Courier-Post, Camden, New Jersey, Sunday, September 18, 1983 - Page 68
The Bobby Fischer Legend Growing Still
By Shelby Lyman
Would you like to communicate with Bobby Fischer? Apparently it is possible, according to a story in the Los Angeles Times recently. Fischer, it is reported, will open a letter forwarded to him, for a $1,000 fee!
But don't count on it. Six years ago, Fischer backed out at the last minute of an agreement to make an appearance at Caesar's Palace for $250,000. He asked for $1 million instead.
Lina Grumette, the source of these disclosures, is a Los Angeles chess organizer, whose home Fischer often visited during the years before he became world champion. She fondly reminisces: “He (Fischer) used to be a very thoughtful, sweet person, not nearly as, well, unreasonable as he is now. When my husband was in the hospital, for instance, Bobby visited him every day. He and I would play chess in the evening. He would take my dog out for walks in the evening.”
Diagrammed is an off hand game played by Bobby Fischer in 1963. His opponent is Dr. Reuben Fine, a prominent psychoanalyst, who was one of the world's strongest plays in the 1930's. Fine, obviously, was caught off guard in the opening, a variant of the well-known Evans Gambit.