Manitowoc Herald-Times from Manitowoc, Wisconsin • 6

6 Herald-Times-Reporter, Two Rivers, Wis. June 16, 1976 Championship Chess Match Is Surrounded by Antics (Editor's Note: This is the third in a series of chess articles written by Rabbi Abba Leiter of Anshe. Poale Zedek Synagogue, Manitowoc. Rabbi Leiter, an avid chess player, wrote the series as a tribute to the chess team of Washington High School, Two Rivers, which recently won the national high school chess championship at Cleveland, Ohio.) The antics surrounding the championship match, were not the most glorious moments for Fischer or for chess as the attention of the world media was riveted on Rekovik, Iceland. In the summer of 1972 each game's results were announced as the world followed the confrontation between Fischer and Spassky, between East and West, between capitalism and communism, between Bobby, the individualist par excellence, and the Soviet chess machine, the Russian collective effort exemplified.

After first being down two games to Spassky (one by forfeit), Fischer stopped his shenanigans and started playing chess. He started pulling the surprise moves in the openings, both on offense and defense. He neutralized the Soviet surprise or came up with some nuance of of of of of of of of of which the collective efforts of of the Soviet chess machine did not even anticipate. He mowed down Spassky game after game with a few draws and a loss interspersed. Toward the end of the match Spassky recovered somewhat to play almost even chess with Fischer, as Fischer coasted in.

The final score was Fischer had done it. He had dismantled the Russian chess machine. He had singlehandedly inflicted an ideological disaster on the Communist Party. The Russian papers came out with articles saying that their players were becoming lazy, that they needed discipline, that they were getting too many privileges, that they were soft and that they had to return to the rigors of the Soviet work ethic to restore the glory of a quarter-century of world chess championship dominance (1948-1972) to the motherland. Spassky, the loser, and a very refined individual who extended his personal sympathy to the Czech team at a tourney held shortly after the Russian invasion of that country, took the brunt of the ideological assault.

(Spassky himself has never been a member of the Communist Party). The myth Russian supremacy was over. Conreigned among the Soviets. So much so that during the match the Russians at one point accused the Americans of using rays and chemical warfare activities to befuddle their champion Spassky. Even the play table and the players' chairs were dismantled.

The result of the Russian investigations were two dead flies found in the chandelier. A. Soviet courier flew them to Russia for analysis! Fisher, had, it looked to us at the time, driven the Russians "batty." (The Russian charges became more explicable in the light of the fact that we find now that the Russians themselves, have been engaged in aiming deadly cancer-causing rays at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow to jam our electronic equipment.) more concrete results of the match were that American chess was revitalized. Sales of chess sets, books, took off to unprecedented levels as chess activity reached its zenith in popularity.

The 1975 championship match would be even more significant for chess. So it was thought. Karpov, the new Soviet chess genius, won the mantle of challenger in the interzonal tourneys and matches. Manila was prepared up $5 million for the -world championship match between Fischer and Karpov. Fischer then told the FIDE, the international chess body, that certain playing conditions would have to be met.

If not, he would not compete. The Russians led the fight to see to it that their Communist bloc of nations, together with those friendly to them, or antagonistic to the U.S.A., voted down Fischer's suggestions. They knew Fischer would not compromise even if it cost him his title and three million dollars. Fischer did forfeit his title. Soviet chess got back by politics what it could not accomplish in over er the board play.

Just a few weeks ago, the new Karpov, indicated he would now demand almost the same conditions that had been proposed by Fischer and had not been granted to him by the FIDE. Fischer, the man whom a former Russian world champion referred to as "the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens," is not playing chess. Consequently, the world's chess players are deprived of his artistic creations. The Russians have, chess via politics, board. It now Soviet terriroty.

Bobby Fischer, chess's leading citizen, prefers exile and personal financial loss of millions, rather than compromise with those whose policies are contrary to the good of chess as a sport, as well as which deny individual reward in proportion to individual effort. Delegates Elected for Convention Delegates were elected to attend the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Aug. 15-20 at New York City. The election took place at a meeting of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Otto Oas Post 659, Auxiliary at the VFW Clubhouse, Manitowoc. Elected were: Jeanette Frank, national guard, who will be seeking the office of national conductress; Myrtle Brunner, past state president; Jackie Schmidt, past district president: Anita Larson and Shirley Wilda, past auxiliary presidents; and member Laurie Hoppe.

It was announced that the state convention will be conducted June 23-26 at Wausau. Coralee Schwalbe, incoming president, will present a flag during a patriotic ceremony July 5 at Family Heritage Home, Manitowoc. A flag will also be presented to St. Anne Michel Paque (Carleton Studio) I-43 Planner Receives Grant Michel Paque, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Clarence Paque of Manitowoc, has received a $10,000 grant from the federal government for study and research at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Paque received the grant for his work on laying out the present 1-43 route. After two years at the University of Wisconsin CenterManitowoc County, he received a bachelor of arts degree in regional analysis from UWGreen Bay. He received a master of science degree in urban affairs from UWMilwaukee. Following the use of the twoyear grant, Paque will be graduated with a Ph.

D. in transportation geography. Paque is 28 years old and has been employed by the Department of Transportation, Waukesha, working as a planner since 1970 for the State of Wisconsin. He is a member of The Association of Wisconsin Planners and the American Society of Planning Officials. He was recently accepted as a full participating member of the American Institute of Planners.

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