The Greenwood Commonwealth, Greenwood, Mississippi, Monday, March 08, 1982 - Page 2
Anatoly Karpov vs. Fischer
It was of those weighty editorial comments in a prestigious chess magazine, but the passage sounded like a playground taunt designed to draw a reluctant adversary into a scrap. “His nervous system has failed,” wrote ANATOLY KARPOV, world chess champion, noting that Bobby Fischer, who who the title in 1972 and forfeited it in a dispute over rules in 1975, “has not played for nine years now.” Fischer, who has been living in seclusion in California, had no immediate response to Karpov's remarks. Fischer has resisted all overtures to play Karpov.