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it Chess match spotlighting ancient 6 game of kings 9 Monday, July II, 1972 McGovern hopes ride on fight over delegates for neophytes, in fact, unless you are a master who knows what he is doing "En passant" means the capture of a pawn in passing and can be done only in certain circumstances. "En prise" means that a piece is subject to capture, and if you say it in English a chess player will regard you as some kind of freak' Suppose, by your inept play, you get yourself into a bad box and any piece you move anywhere will mean trouble for you. This condition is described only in German, "zugzwang." It means, roughly translated, "You're in a jam. buster." Chess is ruled by the Federation Internationale des Echecs. or International Chess Federation.

It makes the rules and holds solemn annual congresses about whatever problems chess players have Delegates attend from all continents. Once the man regarded as the grand master, the world champion, usually picked his opponents. Often he would refuse to play the most likely challenger The hassles were many, but few heard of them in those days. It was a benighted era. These days FIDE holds regular tournaments to decide likely candidates to challenge the world champ.

There are many variations. Players bored with the orthodox can play "rapid transit," meaning only a few seconds is permitted between moves for thinking. They can play blindfolded, a real grandstand. They can play simultaneous, meaning one master plays opponents on a dozen or more boards at the same time and clobbers all. Chess is played mostly in Russia.

Europe and the Western Hemisphere. The Japanese have a version called "shogi." The Chinese brain game, like chess only in some respects, is called wei chi'i. Chess depends on the concentration of superior force against the enemy's weak points in the classic military way. Wei chi'i depends upon maneuvering and wiliness. By WILLIAM L.

RYAN AP Special Correspondent The big chess championship is about to begin. For the next two months or so the suspense will be incredibly bearable. The astonishing thing about the match of the century is that it has made front pages. This is probably on the dubious theory that somebody besides chess players gives a hoot whether Bobby Fischer of the United States beats Boris Spassky of Russia. Chess is not for the ordinary working stiff.

A chess player need not be an intellectual snob, but it helps. He has a language of his own and scorns anyone who can't fathom it. The kindly looking graybeards bent over boards in chess clubs are in reality frustrated generals playing fiercely at bloodless war and dreaming about total humiliation of the enemy. Chess once was called the game of kings, probably because only a king had time enough to play it. The game's origins are lost in the mists of history.

It is said to have come out of India or perhaps Persia. Checkmate, as they say in English, is derived from "shah mat," or Persian for "the king is dead." Russians say "shakhmat," Italians, "scacco matto," Germans, "schachmatt," Spaniards, "mate ahogado," and the French "echec et mat." The game has been attributed to a lot of people, including Greeks, Romans, Babylonians, Arabs, Jews and even the Irish. Some say Moslem conquerors carried it all the way to Spain, whence it reached Europe. How did the Russians get so chessminded? Who knows? In chess, the King is the target. When he cannot be moved out of the line of capture, the game is over.

It takes time and deep, deep thought. A player could, if rules allowed, think about a single move for hours or days. In a tournament time is limited or the game would never end. Clocks must be punched after each move, which makes for wild excitement. White and Black each has 16 pieces, including the King.

Most powerful is the Queen. Her power dates back a few centuries, but before then she was the weakest. It seems to suggest something about the durability of women's lib. Next in power is the Rook, called "castle" by the English. Rook may come from the Persian "rokh," meaning soldier.

Thereafter in order of power comes what the English call the "bishop." For their own reasons the French call it "fool." the Germans "runner," and the Russians "officer." Next is the Knight. Russians Italians and Spaniards call it simply "horse." The elegant French call it the "cavalier." The literal-minded Germans, possibly because the piece moves erratically, call it "springer," or something like jumping-horse. The other eight pieces are pawns, the common, expendable soldiers of the game. Usually the first move is a pawn; always the man who draws white gets to move first. Other pieces except the Knight can't overleap pawns.

A man who moves pawns a lot is scornfully called "pawnpusher." A player at all times must watch his language. While reaching for one piece to make a move the player may accidentally touch another. He apologizes at once for a "finerfehler," which is German for some sort of "finger error." If he apologized in other languages it wouldn't sound right. Suppose a player jars the board and edges a piece out of place. He cannot touch the thing to put it back without announcing "j'adoube" in French.

He could say "I adjust," but to your chess purist it would somehow sound illegal. It's good to be up on your Italian, too. A man may open with "guicco piano." It means something like soft opening, one A Sorry about that, Illinois Two workers at the Miami Beach Convention Hall find out that they have missed on one of the fifty states as they prepared delegation signs. The spelling error was quickly corrected. if he lost the nomination because of the California credentials rau But as the opening day of the convention dawned, the main subject was George Stanley McGovern, and whether he could be stopped from the pres-i i a 1 nomination that seemed so remote just a few months ago.

The numbers showed him far ahead. With the California votes divided as directed by the Credentials Committee, the AP count showed: McGovern 1.322.65: Humphrey 512.05: Wallace 388: Muskie 235.55; uncommitted 385.15. That left McGovern 186.35 short of the 1.509 majority and meant that victory for the disputed 151 California votes could draw him within 35.35 of victory. On the California credentials vote, reports from a dozen delegations showed McGovern's position picking up support from uncommitted delegates. Former Gov.

Grant Sawyer of Nevada, an uncommitted delegate, said he would back McGovern's position and added that, if it wins, "you're going to see a tremendous move to get on the winner's ticket here and in all the delegations." Sens. Thomas F. Eagleton and Stuart Symington, Missouri backers of Muskie. were reported leaning toward McGovern on the credentials vote. McGovern repeated again Sunday that he favors an Illinois compromise that would seat both the Daley group and the competing faction led by the Rev.

Jesse Jackson and Alderman William Singer. Each delegate would get half a vote. McGovern, said in a Knight Newspapers interview that, if the convention voted to seat the Daley group after first approving his California delegation. "I would accept that." Between scrapping for votes on the California credentials case, the contenders appeared Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" and pushed their candidacies in private meetings and before various delegations. McGovern appeared before the black, Michigan and Iowa caucuses.

"'We're a Wallace exclaimed one Michigan delegate. Dolores Dillenger of Grand Haven, as McGovern spoke to its delegation. Another woman backing Wallace (Continued From Page 1) of those eligible to vote to adopt credentials reports, and that uncontested members of challenged delegations may vote on those challenges. In the case of California, that means the 120 McGovern delegates who will sit in any case will be able to vote on the California challenge: the 151 contested delegates won't A total of 1.433 votes a majority of the 2.865 eligible votes on that issue will be required to win. The Humphrey forces had insisted a majority of the full convention 1.509 votes should be required The chairman's ruling was applauded in the McGovern camp, and the South Dakota senator told reporters: "I would think that we do have the 1.433." But it drew sharp criticism from Humphrey's backers.

San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto, a supporter of the Minnesota senator, charged the national chairman had violated convention rules and demanded he summon the Democratic National Committee to consider it or "provide immediate machinery to review your Meanwhile, compromise efforts were being sought on some of the lesser credentials disputes. Gov. Marvin Mandel of Maryland said aftera series of meetings Sunday said he thought perhaps io or 11 credentials cases could be resolved without floor fights. Daley's forces, however, were adamant on the Illinois case, and both sides said compromise was impossible on California. The large number of challenges is one result of the three-year effort to reform the party's delegate-selection procedures.

Another is the increased number of women, young people and blacks: another the decline in the power of a few powerful political bosses to control the convention. Besides the 3,016 delegates and some 2,000 alternates, hundreds of demonstrators for a variety of protest groups are in this tourist center that hosted the 1968 Republican National Convention and will entertain both major parties this year. The Convention Hall has been tightly sealed for days. Strict security around hotels housing delegates includes Army helicopters buzzing by upper-story windows; 5,500 troops and National Guardsmen are standing by to prevent a repetition of the violence that encircled the party's tumultuous 1968 convention in Chicago. Some 100 young protesters paraded in front of the Playboy Plaza Hotel Sunday night as wealthy contributors partied inside.

An even larger number of police was called in, and the demonstrators promptly dispersed. Sen. Harrison A. Williams Jr. of New Jersey, another original Muskie backer, said McGovern offers the best hope for party unity and added "it would be very damaging for the party" Wherejioes the church fit in efforts for Appalachia Muskie as mate? Door ajar said own "their desire to be their man, to be free, yet in of Appalachian migrants who moved to urban areas.

"Many of the institutions are in transition and are reassessing their future," Fowler observed. He cited as an example the settlement schools, which served a purpose as residential learning centers in the days when public schools and transportation facilities in the area were much poorer than they are today. The Henderson Settlement at Frakes, a project of the United Methodist Church, for example, has established such new facilities as community medical clinic, a demonstration farm and a temporary home for children from broken families. Fowler said. While they were there, he said, the director brought to the settlement a 10-year-old boy from a broken home who had run away and eluded author- ities for 10 days by hiding in the hills.

Delegate scraps create logjam (Continued From Page 1) four years in office. Sen. Edmund S. Muskie of Maine, himself a contender for the nomination, could be the key to settling the question. Ohio Gov.

John J. Gilligan and Muskie's campaign manager, Sen. Harold Hughes of Iowa, reportedly are pushing Muskie to support the McGovern forces, on the California vote. McGovern backers got a big boost Sunday when convention Chairman Lawrence F. O'Brien ruled that 1,433 votes would be enough to settle the issue.

That excludes the 151 California delegates being challenged and reduces the convention majority on the vote from 1,509. However, if O'Brien's decision is challenged and the convention votes on whether to approve his interpretation, every delegate-including the 151 Californians in disputecould vote. McGovern backers are not as certain about a majority of this bloc. O'Brien acted on the advice of the convention parliamentarian, Rep. James O'Hara of Michigan.

There were reports that stop-McGovern forces later told O'Hara he is too pro-McGovern and threatened to appeal all his rulings to the full convention. Such a move could endanger McGovern and it could tie the convention in knots. Another heated dispute is expected on seating Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley and his 58 delegates. The committee ousted the Daley slate for not accurately reflecting the makeup of the districts he controls and seated a delegation led by Chicago Alderman William Singer and civil-rights activist Jesse Jackson.

The South Carolina challenge is first up before the convention. The National Women's Political Caucus is asking delegates to cross presidential-preference lines to support its attempt to add enough women to have half the votes. Maryland Gov. Marvin Mandel, chairman of the National Governors Conference, was working with Govs. Wendell Anderson of Minnesota, Patrick J.

Lucey of Wisconsin, Frank Licht of Rhode Island and Dale Bumpers of Arkansas in seeking compromises in their states' challenges. Agreement is near, Mandel said Sunday night, in challenges to Georgia, South Carolina, Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia, Rhode Island and Connecticut. f. But a Credentials spokesman said he knew of only one definite compromise in Georgia. Gov.

Jimmy Carter and civil-rights leader Julian Bond agreed to add four blacks to the delegation while keeping two challenged white delegates. North Ireland near civil war (Continued From Page 1) snipers hiding in the apartment houses. As the battle widened, the Provisionals announced the end of the truce. Bombing and shooting raged for more than nine hours, with some guerrillas hurling sticks of gelignite in Belfast till past 4 a.m. Security officials feared even bloodier religious fighting may be ahead.

The Protestant UDA dug in behind barricades it threw up last week in defiance of the British army. "We are prepared," a UDA spokesman said. The fighting dashed Whitelaw's hopes of getting the rival religious groups to the conference table. He reported only three days ago to Prime Minister Edward Heath that he was making progress. David O'Connell, the Provisionals' chief strategist, closed in Dublin today he and other IRA leaders had met Whitelaw and his aides in London but said the talks had broken down.

This disclosure, not confirmed by the British, was certain to incense the UDA, which has been charging that the British planned to sell them out to the IRA and a union with the Catholic Irish Republic. Labor hits McGovern on issues their freedom become bound to social and economic factors over which they have no control." "They accept welfare and food stamps because they have to yet wish things could be otherwise. They want to work out their rhythm of life but it's not yet industrial. When it's time to go coon hunting they go," he said. The trip was planned in consultation with the Knoxville-based Commission on Religion in Appalachia (CORA), which Fowler called "the most interdenominational agency in the country." Its members span the gamut of religious belief from liberal to fundamental, yet work together "to meet the human needs of the area." he said.

The group visited such longtime church-supported facilities a orphanages, settlement schools and visiting nurse clinics as well as such new-style operations as a feeder-pig program near Jackson, and other grass roots economic ventures. They talked with anti-poverty workers, county extension agents and family planning counselors. They listened to representatives of the Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization and wound up the trip in Cincinnati where they witnessed some of the problems LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -Where does the church fit into the web of public and private efforts to improve life in Appalachia? To try to find out and to learn more about the people and conditions in the mountains a seminary professor and four students set out in a station wagon last winter to study the region from Georgia to southern Ohio. "Appalachia was virtually new to all of us," said Dr.

Newton Fowler, associate professor of social ethics at the Lexington Theological Seminary. The closest previous contact any of the group had had with people of the area, he said, was one student "who worked one summer with Appalachian migrants in the inner city in Cleveland." "I was curious about this region so close at hand," said the 41-year-old professor, who came here from Atlanta two years ago. "Also many of those being educated here will be serving churches in cities where Appalachians have migrated." he said. The three men and one woman who accompanied Fowler prepared for the month-long experience by reading a number of books for background. Each then kept a journal in which to record his impressions as the party traveled last January.

"One of the things we all came away with." Fowler said "was the idea that there are many Appalachias-geographi-cally. geologically, economically and industrially." "We were also struck by the independence of the people." he MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) -Sen. Edmund S. Muskie's advisers have left slightly ajar a door to a possible second run for the vice presidency in his efforts to mediate between feuding Democrats.

Muskie's long consideration of his role in the challenges to the seating of the California and Illinois delegations has led him. he said Sunday, to try to act as mediator. One possible compromise that may help jell the party, key aides said, might be Muskie's willingness to accept the No. 2 spot on the ticket. Although Muskie remains publicly reluctant about a casting as somebody else's running mate, his aides said he might be persuaded by the argument that his presence on the ticket means the difference between victory and defeat.

Others close to Muskie say it would take "an awfully hard selling job" to convince him to go that route again, as he did behind Minnesota Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey in 1968. Muskie was to meet today with the 250 or so delegates pledged to his own candidacy for the presidency. Some time after that, he was expected to announce his long-awaited decision on how he would stand on the crucial credentials' challenges to be taken up tonight on the convention floor.

His aides emphasized that Muskie's presidential candidacy does not necessarily hang on whether that decision favors either Sen. George McGovern Of South Dakota or Humphrey. They said top staff members of all' three senators have been in close contact for weeks and that Muskie also has sought the advice of a wide variety of party leaders, Democratic governors, labor officials, key contributors and others. Muskie said Sunday the challenge of the California winner-take-all primary won by McGovern does have important legal merits COPIES from CoastTo-Coast each I min. order 25c I MONDAYS p.m.

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