In 1967, 25-year-old Rolf Martens won the Swedish Championship
playing faster than anyone before. In the Student World Championship
he defeated one of the world's ten best players, and at the end of the
year he became the first Swede to make an IM-norm. Efim Geller said:
"If Martens comes to Moscow, he will become one of the best players
in the world."
A few years later, he had quit playing to pursue political activism on
the...