AThe Boston Globe Boston, Massachusetts Sunday, August 03, 1958
The Spirit of Morphy
“Proof that the spirit of Morphy still lives was furnished by a game played in the recent students' international chess tournament at Varna, Bulgaria. Mikhail Tal, Latvia, who has won the last two Russian championship tournaments, played and won against Miko Bobotsov with stirring brilliancy.
Tal sacked his Queen at move 12 and went on to prove the soundness of his combination with verve and elan. The New York Times said: “So enthusiastic were some of the spectators that they did not hesitate to classify the brilliant effort with a similar feat by Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn here in the Rosenwald trophy tournament of two years ago. On that occasion Fischer defeated Donald Byrne with courageous tactics that were evidence of the genius that was later to assert itself.”
Tal and Fischer will meet in the interzonal tournament beginning Aug. 5 at Portoroz, Yugoslavia.”
