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The Austin American from Austin, Texas • 18

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Austin, Texas
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2JC8800 EASY TERMS FREE DELIVERY FREE 1-Year Service i Batman comic book cn his bedside table and a rock 'n' roll program blaring over his rc iio. 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 of a football brown hair, 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 kept winning the big ones in chess, he said, because "everybody there plays. They're subsidized. "No, you don't talk at chess v.wWv.rtW.iWi player or the most popular fellow Layaway A Beautiful Wizard Appliance Now For Christmas at the prom.

He wants to be chess I tournaments. Why should you champion of the world and jt talk? Exec when you offer a seems a pretty sure bet he will; draw. But you can say anything, They know what you mean. Chess Most Americans don't know it, players speak lots of languages. Knt thrir honor in a bic interna- i "Fun? No, a tournament's no tional contest with Russia is rid-, fun, but they're all right." Does he think he can win the mm WIZARD Semi-Automatic Washer ing on the thin shoulders of this 15-vear-old boy from Brooklyn.

Bobby is hailed by the experts as the greatest chess mind the world has produced in many years. Challengers' and get a shot at the championship? He shrugged and twisted his lip. "I don't know." Bobby has few friends his own age. He conies home from school about 2 o'clock and picks up a LABELED A OLMl chess book. Every spare minute, I (mil) I ill WIMiHiMMiiriiniiiiii F' 111 "He doesn't look like one he ne js cjtncr reading about chess, looks more like a farmer's boy analyzing moves on his bedside than an intellectual but he is ajchess board or going somewhere genius," says Hans Kmoch, scc-jto play chess, re'tary of the Manhattan Chess Girls are nothing to him.

"Girls Club, which is the nerve center can't play chess," he says, of chess in the United States, "Bobby isn't interested in is something body unioss pav chess and None of the great ones ever ac- there just aren't many kids who complished so much so early." (like it," says Mrs. Fischer. He has become an international To make friends with Bobby, WIZARD Deluxe 12' Refrigerator grand master the youngest in not onlv nave to lnnp historv of the name and will you have to play good chess, 00 National List 319.95 239 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.

Maurice Kasper, president of the Manhattan Giess Club, commented: "We have alxmt 100 students in the club that Bobby could associate with. But he is so much superior, you see. He just plays with the stronger players. So far, this hasn meant mum ies, Bobby definitely does In most Americans, who look on think well of him.vlf. Hut "hp is a chess as an intricate pastime for phenomenon that happens once in 1 1 a hundred years in a thousand.

"He is also a young boy. He is contemplative now even people uninterested in rhrss are beginning to feel it TRADE HERE WHERE YOUR OLD UNIT IS WORTH MOREI Where your dollars buy More Spacel More Convenience! Big 18.07 q. ft. shelf area! Meat Keeper! Lifetime Porcelain Vegetable Crisperl Egg Rack! Butter-Cheese Bin! Luxurious Du Pont Dulux Finish! Hurry! 2J1803 11 SAVE no not accustomed to such publicity vould be a fine feattier in unciejanf) hc can't handle it yet. But! Sam's cap to have Bobby wnipjvnu must Ejvc him a little time WIZARD 37" Custom Gas Russia best players a js a Rno(i that commands great attention in Bobby lives with his mother in Europe and South America.

a small fourth-floor walkup apart- F6-8-C' Bohbv himself who presents a a noat Krrtinn of Rrnnk porcupine exterior to the world jIis 21-year-old sister, Joan, doesn't show much interest in pos-jivcc there t00 until her marriage sible cold war implication- of his ast momn. Their parents separ-career. He just wants to be cham-- atwj wnen was 2. pion. Mrs.

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Fischer ex Jumbo Steel WASTESASKET plains. "The only thing I do is nag him to take his nose out of Bobby, who could give'a clam; his chess books and go outside for lessons on how to Keep its moutn some fresh air Fire-King Ovenware i shut, won't say what he thinks of; Bobby started in the game at his chances. Nobody else thinks -age 6 when Joan got a chess set The glamour cleaner of NOW in new exciting decorator colors Caribbean Sea green and Gold Coast ivory! Powerful, adjustable suction yet the Wizard CANNOT pull or tear fabrics! 2J3854 he will make it this time. and the two puzzled out the direc But then, nobody thought hejtions. Mrs.

Fischer doesn't know 79V 1.42 Value could win the American chess championship at 34 and nobody expected him to do well at the 21 1 $3.29 The ideal gift set! Get yours todayl 5 a thing about chess. "I spent four years trying to gel 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 A real homemaker's special! Big 28-qt. capacity.

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