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MAY 1972 SUN-DEMOCRAT, PADUCAH, KV. PACE FOUR-A SlV Shnn Friday I Teen-Age Chess Expert Advises Teaching The Game To Children WHITE FLARES (if0A a fa'-Mvl ri By JOY STILLEY AP Newsfeatures Writer PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. (AP) Five-year-olds are perfectly capable of learning to play chess and, in fact, that is the best age to start them out, says teen-age chess expert Eric Schiller, who serves as a volunteer teacher to kindergarten youngsters. "The earlier they learn to play chess the more beneficial the ability will be," he says. "Chess playing helps develop more logical reasoning processes and helps them to think more clearly and evaluate decisions better." The 17-year-old senior at Schreiber High School here teaches the fundamentals of the game to kindergarteners at the Flower Hill Elementary School.

Sizes 8-14 Regular and Slim Prep Sizes 26-29 Waists" Wkt i. 1 in -Win ill EARLY START Teen-age chess expert Eric Schiller, who believes in Introducing children to the game at a young age, gives 6-year-old Laurence Struber some pointers. He is a volunteer to HELP (Help Educate Little People), a program that places high school students in an assistant teacher capacity In elementary The pants with STA-Prestthe famous fit never needs ironing the crease is permanent if they don't give you the best wash and wear results you have ever enjoyed we'll give you your money back satisfaction guaranteed. schools. "I asked for the younger children because I feel they're easier to work with and there's for the game.

Though an aptitude for math often is not apparent at that age, he adds that the child who plays good chess will be good in math. Schiller recalls that from the time he was 4 or 5 he played chess with his father or guests in a casual way. In the middle of junior high he joined a group of 9th-graders who played it a little more seriously. "We entered a tournament more you can teach someone young," says Schiller. "I've al Schiller plans to attend the University of Chicago next year and major in Russian, a language he became Interested in from reading books about chess, but which he now enjoys for its own sake.

In addition to speaking Russian, he speaks Serbo-Croatian and can read German, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Czech and Swedish, all of which he familiarized himself with through reading chess magazines. He may eventually go Into the field of diplomacy, teaching or some type of interpreting work. "But my real idea for life is to get a job to sustain myself while playing chess," he says. ways had the Idea of In troducing chess to kids and felt the best place was on the kin LEVI'S BLUE DENIM FLARES and had a crushing defeat," he admits, "and then I started to pick up chess seriously and bought the first of many chess books. I probably buy more chess books than any other junior (under-21 player) in the country." Now chess has become a way Prep Size 26-29 Waist of life for Schiller, who carries dergarten level.

"I learned at that age and Bobby Fischer did and so did most of the other players I have come in contact with," he continues. "In the United States It may seem early but In the Soviet Union it's normal." Schiller, who gets a half unit credit per term for working five days a week with his young students, starts out by introducing the pieces one at a time and letting the kids become thoroughly familiar with how each moves. One 6-year-old has already played in an under-13-year-old tournament. "I give them general principles that get them going," he a folding chess board, zipper- cased playing pieces and basic chess books with him wherever he goes. He was an assistant tournament director for the Hearty NASA Eaters NEW YORK (AP) While it took many technicians, computers and complex communication equipment to get the Apollo 16 astronauts to the moon and back, it also took a lot of eating and drinking.

Servomation that serves the NASA Manned Spaceflight Center, says NASA per U.S. Chess Championship, was captain of the Eastern High School co-championship team and has won many trophies. He Rugged, all cotton, pre -shrunk denim, stitched throughout with the strongest thread. Buy your exact size. Prep Sizes 26-29 7 AD SUPER owns seven chess sets, including one huge "artistic" sonnel consumed some 87,000 sandwiches, 123,000 candy bars and gum, 18,800 hot meals, cups of coffee, 136,000 soft drinks and 48,000 packs of ciga explains.

"They use basically the same opening all the tfme, but they are beginning to get some attacking schemes down and occasionally get into some defensive things." The youth lists Intelligence and a "very competitive instinct" as major prerequisites one. He also plays bridge, but thinks it involves too much luck. "In chess there's a very small percentage of luck," he says. "The only reason people lose in chess is because they make a mistake themselves." rettes during the 12-day Third Floor READ THE WANT ADS DAILY Our Entire Stock of Men9 KNIT SPOMT COATS Regular $40.00 to $55.00 Wonderful, ease-of-care knit sport coats single breasted styles as and fancies in textured weaves 36-46, reg. and long.

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