AThe Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Sunday, September 16, 1962 - Page 93
U.S. In Chess Olympics 16 Sep 1962, Sun The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) Newspapers.com
U.S. In Chess Olympics
After considerable doubt, mainly due to a shortage of funds, the United States was finally enabled to enter a team in the Chess Olympics, which is starting this weekend in Varna, a Black Sea resort in Bulgaria.
Bobby Fischer, brilliant 19-year-old genius from Brooklyn, will head the team, as he did two years ago in Leipzig, East Germany.
Others in the lineup will be U.S. champion Larry Evans, Pal Benko, Robert and Donald Byrne, and Edmar Mednis. Eliot Hearst will be the non-playing captain.
The financial problem was resolved by a special gift of $4,000 to the American Chess Foundation by the Sadie and Arthur Lamport Foundation, Inc., of Pound Ridge, N.Y. The balance of the funds were contributed by members of ACF and the U.S. Chess Federation.
The Soviet team, which has won the Chess Olympics for the last five times, is favored to repeat. On the first board they will have world champion Mikhail Botvinnik. Following him will be Tigran Petrosian. Boris Spasski, Paul Keres, Ewfim Geller and Victor Korchnoi.
