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tO-E THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Sunday, October 12, 1958 1 5-Year-Old Oiess Champion UULnLU Quires Qsj CfcTTip tErmiiT' 1 WW "VVV VVVV it." v- i to- -r I I I 0 J-S. SX NVw X0 1 2 FOR 1 SALE 209 Strong, Sturdy Coils! Handles for Easy Turning! Truly fabulous bargain! A fin quality rnartrest scientifically constructed to five you proper support for luxurious, refreshing rest. DOTnvn95 NEW YORK. VFh-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 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. "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 porcupine exterior to the world doesn't show much interest in possible cold war implications of his career. He just wants to be champion.

4 AN A3IERICAN PRODIGY Youn? Bobby Fischer, hailed as a budding chess genius, is caught in a characteristic pose during a tournament match. (AP Newsfeatures Photo). ill 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 gorhg 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 1 countries, sat down opposite the bony young American, each informed him that he would be beaten. Some were nicer, than they said they were sorry to have to defeat him. They didn't need to be. Most of them didn't.

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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 ith 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 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 1 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 big ones in chess, he said, because "everybody there plays. They're subsidized.

Sure, they put out a 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 anything. 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. a Mar-Proof Plastic Top DESK! Big kneehole desk with mar-. proof plastic top. Plenty of storage room. This is one of the finest values that Hav- erty's has offered.

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And all at once you could see why the people who hare got inside his prickly shell like Bobby Fischer very much Indeed. "It would be nice," he agreed. BOBBY HAS FEW friends his own age. He comes home COMPLETE NURSERY SET try to get him away from it. He used to get awfully upset.

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