Fort Lauderdale News Fort Lauderdale, Florida Sunday, November 01, 1981 - Page 71
Master Maker?
He used to give chess lessons to a kid named Bobby Fischer. Now he gives them to local kids.
“A former chess master who gave a 9-year-old Bobby Fischer lessons. Nigro didn't ask for this job. A teacher found out Nigro had retired to Palm Springs and talked him into teaching a class. Before long, he was making the rounds of five elementary schools, in addition to giving family lessons at Palm Springs Recreation Department.
“Once while watching a grand master playing simultaneous games, Nigro saw 9-year-old Bobby Fischer at one of the tables. Fischer's mother asked him to give her son lessons and Nigro taught Fischer for two and a half years, he says. By 1969, he retired and moved to Florida on the doctor's orders.”