Jim West On Chess: Fischer Photos in "Life"

Friday, November 21, 2008

Fischer Photos in "Life"

Mark Weeks mentions that Google has put together an archive of photos from Life magazine. Here are some pix of Bobby Fischer. I am guessing that the subway passenger next to Fischer is Arthur Feuerstein.

Fischer at entrance to Playland arcade in New York [1962]

U.S. champion Fischer playing pinball [April 1962]

Fischer eating cotton candy [April 1962]

Fischer riding on subway [April 1962]

Fischer studying chess on New York subway [1962]

World champion Fischer on airplane with David Frost [1972]

"My study of chess was accompanied by a strong attraction to music, and it was probably thanks to this that from childhood I became accustomed to thinking of chess as an art, and have never regarded it as anything else, for all the science and sport involved in it. And, moreover, an art which in some ways is closer to music than it is customary to think. Perhaps chess and music are drawn together by laws of harmony and beauty which are difficult to formulate and difficult to grasp, or perhaps by something else." - Vasily Smyslov