With that elderly ailing yachtsman, Sir Francis Chichester, safely where he belongs (in hospital) we can devote our undivided attention to that other mid-summer non-event: moody Bobby Fischer, the capitalist world's money-grubbing little horror, playing, or not playing, chess against sporty Boris Spassky, whose sportiness vanishes at a flick from the Soviet machine behind him.
ECONOMIST: From the archive