Chess Life America's Chess Newspaper April 5, 1960

For sale is Chess Life, April 5, 1960: Fischer's third straight U.S. Championship, game by gameCollins's games column opens with "Paging Fischer, Again!" and this line: "The sixteen year old International Grandmaster has won the Championship for the third year in succession, this time with the score of 9-2." The page that follows prints his games from the tournament, with notes. The opponents include Bisguier, Robert Byrne, Denker, Sherwin, Benko and Reshevsky, so it's practically a who's who of American chess in 1960. Collins points out that in earlier years, too, Fischer's opponents had lost their way late on time.There's also a page-3 photo of Walter Harris receiving the Marshall Chess Club junior championship clock. The caption says that shortly afterward the 18-year-old "made history by becoming the first Negro to win a USCF master's rating." That's the wording as printed in 1960.Also in this issue:Reshevsky: his "How Games Are Won" column, with his win over Sherwin in the King's Indian from the 1958-59 Rosenwald tournament.Arpad Elo: Part II of his progress report on the USCF rating system, with the new formula.Operation M: the USCF membership drive aiming for 5,000 members by July 1960, with state-by-state reports. Harry Borochow's $2-a-board simultaneous exhibition, which won seven new memberships in one night, is on the front page.Hastings 1960: a report on the 35th Hastings Congress, where Gligoric won with 7½.Front-page results: Tautvaisas defending the Illinois title and Brasket winning Minnesota.Announcements: the U.S. Open in St. Louis (August 8-19) and the Amateur in Asbury Park.Book auction: a sealed-bid lot of old chess books, including Capablanca's Chess Fundamentals.Original newspaper format, 15 cents new.Very Good: normal age-toning, intact, stored in a protective clear plastic sleeve.

Condition: Very Good.

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