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ALL EDITIONS PfcoenJx, Sunday, July 16, 1972 The Arizona Republic A-3 Officials try to save chess match Associated Press REYKJAVIK, Iceland -Boris Spassky fished for salmon and Bobby Fischer kept his sabbath yesterday as chess officials scrambled to save the world championship. After talks with officials of International and Icelandic chess federations, Fischer's lawyer, Paul Marshal, announced the American challenger had withdrawn his objection to the presence of movie cameras in the playing hall "so long as they don't blow his mind." f-mL ill ")XPSrY I'll I '(' High back LOUNGE CHAIRS Marshal also asked the officials to reconsider their decision to uphold the referee in declaring a forfeit because Fischer missed the second game of the 24-game series Thursday. Fischer said the cameras distracted him. Marshal said new evidence was being prepared that might stave off cancellation of the match. Fischer's failure to turn up for his second encounter with the world champion gave Spassky a 2-0 lead.

Spassky needs 12 points to retain the title, Fischer Uh. Each game won counts a point. A draw is half a point. Fischer is refusing to play game No. 3 today unless the point the Russian gained by default is scratched.

The deadlock seemed unbreakable, but Fischer's attorneys and his second, the Tev. William Lombardy, were trying to find a way out. One official connected with the International Chess Federation said he thought it. was impossible to take the point away from Spassky. Fischer boycotted game No.

2 because, he said, the noise from hidden movie cameras created playing conditions. An engineer tested the noise level of the cameras and found no difference in the sound in the empty hall with or without the cameras running. The Icelandic organizers earlier agreed to remove the television and movie cameras, although revenue from the rights helped to raise the total prize money to $300,000, the richest chess champion-Wn in history. i 4- Reg. to 1 79.50 'SSSSjtf J-.

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pecially. purchased for our July JJ United Press International REYKJAVIK Bobby Fischer may have helped the sales of chess sets in the United States but in Iceland, where chess is taken seriously, he has few if any friends left. In contrast Russian world champion Boris Spassky has never before been more popular with I 1 a 's 210,000 chess-mad inhabitants. Icelanders are beginning to ask themselves why they bothered to bid for the "chess match of the century." as the Fischer-Spassky world cham-p i i match has been billed. The Icelanders, who are a friendly people, have gone out of their way to please both Fischer and Spassky.

When the temperamental American failed to show up for the second game Thursday and the judge announced from the stage that he had forfeited the game, the spectators rose and applauded. "Send him back to the United States," shouted one voice in English from the gallery. Iceland's five daily newspa-. pers, which were gearing up to cover their biggest story in years, have also turned on the 29-year-old American. "The chess scandal of the centurv sairi tho Ti minn Event.

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