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Tampa Bay Times from St. Petersburg, Florida • 7

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Tampa Bay Timesi
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St. Petersburg, Florida
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7
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4-A Sr. Petersburg Times, Tuesday, July 192 .1 king lost. He left the game on foot, unarmed and unloved. Talk about concentration. Today, Fleher feels the glare of the elaborate chess tale in Reykjavik may be too bright.

It may distract him. Fischer could take a lesson from King Valdemar, in the year, 1157. The king concentrated so hard on his chess game that when Canute gave him a big kiss, he didn't even look up from the board. It took a troop of enemy soldiers rushing into the room to get his attention. king leaped up to fight.

He fell with a wounded thigh. But bis men covered him with their bodies for protection. They were chopped to bits, and the king escaped. The game was never finished, i NEW YORK The In suited egos and white-knuckled tensions before the Fischer-Spassky chess match may seem to be a blazing bnt-tie, but pale beside the tales of blood-thirsty games in medieval Iceland. Chess boards In the 12th and 13th centuries were 'often the center of treachery, revenge, lng to sagas of the time.

Games were often interrupted because somebody was getting hacked to pieces. When a certain King Louis lest a chess game to Rogn-vald, he stood up In a fury, shoved his chessmon Into a bag and smashed his opponent In the face with it, leaving him a bloody mess. Rocnvald rode off In a panic. But his brother stayed to split the king's skull open. These stories are sagas from WDlard Flske's Chess in Iceland and in Icelandic Literature," published in 1905.

It is said that American chess champion Bobby Fischer has gotten the highest stakes in history of chess for his series beginning today in sky, the world champion. Even though thousands of dollars of prize money are on the line, today's championship prize Is chicken feed Rognvald played King Louis forhishead. A woman was the prize In one knightly saga. A king put up his horse, falcon and sword for a maiden and engaged in Old Iceland's Chess Got a game, winner take ail, me Intrigue and murder, accora Reykjavik with Boris spas- WEBB'S CITY MID-SUMMER CLEARANCE SALE! body ill I Mil I II I I -t m. wm TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY MONEY SAVING SPECTACULARS UNLESS SPECIFIED TUESDAY ONLY QUANTITY RIGHTS RESERVED OPEN WEEKDAYS 9 TIL 9-SUNDAYS 12 TIL 6 rr i WEBB'S CITY MEN'S STORE, MainFloor MEN'S IVVI i ii i iat mm nmm i (awn gdiu wwy mmum WEBB'S CITY FASHION, 2nd Floor BEADED SHOULDER BAGS Pastels and Darker Multi-Colored WEBB'S CITY MEN'S STORE, Main Floor MEN'S WIDE WIDTH BELTS I JUMP SUITS 65 Polyester, 35 Cotton Permanent Press, Full Zipper Front end 6 Pockets.

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