AThe Gazette Montreal, Quebec, Quebec, Canada Saturday, August 18, 1956
The Sensation of the 1956 Oklahoma Open 18 Aug 1956, Sat The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) Newspapers.com
Chess News: The Sensation of the 1956 Open at Oklahoma Proved to be Bobby Fischer
First Canadian Open Championship — The First Canadian Open, to be played here Aug. 25th to Sept. 2nd, will be an historic event, something which everybody who can possibly make it will want to be in on. An unique opportunity for weak and strong to mingle together. Perhaps some surprises will be produced in that connection.
Western Banner Carrier — Samuel Reshevsky will compete in the Alekhine Memorial Tournament at Moscow in October. In December, January and February he will contest a 24-game match with David Bronstein, U.S.S.R. grandmaster. The first 12 will be divided between Moscow and Leningrad with the remainder in Stockholm and Amsterdam. None of the games will be played on this side because of U.S.A. State Department insistence on finger-printing and other regulations usual for foreign visitors and which the Soviet Committee refuses to comply with. In preparation for these events Reshevsky is now engaged in a six-game match with William Lombardy the young N.Y. star who drew both games with him in the Rosenwald tourney last December. Lombardy is coming here to play in the Canadian Open next week.
The sensation of the 1956 Open at Oklahoma proved to be Bobby Fischer, 13-year-old from Brooklyn who tied for fourth place. He won 5 games, lost none and drew 7. Here is how he polished off P. Lapiken, national master from Los Angeles.
