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The Orlando Sentinel from Orlando, Florida • Page 8

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(DHaufcu ritltttcl Monday, June 26, 1972 ft A Fischer Favored In Match Despite Losses To Spassky CHESS MATCH OF THE CENTURY lijhatwi sofa now! This is the second in a series of on-the-spot reports of the forthcoming world championship chess match between Ameri. cms Bobby Fischer and the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky. The author, Larry Evans, an International Grandmaster himself, is well qualified for the task. He has won every major chess title, including the United Slates "Open" three times. A long-time friend and confidant of Fischer's, Evans will be in Reykjavik, Iceland, from first move to last in the Chess Match of the Century.

His reports will appear in the Orlando Sentinel when the contest begins. Bobby Fischer's results have been so phenomenal that he Is the highest-rated chess player in the history of the game, according to a statistical scale used by the Federation Internationale des Echecs, commonly lfnnwn a FIDK. the international chess foundation. He Geller, who also commands a plus score against Fischer, Another member of the teum is Nikolai Krogius, a chess-playing psychologist. There are chessplayers who will tell you thut Krogius has been psychologically conditioning Spassky.

Asked exactly what Krogius did, Spassky replied: "He gives homey advice and platitudes to which the rest of us listen with rapt attention." Klnf Fiilurti Svndicitt, Wi 'Duplicate' Oh 21 Beginning July 2, all Sunday matches of the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky chess contest for the world's championship, will be televised live over Orlando's Channel 24. Play will begin approximately at 1 p.m. and proceed to a decision or adjourn' went at 6 p.m. Commentaries by world experts will keep listeners informed of the trend of each game. Weekday games will ml be televised.

SPASSKY vs. FISCHER iiAinr tOA( SOFAS $5500., 10 OFF THIS W(IK ON S0MI FAIRICS "Bondarevsky did a lot not only for my chess but for my character," said Spassky. "He has a very happy family life and is a man of strong character." To aid him in analyzing openings and adjourned positions. Spassky will rely on Ivo Nei and Yefim Ou Piica Includat Wbbin iinlnd tUn All liamai iP" Htm canon AM dull P'l AM il Phone fc lilitnaUl Fix mm II 152 has played a total of 96 games against Russian grandmasters, the finest in the world, scoring 53'j points (a win is a full point and a draw is a half point). Yet he has failed to beat Spassky in a single individual encounter, losing three and drawing two in five games they have contested.

Despite his dismal score against Spassky, Fischer is the choice of nearly every expert. Indeed, London bookmakers favor him 6-to-5. Yet the champion has a MEADOWS UPHOISTERY Hninancc AUF BDIUDACf AF 3m Bad BRAND "051" COPIER 24 HR. TELEPHONE SERVICE 894 8702 PS 1 II 111 V7 Yours for only s179oo Bobby Cancels Flight REYKJAVIK (UPI) Bobby Fischer, American challenger to Russian chess world champion Boris Spassky, abruptly cancelled his flight ticket to Reykjavik, Icelandic Chess Federation officials said Sunday night. Fischer, of Brooklyn, was scheduled to arrive hare this morning.

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It is here in the adjourned positions that Spassky's i advantage may prove greatest, for he has a small army helping him with, analysis whereas Fischer prefers to work alone. Often this means sleepless nights burning midnight oil. Spassky is a classicist who once surprised Fischer i with the King's Gambit, a risky opening ploy. Since winning the title from Petrosian in a close match in 1969 however, his drive has faltered and his results have been sluggish. Recently he mustered no better than a tie for sixth in a field of 18 grandmasters at Moscow.

Gone is the panache and daring that so delighted chess buffs. IN RISKING HIS TITLE against Fischer, the world champion is also putting Soviet prestige on the line. Yet there is no way out: FIDE, the international chess federation, has decreed that the champion must face an accredited challenger once every three years. The challenge obviously does not faze him: "I'm still he reminds reporters. "I'm a lazy Russian bear.

I don't take months to prepare for a tournament the way the old masters did. But I make up for it by working much harder while the game is in progress." The stocky, well-conditioned Spassky, 5' 10" and 176 looks more like an athlete than a chess player. Away from the chessboard, he skis, swims, plays soccer and tennis and practices Yoga. He lives in Moscow with his second wife, Larissa, and their 4-year-old son. "I would not like our son to play chess," said his wife, "because the nervous strain is too great." SPASSKY, WHO HOLDS a degree in journalism, earns more than 500 rubles ($560) a month to play chess, five times more than the average Soviet worker.

He is a national hero in a nation that has over four million registered players. Promising youngsters are cultivated in Soviet elementary schools and given years of free training by the state. Authorities, however, recently declared that "urgent measures are required" to find and develop new young stars. Because of the tension and concentration demanded, championship chess is a young man's game, but the best Soviet players are mainly over 40. Unlike Fischer, who lives chess 24 hours a day, Spassky spends less than 4 hours a day preparing for the match.

Spassky, however, has a tremendous team to assist them. UNTIL THEIR RECENT breakup, Igor Bondarev-sky, 58, a grandmaster, had coached Spassky for over a decade. It was Bondarevsky who figuratively brought Spassky back from Siberia. In the World Students' Team Championship at Leningrad in 1960, the Americans defeated the Soviets and Spassky, who was going through divorce proceedings at the time, was blamed for the Soviet defeat. He was forbidden to play abroad for three years.

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