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3H A (Orlanftil firtttitirl Thunday, June 29, 1972 Fischer Antics No Surprise II TV IT Vr- rL SpussUtj Shows Nerves REYKJAVIK, Iceland lit Russian Boris Spassky, who has a reputution for gluciul calm, had tin outburst of nerves Wednesday, less than a week before he stakes his world chess title against American Bobby Fischer. Spassky stormed off a tennis court and went to his hotel to sulk after three photographers began taking pictures of him with Jlvo Nel, a compatriot helping him train for the match. "You are ruining our THAT'S FISCHER STUDY, STUDY, STUDY The book? By Russlun Fischer Not On Flight NEW YORK (UPI)-Chess whiz Bobby Fischer, expected to leave Wednesday night for the wold chess championships, failed to show up at the airport for either flight leaving for Iceland. One of his advisers, already in Reykjavik to prepare for the start of the championship match Sunday against the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky, said the temper amental, 29-y a I Fischer would be there in time to play but refused to specify his arrival time. ICELANDIC Airlines has two flights daily from Kennedy Airport.

Pan Am has one flight a week, leaving every Wednesday night. It was understood Fischer was to be aboard the Pan Am flight but he did not arrive at the airport, according to Pan Am spokesmen. It was rstood that Fischer was in New York, staying at a hotel, and "confident" of victory in the matches. Coverage Of Chess Muteh Restricted champion Boris Spassky rlnsson, chairman of the Icelandic Chess Federation, said the restrictions were decreed because pho-t a I and move-by-move coverage rights had been sold. Channel 24 in Orlando had been scheduled to re-c I the move-by-move analysis from Channel 13 in New York.

Ronald Mor-risseau, Channel 24 executive vice president and general manager, said his station had looked forward to the presentation. "We see it as news coverage and purchasers of the television rights," he said. This is the fifth in a scries cf on-the-spot reports of the forthcoming world championship chess match be-tween America's fiobbj Pitcher and th Soviet Union's Boris Spassky. Tim author, Larry Evans, an, International Grandmaster himself, is well qualified for the task. A long-time friend and confidant of Fischer's, Evans will be in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the Chess Match of the.

Centura. lis reports will appear in the Orlando Sentinel when the contest begins. By LARRY EVANS In 1970 Bobby Fischer was lured out of his self imposed exile by a major new chess event: Russia vs. The World on 10 boards. After initially declining an invitation to play top Board ror the World.

Fischer relented. A list of 23 conditions, ranging from a ban on photographers to the Intensity of stage lighting, was i a to his satisfaction. 1 i cations arose, however, when he arrived in Belgrade. Bent Larsen of Denmark threatened to withdraw unless he played top board instead. To everyone's surprise, Fischer consented to step down to second board.

He led the world to a near-upset over the Russians by smashing Petrosian 3 to 1 (2 wins, 2 draws). From then on each success became another milestone in the growing legend, inspiring the N.Y. Times to speak of a strange malady called "Fischer-fear." 'There is some strange magnetic influence in Bobby," the Soviet grandmaster Yuriy Averbakh told the Times. "His opponents (are) spiritually wrecked after the first couple of games. program," Spassky said.

"This is a dally routine which I must eet on with." After 13 minutes in the hotel, Spassky returned to the court with Nei, a tall bald-headed man with broad shoulders and a cannonball serve. To the delight of a bunch of Icelandic kids who shagged balls for the players, Nel com menced to thrash Spass ky in two straight sets, despite the fact he some times appeared purposely to be duffing his shots. Spassky showed a pret- BORIS SPASSKY Tennis, watermelon ty good forehand, a fair backhand and a weak At times he seemed to lose interest in the game. Because of the great physical strain of the 24-game chess championship beginning next Sunday, both Spassky and Fischer have been working out regularly for months. Chess players say the loser will be the man who tires first.

REYKJAVIK, Iceland Organizers of the Bobby Fischer- Boris Spassky world championship chess match will restrict move-by-move coverage and photographs of the contenders inside the contest hall, it was announced Wednesday. The announcement brought protests from news wire services and from two television outlets which are planning in-depth accounts of the 24-game match based on move-by-move reports from The Associated Press. The first game is scheduled for Sunday. GUDMUNDUR Thora- Tnse in sswtags 0 special One of his friends suid: "Fischer's a little more mellow nowadays; but the more you give in to him, the worse he gets. He believes he is a great artist regardless of the status of chess in the eyes of the world.

And he wants to be treated as such." Accord- CHESS MATCH FISCHER ing to another friend, "All Bobby needs is to get married that will straighten him out." UNTIL ECENTLY, Fischer was deep in training at Grossinger's resort in the Catskills, where he rose in the afternoon for a vigorous physical workout to build up stamina for the match. All night long he studied Spassky's games, to the accompaniment of a rock radio station. But after all negotiations for the match had been completed, he found time to fire off telegrams to the organizers demanding half of all the profits in addition to the purse. Mindful of Fischer's reputation, 1 avia, originally scheduled to host half of the games, dropped out of the bidding. It looked as if the match was off and Fischer's enemies were gleeful.

Yugoslav journalists bitterly recalled a time 12 years ago when Fischer, on stage in front of 2,000 chess fans, counted out his prize money in dinars bill by bill. DR. MAX EUWE, a Dutchman who is president of FIDE and a former world champion himself, gave Fischer 72 hours to accept a slightly reduced purse in Iceland or be replaced by another challenger. Nine hours short of the deadline Fischer agreed, under protest, noting he would face Spassky anywhere in the free world. "Iceland, with all due respect, is just too small and primitive a country to handle an event of this size.

Their hall is inadequate and so is their lighting But the worst thing of all is that there is no way to telecast the match from Iceland to the United States or even to Europe. That's why the Russians picked Iceland. They know they're going to lose the match, so they figured they might as well bury it," Fischer told Life. Chess is a way of life, a tight world of 64 squares, an unreal fascination. Fis cher studies the game with monastic devotion.

Sel dom without a chess book in his hand, and always accompanied by a pocket chess set, he lives and moves from tournament to tournament the way surfers follow the surf. THE CHESSMASTER must nave courage and a killer instinct as well as stamina. When asked on TV about his greatest pleasure in chess, Fischer was brutally frank: "Crushing A (1 Aimmr rant even Ml l. cam -f0I the other guy's ego." As a youngster he once blurted, "I like to see 'em squirm." If Fischer beats Spassky, Russia will feel greater humiliation than America will feel glory, be-cause chess is no big deal in the United States. Win or Lose, Fischer has already OF THE CENTURY S3 earned Immortality with his chess masterpieces.

He may go down in history as the most individualistic, intransigent, uncommunicative, uncooperative, solitary, self-contained and independent chessmaster of all time, the loneliest chess champion in the world. Perhaps genius cannot flourish without idiosyncrasy. When asked if he's a genius, Fischer says: "It's only a word. What does it really mean? If I win, I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not." IT) Kin Ftaturti Syndicate.

Inc. 171 noa in to If VS. SPASSKY I ourrjKI. "Q99 I 42" round I umbrella I I- IT jfL- Pp21 i FISCHER PLAYS hard at everything. He exhibits the same ferocious will to I win in bowling, tennis and In the mid-! sixties he joined the Church of God, a fundamentalist California-based sect that observes the Sabbath from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday.

Fischer neither travels I nor plays chess during this period. He disappears into his room for 24 hours of 1 i ary meditation. He reads the Bible and Playboy. He does not smoke, he does not eat pork, and he drinks only an occasional glass of beer or wine with meals. "Around the world I'm (better known than Joe Namath.

In America I'm nobody," he once said bit- terly, irked at the penny-ante status of chess in his country. All that is changing now and he is learning the price of fame. IN BUENOS AIRES his Final Candidates' match with Petrosian received banner headlines and his smallest idiosyncrasy was chronicled in the press. Fischer was besieged by photographers in his hotel lobby and they followed him into the street. Mad-S dened by these paparazzi, 1 he lunged for a camera but missed, then kicked a I reporter twice in the leg.

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