Playbill

July, 1973

Sometimes a Journalist conducts his basic research without consciously knowing it. He reads a fascinating item in the paper and follows it off and on through the years, simply because it interests him. But if that small news clip grows into a full event, he suddenly finds himself peculiarly qualified to write about it. This happened to Brad Darrach after he heard about a 13-year-old kid from Brooklyn named Bobby Fischer. "When I first read about this phenomenal prodigy, I filed the informat...