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Interview with 18-year-old Bobby Fischer -- at the time (1961) a budding genius and soon to be world chess champion --and an exhibition game with Myles Herbert (a chess authority and historian). Discussion of chess through history, display of fancy chess pieces which could be considered art objects, and talk about the kinds of strategies that are used by chess masters. 1961.
Host James MacAndrew and Myles Herbert (a chess authority and historian) discuss chess through history, display fancy chess pieces which could be considered art objects, and talk about the kinds of strategies that are used by chess masters. This is followed by an interview with 18-year-old Bobby Fischer -- at the time a budding genius and soon to be world chess champion --and an exhibition game between Fischer and Herbert.
Produced by John McGiffert, Directed by John Desmond, Writer Clair Roskam. Air date: 7/2/61. 23 mins.
Myles Herbert, Bobby Fischer, chess masters.