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Philadelphia Inquirer 25-A Sunday, July 9, 1972 Annals of Chess Are Replete With Tales of Murder, Madness, Moral Outrage condition on the uses of power. Of all thechessmen, the king is the most important, andthe most impotent When trouble comes, all he can do is flee, one thing he does feebly, one square at a time, or as is more often the case call in somebody else to save his skin. Isn't that how it's always been with men, Gloria? Women's lib can also take satisfaction with the role and status of the chess queen. The queen, like most chess pieces, has assumed different identities at different times and make the Fischer furor pale by comparison. And rhess, at its best, is an ultimate expression of man's desire to create a perfect order of things, in which human intelligence is the sole variable, a meticulously worked out statement of the human championship chess match.

Why all the fuss? It's only a game. True. And only a game of dolls, by Sgt. Whatshisname's undeniably perceptive account. But.

still, the annals of chess are replete with tales of murder, madness and moral outrage, the likes of which By EARL FING New York Writer "Look at that, will ya two grown men playing with dolls." Such was the observation of an infantry first sergeant some years back when he wandered through the com pany day room and found two of his draftees playing chess. And such, no doubt, have been the thoughts of millions of people around the world in recent days as they read of the pre-tournament tantrums of Bobby Fischer who, at latest report, will meet Boris Spassky next week in a world Fischer Spassky different places. Way back (circa 500 A.D.) in India and Persia where the game originated and devel- oped, the piece comparable to the queen was known the counselor or general. Cen-- turies later, when the game immigrated to France, the -counselor or general changed sex and became the queen. Today, the thoroughly liberated queen is the most powerful piece on the board.

RANKED NEXT to the king and queen are the two bishops. Here, a bit of anticleri- a An aV aV III aT 4. aW MM aW aW AT AT AW Ok. AT AT AT AV "TV AT AT AV calism creeps into the game. The bishops have a bit more prestige than power.

When they move, they slip around obliquely, and whichever color they start out on they stay on throughout the game, no matter how badly they are needed on the other color. Then there are the knights, who gallop boldly around the board, jumping other pieces in the process (something not even a queen can do) even for average players, winding up in the most unexpected and Tulip Ti inconvenient places. Last, but not least, among the major pieces are the rooks, or castles. The word "rook," or a reasonable facsimile thereof, means soldier in Persian and that was the piece's identity in the earliest stages of the game. That the soldier should be reconcep-tualized as an object, not as a person, can be viewed as either crass materialism or pragmatic recognition of the MWV fjtVM.

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