The Akron Beacon Journal from Akron, Ohio • Page 157

LOVE is sentimental, is tenderly humorous, is a daily cartoon panel, is drawn by Kim Grove. love is love is FISCHER probably represents' as well as anybody the soaring genius and eccentric lifestyle of the chess masters. When he wasn't playing well against Spassky in Buenos Aires, he sulked about his cold, his hotel, his food, the playing conditions. He said he wouldn't play in Russia and fretted about how the Russians would harass him. He suggested the Russians were "plotting" against him.

The Soviets, in return, hissed that Fischer was a "loudmouth, a conceited braggart," etc. Fischer is a loner, a hermit, detached from all potential distractions from his beloved chessboard. "Bobby has no home and no permanent address," the Times says of him. "He lives out of hotel rooms, and the rooms he picks do not have a view. A view, he says, detracts from his concentration." It is hard for some people to understand these self-imposed Spartan disciplines for a mere game that you give for a Christmas present when you don't know what else to buy.

But there is very little that mortals are expected to understand when the gods start scrapping among themselves. (End) Continued from page 9 may be on the verge of claiming its first world chess crown. THIS SPRING, Bobby Fischer, 29-year-old U. S. national champ who came up from the ranks of a chess whiz kid, will engage Soviet world title-holder Boris Spassky in what promises to be an historic summit meeting.

The vanities of the players would be enough to qualify the match for Homeric prose, and a spread in Life magazine. But the vanities of two old rivalsthe U. S. and the U.S.S.R. could swell the contest into a showdown in the UN's Security Council.

Fischer is expected to win. Last October he smashed that's a typical chess verb former Soviet world champion Tigran Petrosian in Buenos Aires. He is now said to be ready to annihilate Spassky, and thus strip the Soviets of the crown they've held for more than two decades. "Few," says the New York Times, "will contest his (Fischer's) rank as the greatest living chess player. Some authorities soberly rank him as the greatest who ever lived." painting the rooms her favorite color.

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