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Springfield Leader and Press from Springfield, Missouri • 5

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lived there too until her marriage last month. Their parents separ afftrBtietr'JoBff-forrfhfsritT and the two puzzled out the directions. Mrs. Fischer doesn't know Why hould yw talk? Except when you offer draw. But you can say anything They know what you Chess players speak lots of languages.

''Fun? No, a tournament'! no 9 muya ong a in Hears Gangly Boy, 15, U.S. Hope To Beat Russian Chess Chain i a thing about chess. SurKlayTi3ewsXcaJcr' AIT Springfield, October M'A away from it. He used to get awfully upset. "You know, people say it's ihe publicity that attracts 'him chess.

Well, there wasn't any glory for years. It was all dl couragement." fun, but they're all right," an a i move -mh fcediMe chess board or going somewhere to play chess. Girls are nothing to him. "Girls can't play chess," he says. "Bobby isn't interested in anybody unless they play chess and there just aren't many kids who like it," Mrs.

Fischer. To make friends with Bobby, you not only have to play chess you have to play good chess. Maurice Kasper, president of the Manhattan Chess Club, commented: "We have about 100 students in the club that Bobby could ascM-iate-withr But be ts-strmuth luperfot, you see. He just play? with the stronger players. "Yes, Bobby definitely does think well of himself.

But he is a phenomenon that happens once in a hundred years in a thousand. "He is also a young boy. He (s not accustomed to such publicity and he can't handle it yet. But you must give him a litUe time. He is a good boy." Bobby lives with his mother In a small fourth-floor walkup apartment in a neat section of Brook- Does he think be can win the Challengers' and get a at the "I spent four years trying to get him away from it, but I've given up now," she says.

"He was only 8 when he first went to the Brooklyn Chess Club. He was pretty sensitive and they used to tease him about thinking he could play with grownups. He played nbout four years before he won at all. ated when Bobby was 2. Mrs.

Fischer, a University of Colorado graduate, is a registered nurse now earning her MA degree Bobby, she, says, is no disciplinary problem. "There's! nothing to discipline him about." Mrs. Fischer explains. "The only thing I do is nag him to take his nose out of his chess books and go outside for some fresh air." Bobby started In the game at championship? He shrugged and T-shirt; no one remembers seeing him in a coat and tie. The Russians kept winning the big ones in chess, he said, because "everybody there plays.

They're subsidized. "No. you don't talk at cness twisted his lip. "I don't know. Bobby has few friends his own age.

He comes home from school about 2 o'clock and picks up a chess book. Every spare minute, Asphalt paint is a good dress- llltt fnr fho nrnninrf umunrtn i "I tried to stop him. The school treegi but cresote pata wll, harm people said I should try to get him i the living tissues of trees. he is either reading about chess. An A I UP NEW.

YORK (AP)-Tliere-g a Batman comic book on his bed-tide table and a rock roll program blaring over his radio. He's klouchy, gangly and crew-cut. But Batman is sprawled over an open etiess book and his nail-bitten fingerg. are deftly moving chess pieces over the black and white board which means more to him than anything else In his life. Bobby Fischer doesn't want to be a baseball star or a football player or the most popular fellow at the prom.

He wants to be chess champion of the world and It seems a pretty sure bet he will be. Most. Americans don't know it, but their honor in a big international contest with Russia is riding on the thin shoulders of this 15-year-old boy from Brooklyn, Bobby is hailed by the experts as the greatest chess mind the world, has produced in many years. doesn't look like one he looks more like a farmer's boy than an intellectual but he is a genius," says Hans Kmoch, secretary of the Manhattan Chess Club, which is the nerve center of chess in the United States. "Fischer- is something unique.

None of the great ones ever ac complished so much so early." He mas become an international grand master the youngest in the long history of the game and will meet the world's top seven players this year in a challenger's tournament. The exact date and place remain to be determined. The winner will get a crack at the present world champion, Russia's Mikhail Botvinnik. So far, this hasn't meant much to most Americans, who look on chess as an intricate pastime for contemplative graybeards. But now, even people uninterested in rhesK are becinnine to feel it 4 rim mm EBuy Linens Mow t.

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