The smash hit Fischer-Spassky TV extravaganza
29.12.2002 The dour presence of Latvian-American chess master Edmar Mednis, the chatty style of Shelby Lyman (picture), a Harvard-educated sociology teacher – now that was the recipe for TV history back in 1972. Fred Waitzkin, the author of ''Searching for Bobby Fischer'', writes about an extraordinary chess TV summer that drew millions of viewers, in this New York Times article.