Searching for Bobby Fischer

A photograph from 1972 taken
during the match.

Summer 1972 -- Reykjavik hosted the match of all time.  USSR versus USA.  Mano a Mano.  Of course, I'm talking about the World Chess Championship between Boris Spassky of the USSR and American Bobby Fischer.  Bobby Fischer would win the title and have a non-Russian champion for the first time in a quarter century.  Why is this important?  As it turns out, Bobby Fischer stayed at our hotel  during those matches (it was called the Hotel Loftleider at the time).  Now known as the Hotel Natura, there is an exhibit in the hotel commemorating this historic match including

The real chessboard seen in the
1972 photo.

one of the chessboards specially made for the match.  It is signed by both Spassky and Fischer.  A neat bit of Americana here in Iceland.