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(Orlailhil Srittiitrl Tuesday, June 27, 1972 10 A Fischer Nearing Championship, Fulfillment Of Prediction CHESS MATCH OF THE CENTURY ATSrS. TV si; SALE CONTINUES iVr a iianllPiin III The Soviets did not approve of Bobby Fischer. Chess is part of an old intellectual tradition: chessmasters are men of the world, highly educated, and Fischer's indifference to culture irritates and disturbs them. C) King Malum tvndkat, -Duplicate' On 24 Beginning July 2, all Sunday matches of the Bobby Fi'cher-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 adjournment at 6 p.m. Commentaries by world ixperts will keep listeners informed of the trend of each game. Weekday games will not be televised. AT WllKDAYS 9 TO 9 SUNDAY JO TO 7 SPASSKY VS. FISCHER 1 1 S.l.ct You, Choic.

of Ov.r 8,000 ftftV TYiiYP We Fit Every Man I Woman I 3B 1 LS MtymZM BIG TALL SMALL Si Ujj ZM. (Jesuits $49.00 umw) mmZ CAll OR VISIT RAMESH DANI SifK By LARRY KVANS This is the third in a strict of on-the-spot reports of thi forthcoming world champion thi chess match be-twien America's Bobby Fischer and the Soviet Union's Doris Spassky. The author, Larry Evans, an International Grandmaster himself, is well qualified for task. A longtime friend and confidant of Fischer's, Evans will in Rey-tjavik, Iceland, for tht Chess Match of the Century. His reports will appear in the Orlando Sentinel when the contest begins.

Chess In America is riding to popularity on the broad shoulders and stormy personality of Bobby Fischer. At 14, in sneakers, T-shirt and jeans, he walked off with the first of eiht U.S. Championships. At 17, he proclaimed: "I am going to win the world championship, hold it a couple of years and then take tip something else and make a lot of money." Just 29 and already a legend, Fischer is within 6lght of his goal. "Anyone who knows anything about chess knows that I have been world champion in everything but name for the past ten years," he said.

"Next to me Spassky's the best. I don't say that to brag. I think it's true. I love the game and I hate the Russians because they've almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years.

When I'm champion I'll take on all comers." BOBBY FISCHER was born in Chicago on March 9, 1943. His father, a German physicist, and his mother, a nurse, were separated when he was 2. His sister Joan, six years older than Bobby, looked after him when the family moved to Brooklyn in 1949. She kept him occupied with games and puzzles until their mother returned from work. One day Joan bought a chess set at the corner candy store and they figured out the moves from the directions that came with the set.

"At first it was just a game like any other," said Bobby, "only a little more complicated." From his window, he could hear the baseball cheers in Ebbets Field. Fischer found an old chess book and from then on "he just didn't answer when you spoke," recalls his mother. In 1951 she wrote a letter to the chess editor of the local paper asking where her eight-year-old son could find a game of chess with boys his own age. The editor suggested that Fischer attend a simultaneous exhibition at the public library. A former Scottish champion took on 30 opponents at once and polished Bobby off in 15 minutes.

Spassky Confident Bobby Will Come CARMINE NIGRO, the president of the Brooklyn Chess Club, was on hand. He was teaching his son to play and started teaching Fischer also. But Bobby learned so much faster that Nigro's son became discouraged and quit. Fischer's genius was still not evident when he entered the U.S. Amateur Championship in 1955.

"I lost my nerve and only wanted to watch," he said. Nigro persuaded him to play, however, and Fischer finished near the bottom. In July he went to the U.S. Junior Championship at Lincoln, and finished 20th in a field of 26. Bitten by the chess bug, Fischer wasn't much interested in school when he entered Erasmus High.

He grew into a gangling, awkward boy, touchy and uncommunicative, often rude. The separation of his parents was such a sore topic that an innocent query about his father's interest in his chess might make Fischer the enemy of whoever asked it. IN AMERICA chess talent must flourish like weeds growing through cracks in the sidewalk. Fischer is self-made, a wild accident, the product of no system, no ideology. Friends and strangers always gave him well-meaning advice: "chessplayers starve," "don't waste your life on a hobby," "Take up a 'useful profession instead." But Fischer did his own thing and dropped out of high school to pursue his first and only love.

"Teachers are jerks," he snapped. To play billiards too well, goes the saying, is a sign of an ill-spent youth. Although Fischer has traveled to almost every continent and dined with heads of state, he often regrets his lack of formal education. "After I win the title then I can think about developing myself in other areas," he says. After winning the U.S.

Championship in 1958, Fischer qualified for the Interzonal tournament, the first step on the road to the world championship. At 15, he earned the coveted title of International Grandmaster. HE AND his sister were invited to Moscow. Fischer loafed around the chess club for two weeks, hoping to take on its leading masters. Instead he was introduced to an endless succession of sports celebrities weight lifters, gymnasts and soccer stars, all of whom bored him.

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(143711111 MWl 837 DELTONA BLVD. DELTONA "more of a classical chess player than I am. He is a very practical player." i A7fifoW ffhfo) rn -Bookcase hutch, glass door cabinet, 3-drawer desk with matching chair at this single low price. REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) World chess champion Boris Spassky of Russia said he hoped his American challenger, Bobby Fischer, would show up in time for their first match next Sunday even though he failed to arrive as scheduled Monday at this tournament site. "I don't know why he didn't arrive," Spassky told a news conference.

"Only commanderin-chief Fischer knows," he added with a broad smile. But Spassky, 35, said he was confident that Fischer would turn up at the capital of Iceland for the start of their 26-game match for the world chess title. "I am hopeful we will play the first game next Sunday as planned," Spassky said. Officials of the Icelandic Chess Federation said they expected the 29-year-old challenger Wednesday. He had been scheduled to arrive early Monday but officials said he cancelled his bookings at the last minute.

CHESS SOURCES said Fischer was in seclusion in Los Angeles and quoted him as saying he had every Intention of flying to Reykjavik in time for the first game. Spassky told his news conference he had arrived last week in order to get used to conditions and climate and was doing physical exercises and playing some chess in preparation for the match. The Russian player said he was satisfied with arrangements and not even the 24-hour daylight bothered him. "I have good curtains in my hotel," he said. SPASSKY.

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