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The Morning Call from Allentown, Pennsylvania • 14

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The Morning Calli
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Allentown, Pennsylvania
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THE MORXING CALL, Allentown, July 13, 1972 Fischer Concedes First Game for Chess Title WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP Fischer stayed away for 30 minutes while his clock contin ued to devour time. FISCHER (Black) He returned to continue the struggle, making his 44th move, an ineffectual sidestep with his Asked about Slater's problem, Fischer snapped, "No comment." The play lasted only one hour and three minutes. It was the continuation of a game begun Tuesday and adjourned after 40 moves with Fischer in a position the experts said would give him only a draw at best. Spassky had his king, a bishop that con king. In ensuing play, all the pawns master and second-ranked player in the United States, said after the game, "It isn't necessarily all that significant.

Either of these players can come back and win." Under scoring rules, one point is awarded for a victory and a half point goes to each player for a draw. Asdefending champion, Spassky needs only 12 points in the 24 games to retain his title. Fischer must score 12Vi to seize it and put an end to a 24-year Russian monopoly. Fred Cramer, a U.S. Chess Federation official who sometimes speaks for Fischer, said the American would take some strenuous physical exercise Wednesday night to get in shape for his second game with Spassky on.Thunsday.

When Spassky left, a crowd shouted congratulations. The Russian came to the hall Wednesday expecting to win, his associates reported. He was unruffled throughout his faultless chess play. Robert Byrne, a U.S. grand- on the king's side were lost.

Fis cher shifted his king in a hope less struggle to the other side of REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) -With a hopeless postion on the chess board, Bobby Fischer walked out for 30 minutes Wednesday, then returned to lose the first game of the world chess championship to Boris Spassky, the Russian titleholder. After the game was over, Fischer told the man who taught him the moves of the game when he was a boy in Brooklyn, "It will settle down." It was a bad day all around for the 29-year-old American. In addition to conceding Spassky a 1-0 lead at the outset of the 24-game match, Fischer developed some more money trouble. News from London was that James Slater, who sweetened the pot with 50,000 pounds the board, where two of his pawns and two of Spassky's Initial Win By Russian Outlined REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP)-Here are the remaining moves of the adjourned first game of the world championship chess match between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer. Spassky white, Fischer black.

41. PxP.KxP 42. K-R5, K-B4 43. B-K3, K-K5 44. B-B2, K-B4 45.

B-R4, P-K4 46. B-Kt5, P-K5 47. B-K3, K-B3 Elapsed time: 129 minutes white, 155 minutes black. 48. K-Kt4, K-K4 49.

K-Kt5, K-Q4 50. K-B5, P-R4 51. B-B2, P-Kt4 52. KxP, K-B5 53. K-B5, K-Kt5 54.

KxP. KxP trolled the black diagonals and three pawns. Fischer was down to his king and five pawns, two II I MaJ Hmmmt ji? iJijiinnnimn 1 mm i 111 mi mil. 1 i immmm Mil tmmu pp- iiniintinK I i Jin miiiwf jgHft blocked each other's passage. Fischer couldn't unblock, because Spassky's bishop could protect his position from long range.

Finally, after Spassky's of them loose on the king's side. One of Spassky's pawns threatened a Fischer pawn when play concluded Tuesday night. In the first move Wednesday, Spassky captured the pawn. Fischer recaptured with his king and the game turned into an ef 56th move his king approached the jam on the queen's side Fischer resigned. Jim He reached over and stopped his clock.

He offered Spassky his hand, folded his scorecard and walked out pausing once to about $120,000 wouldn't be able to get his money out of England because of currency restrictions. Slater's donation, which pushed the total prize money to $300,000, enticed Fischer to end his holdout at the scheduled start of the match July 2. SPASSKY (White as wave to the audience, which was applauding the Russian. Fischer left the hall by the stage door whitefaced and hurried to a waiting car. From the car he spotted John Collins, a paraplegic sitting a few feet away in a wheel chair.

Collins 55. K-Q5, K-t4 56. K-Q6, Resigns Game's end saw Fisher (black) stymied. (AP) mm fort by Fischer to push his pawns a square at a time to the last rank under the escort of his king. Suddenly after five minutes of play and some indecisive sparring, Fischer stood, spoke animatedly to chief referee Lothar Schmid of West Germany and disappeared with his long rolling gait through the beige curtains offstage left.

Fischer strode to his backstage dressing room where he told Schmid, who followed him, that he wouldn't continue play unless a movie camera 150 feet from the chess board was ordered shut off. It was barely visible from where Fischer sat. Schmid said he couldn't order the camera removed. taught Fischer the game. 32 Pet of Blacks Live in Poverty Fischer rolled down the car window and said, "I'm sorry.

It will settle down." He left immediately for his air conditioned hotel suite. WASHINGTON (AP) year to 17.8 million or 10 per About one-third of the nation's are continuing to make substantial social and economic advances. is coming to Easton. Call 258-4372 cent of the white population. The percentage was unchanged.

23 million blacks lived below ine oinciai poverty level in Elephant seals on Guadalupe Island. Mexico, now number however, from recent years. 15,000: in 1892 only nine could be One-third of all U.S. school children ride school buses. ine number of white families living below the official poverty line was 3.8 million, comnarerf found.

But the figure was higher than the 7.2 million blacks who lived below the poverty level in 1969, although the percentage, 32, in that year was the same. The bureau said that about 1.5 million black families were below the poverty level last year, or about 29 per cent of all black families, no change from the year earlier. The figures showed that the number of whites living below the official poverty level actual with 3.7 million a year earlier. This represented about eieht 1971, marking little change from a year earlier, the Census Bureau reported Wednesday. In an annual report on the social and economic status of the black population, the bureau said 7.4 million or 32 per cent of blacks lived below the official poverty level of $4,137.

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