Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Broadcast delay

“You can prearrange games now at unbelievably fast speeds. It used to be a very tedious hard process to prearrange a realistic looking game. Now you can prearrange a game I think in a matter of minutes. They can prearrange a whole tournament I think in a few hours or days now with this high-tech computer technology”.

Excerpt from the fifth Bombo Radyo interview to 11th World Chess Champion Robert James Fischer in Manila, Philippines on March 10, 1999

A King in New York: 11th World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer is honoured by the then Mayor John Vliet Lindsay at City hall on September 22, 1972. Photo by Anthony Calvacca/New York Post Archives/© NYP Holdings, Inc. via Getty Images.

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