Chess—by telex
tN.Z P A Reuter—Copyright) MELBOURNE. A former world chess champion—possibly B. Spassky, of the Soviet Union—may plav eight top Australian players bv telex, a spokesman for the Victorian Chess Association said in Melbourne yesterday. The spokesman said the games would be conducted simultaneously in all Australian capitals except Canberra, with a former world champion in Moscow. No date had been arranged. He said the association, which would organise the matches, had had a favourable response from the U.S.S.R. Chess Federation. He estimated that the games would cost SlO.OOO to telex
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 38183, 24 March 1973, Page 16
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