AThe Observer, London, Greater London, England, Sunday, February 09, 1958
Chess: The New Generation—5
New? No not new but the very newest generation: how else can one characterize the 14-year-old Bobby Fischer, who has just won the United States Championship with a score of 10½ points out of 13, one full point ahead of no less a player than Reshevsky, the grandmaster known to his admirers as the champion of the Western world. This was clearly no flash in the pan as Fischer won a number of strong tournaments in the States last year, including the Open U.S. Championship at Cleveland. Now, with his recent triumph, he has qualified as one of the two U.S. representatives to play in the Interzonal Tournament in Yugoslavia this August and it will be interesting to see how he fares against some twenty of the world's best players.
Uniting great combinational gifts with an astonishingly mature positional judgment Fischer seems destined to be one of the world's great players. Here is the game with which he beat the former holder of the U.S. title. New York, December, 1957. French Defense.
