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Fort Lauderdale News from Fort Lauderdale, Florida • Page 138

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10G Fort Lauderdale News and Sun-Seatiuel, Sunday, April 16, 1972 SdJlT- Grade A' Fresh Fla cr Ga. Red Cross Exchanges Civilians, Prisoners Few Boats Still Ply Suez i f- (MSB tmm JH1 vlOk I "Super-Right" Freshly United Pru Inltrnatlontl KANTARA, Suez Canal The only boats plying the quiet waters of the Suez Canal these days carry out the mission of a sort of "marriage counselor" between Egypt and Israel under the flag of the International Red Cross. The red, black and yellow motorboats chug back and forth across the 200-yard wide waterway an average of twice a month as the result of the only agreement the two warring nations have come to since the 1967 Middle East War closed the canal. Four months after Israeli troops had captured the east bank, the Red Cross successfully urged Cairo and Jerusalem to agree to the exchange of civilians and prisoners by boat under the provisions of the 1949 Geneva Accords. Eighty-four times since then, the boats have carried prisoners from both sides back home and have reunited families who were separated by the canal after the Israeli conquest of the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip.

LIKENS ROLE TO COUNSELOR The exchanges have involved the crossing of more than 12,000 persons under the auspices of the Red Cross, whose top man in Israel likens his organization's role in the Middle East conflict to that of a "marriage counselor." "You try to bring about a reconciliation between the couple, or at least reduce the misery," Frenchman Guy Deluz said. "Our task is to listen and, if possible, to help but never to gossip." A UPI reporter watched one recent exchange. It was a sunny spring morning and the Red Cross flags were flying on both sides of the canal the signal that puts the routine into motion each time. The first trip of the boats is made with only the belongings of the participants cardboard boxes full of clothes, baskets of oranges, even television sets. Then, on the Israeli side, out of a bus whose windows have been blacked out to hide Israeli forts enroute to the canal come IS Egypt-bound exchanges, including several wide-eyed children.

For all of them it is a big day, perhaps the biggest in their lives. They soon will be reunited with loved ones they haven't seen in five years. Today, the chirping of birds has replaced the roar of gunfire that marked many of the exchanges prior to the August, 1970, Middle East cease-fire, and it is an entirely happy scene. A mother carrying a baby is positively radiant. An old man, supporting himself with a cane, has to be helped out of the bus.

Two boys, about IS, look frightened. Then onto the boat and away to the other side. But suddenly, as the boat pulls out, it turns back to the landing and the young mother disembarks. She dashes back to the bus, disappears inside and emerges again grasping an envelope she had left behind. "Probably the plans to our whole Suez defense line," comments a grinning Israeli soldier.

I imM fiM (tern Russia, U.S. Gird For Battle Over World Chess Championship By STEPHENS BROENING -Associated Press Writer MOSCOW Yefim Geller draws on his cigarette, then chews on his left thumb for a while. His glance springs momentarily to the man's face across the chess board from him. Geller rises, moves with uncertain destination around the stage. A dark, overweight man in a rumpled suit, he gives the impression that you could hear him sigh at 30 paces.

He looks in the direction of the people in the October Hall of the Moscow Trade Union headquarters: they might as well have been a hundred stovepipes or so many snowdrifts. He returns to the table and watches the board, as Viktor Korchnoi has been doing for 12 minutes. Korchnoi coolly measures the collision of forces in the checkered field of tension before him. His fingers flash in the air, and an inert white knight is lowered to the table, a vector suddenly transformed into a lacquered dummy. His hand bangs the stop on his clock, Geller's frail combination has been shattered.

HEADLINES READ: 17 QBXKT The papers next day recorded this action as "17 QBxKT." They said it was a fine move. It was one of many Korchnoi put together to defeat Geller in the quarter-final challenge round for the world chess championship. That was months ago. Korchnoi went on to lose to a fellow Russian, Tigran Petrosian, who was defeated in the final round by Bobby Fischer, a 29-year-old American whose ease in disposing of his opponents has lent weight to his claim that he is the uncrowned king of chess. He is determined to end the modern Soviet monopoly on the title when he meets defending i BORIS SPASSKY defending champ BOBBY FISCHER uncrowned king REGAL BEER iEEIi 02) Tk'm'r-ir ZIZI ITL.

i-i ,111 Am-m rail Bonus Special Bonus Special r- ri "--II iiVi.lt i'rMiii ufi.ll-7nii tmirmmmv Frozen Ann' Page vuaiiijiuu uuiio in a -game matcn tnis summer. "I hate to lose." Fischer once told an intprvipwpr tn omr. the semifinal round, reports: "He always strives for the optimum. He never compromises, but goes all-out to win every single game." i Dr. Max Euwe, president of the International Chess Federation, considers Fischer may be the best player who ever lived, with the possible exception of Paul another American who dominated the game last century.

Is Spassky worried? "Of course he is," one of Moscow's park-bench players replies without hesitation. But Viktor D. Baturinsky, director of the Moscow Chess Club, is more circumspect. Like most Russians in official positions, he speaks to foreigners as if he will have to pay for any misstep: "Fischer, of course, has had a fine streak of play, and we are aware of that. But you mustn't forget that Spassky is an experienced player with proven resourcefulness.

Chess is the Soviet national sport, which develops many valuable qualities in a man and improves his general cultural development as well. After the October revolution And so on. SPASSKY KEEPS TRAINING SECRET Just how is Spassky preparing for the encounter? Fischer body." Recalcitrant, unpredictable and single-mindedly dedicated to his own cause, Fischer has the qualities to make a great champion. He is the nearest thing to a popular idol in the long history of the game. His play is always good, frequently brilliant.

He creates chess, the experts say. In Communist Russia, former world champion Mikhail Botvinnik, the "father" of Soviet chess, resorts to the divinity for a metaphor about Fischer's ability: "A gift from God metaphor about Fischer's ability: "A gift from God." SEEKS OPTIMUM OF ALL TIMES Danish Grand Master Bent Larsen, crushed by Fischer in Mayonnaise. Handi Whip. Our Own Easy Brew 100 Brazilian Coffee Tea. Bags.

v49e Eight O'clock. 69 10c Off Label! Bonus Special went to the Catskills and can be seen. A request for an interview with Spassky was forwarded, as the rules require, to the Soviet Foreign Ministry, with not so much as a reply. Spassky did tell a Pravda man who asked him last year how he would train for the match: "Sorry, but that's a secret." Secrecy is another national sport. Dr.

Euwe, himself a former world champion, explained to a reporter on a recent trip to Moscow what was involved in training for a match like this one. "First of all," he said, "there is the technical preparation. Each player tries to develop variations on openings which are not in the book. It is sometimes possible to gain victories this way. But it means creating, adding something to chess theory." In practice, it means confronting an adversary with some position he is not prepared for, sending him scurrying to ransack his memory for the proper reply to an old, and maybe forgotten, variant, or forcing him to answer, unready, to a new one.

In both cases time and emotional energy are exDended. i Problem No. 252 Mate in Two moves 11 Ml Fresh Red Delicious Jane Parker Delicious Cherry Pie. Apples. It is taken for granted that a player of Fischer's or Spassky's accomplishment has mastered the thousands of variations which repeat themselves in tournament play.

Perhaps it was this aspect of preparation which prompted the Austrian grand master, Rudolph Speilmann, to declare: "A chess player sheds tears the world does not see." PHYSICAL STAMINA A NECESSITY Secondly, says Euwe: "You must be in good physical condition. This is more important than one would think. If, for example, your position looks difficult or lost, you will lose Jane Parker Delicious Russet Baking fwJ irfl lLJl i' Spanish Bar Potatoes. 10,679 lane Parker OH! OH! Fudge, or Vanilla Fresh Sweet Cookies 279 Watermelons 14. N-N3 B-KB1 15.

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K-K2 R-R7ch 63. K-K1 R-R8ch 64. K-K2 R-R7ch 65. K-K1 Draw Jane Parker Thin or Ex. Thin Fresh Green On June 22 Bobby Fischer will play Boris Spassky for the Chess Championship of the World.

The total purse is $138,000, of which 2-3 will go to the winner. During the next few weeks I will print some of their games. In this game Boris Spassky plays the Black side of a Ruy Lopez. He appears to get into a difficult position, but on a time-pressure mistake by his opponent, Walter Browne, he draws. IItes3 courage you re out or condition." Euwe and other chess players of his rank stress the emotional and physical exhaustion of a tournament.

"At the end of a tournament there is a release, a collapse." He remarked with a smile: "I feel much better now since I don't play seriously any more." The need for conditioning explains Fischer's regular sessions on the tennis court or at the pool, swimming laps. Spassky is said to keep in shape by jogging. Finally, said Euwe: "There is the psychological preparation. I don't know how to prepare. I suppose the best thing is to train yourself not to believe your opponent.

By that I mean, if he makes a combination, don't think that it will work, think that it's not as strong as it looks, that you punch a hole in it." If everything goes right, Fischer and Spassky will get a chance to test their preparedness starting June 22 in Belgrade. According to agreement first 12 games will be played in the Yugoslav capital and the remainder in Reykjavik, Iceland. Spassky, as champion, needs only 12 points to retain his title, Fischer 12Vi to win. Games are scored on the basis of one point for a victory, a half-point for a draw. Fischer insists on the right kind of indirect lighting, with the crowds an unbothersome distance away, outside his peripheral vision.

Spassky doesn't like heat. So he can go from his air-conditioned hotel room in an air-conditioned car to the air-conditioned auditorium. But that's not the only thing that's cool: The prize money is $138,000, in cash. This is an inescapable tribute to Fischer and it shows that chess is not the cottage industry it was in 1963, when Petrosian beat Botvinnik for the title and the equivalent of Given the long Russian domination of the game, Fischer's challenge is extraordinary. Like everything else where the Rus- i sians sense that some advantage in power or prestige is at stake, they commit large resources to developing and maintain- I mg good chess players.

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