Once Upon A Time

I go back to the 1960s, when Fischer was at the Manhattan Chess club; Rossilimo had a chess studio in the Village; and Horwitz Opennings in Descriptive Notation was the Norm; not algebraic.  After Fischer won the World Championship, the USSR sent Anapoli Karpov to the Church International Tournament in San Antonio, TX and there were only 3 masters in Texas at that tine! I scheduled John Hall, then the SW Champion for Las Vagas at the Frontier Hotel to play 75 in a simultaneous match as well as some blindfold chess. We also visited San Quintin Prison, where we lost more stolen chess sets than games, lol! Those were the days when guys played in the parks in NYC and were quite good at the game. I even managed to meet a ex prison inmate in NYC who won the Kaansas Championship and was paroled to NYC in hope of making something of himself that didn't happen. Now retired, I think playing a litle chess after more than 25 years w/o any play might be fun in my retirement> Times have changed drasticly since the 60s! I just thought you might like to hear a little history of chess in 1960s. The highest rating was around 2600+ by Bobby Fischer while today it is well over 2800 and the oldest club in NYC no longer exists.

Very interesting stuff.  Thank you.