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7TT -r-V 'v- 'vf' 7J" r)'- 'rs-''''' 'hZ j- S-y-g'Sr ''V'Jrtf 1 B2 THE DESERT SUN July 12 1972 Fischer Has 1st Move Thursday Chess: Move By Move Finally after eight minutes during which time Spassky get up impatiently and walked around Fischer appeared He shook hands with Spassky and then sat down in his special swivel chair which he had flown in from New York for these championships Fischer studied the board two minutes then made his first move knight to King bishop three In his own mind Fischer feels he's one little guy taking on the whole Russian government He doesn't feel this way because of any politics the usual politics between countries that is but because of chess politics Regardless he always played to win serious game played by man It's such a serious game and requires so much concentration relatively few men play it Less than per cent in the United States even know the rules but an astonishingly large percentage has begun following the game the past few weeks Only because of Bobby Fischer Here's a pale studious almost timid-looking 29-year-old one-time Boy Wonder who makes guys like Joe Namath and Dick Allen look like a couple of amateurs when it comes to doing his own thing his own way and in his own good time The opening match in Reykjavik Tuesday was a per feet example Word had filtered down that Fischer was go go" for that first match with Boris Spassky Russia's world champion All the embroidery had been taken care of The drapes the TV cameras the lights the chess board all the things Fischer had kicked about Spassky was all set Everyone in the Reykjavik Chess Hall was holding his breath as the Russian playing the white pieces made the first move opening with the Queen pawn The world championship officially was on But something was missing Fischer He wasn't there What was the rush? He had an hour before he had to make the first move Fischer didn't set out to keep Spassky waiting He do it purposely The official clock was ticking but he didn't care Bobby Fischer ALWAYS is late He has been late for more important things than a chess match Even a world championship one And bet on it he'll be late again That's the way he is By MILTON RICHMAN UPI parts Writer NEW YORK (UPI) "Do you play chess?" said Wes Parker first baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers and owner of one of baseball's more active minds I'm interested in the mean the world championship going on in Iceland now?" I'm following of this guy the main reason I do you feel about him do you like him or not?" Wes Parker mulled it over awhile like him because he has said Parker using a word which is perfectly okay in a baseball clubhouse but not in a family newspaper a word meaning not only brass but much more and one which describes Bobby Fischer the pensive seemingly stranje chess genius from Brooklyn perhaps better than any other word you can think of Chess dates back to antiquity and has been called the most REYKJAVIK Iceland (UPI) progression of moves in the first game of the world chess championship match between Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union and challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States: Spassky (white) Fischer1 (black) VTIR I P-Q4 KT-KB3 P-QB4 P-M 3 KT-KB3 P-Q4 4 KT-QB3 KB-QKTS 5 P-K3 6 B-Q3 P-QM 7 pP KT-QB3 8 P-QR3 B-QR4 9 KT-K2 OxO (QB5) 10 BxP (QB4) B-QKT3 II PxP (QB5) QxQ 12 RxQ BxP (QB4) 13 P-QKT4 B-K2 14 B-KT2 B-Q2 15 QR-QB1 KR-Q1 16 KT(K2)-Q4 KTxKT 17 KTxKT B-R5 18 B-QKT3 B(R5)xB 19 KTxB(QKTS) RxR (ch) 28 RxR R-QB1 21 K-Bl K-Bl 22 K-K2 KT-K5 23R-QB1 RXR 24BXR P-KB3 1 25 KT-R5 KT-Q3 26 K-Q3 B-Ql 27 KT-B4 B-B2 28 Khtxkt BXKT 29 P-KT5 BXP (KR7) 38 P-KT3 P-KR4 31 K-K2 P-KR5 32 K-B3 K2 31 K-KT2 PxP 34 PxP BxP 35 KxB K-Q3 36 P-QR4 K-Q4 37 B-R3 K-K5- 38 B-B5 P-R3 39 P-QKT6 P-B4 40 K-R4 P-B5 vmjmsmmMSiammemmmmmsemssmssmi Gene Lube Major League Standings National League American League Angels Bombed By Yanks ANAHEIM (UPI) After Nolan Ryan and Clyde Wright the California Angels are in trouble The New York Yankees are the latest club to bring the biggest flaw to the surface and from all indications not the last The Yankees the vaunted bombers of the past but that didn't matter against the Angels' No 3 starting pitcher Tuesday night They needed just 2 1-3 innings to knock out lefthander Rudy May scoring six times in the third en route to a 7-3 victory (May) fool anybody" said Angel manager Del Rice was behind on every hitter When he got behind he had to come in with it" Rice got complete game victories from Ryan (11-5) Sunday and Wright (94) Monday night May now is 2-7 The Angels go with the fourth member of the rotation relieve-retumed-starter Lloyd Allen 2-5 against an old nemesis Mel Stottlemyre 8-10 of the Yankees A key to the second half of the California season obviously is Andy Messersmith a 20-game winner last season who has been sidelined since May He underwent a tendon operation on the middle finger of his right hand chomping at the bit but 1 can't jeopardize his future by bringing him back too Rice declared began today Victory in four-day event would help Nicklaus rated 9-4 towards grand slam (UPI Telephoto) PRACTICE ROUND Jack Nicklaus makes powerful drive from 4th tee during practice round yesterday for the 101st British Open Golf Championship which Bookies Rate Nicklaus 9-4 to Win British Open Dodgers Blow It To Phillies PHILADELPHIA (UPI) -The Los Angeles Dodgers trail the Cincinnati Reds by six games in the National League and one big reason is their inability to handle the Philadelphia Phillies The Phillies evened their season series with Los Angeles 4-4 Tuesday night when they scored a 4-1 win over the Dodgers Cincinnati on the other hand has beaten the Phillies six times this season A combination of a pitcher who makes a career out of beating the Dodgers Steve Carlton and the clutch hitting of Don Money proved too much for the Dodgers Money got only one hit in the game but that was a bases-loaded double in the second inning to drive in three runs and Denny Doyle singled Money home for all the Phillies runs Don Sutton hurled a four-hitter in the six innings he winked but all it got him was his fifth loss against 10 wins But three of the hits off Sutton were in the second inning lm Mpfei Adjourned (Symbols: In British-Ameri-can usage each move in a chess game is recorded using letters for each chess piece and numbers for each square on the board The squares are numbered along the columns (or files) and named for the piece initially sitting at the first square of the file For example the third square in hunt of the rook on the side of the king is numbered: KR3 or rook 3 (The letter and their corresponding pieces are: King Queen Bishop Knight Rook pawn (An between letters indicates the first piece captured the second 0-0 indicates castling indicates or that the king is threatened with capture) A golfer who drives a ball 300 yards on earth could propel it more than a mile on the moon On the eve of the tournament and after seven practice rounds over the 6892-yard par 71 course Nicklaus once again insisted: I win here then only will it be realistic to talk about me completing the slam in the final the at Nicklaus said he would not be surprised if it took a total of more than 282 to win the title the score he shot when he won here in 1966 Defending champion Lee Trevino said go along with Nicklaus being tagged the favorite "But remember this fellas I did not come here to finish second I think I can win and I'm sure that is true of the MUIRFIELD Scotland (UPI) second half of Britain's mid-summer sporting spectacular opened today with Jack Nicklaus the bookies' choice to win the 101st British Open golf championship The bookies were right when they tabbed Stan Smith to win the Wimbledon tennis title and it would take a brave man to bet against their being right again when the Open finishes Saturday Nicklaus who already has the Masters and US Open titles under wraps has offered no comment about being installed the 9-4 favorite but he insists premature to talk in terms of the Grand Slam of golf other 15 Americans here" Both Nicklaus and Trevino agree that a lot of iron shots will have to be played from the tee especially if there is no change in the wind to counteract the fast course' The first of 77 pairs tees off at 7:30 am with the last pair due out at 4:58 pm Former champion Arnold Palmer who has done little since his back to back victories in 1960-61 was the first of the fancied transatlantic invaders to go out in the 20th pair with the Briton Tommy Horton Three pairs later Trevino marched out with British Ryder Cupper Niel Coles Sports Editoi East pet gb Detroit 42 34 553 Baltimore 41 35 539 1 Boston 36 36 500 4 New York 36 37 493 44 Cleveland 32 43 427 94 Milwaukee 30 44 405 11 West 1 pet gb Oakland 48 29 623 Chicago 44 34 564 44 Minnesota 38 37 507 9 Kansas City 39 38 506 9 California 36 43 456 13 Texas 33 45 423 154 Results Detroit 6 Texas 5 Chicago 4 Cleveland 3 Balt 2 Kan City 1 10 inns Milw 5 Minnesota 4 Boston 4 Oakland O' New York 7 California 3 Probable Pitchers (AU Times EDT) Boston (Curtis 3-2) at Oakland (Hamilton 5-3) 8:30 pm New York (Stottlemyre 8-10) at California (Allen 2-5) 11 pm Milwaukee (Brett 5-8) at Minnesota (Blyleven 8-10) 8:30 pm Texas (Gogolewski 3-7) at Detroit (Slayback 1-3) 9 pm Chicago (Wood 12-9) at Cleveland (Kilkenny 2-1) 7:30 pm Kansas City (Nelson 3-3) at Baltimore (Dobson 10-8) 7:30 pm Games Boston at Minn night Cleveland at Texas night Kan City at Detroit night (Only games scheduled) more quiet than is normal at top chess games The Icelanders rejected Fischer's demand and told him it is up to the official referee Lothar Schmid of West Germany to run the game from now on seconds including international grand masters Efrim Geller and Nikolai Krogius sent their world champion to sleep and then spent the night and the morning hours analyzing the position to find a winning combination for Spassky Many experts feel they will suceed even if Geller himself modestly suggested: believe we wUl have a In this first of 24 games Spassky played the way everybody thought he would conservatively That figured because if this whole business winds up even say 12-12 Spassky goes back home to Russia the same way he came to world champion Fischer has the first move in Thursday's second game though Watch him go play a completely different game You can bet on that too Wes Parker doesn't have to be a chess expert lie's still got Hobby Fischer lagged perfectly HIT-ly Mm hn lP-Cutea T-! ll A-UM East I pet gb Pittsburgh 48 28 632 New York 44 33 571 44 Chicago 42 37 532 74 St Louis 40 36 526 8 Montreal 34 43 442 144 Philadelphi Philadelphia 28 51 354 214 West 1 pet gb Cincinnati 40 31 597 Houston 40 34 575 14 Los Angeles 41 38 519 6 Atlanta 37 42 468 10 San Francisco 36 48 429 134 San Diego 29 50 367 18 Tuesday's Results Houston 6 Chicago 5 1st Chicago 9 Houston 5 2nd Mont 6 San Diego 5 12 inns San Francisco 6 New York 1 Phila 4 Los Angeles 1 Cinci 5 Pittsburgh 0 Atla 5 St Louis 4 15 inns Probable Pitchers (AU Times EDT) San Francisco (McDowell 8-6) at New York (Matlack 8-5) 2 pm Houston (Roberts 7-4) at Chicago (Reuschel 3-1) 2:30 pm Pittsburgh (Walker 3-4) at Cincinnati (Simpson 4-3) 8 pm Los Angeles (John 7-4) at Philadelphia (Nash 1-5) 7:30 pm Atlanta (Schueler 3-3) at St Louis (Gibson 8-5) 9 pm San Diego (Caldwell 3-4) at Montreal (Stoneman 8-5) 8 pm Thursday's Games Houston at Chicago Atlanta at St Louis night Pittsburgh at Cinci night (Only games scheduled) will never know until Fischer tells if he said another international grandmaster Fischer obviously was displeased with his game After the adjournment he angrily demanded a meeting with the Icelandic organizers to complain against what he described as the noisy audience Some 3000 Icelanders and foreign chess enthusiasts had packed into the Lagardur Hall for the opening thriller But most knowledgable observers said they felt the audience was Chess Board nun PUSH AT ADJOURNMENT -Spassky has next move in Fischtr-Spassky match Spassky Traps Fisher racing for business? how do you get to the WIRE? T-! Sk A-HSI1 FALLING IN LOVE WITH 0 ONLY (01 DOWN HOW LOW CAN YOU GET? IMMEDIATE DELIVERY AGRUDER REYKJAVIK Iceland (UPI) Caught in a hopelessly drawn game temperamental American challenger Bobby Fischer took a chance to bring some life into his first world chess championship game In that moment soft-spoken and mild-mannered Boris Spassky proved why he is the world champion in the noblest of games He immediately pounced on left trapped after capturing one of the Russian's and the game turned distinctly in Spassky's favor Spassky asked for adjournment after 40 moves and 44 hours play When the two resume the game the first in their 250000 24-game world match Spassky has a bishop and three pawns against Fischer's five pawns Play resumes at 5 pm (1 pm EDT) Most experts assembled here seemed to agree that Spassky has a chance to win while Fischer should be happy if he salvages a draw But nobody has come up with an explanation why the American chess genius went straight into what appeared to be a Russian trap took a chance to win a chance" said Danish grandmaster Jens Kneveoldscn SHir Srnrt For a real thoroughbred performance the fastest track to the win wire is a wall planned display advertising campaign You've got a sura bat going for mora customers greater turn-over and extra payoffs at the cash register Creative art and advertising helps are available at no cost PALM SPRINGS 325-5005 PALM DESERT 346-1900 i.