AThe Boston Globe Boston, Massachusetts Sunday, September 08, 1957
Fischer and Lombardy Capture Titles
Bobby Fischer, 14-year-old New York whiz kid, has flabbergasted the chess world by winning the U.S. Open title at Cleveland. In the process Bobby beat out U.S. champion Arthur Bisguier and International Master Donald Byrne. Surely this is the fanciest chess wunderkind achievement on record. In our book it ranks higher than Capablanca's capture of the Cuban national title at the age of 12. Young Fischer has been invited to play at Hastings.
William Lombardy, New York, is the first American to win the World Junior title and he did it with a clean score, 11 to 0. Things are looking up, indeed.
