I wonder where they got the idea that he was world champion in 1979. It’s not something that easily misunderstood.
He secretly played and beat Bobby Fischer in a championship match held in a flophouse in Pasadena. 
Junior world champion is still a world champion. There are no flop houses in Pasadena.
The newspaper added the word ‘Junior’ along with correcting a spelling error…
So no need to get your panties in a bunch now…
Panties??!! I thought cross-dressing chess players didn’t exist in this country. Maybe thats why the Netherlands is such a center of Euro chess?