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g. THE ATLAM'A CONSTITUTION, July 13, 1972 1 rr I or ipassky Defeats Fischer in First Game lt ft f'f must get 12 points to win. Fischer as challenger must get 12-li. Each win counts for one point and a draw 'z point. The 56 moves in the first game of the world chess championship match between Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union and challenger Bobby Fischer of the Unted States: 8.

P-QR3 B-QR4 23. R-QB1 RXR 40. K-R4 P-B5 9. KT-K2 PxP QB5 24. BXR P-KB3 41.

PXP KXP 10. BxPQB4 B-QKT3 25. KT-R5 KT-Q3 42. K-R5 K-B4 11. PxPQB5 QXQ 26.

K-Q3 B-Ql 43. B-Ka3 K-K5 12 RxO BxPOBl 27-KT-B4 B-B2 44. B-B2 K-B4 'P0KT4 BB -Ktakt MKT 41B-R4 is. f-n u-tu 29 KT5 BXp m7 40 B-KT5 P-K5 14. B-KT2 B-Q2 30.

P.KT3 P-KR4 47. B-K3 K-B3 15. QR-QB1 KR-Q1 31. K-K2 P-KR5 48. K-KT4 K-K4 16.

KTK2-Q4 KTxKT 32. K-B3 K-K2 49. K-KT5 K-Q4 17. KTxKT B-R5 33. K-KT2 PxP 50.

K-B5 P-R4 1R B-GKT1 RRSvR 31 PxP BxP 5L 18. B-QKT3 35. KxB K-Q3 52 KXP K-B5 19. KTXBQKT3 RxRch 36. p.QR4 K-Q4 53.

K-B5 K-KT5 20. RxR R-QB1 37. B-R3 K-K5 54. KXP KXP 21. K-Bl K-Bl 38.

B-B5 P-R3 55. K-Q5 K-KT4 22. K-K2 KT-K5 39. P-QKT6 P-B4 56. K-Q6 resigns moving his only surviving pawn to Fischer's side of the board, thus turning it into a queen, the most powerful piece in game.

Fischer stood up, made a helpless gesture to the audience and walked off. The second game was scheduled for Thursday at 1 p.m. EDT. Play in the interrupted first game resumed on time, but Fischer walked out after three moves to protest the two television cameras. Match organizers covered the cameras with a cloth, but Fischer said they still bothered him.

The match may go for 24 games. Spassky as champion By IAN WESTERGREN REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) World chess champion Boris Spassky of Russia defeated Bobbv Fischer in the first game of their $250,000 championship match Wednesday, putting the unpredictable American one point behind in what could be a 24-game series. Fischer, who had stopped play in the game for 35 minutes to protest the presence of two closed circuit television cameras high above the contest stage, conceded to the Russian on the 56th move. He gave up when he saw he could not prevent Spassky Spassky (w) Fischer (b) 1. P-Q4 KT-KB3 2.

P-QB4 P-K3 3. KT-KB3 P-Q4 4. KT-QB3 KB-QKT5 5. P-K3 0-0 6. B-Q3 P-QB4 7.

0-0 KT-QB3 TITANS OF THE WORLD OF CHESS L-R: Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky Georgian Lost to Fischer PRE-SEASON' COAT SPECTACULAR 88 39 to 66 off By BOB GEURINK A Milledgeville textile executive who looks at his opponents "like a snake" was beaten by U.S. champion Bobby Fischer in Argentina back in 1959. That's from Richard Haas, president of the Southern Chess Association last year. He said Wednesday thatMil-ledgeville's Ruben Shocron won the association's tourney last July 4 and said Shocron looked like this as he beat a field of some 156 others: About five-nine, 150 pounds, wiry build, dark complexion, dark hair with a little gray in it spilling just a bit over his collar.He played with his suit coat on, was polite, soft-spoken and quiet.His moves were quick and darting. "He didn't get up and walk around and smoke or rumple his hair or do what so many other nervous players do," Last Years Low Prices Sears Fantastic Values on a Giant Group of Styles in Misses', Half Sizes $10 Fall '71 Staff Photo Ernest Mattdox ATLANTAN ANALYZES FIRST GAME Richard Haas Studies Board LIKE FISCHER'S Chair Flown In for Spassky NEW YORK (NYT) A mate to Bobby Fischer's chess chair was flown to Iceland Tuesday night so that Boris Spassky could, if he wanted, have the same swivel-based, leather-covered chair that Charles Eames designed for the American chess challenger.

Fischer's chair was flown to Reykjavik on Friday after Col. Edmond Edmundson, executive director of the U.S. Chess Federation, an aide, and representatives of Icelandic Airlines spent several busy hours tracking down the chair at Fischer's request and getting it to the airport. Tuesday Edmundson recalled how satisfied the temperamental Fischer had been last October with the same Eames design when he defeated Tigran Petrosian in the elimination tournament in Buenos Aires. "Six or eight chairs had been offered to him and none suited," Edmundson said.

"Then I happened to see this chair elsewhere in the theater (where the match was held) in an office, as a matter of fact and I told someone to put that one on the stage and let him try it." Fischer liked it. which is more than could be said for Petrosian reaction. The Russian chess player sat in it, rose quickly and gave a firm "nyet," Edmundson recalled. "Nyet" is what Edmundson expects Spassky to say, too. Checkers King Re-Crowned 15 Were FaII'71 Haas said.

"He just sat there and looked at two things like a snake: the board and his opponent." He said Fischer played Shocron in Mar del Plata, Argentina, when Fischer was 18. Shocron was in his 30s Shocron wasn't immediately available to discuss himself, but Haas was happy to fill in for the Dixie Champ. Shocron came to the United States from Argentina about six years ago, Haas said, working in New York and North Carolina before going to Milledgeville about a year and ago where he now is a testile executive. He hadn't played any regular chess in the U.S. till he got to Georgia.

Why? "I guess he just hadn't the time," Haas said. Haas mentioned that Monday's Constitution was a little off in its running moves of the Fischer-Boris Spassky match. For buffs, here is is: "Fischer's 40th move was 40 P-B5, not P-B4 as shown in the paper." He said he thought Fischer would win if he shows the good form he has shown in the last year, and Spassky keeps doing as poorly as he has during that time. "But Spassky could rise to the occasion; after all, Russians have had $2 Were Fall '71 $25 Were Fall '71 1 Were Fall'71 again. He was defending champion, and he defeated some good players in the process.

Second place was a tie between William W. Payne, of Warner Robins, and James Swift of Rome. E. T. Rolader, of Rome, came in fourth.

A point system was used to determine the winner. ROME The eyes of the chess players of the world may be turned to Iceland for the world championship play, but checker players in Georgia came here Wednesday for tournament. the finals in the state checker Leonard Bolden, of Ringgold, won the championship 40 Fall'71 Bennett's Hurry to Sears for outstanding preseason buys on a colossal collection of fashion coats! You'll find everything from timeless classics to clever contemporary styles from short sport looks and all-weather coats to elegant, dress coats for daytime and evening wear all in favorite fabrics that range from wool to plush pile, some with genuine fur trims. Great fashion colors, too. It's a giant group, but hurry Not every style at every store.

the title since 1948 and they don't want to lose it." However, Hass quoted Soviet Russia's granddaddy, Nikolai Lenin, as saying: "Chess is too serious for a game, but too much of a game to be taken seriously." Anyway, chess is booming in Georgia. Right now, Haas said, there are 425 Georgians in the U.S. Chess Federation; back in 1964-65 there were only 24. There are about 75,000 Atlantans who know the moves. And what's the average Georgia chess player like? Like this, Haas said: 1.

About 35 per cent of them are under 20. Some 95 per cent of those in the July tournament were under 45. 2. They're all types. "You can have a wealthy Northside doctor and 15-16-y a r'-o 1 black kids from the ghetto." 3.

A higher I.Q. tends to make a better chess player (Fischer's is 183) but not always; a Georgia Tech student with an I.Q. of at least 130 could be beaten by somebody with an I.Q. of 100. 4.

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