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The Boston Globe Boston, Massachusetts Sunday, August 02, 1959
The tournament in honor of the silver anniversary of the Log Cabin Chess Club will begin Aug. 7 E. Forry Laucks, founder of the club, has donated a large prize fund and hopes to lure most of the top ten players in the country to Orange, N.J., for the event.
The ten-man round-robin will be a welcome relief from the Swiss System which sometimes seems to have more holes than another product of the parent country. Bisguier, James Sherwin, William Lombardy and James Cross have accepted invitations. Others, including Reshevsky and Robert Byrne, have not yet decided. Attempts are being made to lure Bobby Fischer back from Europe.
B. H. Wood had this to say about Fischer at Zurich: “It was rather amusing to observe this boy annoying grand masters intensely by subjecting them, in drawish endgames to the same wearing-down tactics by which they themselves gain many a point against lesser lights. He went on and on against Keres in an apparently unwinnable position and finally won in 81 moves. He took Barcza to 95 moves before ‘conceding’ a draw.”
