ASunday Gazette-Mail Charleston, West Virginia Sunday, July 16, 1961 - Page 68
The 16-Game Match between U.S. champion Bobby Fischer and former titleholder Samuel Reshevsky gets under way today at the Empire Hotel in New York. There will be four games in New York, then the scene will shift to Los Angeles for eight games, with the final four contests again scheduled for New York.
Fischer should be favored to win as he has finished ahead of Reshevsky in the last three U.S. Championship tournaments. He is less than half of Reshevsky's age, too.
On the other hand, Reshevsky has never lost a match in encounters with such opponents as Kashdan, Horowitz, Lombardy, Bisguier, D. Byrne, Najdorf, Gligoric, and Benko. Such foreign chess stars as Tigran Petrosian, Paul Keres, Svetozar Gligoric and Bent Larsen all pick Reshevsky. However, we wonder if many American masters might pick Fischer.
