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Chess parallels other sports, with 'backfield' L-shaped move. Ths move In any tir "fc "fSffVlS 4i-'3' Sr-sZzr vvi 5Kxci Staff Photo by Regene Radniecki Milton Otteson, a three-time Minnesota chess champion, is teaching his daughter Ingrid, 8, to play. rating. He's leaching his daughters, ages 7 and to play, although he realizes that few women so far have reached the top levels of international competition. Tiers noted that the National Juniors Open, which Fischer used as a springboard to fame, will be held at.

the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul starting July 31. It is one of four national open tournaments in the United Slates every year. There are 1,200 members in the Minnesota State Chess Association.

less of the outcome, "everybody has to he deeply appreciative of the results he's getting" in raising the purse for championship matches, he said. It may soon be possible for a master chess player to begin earning a living from the game while still young. Tiers docs not think Fischer will win. Spassky, he said, is a steadier player. Otteson Continued from page 1A Fischer was growing in chess ability week by week.

Otteson doesn't play chess as much now as he used to, although he is one of about a dozen Minneso-tans who have an expert Fischer not satisfied with match hall United Press International Reykjavik, Iceland Bobby Fischer expressed dissatisfaction Monday with some of the arrangements in the hall where his world championship chess match with Boris Spassky is scheduled to begin today. "Fischer does not like the light ing, the board and the pieces, the location of the television earner a and some other minor details," said Fred Cramer, vice-president of the U.S. Chess Federation. "These things are troublesome but not critical," Cramer said. "The organizers are already doing something about it.

Fischer is go-go-go for the match." Fischer, 29, slipped unnoticed into the hall early yesterday and spent 80 minutes inspecting it. Offsetting this, however, are several factors: The company gained federal approval for a 50-cent price increase on certain items (reserved and box seats), which could add an extra $278,000 to revenues. A working agreement with an Eastern minor league subsidiary was ended, which should trim $50,000 to $100,000 "out of expenses. An edict from Alexander to "slop all this foolishness" (unnecessary expense). The edict has not included, a company official said, the "Twins Room" hospitality facility, at which loyal and visiting sportswriters and sportscasters regularly partake of free food and liquor.

The menu yesterday included meaty spare ribs, french fries and the usual assortment of booze. And Griffith, whose management style is characterized by unfailing optimism, appears convinced that Quilici can turn the production department around enough to offset earlier sales declines and match the 1971 total. If he docs, Minnesota Twins, should remain in the black for its 12th straight year. Twins Continued from page 1A Despite a loss from operations (after a $200,000 tax credit), the company came up with a $157,000 extraordinary credit that brought net income up to $1,19,000, or $.1.71 a share, compared with a net of $185,000, or $4.94 a share, in 1970. The non-recurring gain reflected successful conclusion of an Internal Revenue Service case involving expenses connected with the company's move to Minnesota 11 years ago.

However, last year's good fortune appears to have turned its back on the company this year. First, an industry-wide labor strike eliminated seven business days a period that had produced unit sales of 59,367 in 1971. Then, through the period ended last Sunday, unit sales slumped another 23,485 from the 1971 level. Several factors were blamed: Cool, damp weather that discouraged potential customers during a period of peak production in May and early June. An ensuing decline in product, quality as one of the firm's most valuable workers Harmon C.

Killebrew encountered difficulty meeting production quotas, and two other key employees Pedro Oliva and James L. Kaat were forced to take sick leave. Thus, even if Quilici can reverse the declining sales trend enough to match last year's pace from here on, the company faces a potential unit sales reduction of nearly 83,000. Again figuring an average unit price of $2.35, this threatens a further reduction of $195,000 from the 1971 revenue lever. And Alexander concedes that he has no more extraordinary credits up his sleeve to offset this kind of decline.

How grown men can agonize for hours over funny-looking pieces on a checkerboard is heyond many people. In fact, if it were not for the theatrics of Rohby Fischer, the U.S. champion, the world chess championships that starts today in Iceland likely wouid draw little attention. In many ways, though, chess parallels more popular games and sports. Like football, each side black pieces and white pieces has a "line" and a "backfield" that the chess player can deploy in many offenses and defenses.

In the "line' Dawns. In the are eight 'backfield" are two rooks (or two knights, two bishops, a queen and a king. The queen is the most powerful piece on the board, and the pawns are the weakest but a pawn can be exchanged for a queen by reaching the opponent's back row like getting a King in checkers. The object of the game is to attack the opponent's king so that it cannot escape Check is a direct attack on the king in which it would be captured unless it is moved or shielded. Checkmate -the point at which the game ends is a check from which the king cannot escape.

Stalemate occurs when a king cannot he moved without putting it into checkmate. The complexities of the game spring from the different capabilities of the pieces. Rooks, for example, can move only horizontally and vertically on the board but can move on any color square. Bishops can move diagonally but must stay on squares of the same color at all times. Knights are the only pieces that can leap over other pieces, but they move in a strange fashion thes flights and Rochester, an queen direction hut cannot leap over other pieces.

i The object 'of all the moves the king --ran move only one square at a lime in any direction. Like bridge players, chess enthusiasts profit by an ability to keep many pos-, sibilities in mind at once and to think ahead. But unlike bridge, little luck is involved. Both chess players in a game start even and only their respective ability, alertness and imagination determine the outcome. There is no "luck of the draw" except to determine who makes the first move.

In tournament chess, players are allotted certain amounts of time; Ihey punch time clocks when they finish each move. In the world championships 24 games between Fischer and Russia's Boris Spassky each player will have 2'i hours to make the first 40 moves and a maximum playing time of five hours per day, according to David Ty'kwinski, treasurer of the Minnesota State Chess Association. He said in an interview Monday that Fischer can pace himself well within those time limits but that other top players often run into time problems at the point when a game gets most complicated. In speed chess, players must condense their moves into a much shorter period. Top-rated players also play exhibitions in which they compete against many players at once, moving from board to board around a room.

Some players even stage blindfolded exhibitions, in which they are told what moves their opponents are making but are not allowed to seethe board. Minnesota your 6A Minneapolis Tribune July 11,1972 -i n't .4 British increase N. Ireland troop level Associated Press Belfast, Northern Ireland Britain moved additional troops to Northern Ireland Monday nipht as punfire Sounded across Belfast and politicians warned of possible civil war. Britain's action followed a rupture of Ulster's fragile "13-day cease-fire and failure by British negotiators to reach an agreement with the Roman Catholic- based Irish Republican Army (IRA). Six hundred British royal marines flew to Northern Ireland yesterday.

The army said another 1,1300 men were preparing to Jeave early today, bringing total British military Strength in Ulster to .16,000 men, soldiers are being brought in because of the IRA's express intention of 'resuming hostilities with the utmost ferocity," an army spokesman said. The 1 A 's Provisional wing, which has been responsible for most of the guerrilla activity in Northern Ireland during the last three years, tailed a sudden end to the cease-fire Sunday. In an immediate 'Outbreak of violence, six Civilians died and scores 'cf troops, gunmen and ci-'vilians were injured in nine hours of violence. gun battles resumed at noon yesterday. British headquarters reported 109 shooting incidents by last midnight and 1 a i its troops cut down 13 gunmen.

Some of ihe shoot on is were between rival Roman Catholic and Frotestant guerrillas. 'two bombs wrecked Tshops and damaged homes Tiear the center of Belfast. An incendiary device Trazed a house in Belfast's e'ast side, sending five persons to the hospital, including a 4-year-old child. bombs exploded in Londonderry, Armagh and 'Strabane. )The fiercest fighting was the drab postwar housing complexes of West 'Belfast.

Gunmen fired Jfrom house gardens and high-rise apartment blocks at army emplacements at each other. 3n the Catholic Rallymur-phy zone, gunmen of the outlawed Irish Republican lArmy shot it out with "British troops. IRA men traded fire with Protestant guerrillas operating from -the Springmartin housing C0rnplex across the no land of Springfield Road. "Jn London, William While-law, Britain's secretary of state for Ulster, told the House of Commons that he had had a secret meeting with IRA leaders Friday. He said the IRA men complained they bad gained nothing in return for ceasing hostilites, "Then made demands that I could not accept." Whitelaw said the IRA had demanded four things, including the withdrawal of all British troops by January 1075 and a general amnesty for political prisoners.

But Whitelaw indicated the principle he could not accept was that Britain should recognize "that the whole people of Ireland should decide the future of Ireland." Whitelaw told the House he hoped it was "not too late" to solve the Irish problem without violence, since violence would only lead to "total disaster." In Northern Ireland, extre-ri is of the IRA and of Prou organizations (he belief that hp rxXt two or three days rt: Ar-rt reported to determine their policy in case violence erupts on Wednesday, when more thnn 00,000 members of the Orange Order have scheduled parades in 13 Northern Ireland centers to celebrate the Protestant victory over the Catholics at the Battle of theBoyne in 1600. a How will Fischer against Spassky? do "I guess I think he'll win," Otteson said. But regard- County coal-fired plant near Becker, Minn. Principally in dispute were proposed staff conditions to the permit which would have restricted the sulfur content of the plant's coal to eight-tenths of 1 percent measured on a 24-hour average and a mercury-discharge limit also figured on a 24-hour average. Raymond Haik, NSP's attorney, said the 24-hour-average method was "unacceptable" and could not.

be met. The sulfur and mercury content of the coal varies, he said, and cannot be guaranteed to be held to a certain level within that time period. Merritt called the proposals "tough but reasonable" and argued that they apply to Sherburne, which will be the state's largest power plant. But the board eventually doubled the allowable mercury discharge and voted to permit both the mercury and sulfur content to be averaged over a 90-day period. In other action yesterday, the board: Fleete'l as its new chairman Homer Luick, of Minneapolis, a retired banker who has served on the PCA since its creation in 1967.

Authorized a public hearing and a relaxation of interim deadlines on Hennepin Paper Company's stipulation with the PCA to upgrade water-pollution control at its Little Falls plant. rui LTU For the duration of the Northwest Pilots strike, these flights will be operated by supervisory flight crews on a regular basis. These flightsall on 747 aircraft provide almost 1500 seats every business day. New cabinet called for in Libya Associated Press Beirut, Lebanon Col. Muammar Kadafi of Libya has asked Maj.

Abdul Salam Jalloud to form a new Cabinet, Egypt's Middle East News Agency reported Monday from Tripoli. The shuffle means Kadafi will step down as premier. But he remains president and chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, and thus the effective boss of Libya. Jalloud, often regarded as the No. 2 man in the Libyan leadership, is deputy chairman of the Council.

He was minister of industry and economy in the outgoing Cabinet. Reports from Tripoli Last week indicated a government reshuffle was imminent in the 13-man Cabinet which Kadafi headed. It was not clear what prompted his giving up the premiership. Bremer's state trial postponed until July 31 United Press International Upper Marlboro, Md. Judge Ralph W.

Powers of Prince Georges Circuit Court Monday delayed the state trial of Arthur H. Bremer, the accused assailant of Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace, until July 31. Judge Powers said it was his "impression that in view of the time schedule and the circumstances, it appears that in the interests of justice the defendant is entitled to a continuance for a a i 1 short period of time." Bremer, 21, a former Milwaukee busboy, is charged with assault with intent to murder Wallace and three others May 15 in a Laurel, shopping center.

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only. PCA Continued from page 1A consequence" of serious health effects which some scientists predict from radiation increases. "Since we don't know what the health effects are," Field said, "ve should take a hard look at alternatives to continued full-power operation of Monticello." Dissenting were agency members Robert Tucker, Mace Harris, and Dr. Howard Andersen. Tucker said the PCA may be "fighting wind-mills unnecessarily" since the radiation increase will be temporary, and Dr.

Andersen said "a relatively meaningless amount" of radioactivity is involved. He also said it appeared that NSP "could easily win a case in court against us" since the courts have held that the federal government has exclusive regulatory authority over nuclear-plant emissions. The PCA staff contends that NSP can make up for a power-reduction or shutdown at Monticello by purchases of power from other producers, voltage reductions and voluntary reduction by NSP ers. NSP, on the other hand, said it has purchased about all it can and that a voluntary appeal for energy conservation, probably would not be highly effective in a nonemergency situation. Alp yesterday, the PCA granted, after more than four hours of debate, construction permit for NSP's proposed Sherburne Lv.

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