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tO-E THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Sunday. October 12. 1958 Year-OM Clhess Onampiomi SSMS5WS EfeGffl 835 1 mSmMBifm: 4 111111 i-" I I I r-sTTsjsjssajaMaaBBaaaBB 2 FOR 1 SALS 209 Strong, Sturdy Ceils! Handles for Easy Turning I a fabulous bargain! A fins quality mattrass scientifically constructed to give you proper support for luxurious, refreshing rest, -v FC2 t-Jil $1 DOVIU NEW YORK. (There's a Batman comic book on his bedside table and a rock 'n roll program blaring over his radio. He's slouchy, gangly and crew-cut.

But Batman is sprawled over an open chess book and his nail-bitten fingers are deftly moving chess pieces over the black and white bpard 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 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. "He 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 accomplished so much so early." HE HAS 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 challengers' tournament. The exact date and place remain to be determined. The winner will get a crack at the present world champion, Russia's Mikhail Bot-vinnik. 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. chess are beginning to feel it would be a fine feather in Uncle Sam's cap to have Bobby whip Russia's best players in a game that commands great attention in Europe and South America. Bobby himself who presents a pqrcupine exterior-to the world doesn't show much interest in possible cold war implications of his career. He just wants to be champion. It 4 a 4 isev 1 AN AMERICAN PRODIGY -Young Bobby Fischer, hailed as a budding chess genius, is caught in a characteristic pose during a tournament match.

(AP Newsfeatures Photo). I -V x- -i i i If. 13 Mi i V. if f- I -N A PORTABLE TV SET! Now enjoy peak per If he makes it this try, he'll be the youngest world champion in chess history and only the second American ever to occupy that lofty position. The first U.

S. champion was Paul Morphy, who turned the trick at 21 a century ago. BOBBY, WHO COULD give a clam lessons on how to keep its mouth shut, won't say what he thinks of his chances. Nobody else thinks he will make it this time. But then, nobody thought he could win the American chess championship at 14 and nobody expected him to do very well at the recent international chess tournament in Yugoslavia.

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Most of them didn't. Bobby, playing in his first international competition, pulled out of his early difficulties and tied for fifth place winning his place in the star-studded challengers. BOBBY IS A tall boy with the classic adolescent slump and light brown hair. He eyes strangers in general and reporters in particular with glum distrust. "Most reporters ask-stupid questions.

What do I eat for breakfast? That's not important. Why don't they ask about chess?" he said. He sat on his bed, idly moving the figures on the chess board In front of him. He was dressed as usual in a sports shirt. Bobby won the American chess championship In dungarees and a T-shirt; no one remembers seeing him In a coat and tie.

The Russians keep winning: the biff ones in chess, he said, because "everybody there plays. They're subsidized. Sure, they put out lot of books: Yeah, I can read a little Russian I can read the moves. I can speak a little. Mr.

Pressman at NYU (New York University) taught me. "No, you don't talk at chess tournaments. Why should you talk? Except when you offer a draw. But you can say any-: thing. They know what you mean.

Chess players speak lots of languages. "Fun? a tournament's no fun, but they're all right," Does he think he can win the challengers' and get a shot at the championship? He shrugged and twisted his lip. "I don't know." Wouldn't it be nice to bring the world chesg crown back to the United States for the first time in a 100 years? A sudden, charming grin lit CHRISTMAS CARDS Boxes of 12, 25 and 50 i from school about 2 o'clock and picks up a chess book. Every spare minute, he is either reading about chess, analyzing moves on his bedside 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," says Mrs. Fischer. To make friends with Bobby, you not only have to play chess you have to play good chess. UNTIL LAST YEAR, Bobby was little more than a good average student.

But he is settling down now and working hard. He scored an excellent 97 in New York State's regents exam on Geometry last Spring. Bobby lives with his mother in a small fourth-floor walk- up apartment in a neat section of Brooklyn. His 21-year-old sister, Joan, lived there until her marriage last month. Their parents separated when Bobby was two.

"There's nothing to discipline him about," Mrs. Fischer says. "The only thing I do is nag him to take his nose out of his chess books and go outside for some fresh air. "You know, that's what aggravates me so. He used to be terrific in athletics.

He. didn't talk until he was practically two years old, but he was climbing all over the place." BOBBY STARTED in the game at age six when Joan got a chess set and the two puzzled out 'the directions. Mrs. Fischer doesn't know a thing about chess. "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 about four years before he won at all. "I tried to stop him. The school people said I should try to get him away from it.

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