"It'll be quite a long game, comrade, it this is the first move!"

Boris Spassky Chess Iceland Bobby Fischer original cartoon artwork

(3 July 1972: Bobby Fischer accepted £50,000 offered by Mr Jim Slater, chairman of Slater Walker Securities in an effort to save the world chess championship. Fischer was given two days grace after he failed to turn up for the start of the tournament. Fischer had refused to play because he felt Iceland, hosts of the championships, were not treating the match or his countrymen with the dignity it and they deserved.)

Size 39cm x 20cm

Medium Pen and ink, half-tone tint on artboard

Publication The Sun

Published 4 July 1972