The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee • Page 14

4 I No Sis-Boom-Bah Here THE NASHVILLE TENNESSON, Unity Morning. U. 29, 1961 3-B (I mum Nashville Chess Players Take Their Hobby Seriously 1 a I JJ H-iv'Vyvvw a I. fv I ranking member of the club, has acted as the club's ambassador in planning the interscholastic league with city school authorities, and has won enthusiastic endorsements from City School Superintendent W. H.

Oliver and school principals As projected participating high schools would first organize their own clubs, and after members of these clubs attained proficiency and ranking, a schedule would be set up for league championship play. Organization Grows Already, clubs are in process of organization at West, Cohn, Father Ryan, East, North, and Hume-Fogg, as well as an Don-elson. Membership chairmen have been named at each school, and a faculty member will be chosen hy each as sponsor and instructor. Dr. R.

W. Sommer, of the VA Hospital staff and vice president of the 'club for membership, said the growth of the Nashville club was a part of a nationwide revival of interest in the game in recent years. "More Americans than ever before are enjoying the game." he said, "both in organized clubs and as individual players." This revival of interest Dr. Sommer attributed to the new emphasis on science and mathematics in education the type of mind with which the game of chess Is inextricably associated in the popular view. By POPE HALEY CHEER leaders and marching bands will never be seen at contests between Nashville high schools under sponsorship of a league now being organized.

In fact, any spectator guilty of ny action noisier than a mile, a frown, or a lifted eyebrow will be considered persona non grata. The project, still in the early planning stage, is the Nashville Interscholastic Chess League, and the first essential of a successful chess game is silence. The high school league is being promoted by the Nashville Chess Club, a group of some 40 devotees of the game who meet every third Tuesday of the month in the basement room of the Green Hills office, Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association. Out of a Hat Members, ranking from greenest newcomer to city champion, draw opponents' names out of a hat. Games are recorded in detail, and players are ranked in accordance with rules of the National Chess Federation, with which the club is affiliated.

The Nashville club is also part of a strong state organization, with clubs in Memphis, Kings-port, and Manchester-Tullahoma. Many of the state's ranking players, including currently recognized state champion Jerry Sullivan, live in the Knoxville-Oak Ridge area, but without a formally organized club. Gary Ratliff. a student at year, having won It originally at the age of 14. Runners-up to Fischer in the national championships were William Lombardy, 23, and Raymond Weinstein, 19.

Elimination matches will be held among these three to determine who will meet the present world champion, the USSR's Mikhail Botvinnik. The Soviet Union's preeminence in the gamt, Dr. Sommer noted, lies in the fact that the USSR subsidizes the game to the point where top ranking players actually make their living at It a situation which prevails nowhere else In the world. President of the Nashville club is Everett Henry, of 6013 Trousdale, and president of the Tennessee Chess Association, the state organization, is Peter P. Lahde, an engineer of 80 Lyle Lane.

Another popular misconception of the game, says Dr. Sommer, is that "it takes too long." Players are often ridiculed for sitting indefinitely between moves while their opponents become bored. On the contrary, he said, rules of organized play fix a time limit on moves, with forfeiture the penalty for violation. Essential equipment in a formal match is a double-dialed stopwatch, with a touch-button to stop one dial and start the other at the end of each move, which keeps the total consumed time of each player. Oh, yes the solution to the prohlem in the picture: White Black K-Rl NB (check) takes B7 (mate) In any field.

Lawyers, doctors, religious leaders and teachers match wits across the chess board in the Nashville club with high school students and housewives. Newcomers with only a nodding acquaintance with the game are welcomed to membership in the club, and through an organized plan of instruction quickly win proficiency and a ranking. The club holds Instructional meetings for neophyte player-members each fourth Tuesday at the Y.M.C.A. Number one ranking member of the club and present City Champion is Albert Bowen, an attorney. Bowen won his city title in the tourname held last 4 spring, and will defend it at the 1961 matches to be held soon.

A definite date has not yet been set. While Jerry Sullivan was recognized as state champion in the statewide matches held here last September, the sweepstakes winner was a young teenager, Robert Jacobs, of Louisville, recognized Louisville city champion, Kentucky state champion, and a ranking contender in Indiana and Missouri organized play. Tennessee state organization rules, however, do not recognize a non-resident as state champion. Don Duplantier, an engineer and former professor at Vander-bilt University, holds the highest national rating of anv member of the Nashville club. Proof that the game is not a preserve of the aged is the fact that the current national champion is 17-year-old Bobby Fischer, of Brooklyn, N.Y., who recently successfully defended his title for the third successive Staff photo by Terry Tomlin (Bowen) to move, white (Lahde) to win in two moves.

They re using a magnificent set owned by Don Duplantier, a replici of an 11th century set made of carved Ivory. Anyone Can Play i CmtL.J liMu Tennessee Chess Association Smothered Mate: President Peter Lahde left here has maneuvered city champion Albert Bowen into a well-known chess problem known as "smothered mate." The problem: black But, Dr. Sommer added, pleasure in the game is not limited to engineers and mathemati Father Ryan Academy and a cians, or even to "double domes" I mm ion iifSliliriliiy ml I'illlilil Ds loo mi-- i i QrrrAf i il DrftraeeiAn l's 8Cene from the American version of the Oberam-OUriUWrUI rrOCeSSIOn: magau Passion play, Christ, played by Val Balfour, has fallen as he carries the cross to Golgotha. Tip fo Farmers Passion Play Slated At Ryman Auditorium The American version of the formed by a cast of about 100 eriginal Oberammergau Passion actors, Jan. 30-Feb.

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The author of the 1959 Motor Scooter Law Walther. German version. Tt dpnlrta the Sermon on the and also serves as the play's dlrec-ton. His wife, Ann, Is cast as Mary Mount, the betrayal by Judas, the last sunner. the can-vine of the Magdalene.

cross to Golgotha, the crucifixion Curtain times are 1:30 and 8 p.m. Tickets may be purchased at and the ascension. Val Baiiour plays the role of Christ, the fourth Noel Hotel or the Ryman. generation of his family to do so Keep in Trim Make Time for Exercise PlanCalisthenicsforMorePepand Energy iSfeeedy streamliner Ml I-3J By IDA JEAN KAIN 1 ENTHUSIASM is con- tagious. The success ptories of happy reducers renew your hope.

You be-pin to think, "If they can do it, why can't This challenge stimulates you to make the effort to act. Action in turn stirs up interest and there you are slimming down. So, let's tune In on a young mother who Is having fun whipping into shape. When I moved to thta part of the country six months ago, I began reading your column. Your advice and the advice of the reducers who wrote in encouraged me to do something about my weight and shape.

'l have always had to watch my weight, but after having three children In three years, I found myself really out of shape. My husband asked my size, and I told him It was 14 or 16. Well, he ordered size 181 That moved me to take action. "By cutting out second helpings st meals and curbing my nibbling between meals, I lost 5 pounds In eleven days. Now I have only 10 mora pounds to go.

Out of Shape "Actually I was mors out of ALBERT CASON and NAT CALDWELL know the Nashville area its people its resources its potential and more important, they have years of rich experience in covering business news in the growing tri-state area surrounding Nashville I It takes veteran newsmen like Cason and Caldwell to move quickly to the heart of complex business happenings and tell you in clear language what each development means to your pocketbook, your friends, your region! The Tennessee-Cumberland River valleys are GROWING and the place to watch this exciting growth is in THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN Market Place for a Growing Region! these are not the big figure-controlling muscles. If you will make the effort to do specifio calisthenics, you'll have mora pep and energy. As with tha young woman in today's story, you will not find time to exercise, you have to make the time. Start with this re-conditioner to restore tone to the stretched abdominals. Positions Lying on back on floor, arms stretched up on floor overhead, legs straight down and feet anchored under rung of chair, or heavy furniture.

Action: Come up.to sitting position, then, keeping the up-pull through the middle, bend over and touch fingers to toes. Then lower slowly backward to floor, feet still anchored. Repeat three to six times as a starter, depending on your strength. Increase one time every second day until you are up to IS or 20, shape than overweight and dreadfully In need of toning exercises. It is so easy for busy young mothers to say they work hard enough to get sufficient exercise, or that they haven't time.

I have found that ten minutes In the morning, ten in the afternoon with the children in part play, and ten minutes at night with my husband watching the clock so I won't cheat, really have done wonders. It is worth foregoing every hunger pang for a cookie or other sweet, and worth every minute of exercise just to hear my husband say. 'You look more terrific every Also with exercisa I find I have more energy. My thanks." Busy young mothers, it Is natural to take the attitude that you certainly get exercise enough with all you have to do. But In the eoune of the day's work, the same muscles are used ever and over, and generally i mi t.kAm li, Sw, mi f-, i2 -i i.