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is seen as the chess world's next king A prodigy Report from the Soviet Union But why is Smyslov playing so well now? "There is no logical reason to explain it," said Mark Taimonov, a Sovi-et grandmaster and friend ofTSmys-lov. "He is a great talent. His game has gotten fresher and younger more creative, more free, less dependent on known strategics." In their first game Saturday, Smyslov apparently surprised Kasparo( by working a new element into one of his favorite defense the Schlecter version of the Slav defense; Kasparov got into time trouble- and offered a draw after the 33dmove; having failed to capitalize on. the advantage of playing with the white pieces. The game took place on a stage at the far end of a hall that seats about 300 people.

Large diagrams at either side of the stage charted the players moves for the audience of chess jjour-nalists and buffs, many of whom had their own portable sets for following the action. Kasparov typically sat witH; his arms crossed in front of jiim; hunched forward with his face as close as six inches to the pieces. Smyslov sat in a more relaxed pose, his elbows on the table, his hands supporting his face. After moving, each man frequently left the table and retired to a room behind the stage to wait out his opponent's response. 1 A touch of class was provided by a waiter in black tie and tailswha served coffee.

They will continue to meet, this way every other day (games are often continued into a second day) until one of them combines enough win's and draws to take an unassailable advantage within the lfgame limit. i the late 1970s. The name change smells of politics Kasparov having a better ring as the name of a great Soviet champion. Many doubt that Kasparov can beat Karpov this year, the champion hav-ing far greater experience and still very much in his prime. But the word genius crops up whenever Kasparov is discussed, rarely when Kar-pov's name is mentioned.

"How did he get so good?" one leading Soviet chess journalist said of "That's easy. He was born that way. He's a genius. Like Fischer, he has great natural capability from birth." "Kasparov is the kind of chess play-er who generates ideas," said another Soviet journalist. "Karpov is the kind who successfully applies ideas offered by his trainers and assis- Vasily Smyslov.

a large, be-nign-looking man with silvery blond hair and thick spectacles, Smyslov has a transcendent calm about him. World champion in 1957 (he lost the title the following year in a revenge match), his performance has been this year's greatest surprise in the chess world. Championship chess is a grueling sport, and few men past 50 can withstand the physical and mental strain of a month or more of near-daily Yet Smyslov not only defeated younger, higher-ranked players to reach the challengers' finals, but did it with the kind of creative play expected of a much younger man. His friends say that he is supremely at ease, having already gone farther than any man of his age. There are no expectations of Smyslov.

The pressure is on Kasparov. nist League and the. Soviet Peace Fund. But Karpov is still looking for the respect that Should be his due. His playing style has been criticized as derivative and overly cautious.

And like American boxing champion Larry Holmes, he suffers from never having faced a truly great opponent. "Karpov won the title at a time when many top players were fading' and no one that good was coming up," one Soviet chess writer said. "He is used to a calm life, and now, in Kasparov, he sees a threat But do not expect him to give up his title easily, said this expert, who knows Karpov well. While many champions lose their drive once they achieve their goal, Karpov 1s greatly enamored of the role of world champion and will work tenaciously to retain it. Garry Kasparov.

His style is reflected in his appearance. Swarthy and strongly built, Kasparov's body movements are quick and jerky, as if the connections to his extraordinary brain are a bit askew. A native of Baku in the Transcau-casian Republic of Azerbaijan, he became a chess master at the age of 14 and received international acclaim two years later when he defeated 14 grandmasters in a major tournament in Yugoslavia. Even before reaching this round of the championship playoffs, he was ranked second only to Karpov. His Armenian mother, Klara, hovers over him and seems to run his life, a source of considerable smirking In the Soviet chess world.

His father was Jewish and named Wein-stein, the son taking his mother's surname after his father's death in As much as the Soviets love winning, they recognize that their dominance of chess has diminished world interest. For this reason, even ordinary citizens (this is a nation of chess aficionados) speak with longing of Fischer's heyday and still hold out hope for his comeback. "In America you have forgotten Fischer," Alexander Roshal, deputy editor of the leading Soviet chess magazine, said last week. "But here every grandmother knows who he is." During a formal ceremony Friday night, Valery Sebastianov, a former cosmonaut who is head of the Soviet Chess Federation, reminded the audience of two important anniversaries: Yuri Gagarin, the first man to orbit the Earth and one of this nation's most revered heroes until his death in 1968, would have been 50 today, Sebastianov said, while Bobby Fischer had just turned 41. Both names were roundly applauded.

Despite the certainty that the world chess championship will stay in Soviet hands this year, no one would suggest that the reigning champion and the two remaining contenders were stamped from the same mold. Indeed, their differences are so striking that this intricate, cerebral competition lends itself quite nicely to pulp-novel synopsis. To wit: Anatoly Karpov. He won the world championship nine years ago by default and has successfully defended it twice against Soviet defector Viktor Korchnoi. Slightly built and boyishly handsome at 33, he is a model Soviet champion.

He travels the country giving speeches and demonstrations and has played a leading role in the Young Comrau- By Donald Kimelman nqirirer Soff Writer VILNIUS, U.S.S.R. ir he were American. Garry Kasparov might be on the cover of this week's People magazine a dark, handsome young man hunched over a chessboard, his heavy-lidded eyes staring down at the pieces with enough concentration to levitate the entire table. A month shy of his 21st birthday, he is that rarity that comes along perhaps once in a generation, a bona-fide chess genius. On Saturday afternoon, he sat down across the table from his 62-year-old countryman, Va-sily Smyslov, and, assertively moving his queen's pawn forward, began a marathon contest for the right to challenge Anatoly Karpov, the reigning world champion.

Kasparov, already the youngest man to have advanced this far in world chess competition, is heavily favored to defeat Smyslov, who himself startled the chess world this year by becoming the oldest man ever to reach the challenger's final. (Their first game Saturday ended in a draw. The 16-game competition continues here today with the winner due to face Karpov in the fall.) "The speculation among chess experts is that, barring some loss of nerve or desire, Kasparov is destined if not this year, then three years hence to become the most dynamic world chess champion since Bobby Fischer held the title a decade ago. Kasparov and Fischer the comparisons are being made. Both are aggressive players with a flair for unorthodox variations, nervous and intense men who wear down opponents by constantly pressing for an advantage rather than playing cautiously for that single victory among a host of boring draws.

And yet Fischer, who won the world championship in 1972 and then gave it up in default to Karpov three years later, created a popular interest in the game that it had not enjoyed previously and has not enjoyed since. Fischer was not only a genius whose mercurial temperament kept him in the headlines. He was an American who achieved dominance in what seems increasingly like a Soviet intramural sport. With the exception of Fischer's three-year reign, a succession of Soviet players has held the world chess championship since 1937. At the opening of the Smyslov-Ka-sparov match here in the capital of Soviet Lithuania, the only international flavor in this international competition came from the brief presence of Florencio Campomanes, the Filipino who is president of the World Chess Federation.

(He left for home before the first game ended.) The official program was printed in two languages Lithuanian and Russian and the opening ceremony and players' news conference were both conducted in Russian without translation. No one complained because, apart from the presence of two Moscow-based American reporters, the rest of the press corps was from the Soviet Union or other East Bloc countries. in playmate's murder charge boy How Atlantic City police came to decision throwing out the confession. "It's going to ruin him for the rest of his life, even if they find someone who committed the crime," said LiVolsi. The funeral for Gary Grant Jr.

was held Jan. 18 a windy, snowy day. He was buried in Atlantic City Cemetery in nearby Pleasantville. His parents have ordered a headstone that will read, "There is no greater love than the love that you have generated." Gary Grant who is separated from his wife, is back at work, patrol-, ling the streets from midnight to 8 a.m. "It is never out of my said the 34-year-old police officer.

the killing still remain unanswered. Would Mason have had the strength to murder Grant, and would he then have had the presence of mind to carefully cover his body? If Mason committed the murder, why were there only two spots of blood on his clothes spots so small that the blood could not be typed? And cpuld it be that Mason did not actually-commit the crime, but instead witnessed it and is protecting the real killer? Mason was released from the Harborfields Detention Center on Feb. 24. His grandmother says he is living with relatives in the area. His murder trial is scheduled for March 20, though it is expected to be postponed while prosecutors appeal the judge's "They were anxious to solve a gruesome crime," the judge said.

"In doing that, they trampled on the constitutional rights of this juvenile. In order to solve a serious crime, you don't overstep the bounds of what the Constitution says you can do." Himmelberger said that Mrs." McGrath should have been with Mason throughout the interrogation, that police read Mason his Miranda rights too late and that investigators should have at least broken off the questioning at 3 a.m. when Mason said Grant and hit his head. One question Himmelberger did not address in the hearing was, in his words, "the determination of guilt or innocence in this case." And as far as some residents here are concerned, many questions about nile Detention Center 'in Egg Harbor City. Last month, LiVolsi went to court to have the statement thrown out as evidence.

He argued that the police, desperate to solve the murder, had talked a slow-witted boy into confessing to a crime he did not commit. Though the police did not physically abuse the boy, LiVolsi said, everything else about the interrogation the late hour, the roomful of inquisitors, the nonstop questioning would have intimidated even a normal adult. Mrs. McGrath said In an interview that her grandson never admitted to the crime. Again and again, she said, the investigators asked, "You did it, didn't you.

Carl?" She said her grand At Boyd's, the early bird catches significant savings on Spring's tastiest menswear. 1. 1. son would reply, "If you say 1 did, I did. But I didn't." She said that Masbn asked to go to sleep and that the investigators said he could go to bed when he told them what they wanted.

As for the statements and waivers, Mrs. McGrath said that neither she nor her grandson had any idea what they were signing. Rosenfeld painted an entirely different picture of that night. He said the investigators treated the boy "like a million bucks" giving him sodas, questioning him in an office rather than in an interrogation room. He said that the statement was made voluntarily and that Mrs.

McGrath and Mason knew they were signing a waiver of his rights and a statement admitting to the crime. He presented witnesses who said the boy was alert. One woman whose son also was being questioned said Mrs. McGrath never complained that she or her grandson were being mistreated. In an interview, Rosenfeld said it would have been unrealistic for investigators to have broken off questioning just as they believed they were making progress in the case.

"In effect," said Rosenfeld, "you're asking a police officer to drive a vehicle with one foot on the brake and one foot on the accelerator, yet move full-speed ahead." Judge Himmelberger asked them to do just that. He ruled that the circumstances surrounding the confession the boy's age, his mental condition, the time of day, the marathon interrogation all made the statement inadmissible. SLAYING, from 1-A crease when the boy's body was found. "The local law enforcement personnel," said Domestic Relations Court Judge John G. Himmelberger, "were under pressure to resolve this crime and to apprehend the perpetrator as soon as possible." What follows is an account of how investigators came to charge Mason the crime.

The scenario was (pieced together from court records and from interviews with the prosecution, the defense and members of Mason's and Grant's families. Investigators from the Atlantic City Police Department and the Atlantic County Major Crimes Unit at first surmised that the killer was probably an adult. The blow to Grant's head was so severe that it opened up a hole in his skull several inches wide and scattered brain tissue as far as 12 feet. In the first hours after the body was found, the police questioned convicted child molesters. That evening, detectives also began reconstructing Gary Grant activities on the day he disappeared.

Before long, several witnesses told the police that Grant had been seen late that afternoon with Carl Mason. Atlantic County Detective Thomas Prendergast and Atlantic City Detective Frank Callio visited Mason three times from 9:50 p.m. to 1 a.m. at his aunt's apartment, above a bar on Florida Avenue. The boy repeatedly told the detectives that he last saw Grant on Wednesday, Jan.

11, the day before he disappeared. Mason then told detectives that he was to have met Grant on Thursday afternoon at the house of two sisters on Stenton Place but that Grant had not shown up. The sisters and other witnesses continued, to insist that Mason and Grant had visited the two girls. At 1 a.m. Jan.

15, the detectives asked Mason to come to the offices of the Major Crimes Unit in nearby North-field to clear up the discrepancy. Mason's grandmother, Eleanor Mason a 70-pound, sandy-haired boy has the body, and the intelligence, of someone several years younger, according to his teachers. He lived with his grandmother, whom Himmelberger described as "a woman of limited education, limited intelligence (and) from a socioeconomic group to whom the police represent an authority which is not to be trifled with." The boy's mother lives with the family, but Mrs. McGrath said Mason's mother is not capable of raising her son on her own. Mason's father lives in Philadelphia.

The boy's teachers testified that he was educably mentally retarded and incapable of reading words of more than one syllable. But his family, friends and the police said that Mason shows no signs of being retarded and, other than his reading difficulties, is a normal sixth grader. Mrs. McGrath said her grandson is, aKnvo nil a timid child a bov "afraid of his own shadow," afraid to walk a block alone at night to get some cheese fries at the Dip Stix restaurant on the Boardwalk. "You got a scared little rabbit when you got that kid," Mrs.

McGrath said. Mason and his grandmother arrived at the Major Crimes Unit at 1:25 a.m. Jan. 15. The investigators said that Mason was not a suspect at that time but that they believed he might be concealing information that could help them solve the crime.

Prendergast testified that Mrs. McGrath was told she could be with Mason during the questioning but that she declined. Judge Himmelberger concluded she was "effective-" ly denied the right tp be present with her grandson." Mason was taken into Prendergast 's office, and from 1:30 to 2:05 a.m., he stuck by his story that he bad not seen Grant on the day he disappeared. At 2:05 a.m., Capt James Gary Grant Jr. 7-year-old's funeral was Jan.

18 Barber, the head of the Major Crimes Unit, walked into Prendergast's office and told the boy that all the other witnesses could not be wrong and that the boy ought to sit alone awhile and think. The investigators left the room. They returned at 2:20 a.m., and Mason's story began to change. The boy told the detectives that he had, in fact, been with Grant on Thursday afternoon. At 2:45 a.m., as the interrogation proceeded, Mason said that he and Grant had been playing in the lot on California Avenue when a bum frightened them.

At 3 a.m., he said that Grant had been running in the playground and had fallen and hit his head. Mason said that he turned Grant over and that he was motionless. At 3:15 a.m., Mason told the gators that he had struck Grant in the head with a pipe. Investigators went to the waiting area, returned with Mrs. McGrath and told her and Mason that the boy was now a suspect.

They informed them that, under the Miranda rights, Mason could remain silent and was entitled to an attorney. At 3:25 a.m., Mrs. McGrath and Mason signed a statement waiving the boy's rights. It was one of several waivers that the pair signed that morning, and Judge Himmelberger said later that discussing the Miranda rights with Mrs. McGrath and Mason "would be of as little utility as discussing the recent developments in nuclear physics with them." With his grandmother present, the boy's story continued to change.

He said at one point that he had hit Grant in the leg with the pipe, and then said another person named Dominick actually hit the boy. From 4:15 until 5:45 a.m., Mason took a polygraph examination. Philip Li-Volsi, Mason's attorney, said the examination showed that his client did not kill Grant. But assistant prosecutor Rosenfeld said that the results of the polygraph were "internally inconsistent" and that tney tunner convinced investigators that Mason was involved in the killing. The results of the polygraph have not been made public At 6 a.m., the investigators said Mason gave full details of the crime.

Court records show that Mason dictated a statement to Prendergast from 7:15 to 8 a.m. Signed by Mason and his grandmother, the statement said that the two boys got into a fight at the lot on California Avenue, that Mason choked Grant and that Grant threw a brick at Mason. Mason said he then hit Grant with a pipe "two or three times" and covered him with a rug. Investigators said later that no one, not even the police, knew then that Grant had been choked a detail that was corroborated later by the autopsy. Shortly after 8 a.m., Mason was charged with "knowingly and purposely" killing Gary Grant Jr.

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