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COURIER-POST, Sunday, August 2, 1 992 team of books where I'm com from By Barbara Brandon go for the gold i KNOW. V.v.v.Vv.vjT.v 1 VII. i Tz W6 win rs ri 1 Nti Uma 1 mmiMxi AJ to mm TO WITH SOLVE-IT AFTER 21 Kxg2 Tal a Fischer BLACK TO PLAY Remembering the Magician of Riga ted Olympics fan, explains each sport for readers ages 8 and older. Accompanying every explanation is a list of '88 medal winners and the sport's Gold Stars," tidbits of information about someone in this year's Games. This paperback is packed with color pictures.

Team U.S.A., Devra Speregen, Scholastic, $2.95 Meet the Dream Team, the United States' Olympic basketball team. This paperback for kids ages 7 and older contains an Official Dream Team Roster, profiles of from each player, including Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Larry Bird and Patrick Ewing, and Olympics basketball rules. There is even a pull-out poster of the team and a score-card to keep track of the winners. The Olympics: A History of the Games, William Oscar Johnson, Oxmoor House, $40 A lavish, "coffee-table" book produced by the editors of Sports Illustrated. It traces the Games in essays and pictures (black-and-white and color) since 1896, the year the "modern" Olympics were revived.

Profile of Olympics stars are included as well. Journey to Olympla, Tessa Duder, illustrated by Grant Cole, Scholastic, $3.95 A history of the Games that takes young readers the book is written for kids ages 7 and older back to the green valley of Olympia. The year is 776 B.C. Back then athletes competed to honor Zeus. Seeking glory for themselves and the cities they represented was secondary.

Each day of the four-day event is described in detail. Two paperback novels with Olympic themes for young readers: The Gymnasts Go For the Gold, Elizabeth Levy, Scholastic, $2.95 andJessi's Gold Medal, Baby Sitters Club No. 55, Ann Martin, $3.25 Young athletes learn training for the Olympics is hard work. Are they tough enough to take the stress, the publicity? BY ANN HICKS Gannett News Service Olympics fever strikes again. The Summer Games from archery to yachting have begun.

If watching the triple cast on television is not enough, check out the book stores. There are books on the Olympics for readers of all ages and interests. Here is a sampling: The Guinness Book of Olympic Records, Bantam, $4.99 An extensive, up-to-date collection of Olympics records, facts and statistics. The paperback details every sport and contains a record of each country's participation in the Games. A timetable for the Summer Games is in the center of the book.

Black-and-white photographs are sprinkled throughout. The Complete Book of the Olympics, David Wallechinsky, Little, Brown, $14.95 Fascinating and bizarre stories from Olympics history can be found in this large-sized paperback. (Example: "Jesse Owens' celebrity failed to earn him a living, and to make ends meet he was forced to race against horses, dogs and motorcycles before he found his place as a professional good The 763-page book contains final results for every Olympics event since 1896. There are sections on Olympics issues, such as amateurism and drugs, and some black-and-white pictures. Summer Games Access, HaperPerennial, $10 A television viewer's guide to the Games.

This paperback explains the specifics of each event in pictures and words. Drawings are particularly helpful in understanding, for example, the reverse somersault dive or Judo's sacrifice technique. Rules for each event are listed. So are this summer's major contenders. A schedule of events is on the back cover.

0 The Kids' Guide to the 1992 Summer Olympics, Sports Illustrated for Kids, $12.95 Author Stephen Malley, an admit 5 NMJ5T me 60 On Chess Moscow at the age of 55, was an authentic genius of chess. So awesome were his mental powers that one famous grandmaster complained that it was unfair to have to play Tal because he had the memory and calculating ability of a computer. But Tal was much more than a human chess machine. He was an elemental creative force as well, a man who had a passionate love affair with chess and life itself. His brilliance at the chessboard, charming wit, modesty and warmth earned him worldwide admiration and affection.

From his youth, the "magician of Riga" suffered from chronic and often debilitating illness, resulting finally in his premature death. But despite his poor health, the gifted grandmaster embraced life to its fullest, always grateful for the considerable blessings bestowed on him. I first met Tal in 1956, a vital dark-haired youth with a piercing but friendly stare and a striking personal charisma. Thirty years later, I met him again in Brussels. Before me there appeared a man, who seemed 10 or 15 years older than his actual age.

But it was the same Tal with the same chess powers and wit, even more respected and admired than before by those around him. I interviewed him a few days later and asked: If you could be a chess piece, which one would you choose to be? "I would choose to be a passed pawn," he answered with a warm but ironic smile, "because then I would have a future." Here is a famous and wonderfully dynamic draw played with Bobby Fischer in the 1960 Leipzig World Chess Olympics. Questions and comments may be sent to On Chess in care of: Features Department, Couriar-Post, P.O. Box 5300, Cherry Hill 08034. Fischer Tal Fltchar Tal 1.

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Nf3 Qc7 12. Bb5 Bd7 Draw, Note (a): White cannot avoid perpetual check. "Family" values tough By SHELBY LYMAN Special to the Courier-Post Mikhail Tal, the former world champion who recently died in BEGINNER'S CORNER Hint and explanation: Divert its defender. mm It 4 -A. A a WHITE WINS THE QUEEN Whit moves "Jb at UMBd aqj) 9im mmu JNoiimos to define young-looking, but everyone knows that a jobless man that age is mainly after what she has.

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