Chicago Tribune from Chicago, Illinois • 209

99 fib greatest Up in the Catskills, a supremely confident Bobby Fischer trains for 'the day he will dethrone Boris Spassky and take the world chess championship away from the Russians. BY SANDRA SHEVEY YIhATEVER Joe Namath is to WW football or Muhammad Ali to boxing, it all goes double for Bobby Fischer and chess. The lone idol of America's 3 million chess buffs, a player so good he's in a class by himself. Bobby Fischer is a walking example of what it means to have your life completely dominated by trying to corner a wooden king on a checkered board. At 29, he is a troubled man.

On the verge of achieving his ambition to play directly-head to head for the elusive world's championship of chess, Fischer has thrown up roadblocks which threatened to derail all the delicate international arrangements for staging the match. In a hotel room at Grossinger's Catskill resort, where he has been training for the chess bout, Fischer grudgingly interrupts his concentration on the chess strategy of the man he hopes to dethrone as world champ the Russian, Boris Spassky to expound on his grievances. What it boils down to are two things: he doesn't trust the Russians for good reason, and he's dissatisfied with the money arrangements maybe for good reason. It's characteristic of Fischer's complexity that he wants his own way, even at the risk of losing everything. Because of Fischer's demands, the staging of the championship became such an issue that it jeopardized the actual playoff.

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