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Boston Sunday Globe June 18, 1972 60 r- Fischer-Spassky chess duel nears Coming turn "Shopping at Capitol Is Like a Raise in Pay' THIS WEEK SPECIALS FOR TUES. WED. Reserve the Right to Limit Quantities in On what do the authorities base such a sanguine view of Fischer's chances? Certainly not on previous games between these two opponents the score stands 3-0 in Spassky's favor with two draws. A careful examination of the games they have ontested, however, reveals a different picture. What the experts are basing their opinions on, and rightly so, are the performances of the two protagonists over the past few years.

There Fischer has a big edge, ashe would have even if Spassky's results were far more impressive than they are. In odder to win the fight to contend fof the championship, Fischer had to wi na series of candidates' matches against some of the strongest players in the world, and he did so in extraordinary fashion. Meanwhile, Spassky, since winning the title, has had to be with a series of indifferent results. His most recent appearance in a major event was in a tournament in Moscow late last year, where CHESS Continued from Page 49 At the age of 15 he was the youngest grandmaster in the history of the game, but the road to the summit proved to be much longer and rockier than his ad- mirers had anticipated. That road has now led to, of all improbable places, Reykjavik, Iceland, where play will begin on July 2.

Spasky, 53, is six years older than fischer. He won the title in 1969 by besting his compatriot, Tigran Pet-rosian, after losing to him in his first try in 1966. Spassky also was a world championship contender while still in his teens, but like Fischer, suffered some sobering setbacks before finally achieving his goal. He should now be at the height of his career and, under ordinary circumstances, might be expected to hold on to his crown for I many years to come. (Most American experts, who might well be open to the charge of wishful i thinking, believe that the world champion is a decided underdog.

TheGlobe: BOBBY FISCHER a long climb he finished tied for sixth by no means a disgraceful showing in such strong company, but pallid by comparison with Fischer's extraordinary doings. Indicative of a player's recent results is the numerical ranking system devised by Prof. Arpad Elo of Marquette University, long used in the United States and recently adopted by the International Chess Federation for use worldwide. Thus, the mathematical projections indicate that Fischer will have an easy time of it, and suggest that the final score will be about 12-8 in his favor. Chess matches, of course, are not won by reference to probability tables, but over the board.

Fischer is Spassky's superior both technically his BORIS SPASSKY on top play exhibits fewer weak spots and temperamentally Spassky has been having personal troubles recently that have markedly affected his concentration, whereas Fischer's whole life is devoted to chess. With the qualification that a player who has once won the wor'd championship is of course capable of beating anyone, anytime, the conclusion is in-and most likely win big. (Editor's Note Al Horowitz has been playing chess for 59 years, since he was 6 years old. He zias a member of the US world chess championship team in 1931, 1935 and 1937, and was a US Open champion three times. From 1933 to 1969 he was the editor and publisher of Chess Rei'eiw.

Ht is currently the chess editor oj the New York Times.) Every day, Trie Globe is packed with interesting reading for every member of the family. Here are a few things you won't want to miss: 1 11 SPOTLIGHT The Globe's award-winning Spotlight Team swings into action again, with one of their best efforts to date. (Monday.) lb 99 89 Yale's chaplain, in eclipse, looks inward SOCIETY Our new society columnist, Alison Arnold, provides a "Compact Chronology of Boston Society." Also, our regular Confidential Chat bonus page. (Monday.) PEPPERED BEEF STEAKS BREADED VEAL STEAKS FAMILY PACK, FRESH GROUND CHUCK COLUMBIA GEM ASSORTED lb COFFIN Continued from Page 49 Since 1969, Coffin has attracted steadily less attention outside his relationship 1 with Yale. And after playing a peacekeeping role during student unrest in New Haven in 1970 over the Bobby Seale murder trial, he began to lose his prominence even on campus.

And so, it could reasonably be asked: Whatever hTa to William DOGS "I'm as crazy about dogs as the next person, but long ago I realized we had inherent differences," writes Erma Bombeck. (Tuesday.) FRESHLY SLICED COLD CUTS RED SOX What's wrong with the Red Sox farm system. Sportswriters Harold Kaese and Peter Gammons examine the system. (Monday.) Again he referred to the Bible, and started to give a sermon: "David was great at killing giants, but he didn't know what to do with Saul. He couldn't handle ambiguity, his growth got stunted early on.

So, in his old age, he broke up, he fell apart. "That is a beautiful picture of the United Sates. It congealed too early on. Too many things were swept under the rug. Too many things were not dealt with the racial problem, the problem of poverty.

This process of opening himself up to ambivalence is at the base of Coffin's self-examination. And he is well aware of how painful it is. For an activist, the reflection is constricting. For a preacher and a ham the relative anonymity is a little galling. But Coffin has no regrets.

"Having abandoned security for excitement, one should be willing to give up excitement for the possibility of greater wisdom," he said. "I don't know if I'm going to get very wise in my middle age, but it would be nice to try. "I think that there is a kind of yearning out there it's not only a desire of my own there's a need for spokesmanship in this country. It's a question of popularizing, in the best sense of that word, some real wisdom." protest the Seale trial, he pushed for nonviolent civil disobedience. Students came to regard him as out-of-date.

Coffin is aware as everyone else of the exhaustion of new ideas. As for playing peacekeeper, he has no regrets. "You have to engage in polemics when people are apathetic," he said. "When they're aroused, you've got to guide the flames. You don't have to light bonfires anymore.

Coffin's self-examination is also the result of major changes in his personal life. He was divorced in 1968 from his wife of 12 years and remarried the following summer to Mrs. Harriet Gibney of Cambridge. With three children and two new step-children at home, he feels increased family responsibilities. Besides the divorce, the children have borne much of the brunt of his activism.

Finally, Coffin's changing self-identity stems from a middle-aged restlessness. He thinks almost all antiwar protest is "deja vu" he has seen it before, he feelsthat after 14 years, he may have been at Yale too long. Influenced by his second wife, he has begun to think about women's rights and masculinity. In fact, throughout the conversation he discussed American He is raising money for Sen. George McGovern's campaign.

And he is currently trying to pave the way for amnesty after the war. job is to try to persuade Billy Graham to come out for amnesty. There is an outside However, above all else these days, Coffin likes to think. "I think the problems in the country are very deep, in fact they are spiritual," he said. "And I don't think you solve spiritual problems with a rush of political action." "It's not that I've become more Establishment, in fact I think I've gone more to the left in terms of my analysis of the country.

But I recognize that the depth of change is more important than the speed of change. And if it's going to be a really deep change it's going to take time." "My objection has been very strenuous against the tactics of many of those on the left, not so much against their goals. In some cases, I've thought that I was for a much more radical change than they were." Coffin is obsessed with developing a more philosophical; more religious understanding of the problems of America. He is taken with the complexity of things. And in this obsession, he sees a path for himself and his nation.

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(Friday.) 5 CHICKEN OF THE SEA WHITE TUNA 'MF 69 Sloane Coffin? After a decade on the cutting edge of social and political change in this country, he seemed to have fallen very rapidly into obsolescence. Trim at 48, wearing blue jeans, a blue sports shirt, and loafers, Coffin looked only a few years out of PJiillips Andover Academy. But his thinning, graying hair showed how many years it has been. "After an extensive period of activism, you have to recoup," he said. "There's a kind of New Testament rhythm.

If you look at the life of Jesus, He's down in the valley to heal and up in the mountain to pray. He's out in the plains preaching and then He's withdrawing again. It's a kind of commitment withdrawal -engagement reflection. Coffin has a graceful mix of intellectualism and religious commitment. His conversation is peppered heavily but not obtrusively with quotations from the Bible and various philosophers.

The worldly and the religious merge also in his sense of himself a jumble of the Messianic and the ham. 'As he discussed the last few years, it became clear that Coffin's new role has been created by a combination of political and personal factors. Coffin related his need for reflection first to the stagnation of the peace movement. He came to see demonstrations as increasingly futile gestures. "There's too much going to jail," said a man who has been in prison about 10 times, "too much of a mystique about that.

It's too much of an intellectual ego trip." And yet, Coffin had found himself on May 16 among 120 clergy and laity including Dr. Spock who were arrested for conducting a prayer service in the Capitol rotunda. He does not see any contradictions. Coffin was also pushed Into self-examination by his changing status on the Yale campus. In the late 1960s, he was a full-fledged cult hero a civil rights and antiwar activist who was bolder than many of his students.

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