“When the famous ‘Coca-Cola’ company offered him a firm contract, Fischer rejected it, saying that there is no money which could persuade him to give publicity to a drink that is harmful to people’s health... I like such a man who does not measure his accomplishments against the size of other people’s pockets...”, Grandmaster Lajos Portisch said.
Quoted in Svetozar Gligorić, “Shall We Play Fischerandom Chess?”, London, Batsford, 2002, p. 35. |
Rare AP Archive footage from 1971 Candidates final between Robert James Fischer and Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian. The clip shows the audience of the Teatro San Martín in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on October 26, 1971, giving Fischer a standing ovation when Petrosian resigned the 9th game.
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