December 11th, 2010 / 4:56 pm

“…philosophy is music, music is philosophy, and the other way round.” – Thomas Bernhard / Iron Lung Patient Playing Chess with Bobby Fischer

22 Jan 1959, New York, New York, USA — New York: Game Opponent. Studying the board in the mirror atop his iron lung, 17-year-old polio patient Bruce Campbell plays a match with two-time U. S. chess champion, Bobby Fischer, 15, of Brooklyn, New York. The game was one of several Bobby played at the March of Dimes-supported Goldwater Memorial Hospital’s respiratory center on Welfare Island, New York. Bruce called out his moves and Bobby made them. Bobby won the game, and made a big hit with the excited patients, who are being rehabilitated as part of the National Foundation’s expanded program to combat arthritis and birth defects as well as polio. — Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS