Fisher Wins the Chess World Championship

Pbs puts together a special program specifically just to broadcast these games this is watched by over a million people here's from endgame so popular was the show that it crowded out the baseball on tennis coverage normally seen in sports bars in new york. When the channel was covering the democrat national convention in washington the stations were flooded with thousands of calls to have them put the chess match back on station officials gave into the viewers demands dropped the convention and went back to broadcasting the match. In 1974 right after the mohamad Ali George Foreman fight known as the rumble in the jungle in zaire the zaire government's offered fisher five million dollars for a month-long championship chess