AThe Boston Globe Boston, Massachusetts Sunday, January 26, 1958
Bobby Fischer Wins U.S. Championship Without Loss of a Game
Bobby Fischer won the chess championship of the United States without the loss of a game, winning nine and drawing five against what I. A. Horowitz called “perhaps the strongest field ever to compete for the title.”
Samuel Reshevsky, one of the great players of our time, finished second, a full point behind Fischer.
The top two players in the National tournament have been seeded into the F.I.D.E.'s Interzonal tournament, second giant step on the road to the world title. If either Reshevsky or Fischer decline to attend the Interzonal, then James Sherwin, who finished third, will be eligible.
