ADaily News New York, New York Tuesday, January 07, 1975 - Page 64
Bobby Fischer Ordered to Court
Elusive world chess champion Bobby Fischer was ordered yesterday to appear in Manhattan Supreme Court in connection with a $3,250,000 suit filed against him by film maker Chester Fox.
Fischer, 31, has not responded to previous court orders. He is believed to be somewhere in California. One lawyer quit the case because Fischer would not respond by mail or phone.
Fox charges that Fischer reneged on an agreement to allow Fox to film Fischer's matches in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1972, when Fischer won the world chess title from Russian Boris Spassky. No date was set for Fischer's appearance here. —Donald Flynn.
That contract was signed between Icelandic Chess Federation on behalf of USSR Soviet whims and Chester Fox. Chester Fox prohibited cameras in the playing hall. Chester Fox's legal representatives even made threats that AP and UPI reports of the match would be prohibited, as all coverage rights exclusively belonged to himself. Chester Fox and the Soviets didn't want coverage of the American beating the Soviet machinery. The agenda, was to censor coverage. None of these affairs were Bobby Fischer's choosing, so finally Bobby Fischer refused to play if Chester Fox's monopoly on camera rights remained in the playing hall. Fischer made no agreement with Chester Fox. Fox should have been suing the Icelandic Chess Federation! But the Soviets needed this haggling and drama, to further upset Fischer to forfeit competition in the 1975 World Tournament.
The Times Munster, Indiana Sunday, July 02, 1972
World Title Match in Secret
“…He [Bobby Fischer] also says the television coverage will be limited. If he beats Spassky, he doesn't see why it should be some kind of secret.”
