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SECTION 4 a i nr shoiy THE C0UR1ER-J0URNAL, LOUISVILLE, 5TJNDAT MORNING, OCTOBER 12, 1558 5 i Ask ANDY Want in etk a qneitinn anil mash wn nn nieyrloptdin or tillm? Mnil it to ASK ADY, 77i Courier-Journal, Louitriltt 2, Ky, Girt xour name, ng and addrrtt. A Crwcnt Chcaw Prodigy U. S. Pins on 15-Year-Old Its Hopes In World Match By It A IN I A Associated Frest Writer KW YORK, Oct. 11 There' i Batman comic book on the present world champion, Russia's Mikhail Botvinnik.

So far, this hasn't meant much to most Americans who look on chess as an intricate pastime for contemplative gray-beards. But now even people uninterested in chess are be- his bedside table and a rock'n'roll program blaring over his radio. He's slouchy, gangly and crew-cut. But Batman is sprawled over an open chess book and his nail- ginning to feel that it would be a fine feather in Uncle Sam's cap to have Bobby whip Russia's What is an axolotl? ANSWER: First, let's make sure we can pronounce it. Say ax, axol.

Nowjidd a syllable to rhyme with bottle axolotl. This tongue twister comes to us from the Spanish who got it from the Aztec Indians. The original Aztec word meant servant of the water. Axolotl is the poetic name for a little water-dwelling salamander. In the last century, naturalists were interested in the axolotls living in Lake Xochimilco, near Mexico City.

Specimens were sent to aquariums around the world. The little fellows looked rather like overgrown tadpoles. They were black with a pair of feathery gills, four squat legs with fingers and a huge tadpole tail. The Indians considered them a delicious food fish, and still do. ASK ANDY appears daily in The Courier-Journal on the Comis Page.

studied in more detail. Undwr certain conditions, it seems, its life cycle follows the pattern of the axolotl. In the northern and eastern stales there is plenty of damp ground. Here the tiger behaves like any other salamander. It begins as an egg, goes through a gill-breathing fish stage and finally becomes a lung-breathing land animal.

However, the adult salamander must have damp surroundings. There are no such regions in the southwestern deserts. Here the tiger salamander does not take a chance on leaving the stream or lake in which he was born. He keeps his gills and remains a fish all his life. We say that he remaini in the larva stage.

He grows to the size of a fully developed tiger salamander. At the proper time, eggs are Andy ndi an illustrated IS-velum tncyclapcdia lo Ksrtn Nw man, 11, Manhiim, far htr quolion. of them didn't. Bobby, playing in his first international com-petition, pulled out of his early difficulties and tied for fifth place winning his place in the star-studded challengers. Bobby is a tall boy with the classic adolescent slump and light-brown hair.

He eyes strangers in general and reporters in particular with glum distrust. "Most reporters ask stupid questions. What do 1 eat or breakfast? That's not important. Why don't they ask about chess?" he said. He sat on his bed, idly moving the figures on the chess board in front of him.

He was dressed as usual in a sports shirt. Bobby won the American chess championship in dungarees and a T-shirt; no ne remembers seeing him in a coat and tie. The Russians keep winning I 1 If I sfH 1 AC 3 bitten fingers are deftly moving chess pieces over the black-and-white board that means more to him than anything else in his life. Bobby Fischer doesn't want to he a baseball star or a football player or the most popular fellow at the prom. He wants to be chess champion of the world and it seems a pictty sure bet that he will be.

best players in a game that commands great attention in Europe and South America. Bobby himself who presents a porcupine exterior to the world doesn't show much interest in possible Cold War implications of his career. He just wants to be champion. He Wont Predict If he makes it this try, he'll Most Americans don't know it, be the youngest world champion in chess history and. only the second American ever to occupy that lofty position.

The first out their honor in a Dig international contest with Russia is riding on the thin shoulders of this 15-year-old boy from Brooklyn. the big ones in chess, he said, 0. How often does a spider build her web? Bobby is hailed by the experts S. champion was Taiil Morphy, because "everybody there plays, who turned the trick at 21 a Th.ey'r? subsidized. Sure, they put out a lot of books.

Yeah, I century ago. outdoors on a dewy morning. Dew drops hang on each blade of grass and put tears on the faces of the pansies. But where' did all those spider webs come from? They were there all the time. The dew drops merely made them more noticeable, threading them with pearly jewels and turning them into necklaces and bracelets.

Each dew drop is a heavy load on the fine silken threads, causing them to break. Poor Mrs. As captives in aquariums, the fishy axolotls laid eggs and produced children like themselves. Then, in 1865, a group of axolotls in a Paris aquarium astonished the world of naturalists. They swapped their gills for lungs and became air-breathing, land-dwelling salamanders.

The strange creatures, it seems, live for generations in the tadpole state. Then, quite unexpectedly, one generation will develop one stage further. Salamanders are amphibians. Like the frogs and toads they start life as fish and finally develop into land animals. As a rule, however, an amphibian does not lay its eggs until it reaches its adult stage.

For some reason, the axolotl lays its eggs while still in the tadpole stage. In fact, few of them ever as the greatest chess mind the world has produced in many years. "He doesn't look like one-he looks more like a farmer's boy than an intellectual but he is a genius," says Hans Kmoch, secretary of the Manhattan Chess the nerve center of chess in the United Stales. 'Something I'tuque" "Fischer is something unique. None of the great ones ever accomplished so much so early." He has become an international grand master the youngest in the long history of the game and will meet the world's top seven players this year in a challengers' tournament.

The exact dale and place have not been determined. The winner trill get a crack at Bobby, who could give a clam lessons on how to keep its mouth shut, won't say what he thinks of his chances. Nobody else thinks he will make it this time. But then, nobody thought he could win the American chess championship at 14 and nobody expected him to do very well at the recent international chess tournament in Yugoslavia. As the big chess players, all champions in their own countries, sat down opposite the bony young American, each told him that he would be beaten.

Some were nicer than others they said they were sorry to have to defeat him. They didn't need to be. Most can read a little Russian I can read the moves. I can speak a little. Mr.

Tressman at N.Y.U. (New York University) taught me. 'Why Should You Talk? "No, you don't talk at chess tournaments. Why should you talk? Except when you offer a draw. But you can say anything.

They know what you mean. Chess players speak lots of languages. "Fun? No, a tournament's no fun, but they're all right." Does he think he can win the challengers' tournament and get a shot at the championship? He shrugged and twisted, his lip. "I don't know." Wouldn't it be nice to bring the world chess crown back to the United States for the first time in a hundred years? A sudden, charming grin lit Associated Prast Newsfeiturei Photo a characteristic pose durinjr a tournament at the Rolthv Fischer in caught in Manhattan Chess Club. Nail-bitten fingers to his lips, roatless and lielcss, the Spider, all her hard work has gone for nothing.

Not at she says. I was going to build a new web this morning anyway. In fact, the busy lady builds a new web almost every day of her life. For cobwebs are so lo-vear-oltl Hrooklvn hoy is a study in deep concentration -which pays off. fishy tadpole fragile that almost anything can get beyond the stage.

tear them. Every fly caugnt in the web rips the delicate threads. Passing birds and ani-maii tpar it anH vpn a breeze' The Neighbors By George Clark was pretty sensitive and they used to tease him about thinking he could play with grownups. He played about four years before he won at all. "I tried lo 4fop him.

The school people said I should try to get him away from it. He used to get awfully upset. "You know, people say it's the publicity that attracts him to chess. Well, there wasn't any glory for years. It was all gravates me so.

He used to be terrific in athletics. He didn't talk until he was practically 2 years old, but he was climbing all over the place." Bobby started in the game at age 6 when Joan got a chess set and the two puzzled out the directions. Mrs. Fischer doesn't know a thing about chess. "I spent four years trying to get him away from it, but I've given up now," she says.

"He was only 8 when he first went to the Brooklyn Chess Club. He The adult axolotls reminded the naturalists of the tiger salamander. They were seven-inch black beauties, blotched with yellow. Could all the tiger salamanders in the world be merely grown-up axolotls? No, they were not. The axolotl and the tiger salamander turned out to be two different animals, though both were salamanders.

This confusion led to a mixup in names. Especially when the life of the tiger salamander was may rip it. Mrs. Spider is used to all this wrecking. So, as a rule, she builds a new web each morning.

And the work en- tailed is equal to the work you would do in building a large dog kennel. Andy ndi a natura atlal af Anurica a Srt Nalian, 13, Soiia, far hit quailion. his face. And all at once you could see why the people who have got inside his prickly shell like Bobby Fischer very much indeed. "It would be nice," he agreed.

Bobhy has few friends his own age. He comes home from school about 2 o'clock and picks a phenomenon that happens once in a fitindrcd -jearsin a thousand. "He is also a young hoy. He is not accustomed to such publict-ty. and he can't handle it yet.

But you must give him a litt time. He is a good boy." Until last year, Bobby was little more than a good average student. But he is settling down now and working hard. He scored an excellent 97 in New York State's Regents exam on geometry last spring. Tutored In Russian Trot.

Aaron Pressman, who volunteered to tutor Bobby in Russian before the Yugoslav tournament, says Bobby is very bright. Tressman, who seems fond of Bobby, adds that the boy worked very hard and learned rapidly. Bobby lives with his mother In a small fourth-floor walkup apartment in a neat section of Brooklyn. His 21-year-old sister, Joan, lived there too until her marriage last month. Their parents separated when Bobby was 2.

Mrs. Fischer a University of Colorado graduate, is a registered nurse now earning her M.A. degree. Bobby, she says, is no disciplinary problem. "There's nothing to discipline him about," Mrs.

Fischer explains. "The only thing I do up a chess book. Every spare minute, he is either reading about chess, analyzing moves on his bedside chess board or going somewhere to play chess. Girls Mean Nothing Girls are nothing to him. "Girls can't play chess," he says.

"Bobby isn't interested in any. body unless they play chess and there just aren't many kids who like it," says Mrs. Fischer. To make friends with Bobby, you not only have to play chess you have to play good chess. Maurice Kasper, president of the Manhattan Chess Club, commented: "We have about 100 students In the club that Bobby could associate with.

But he is so 2m I much superior, you see. He just is nag him to take his nose out I FREE MAN'S OR LADIES' JSJ 11 i WATCH AlCt-' FREE MAN'S OR LADIES' WATCH plays with the stronger players, of his chess bonks and go out "Momsy never sees anybody else. Forgetting how talkie 'cept baby talk." ll ne for some fresh air. es, Bobby definitely does think well of himself. But he is "You know, that's what 1 as- THE SUNDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE with every MAWS SUIT or WOMAN'S COAT purchased from $39.95 up OFFER FOR LIMITED TIME ONLY! By HERBERT ETTENSON GET YOUR FREE WATCH uith purchase of thit fine ACROSS Ancient Egyptian 3.

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