AHartford Courant, Hartford, Connecticut, Sunday, June 01, 1958
Results of televised simultaneous match
“When Bobby Fischer played simultaneous chess over the TV circuit a week ago, he won twelve out of thirteen games and drew the other. Here is the game he did not win. His opponent, Walter Harris is only 16 years old.”
Walter Harris, regarded as another important figure in black chess, shared a conversation he had with Bobby Fischer in which Fischer said to Harris, “You have some talent.” He and Fischer were teenage contemporaries, but of course Fischer was already a Grandmaster and U.S. Champion. Harris stated that Fischer was already being made to be a bad person which (in Harris' mind) was certainly not the case.
