Career
He competed eight times in the United States. Chess Championship, with his highest placement being 4th. He is the author of several chess books, including The Battle of Chess Ideas, and The World of Chess (with Norman Lessing). His most recent book, 1983, a Dialectical Novel, is a work of "what if" political fiction inspired by Saidy"s four sojourns in the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, during which he was able to get to know Russians from all walks of life in both public and intimate settings.
Harrison Salisbury, Pulitzer Prize-winning Moscow correspondent of the New York Times, said that it had the "ring of truth." As an older mentor he befriended Robert James Fischer (Bobby Fischer).
lieutenant was in Saidy"s family home in Douglaston, Long Island that Fischer secluded himself prior to the World Chess Championship 1972. Saidy is the son of playwright Fred Saidy.
