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26 The Boston Globe Thursday, June 29, 1972 Spassky vs. Fischer: the long, silent duel draws near CONSTANCE VAN For enchantment in color Imagination fa hair detiga" 3 i 1 the truth. There is only Spassky replies with a one really immortal player smiling, Perhaps. But I in the world today and am still the king, you it is Fischer!" know Mr y- -a- By Ted Thackrey Jr. Los Angeles Times It will begin quietly next Sunday afternoon, in truth9the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

1 v.Aa$? hi .5.. fig? 7 I I if jr -1 A Aw-JtHNsa i wmm WW IwmJ r'-'f mmm, tm umi.it mm jkmim 5. It's F. Lee Bailey for the defense, on ZENKER: HOT SEAT, as Channel 5's fast-paced confrontation 'program probes "TIw Lie Detector! 1 Iceland. Promptly at 2 p.n.

(Icelandic Time), a Russian and an American will sit down to play a game of chess in a small auditorium at Reykjavik. During the five hours that follow, they probably will not exchange a dozen words. Nor will the audience. To a casual observer, it all might seem about as exciting and dramatic as a visit to a mausoleum. But there will be no casual observers.

This will be the first in a series of 24 games to decide the chess championship of the world. This confrontation has drawn more worldwide interest than any other event of its kind in history. The characters in this drama are pure dostoyev-sky: The present champion, Boris Vasilyevich Spassky, is a broad-shouldered bear who knows he must maintain the dominance that Russians have held in world chess since 1937 or face the consequences. The challenger, Robert James (Bobby) Fischer, is a gangling, Chicago-born "enfant terrible of the chess world" who has called himself the "unofficial world champion" for nearly a decade and who now must prove his claim. The winner's end of the purse is $100,000 and that alone could be a fair indicator of the difference between the championship matches of 1972 and those of the past.

When Spassky won the title from another Russian, Tigran Petrosian (in the Our "beautiful people" look. soft and elegant with the more natural looking color of Lonx curled tidi and napelinc tendrils complement the smooth crown and Fanci-tone color complients all! Lustrous Fanci-tone covers Cray completely, highlights your natural color, and conditions as it colors so that even dry. dull hair looks healthier, lovelier. Come talk to us about it; no obligation, of course. WORKING OUT Russian chess champion Boris Spassky (right) returns a volley yesterday in Reykjavik, Iceland, as he plays some tennis in his work-out for the upcoming chess match against American Bobby Fischer (left).

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eves. 228 TREMONT BOSTON, HA 6-9554 last championship event three years ago), the purse was only $1400. But the real prize is more than money. "I want the money," Fischer said recently in an interview at the New York resort where he was undergoing rigorous training. "But I want the title even more.

Chess is my life my hobby, my recreation, my profession. I have proved that I am the best in the past but now I want that fact officially recognized." "We take much interest in chess," Spassky said recently. "It is as much the national sport of Russia as baseball in the United States I would not care to IMokgf iddfe other nation. It would be a serious matter, in many ways Just how serious, no one really knows. Certainly it is not likely that Spassky, like the late Russian chess great Alexander Alekhine, would be condemned to death.

Considerations of public relations would seem to mitigate against such an extreme. Still, there is little doubt he would be made to feel his government's displeasure. What would happen if he loses the world championship to an American. Spassky has a lot to lose. His present life, by Soviet standards, is nothing short of luxurious.

Spassky lives with his second wife, Larissa, and their four-year-old son on the fifth floor of a 25-story VIP apartment building in Moscow. His income of 550 rubles per month is about five times the average for a Russian worker. He is one of the few Soviet citizens who drives a foreign car (a bright red Volvo bought, after Russia won the 1970 Invitational Team Tournament in West Germany). He seldom rises before noon a sleepy Russian Bear, very hard to get moving in the and his important neighbors frequently complain of the loud American Jazz played on the Spassky phonograph at all hours of be the man who allows the championship to go to an- Children's fauoritc Disneyland characters come to life on LP records ft tH KMKol si 1 1 ha tl I Zj I the night. What's more Spassky has consistently refused to join the Communist Party and he was outspokenly critical of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, since he was widely quoted in the Western press.

All of which might be quite acceptable if his game were considered in good form. But of late, he has appeared to be playing considerably below his usual game. Spassky finished sixth in the Alekhine Memorial Tournament last December, and one American grandmaster who played him said there was "a lackluster, uncertain quality to his play that had not characterized it in the past." Tass, the official Soviet news agency, passed this off as "mere camouflage," saying Spassky had not really been trying, was r-l 1. lef Mickey Mouse, Uncle Remus, others entertain vff Tcrt y0U Qt hme' Stories "lo4C I I songs from Disney pic- ylgMMBj tures. More.

Colorful story book with some. merely tuning up for the matches with Fischer and "is preparing a big surprise" for the American challenger. If he is, Fischer apparently won't be the only one surprised. International chess experts currently see Fischer as the -favorite to win by as much as three to one. And Fischer is even more optimistic.

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