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8 THE MORNING CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 1992 d-i'obbies Movie rights acq i red for Fischer biography The 'too serious' hobbyist needs to work harder at having fun The Russians placed enormous importance on their chess prowess, and suddenly there was an American chess genius able to compete with them, on their own terms. His victory was a shock to their cultural nervous system." Hoffman praises Brady for his ability to capture the milieu in which Fischer developed. "The book describes skillfully," he ex-1 plains, "what it was like to play chess as Fischer grew up." Below is a win by ex-world champion Anatoly Karpov over the Russian grandmaster Yevgeny Bar-eyev from the 1991 Tilburg Inter-polis Tournament. Karpov became champion in 1975, when Fischer forfeited his title. But, wait! Deep down inside I know this is wrong.

It is tential. "Now is the time to tell Fischer's story," says Hoffman. "Twenty years is a long time for Fischer to be out of the public eye. He is one of the few important prodigies America has produced, an authentic genius, the Mozart of chess. "Seemingly brash and self-confident.

Fischer is a loner who struggled to achieve greatness against enormous odds. America loves the underdog. Although curiously, Fischer was even more of a hero to Russians than Americans. "In the '50s and '60s there was a crisis in American education. We had an inferiority complex vis-a-vis the Russians.

Remember Sputnik? By SHELBY LYMAN I've long been an admirer of Frank Brady's meticulous in-depth biography. "Bobby Fischer: Profile of a Prodigy." Brady, a long-time friend of Fischer, played a major role on the American chess scene as editor, writer, and organizer during Fischer's formative years. But despite his own involvement, he, manages a remarkably re-. strained and objective account of the Brooklyn chess genius. Recently, film rights to the book were acquired by Darnay Hoffman Films for $100,000.

Hoffman, a lawyer from a family with a back- ground in radio and theatre, has ftong been fascinated by the Fischer i phenomena and its TV and film po Beginner's corner Hint Explanation: Finish with the bishop. Solution at end of text. SOLVE-IT AFTER 17 RXC3? Karpov BAREYEV KARPOV 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3.

Nf3 b6 4. g3 Ba6 5. Qa4 Bb7 6. Bg2 c5 7. dxc5 Bxc5 8.

0-0 9. Nc3 Be7 10. Bf4 Na6 11. R(f)dl Nc5 12. Qc2 Qc8 13.

R(a)cl N(c)e4 14. h3 Rd8 15. g4 d6 16. Qd3 Nxc3 17. Rxc3? e5! 18.

g5 Nh5 19. Bel e4 20. Qd4 exf3 21. Bxf3 Bxf3 22. Rxf3 BfB 23.

b3 Re8 24. Rd2 Qc6 25. White resigns(a) si 1 i as By HARRY L. RINKER Collecting is serious business. Therein lies the problem.

Far too many collectors are far too serious. "Well, I am not one of them." Hah! Denial is a clear admission of guilt. The first step in combating the "too serious" affliction is to admit that you have the disease. "How do I know if I have it?" Good question. Most individuals learn about their sickness when a spouse or friends become so concerned that they can no longer remain silent.

This approach usually results in divorce or the loss of friendship. There is no need for this to happen. There is a better way. Take the "Am I too serious a collector?" test: If you answer "yes" to over half of the following questions, you have the "too serious" disease. Five or six "yes" answers is a mild case, seven or eight cause for serious alarm, and nine or 10 an indication that the disease is fatal.

1. Do I arrive at three out of five flea markets or antiques shows more than 30 minutes before the doors open? 2. Does the thought of competing for something at auction that I desperately want for my collection cause me to lose sleep or break into a cold sweat? 3. Is the fact that I do not own an example more important when buying a piece than the fact that it is priced twice what it should be? Or, do I follow the premise that if I want it, I buy it? 4. Do I mark my annual calendar with collector's club conventions, flea markets and show dates before the birthdays of my family and friends? 5.

Is it impossible for me to go somewhere without visiting another collector, flea market, library to do research, mall, museum, shop, or show? 6. Do I know, love and feel more possessive about my collection than do abqut my family andor 7. Is my collection so large it fills more than one room at my home or office? 8. Do I buy duplicate material to keep it out of the hands of rivals? 9. Do I have more than two bank loans for things that I bought, borrowed money that I have yet to pay back from three or more fellow collectors, or have lay-aways at three or more dealers? 10.

Is the underwear that I am wearing more than three years old? Alternative question: Have I spent five times more on my collection during the past year than I did on clothing? How did you do? I scored nine out of 10. Chances are that you also passed with flying colors. Do not worry. You are in the majority if you suffer from the "too serious" disease. The key question is, now that you know you are sick, what are you going to do about it? Many individuals whose understanding of collectors leaves much to be desired have advocated the formation of Collectors Anonymous, a group organized on the same principles as Alcoholics Anonymous or Gamblers Anonymous.

Now, I will be the first person to admit that collectibles are addictive and that fiscal responsibility is frequently overlooked by the collector who wants. Envision this. There I am in an antiques mall or show having found the object of my fondest dreams. It is priced three times higher than I can afford, yet I cannot live without it. God meant me to own it, otherwise he would not have tempted me.

It whispers gently to me, "Buy me, buy me Oh, p-l-e-a-s-e buy me." way overpriced. I have waited this long; I can wait a little longer until I find one I can afford. 1 have run out of institutions and friends from which to borrow. I rush to the phone and call the Collectors Anonymous crisis line. On the other end is a sympathetic individual who calms me down, eventually talking me out of purchasing the treasure.

This scenario is simply too horrible to contemplate. I hate myself for even creating it. I do not want to quit collecting. I want to be collecting at the moment that I die. Who said you cannot take it with you? I plan to.

The cure to the "too serious" disease is twofold. First, one needs to restore joy to collecting. Second, create a second collection whose sole reason for being is that it is dumb and totally fun to collect. In the 1940s and early 1950s collecting was considered a hobby. It was a pleasurable spare time activity.

Collectors actually enjoyed what they were doing. This changed in the 1970s and 1980s. By 1990 collecting was serious business. Look at the money involved. What other choice do you have but to treat it seriously? Defusing the seriousness of collecting is not all that difficult.

Make a pledge to conduct your life from this point forward according to the following 12 steps: 1. Find something to laugh about in respect to your collection at least once a week. 2. Spend two nights a month with family or friends doing something totally unrelated to collect- ing. Sitting in front of the television or going to the movies does not count.

Conversation has to be in- volved. i 3. Once a year take a four-day weekend that is not business or collection-oriented. Go cold turkey. You can do it.

4. Read the articles in the trade literature to which you subscribe. It goes without saying that you already read the advertisements. 5. Spend twice the time cataloging and playing with your collection than you do acquiring it.

If the real reason that you love the field is the hunt, pick for somebody else. 6. Walk away from pieces that you know are priced more than 25 percent above market. 7. When telling war stories about your collectingi include one where you did something incredibly dumb.

Show you are human. 8. Weed out something from your collection oncej' a month. Sell it, trade it, or give it away. It does not matter.

The key is that you let go. 9. Stop hoarding your knowledge. Share it write an article for a trade paper or photocopy some of your research and send it to a rival. Do this without expecting anything in return.

10. Buy something once a month totally unrelated to your collection, home, car, or yourself. It does not have to be a major purchase. How about flowers for your spouse or a friend? (Even men like to receive flowers, although most females'never learn this.) 11. Four times a day (when you get up, at lunch, at dinner, and before bed) repeat five times: "I will not worship my collection." 12.

Collect something that is fun, something about which any attempt to become serious will make you look foolish. After all, why do you think I collect coconut heads? Harry L. Rinker is a free lance writer for The Morning Call a be WHITE MATES IN 2 (a) White is a piece behind with negligible compensation. Solution to beginner's corner: 1 Qffich Kg6 (or Kh7) 2 Bf5 mate. a Bareyev BLACK TO PLAY (See tet game score) Whit movas (Solutron below) By PHILLIP ALDER Two-edged sword costs Kaos I Today's hand concluded the I fifth rubber between Control and Kaos, the two TV-sitcom spy or- ganizations.

i Over Simon the Likable's Un- usual Two-No-Trump bid, showing at least 5-5 in the minors, Maxwell Smart bid an aggressive four i no-trump. I "Alert!" said the Chief. "Ja?" asked Siegfried. "It's RKCB, Roman Kaos Card i Blackwood," answered the Chief. "But zat's our secret conven- tion," cried Siegfried, i "Yes, but we intercepted and de- coded your description of it, Sieg- fried," said Max proudly.

i Five clubs showed three key i cards (three aces, or two aces and the spade king), five diamonds NORTH J532 VAQJ9 KS ASS WEST EAST 8 4976 4 VK1087653 QJ10 764 495 KQ1092 SOUTH AKQ10 4 V2 A8 2 8743 Vulnerable: Both Dealer: South South West North East 1 2 NT 4 NT Pass 5 Pass 5 Pass 6 Pass Pass Pass Opening lead: denied a side-suit king. Simon led the club king. Remembering the bidding, the Chief knew that East held at most one club. Declarer won trick one with dummy's club ace, cashed the diamond king, played a diamond to the ace and ruffed the diamond ight with dummy's spade jack. Next he drew trumps.

Then he led a heart and, when West played low, finessed the queen. The Chief tabled his cards. "You have only hearts left, Siegfried. You must win this trick and return a heart, giving me three discards for my club losers. Or duck this trick and I'll lead the heart nine and discard a club." "Ja, Chief.

Veil played. Zat Unusual No-Trumph is often trouble, helping declarer to find zee vin-ningplay." "Brilliant, Chief. You have put us a total of 26 points ahead." For once, Simon didn't smile. asked about the trump queen, and six spades showed the queen but KITCHEN Continued From Page H1 '90s catalogs don't just cultivate down-to-earth dreams Shredded or Fancy Shredded Natural Cheese. Each entry must include the gold and black Sargento of Wisconsin logo from any package of the Sargento cheeses.

To receive a complete set of rules, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to: Rules, Sargento "Cheese Makes The Recipe" Contest, 221 N. La-Salle Suite 3900, Dept. NEW, Chicago, IL 60601. have introduced the first counter-top knife block, has developed several new knife storage systems. They include an oak unit that mounts under kitchen wall cabinets to keep knives accessible but out of the reach of small children; as well as several units providing in-drawer storage of knives.

Designed to fit in most standard-size kitchen drawers, the nine-slot in-drawer knife storage unit has a cover that doubles as a cutting board. ter resistant) and seven-pocket gardener's pants (in khaki, blue or spruce) with pockets at the knees for removable neoprene pads. And Wait. What's wrong with your old stained jeans and frayed T-shirt? The plastic watering can from the five and dime? The $7 gloves from Agway? Fashion, that's what, growing greener than a sugar snap pea. The new catalogs are not just talking fashionable perennials and old roses and heirloom seeds.

They're talking "the look." The look says you are a '90s person with an eye to what is durable and functional and comfortable. The look says you are an active, hands-on kind of person who loves the earth and the rain forest and the poor laborers who make your beautiful cotton clothes. L.L. Bean sells Earthworks T-shirts of "untreated, unbleached pure 100 percent cotton," which are "as natural as a fabric can be." You can get one with either a bluebell or a hyacinth on the pocket, with short sleeves ($19) or long sleeves This fall. Smith Hawken will offer a line of cotton clothing that is unpolluted by pesticides or processing chemicals.

'The cotton is organically grown in Texas, and we're working with people in Oaxaca, Mexico to fix natural dyes to clothing using iron oxide instead of heavy metals," said Paul Hawken, who founded Smith Hawken with David Smith 12 years ago. Since then, the company in Mill Valley, has grown from a business to a $60-mil-lion-a-year business; this year it will send out 20 million or so copies of 19 different catalogs. And what ecc-gardener can do without Smith Hawken's storm-green farmer's style canvas jacket with buttons made from tagua nuts? The tagua palm grows in the Ecuadorean rain forest. And as the company's new spring clothing catalog says. "The harvesting of tagua nuts by indigenous tribespeople contributes to Ecuador's social and ecological development." By ANNE RAVER Of The New York Times It's January and you're in your garden, picking the most fragrant sweet pea from Thompson Morgan, digging up the oldest, bluest potato from Seeds Blum, squeezing the sweetest French Charentais melon from Shepherd's Garden Seeds.

You're dreaming; the catalogs are here. Your sturdy solid-forged Bulldog fork and spade are in the tool-shed, which looks just like the one on page 12 in Smith Hawken, where an old French door stands ajar and a white bougainvillea climbs up the wall and the light is beautiful and soft. "We believe that good tools are the most satisfying to use and the least expensive to own," the Smith Hawken catalog says, and you believe it, too. So you must have a pair of $34 elbow-high goatskin gloves and a $58 pair of genuine British Wellington boots. And a $72 gardener's watch (wa Wonderful.

But who's going to wear the $89 tagua-nut farmer's jacket slopping the hogs? "Gardening attire around here is ratty jeans and old shirts," said Paul Conrad of Gardener's Supply Co. in Burlington, Vt. "I think if anyone showed up decked out a la Smith Hawken, they'd get razzed unmercifully." However, Will Raap, the company's president, is fond of Green-knees pants, a double-kneed type with a elastic waistband made by Denman of Brea, Calif. use the Greenknees when I'm out working in the yard," Raap said. "And one day I was out chainsawing when the whiplash tore a hole right through the knee-guard." But not through his knee.

Gardener's Supply sold them for a while, but they weren't hot in Vermont. "Our customers don't get terribly excited about paying a lot of money for garden fashion because it tends to be their old clothes," Raap said. Let's face it: Real gardeners just aren't that fashionable. There's a chance for amateur chefs to turn their beef recipes into cash. The 1992 National Beef Cook-Off offers $15,000 to the grand prize winner as well as $20,500 in other cash prizes and top-of-the line Tap-pan and Kingsford appliances.

Entries for the Cook-Off, which are divided into the three main categories of Indoor, Outdoor Barbecue and Microwave, must be postmarked by March 1. Participants will also have a chance at three special $1,000 prize categories including: "The Best Beef Recipe That Utilizes Any Cut From The Chuck" (excluding ground chuck); "The Best Recipe Under 300 Calories Per Serving," and "The Most Convenient Beef Recipe." Each state will have one representative in the Indoor category, while persons competing in the Outdoor or Microwave divisions will be chosen on a regional basis. In total, 64 contestants will be selected to compete at the Cook-Off Sept 17-19 in Sacramento, Calif. Cooking enthusiasts can send for copies of the 1991 winning recipes and an entry form for the 1992 contest by sending a self-addressed, business-sized, stamped envelope to: National Beef Cook-Off Brochures, 444 N. Michigan Chicago, IL 60611-9909 or by calling W.E.B.

Du Bois added to Black Heritage series The search is on for good strawberry recipes. Coordinators for the 1992 California Strawberry Festif val's Berry-Off Competition in Qx-nard (billed as "The Strawberry Capital of are seeking the "berry best" original strawberry recipes. Entrants are invited to submit their recipes using fresh, frozen or preserved strawberries in the following categories: hors d'oeuvres; soups; salads; main dishes and vegetables; breads, pancakes and crepes; pies; cakes, cookies and other desserts, and "other," such as condiments, sauces, butters, vinegars and wines. Entries must be received by March 2. Preliminary judging will be completed by March 16 and three finalists from each category will be invited to prepare their dishes at the Berry-Off Challenge in Oxnard on April 4.

Judges will evaluate the dishes on the interesting use of strawberries, originality, practicality for home cooks, appetite appeal, appearance and suitability of the dish in relation to a menu. Students in Oxnard Col- lege's Hotel and Restaurant Management Program will create the dishes submitted by finalists unable to attend the April 4 judging. All finalists will receive aprons and winners in each category will be awarded commemorative gifts and aprons. The contestant who prepares the overall "most out- standing strawberry dish" will win the grand prize of a trip to the 9th annual California Strawberry Festival in Oxnard on May 16 and 17. (Oxnard is 60 miles north of Los Angeles and 30 miles south of Santa Barbara).

To enter the contest, submit entry on an S'i-by-ll-inch sheet of paper. Include your name, address, phone number, category entered and a titled recipe with a list of Ingredients and exact measurements in level cups, teaspoons, tablespoons, etc. Contestants may enter as many recipes as desired but each one must be submitted separately. Send them to Berry -Off '92. Berry Bin 95, 3600 South Harbor Oxnard.

Calif. 93035. the stamp along with 17 others honoring Black Americans in a hardcover 68-page book titled "I Have a Dream A Collection of Black Americans on Postage Stamps." The book, which includes a forward by "Roots" author Alex Haley, will sell for $17.95. It will be available at many post offices after Feb. 1.

pressed hope that most Americans would realize that the Postal Service was honoring Du Bois for his creation of the intellectual framework for what was to become the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Not unexpectedly, the Postal Service's formal announcement of the stamp avoided the more controversial aspect of Du Bois's life and concentrated on his years as an author, educator and civil rights activist. He founded the Niagara Movement, the forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and in 1919 he organized the first Pan-African conference, which voiced opposition to the colonial rule of Africa by Europeans. For 22 years he served as editor of the NAACP's publication, Crisis. In 1961, two years before his death at age 95, Du Bois registered as a member of the American Communist Party, an event that his critics still remember.

He was ac-. cused and acquitted of failing to register as a foreign agent in a celebrated case that grew out of bis leftist sympathies. The 29-cent commemorative, the 15th stamp in the Postal Service's Black Heritage series, will go on sale Jan. 31 at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta where Du Bois spent 25 years as a professor. The stamp features two views of Du Bois, a head-and-shoulders portrait and a smaller view of him at a manual typewriter.

The portraits are framed by a thin border, a typographical device rarely seen on recent stamps. The stamps were printed in sheets of 50 stamps by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing using offset and intaglio printing. The release is timed to make the stamp, designed by Higgins Bond of Teaneck, N. available throughout the country during February, Black History Month. Postal officials plan to promote By BILL MCALLISTER Of The Washington Post WASHINGTON There was a time, not that long ago, when the mere suggestion that someone who belonged to the Communist Party might appear on a U.S.

postage stamp would have stirred a furor on Capitol HilL Committees would be holding hearings and demands would echo on the House and Senate floors for the postmaster general's resignation. Postmaster General Anthony M. Frank is resigning to return to private industry, but not as a result of Red-baiting. Last month when he announced the Postal Service was honoring W.E.B. Du Bois, the black intellectual who joined the American Communist Party late in his life, there was hardly a ripple of dissent "We recognize there there is some opportunity for controversy," Frank acknowledged as he announced the stamp.

But he ex The first stamped envelope to carry a hologram was such a hit that the Postal Service is bringing back the space station design in the form of a 29-cent envelope. The envelope, to be released Tuesday in Virginia Beach. is essentially the same as the 25-cent envelope that was released Dec. 3. 1989.

during World Stamp Expo '89 in Washington. This time, however, the accompanying denomination is printed in green not blue and the price is four cents higher. 34 cents. Consumers entering the 1992 Sargento "Cheese Makes the Recipe" contest can win as much as $5,000 for their recipe creations. Entries will be accepted until March 16.

The company is looking for creative new cheese recipes or family favorites in three categories: appetizers and snacks, side dishes and main dishes. Each recipe must use a minimum of IV cups (six ounces) of Sargento of Wisconsin.