bobby Fischer That We Loved

Our Front Cover

Grandmaster Larry Evans, former US Champion and regular Olympiad team
member, is also a prolific chess writer.

For a great many years his syndicated newspaper columns have been read
all over America as have his Question and Answer articles in the US
magazine Chess Life.

Among his books are David Bronstein's Best Games, Modern Chess
Brilliancies, New Ideas in Chess and -- just published -- This Crazy
World of Chess!

And were it not for his collaboration and support, Bobby Fischer's My
60 Memorable Games would never have been published. See pages 28-37.

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GM Evans send me a copy of his note to the editor, which stated:
"Thought I'd have to die before my picture would grace the cover of
another chess mag."




wrote:
FISCHER ENDED SOVIET DOMINATION OF CHESS


(From "The Bobby Fischer That We Loved" by GM Larry Evans in Britain's
CHESS)

He asked me to be his second at the Mallorca Interzonal in 1970 as
well as his match with Petrosian at Buenos Aires in 1971. While there
I was on good terms with grandmaster Yuri Averbakh, Russia's long-time
delegate to FIDE, who described the impact of Bobby's victory in the
USSR: "At home they don't understand. They think it means there is
something wrong with our culture."

Retired colonel Edmondson went with us. I watched this proud man crawl
and cater to Bobby's every whim because he realized that victory would
be a boon for American chess.

I only saw Bobby a few more times after he won the title in 1972
because he started to distance himself from his old friends and dwell
in his own fantasy world.


wrote:

THE BOBBY FISCHER THAT WE LOVED

We just received word that this article by GM Larry Evans is in the
December 2007 issue of the British magazine CHESS. Subscribers are in
for a treat.