Fischer to meet Karpov?
NZPA-Reuter Baguio The former world chess champion, Bobby Fischer (U.S.), and the reigning champion, Anatoly Karpov (Russia) have met on at least six occasions in secret negotiations aimed at arranging a match between each other, top chess officials said yesterday. On one occasion, in November last year, the Philippines embassy in Washington was opened at night for the two superstars of chess to hold all-night talks on neutral ground. The negotiations for what experts say will be the chess match of the century, topping the just completed world championship at Baguio between Karpov and the Soviet defector, Viktor Korchnoi, have been for a non-title match and would not count for the world championship, which can be challenged only by the winner of a complicated threeyear elimination process already under way. Fischer will return to the international chess scene in a friendly match for SUSIM (against the Yugoslav grand I master, Svetozar Gligoric, I early next year.
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Press, 24 October 1978, Page 28
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