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• Aleksandar Nikolić, Alisa Marić: Fišer mi je rekao da sam sjajna šahistkinja | Alisa Marić: Fischer told me I was a great chess player, Blic, October 24, 2010

Alisa Marić: Fischer told me I was a great chess player When Bobby Fischer played his century rematch with Boris Spassky in Sveti Stefan and Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1992, I was in the audience to watch my lifetime idol’s outstanding games. At the party which followed the match, I approached Fischer and he whispered to me: “Alisa, I’ve heard a lot of good things about you. You’re a great chess player”. In that very moment, all the world was mine, and I knew all the time I devoted to chess was worth it”, Woman Grandmaster Alisa Marić told Blic. [Read more].

Alisa Marić. Photo: eKapija.