Battle Creek Enquirer from Battle Creek, Michigan • Page 9

A-9 IB was Trie game or Kings Nonviolent chess surprisingly makes front pages Enquirer and News, Battle Creek, July 30, 1972 I ilHuiuifeitsitHni Afeilirt play, you get yourself into a bad box and any piece you move anywhere will mean trouble for you. This condition is described only in German, "zugzwant." It means, roughly translated, "You're in a jam, buster." Chess is ruled by the Federation Internationale des or International Chess Federation. It makes the rules and holds solemn annual congresses about whatever problems chess players have. Delegates attend from all continents. Once a man regarded as the grand master, the world champion, usually picked his opponents.

Often he would refuse to play the most likely challenger. The hassles were many, but few heard of them in those days. It was a benighted era. These days FIDE holds regular tournaments to decide likely candidates to challenge the world champ. There are many variations.

Players bored with the orthodox can play "rapid transit," meaning only a few seconds is permitted between moves for thinking. They can play blindfolded, a real grandstand. They can play simultaneous, meaning one master plays opponents on a dozen or more boards at the same time and clobbers all. Chess is played mostly in Russia, Europe and the Western Hemisphere. The Hapa-nese have a version called "shogi." the common, ex-soldiers of the Usually the first move is a pawn; always the man who draws white gets to move first.

Other pieces except the knight can't overleap pawns. A man who moves pawns a lot is scornfully called "pawn-pusher." A player at all times must watch his language. While reaching for one piece to make a move the player may accidentally touch another. He apologizes at once for a "finerfehler," which is German for some sort of "finger error." If he apoligizes in other languages it wouldn't sound right. Suppose a player jars the board and edges a piece out of place.

He cannot touch the thing to put it back without announcing "j'adoube" in French. He could say "I adjust," but to your chess purist it would somehow sound illegal. It's good to be up on your Italian, too. A man may open with "guicco piano." It means something like soft opening, one for neopthtes, in fact, unless you are a master who knows what he is doing. "En passant" means the capture of a pawn in passing and can be done only in cer-t a i circumstances.

"En prise" means that a piece is subject to capture, and if you say it in English a chess player will regard you as some kind of freak. Suppose, by your inept pawns pendable game. even the Irish. Some say Moslem conquerors carried it all the way to Spain, whence it reached Europe. How did the Russians get so chess-minded? Who knows? In chess, the King is the target.

When he cannot be moved out of the line of capture, the game is over. It takes time and deep, deep thought. A player could, if rules allowed, think about a singe move for hours of days. In a tournament time is limited or the game would never end. Clocks must be punched after each move, which makes for wild excitement.

White and Black each has 16 pieces, including the King. Most powerful is the Queen. Her power dates back a few centures, but before then she was the weakest. It seems to suggest something about the durability of women's lib. Next in power is the rook, called "castle" by the English.

Rook may come from the Persian "rokh," meaning soldier. Thereafter in order of power comes what the English call the "bishop." For their own reasons the French call i "fool," the Germans "runner," and the Russians "officer." Nest is the knight. Russians, Italians and Spaniards call it simply "horse." The elegant French call it the "cavalier." The literal-minded Germans, possibly because the piece moves erratically, call it "springer," or something like jumping-horse. The other eight pieces are By The Associated Press The big chess championship is under way. For the next several weeks or so the suspense will be incredibly bearable.

The astonishing thing about the match of the century is that it hag made front pages. This is probably on the dubious theory that somebody besides chess players gives a hoot whether Bobby Fischer of the United States beats Boris Spassky of Russia. Chess is not for the ordinary working stiff. A chess player need not be an intellectual snob, but it helps. He has a language of his own and scorns anyone who can't fanthom it.

The kindly look-i graybeards bent over boards in chess clubs are in reality frustrated generals playing fiercely at bloodless war and dreaming about total humiliation of the enemy. Chess once was called the game of kings, probably because only a king had time enough to play it. The game's origins are lost in the mists of history. It is said to have come out of India or perhaps Persia. Checkmate, as they say in English, is derived from "shah mat," or Persian for "the king is dead." Russians say "shakh-mat," Italians, "scacco mat-to," Germans, "schachmatt," Spaniards, "mate ahogado," and the French "echec et mat." The game has been attributed to a lot of peonle, including Greeks, Romans, Bablyonians, Arabs, Jews and the big game at the Moscow Chess Club.

The series, mainly because of Fischer's antics, has attracted worldwide attention of fans and nonfans. MOSCOW (UPI) Soviet chess master Yuri Katkov discusses the moves made in the Boris Spassky-Bobby Fischer championship series with chess fans Chess: Outlet for hostility Families feeling the effects of the game board make a counter-move. Rather than let Michael win all future matches, Zelenko has begun studying with an expert to improve his game generally and to increase the challenge of chess at home. "Today every line in for communicating with your children has to be explored," Zelenko emphasized. Discussing holds a graduate degree in psychology.

"Chess is an in-tellectualized fight which is better than a fist fight." Jay Monroe is not so sure. Monroe, president of the Tensor a lamp manufacturing concern, said that winning or losing at chess is "a very charged issue" in the Monroe's suburban home. "I know that most parents feel that playing chess or tennis is helping their family life," continued Monroe, who has two sons. "But they're just kidding themselves." Monroe concedes that strong conflicts have developed between himself and the boys in playing both games. When Robert began in his late teens to win from his father on the tennis court, Monroe said, he called me "a has-been." Now James, who is 11, "beats me" at Chess, Monroe iii o'v-vi- y-" i 1 4 if- ff I 1 1 I neaiTn oroiecT 1 ah.

jm. Mt. a. Wi 0 v. "7 I ft (WWWtdDntDM i political fight He's one of 4,281 Battle Creek people whose job depends upon the vitality of the downtown district.

Jim is an installment loan administrator for the Security National Bank. He's worked downtown for five years. When Battle Creek builds its mall downtown, it will make jobs like Jim's even more secure; it will send more tax money than the present tkj Of Pi I I $461,951 already paid by downtown business to the schools four of Jim's five boys attend. The downtown area already spends $25,017 on the vocational school and 5 mm! rr A A A -a -www 7 jfi v. goes to Kellogg Commu College where Jim's young said.

"It puts me at a big disadvantage," the lamp producer continued, adding that Jimmy is not very pleasant about either wins or losses with his father, "but he is with his friends." Harry Zelenko, a disigner, is in accord with Fine's view that "chess is an outlet for hostilities." He also agrees with Fine that "in the historical development of the player, chess is part of the son's struggle to equal and surpass the father." In the Zelenko household Michael, 15, recently began "trouncing me sweetly," reported his father, adding that he was delighted. "Between father and son there's always emulation, camarederie and competition," he went on. "The wise father uses any such sign of competition to encourage his son to grow." It also escouraged Zelenko pices of Tufts University. Tufts withdrew its support in 1970. State University of New York at Stonybrook, L.I., then became the "grantee" for OEO funds flowing to the Mound Bayou project, but had to bow out when a proposed medical school failed to win legislative approval.

A new organziation, the Dlta Community Hospital and Health Center, was set up by Mound Bavou to be the OEO grantee. However, said Brooks, since no institution of higher learning was involved, the grant had to funnel through the governor's office and there it was stopped by Waller, whose veto was sustained by OEO. "What we're trying to do is one simple thing and it is being diluted in all the words that are being written about this," said Waller. From Our SETH THOMAS Collection IMEW WHARTOIM MOON DIAL Vi Westminster Chime quarter hour. Ideal for every those who like a grandfather clock but lack the space.

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NEW YORK (NYT) Chess, perhaps the most competitive, intellectually demanding and passionate of games, is rarely treated as casually as gin rummy in the increasing number of homes where it is played with any regularity. Most families manage to keep the inevitable conflicts that arise in games to the chessboard. But in some homes, tensions linger long past checkmate. Such problems erupt most often between fathers and their pre-teen-aged or teen-aged sons, according to some families interviewed recently. Reuben Fine, a lay analyst, chess grandmaster and author, agrees, noting that such conflicts are to be expected.

"Every boy competes with his father and chess would be one way of working out such problems," said Fine, who ea furnei By BILL CRIDER JACKSON, Miss. (AP) "They're trying to make me the goat," complained Gov. William Waller after pickets, bearing placards calling him a racist, paraded outside his home. "I'm the only guy in the history of the State of Mississippi that has ever done anything for the poor people, for the blacks," he added. The governor was talking about a budding political fight over financing of a pioneer health care project at the all-Negro town of Mount Bayou, population 3,000.

The office of Economic Opportunity granted the project $5.5 million for the coming year to provide free health service to residents in a four-county area. But Waller vetoed the grant June 1, terming the project's 1972 operating budget a scandal. "That's enough money to buy everybody up there a private clinic," he said. The matter came to national attention when Hodding Carter III, a Mississippi newspaperman, criticized Waller's action during a speech to the National Democratic Convention in which Carter withdrew his name as a vice presidential nominee. Officials of the project, the Delta Community Hospital and Health Care Center, said the governor either didn't know the facts or was embarked on a power play to gain control over OEO money flowing to health projects in the state in order to aid "all-white" hospitals operating in the red.

On the one hand, the eyebrows of some Mississippi politicians. Waller among them, were raised by the allotment of nearly $4 million of the $5.5 million OEO grant for salaries. On the other, proponents of the project claimed the critics simply weren't adequately informed and pointed to a press release from Waller as an example. In the release, Waller was quoted as comparing the operation of the 51-bed Delta Community Hospital with a private hospital located in Belzoni, near Mound Bayou. "When you consider that the comparable operation of the 65-bed Belzoni hospital has an annual budget of $900,000, or about $4.5 million less, you begin to imagine the magnitude of this boondoggle," he said.

Richard Polk, project direc into $28,363 ii irn tional fire nity sters can And it services I li ULi LIT 74 pays $355,522 into city the parks and recrea Ur if -JS 7 izr. Lr i if facilities and the police and protection services Jim and his wife Mary want as home things that we, the a I and need our want in the Hodges' in your city. tor, said the Belzoni hospital has 35 beds, not 65, and its $900,000 budget compared with $850,000 for the 51-bed facility in Mound Bayou. The rest of the OEO grant, said Polk, would go into "comprehensive" health work in the counties of Coahoma, Bolivar, Sunflower and Washington the home of about 128,000 of the poorest residents of the union's poorest state. "Comprehensive" work ranges from digging sanitary privies to installing free window screens, from draining stagnant ponds to spraying for mosquitoes.

It includes supplemental food for women who are pregnant or who are breast feeding infants. Polk said the hospital and dental clinic payroll has 228 employes and the health center 240, with salaries ranging from $29,000 for a physician to $4,100 for truck or ambulance drivers. The hospital treated about 36,000 persons last year. Comprehensive services were provided for 22,000 others. A subdivision, a Delta clinic, reported it treated 10,000 persons.

Operations to the end of July were financed under a $1.3 million slice of the $5.5 million grant. It was approved by Waller on June 29 to pay expenses entailed before his June 1 veto and to "pay for the cost of agency close-down operations in July 1972." Waller cites what he says is lack of efficient management as his reason for closing the hospital and health center, but so far has announced no plans for replacing the project. "We have no intention of closing down," said Owen Brooks, of Greenville, a longtime civil rights activist who now is chairman of the project's board. Brooks said OEO now intends to forward to Waller a grant of $4.2 million the remainder of the $5.5 million grant allotted to the project for 1972. "He will be right back to the same process again," said Brooks.

"Either he vetoes, signs or waits 30 days for it to take effect." The broad concent of overall health care for the impoverished developed from a pilot project started at Mound Bayou in 1987 under the aus- Wmm ftm lu3 HMD mnotes I 1.