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PUBLIC OPINION i FRIDAY, JUNE SO, IW Chess Match Draws Worldwide Interest MEW AUTO BODY To all of which Spassky re Ever since he burst upon the international chess world by plies with a smiling, "Perhaps. winning the U.S. championship But I am still the king, you know SPECIALTY SHOP Where we are Proud to Say that We Have the Cleanest, the largest, the Most Modern and the Best Equipped Shop in the Area. in 1958 at the age of 14 he has attracted criticism, com ment and controversy. We Specialize in.

NOT POPULAR He is not popular in Russia. Painting Small or Overall The controlled press there calls him brash, conceited, selfish, "best playing trim," is jogging four miles each day, lifting weights and NO TROUBLE Fischer, a broad-backed 6 foot 2 inches has no trouble maintaining his 190 pounds, spends the early hours of his day (he gets up in the afternoon) skipping rope, working out with the heavy punching bag, pedaling an exercise bike and then relaxing in a hot whirlpool bath while he guzzles cold little cans of apple juice. "Spassky," Fischer said, shortly before he began the last round of training in Los Angeles, "is simply not in my class, old; Spassky's were separated (and later killed) during the World War II siege of Leningrad. Both learned the game early. Fischer was six when his sister bought a dime store chess set and taught him the moves from the instructions.

Spassky was iaught chess at an orphanage when he was five. Both showed considerable early promises. Spassky was a first degree player at 10 and an international grandmaster at 16. Fischer was beating all comers at 10 second chess when he was 10, was a grandmaster at 13 and won the U.S. championship a year later.

We Do Pump Cas Tune Motors f. Sell Tires Sell Cars Give Stamps r' Give Discounts temperamental, jealous and uneducated. Wreck Work large or Small Frame Straightening Glass Replacement Repair Water Leaks Door Alianment He is only slightly better liked in the United States. Their chess strategies, too, are supposed to be wildly differ likely that Spassky, like the late Alexander Alekhine, would 'be condemned to death; (Alekhine, one of Russia's great chess masters, was condemned to death by the Bolsheviks after the October, 1917 revolution. He fled to the West and lived in exile until his death in 1948.) LUXURIOUS LIFE Spassky's 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 notn 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 the night. ent: Spassky is called the "universal player whose rich intuition enables him to effect sharp tactical turns in a fluid, involved really.

I'm a better player period. I expect to beat him; he knows I can. It would be nice to position." be modest, but it would be stu A Dollar Saved. is A Dollar Earned See ROY MARTIN Phone 264-5104 HAL LOWRY FORD 1635 Lincoln Way Eait Fischer is supposed to be a positional genius whose strong pid not to tell the truth. There is only one really immortal player in the world today and it is Fischer! point is rapid appraisal and ac curate calculation of varia We Price OUR WORK NOT YOU OUR CUSTOMER Have us do your INSURANCE WORK, you'll get more for your Insurance DOLLAR.

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Sat. FRANKLIN AUTO BODY SUPPLY iriC. 15 S. Franklin Chambersburg PHONE 264-4020 tions." Which is all very neat and tidy -but misses the underly ing truth of the matter by a Both are strong and emotional competitors. Spassky burst into tears when he lost an important match in 1957; Fischer was still weeping publicly over a loss or a irtisplay until a few years ago.

Fischer and Spassky are classicists in the tradition of the great Jose R. Capablanca. Their best games are models of beautiful, clear, remorseless chess with the emphasis on logic, (and sometimes the long-delayed boobytrap) falling always just short of recklessness. Both are now in rigorous training and not just mental training, either. Spassky, a 5 foot 10 inch former college soccer player who must fight to hold his weight at considerable margin.

For every one has apparently become so fascinated with the differences between Spassky and Fischer that the similarities are More, he has consistently re Offices Will Be Closed Saturdays During July August Through Labor Day Weekend! SOUTH jf PENN ff MOTOR If A -CLUB fused to join the Communist party and he- was outspokenly critical of the Russian invasion And these two men are a lot of Czechoslovakia, which could more alike than they are different. Both came from broken homes. Bobby's parents were divorced when he was two years the 176 pounds he considers his hardly have pleased Soviet authorities since he was widely quoted in the western press. All of which might be quite acceptable if he were considered in good form. But of late, he has appeared to be playing considerably below his usual game.

rcmrc urn, rnimrffra He finished sixth in the Alek hine Memorial Tournament last m-m f-l December, and one American grandmaster who played him )m -ro) row said there was "a lackluster, By TED THACKREY JR. Gannett News Service Special It will begin quietly Sunday afternoon, in Iceland Promptly at 2 p.m. (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. It all might seem about as exciting and dramatic as a visit to a mausoleum.

This will be the first in a series of 24 games to decide the chess championship of the world and this confrontation has drawn more worldwide interest than any other event of its kind in history. The characters in this drama are: The present champion, Boris Vasilyevich Spassky; 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; gangling, Chicagojborn "enfant rible 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 last championship event three years ago, the purse was only $1,400.

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 pasK, 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 be the man who allows the championship to go to another nation. It would be a serious matter, in many, ways Just how serious, no one really knows. Certainly it is not Weary Workers Halt Construction COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP)-Three crane operators who would rather ride than walk up 26 levels have halted all steel erection at the new State Office Building here. The three claim they are too exhausted to work after walking up to the 26th floor of the structure where the cranes are mounted.

They haven't worked for two weeks. They used to take temporary elevators to the top, but a strike by elevator constructors closed the lift. A contractor spokesman said ironworkers on the job don't complain about the walk. "They run up those steps two at a time," he said. The spokesman said the halt in steel erection hasn't dented the project's timetable.

Cement for 17th level flooring now is being laid and there won't be any problem till the cement laying reaches the 26th floor. uncertain quality to his play that had not characterized it in (U IW the past." Tass, the official Soviet news agency, passed this off as "mere camouflage," saying SAVINGS Hi EVERY SSBf loin In The Gala Sales. Cash Iri On The Spassky had not really been merely tuning up for the matches with Fischer US! and "is preparing a big surprise" for the American VACATION BIRTHDAY SPECIAL! WIN 111 A '72 SQUIRE IVAGGf FOR If he is, Fischer apparently won't be the only one surprised. International chess experts currently see Fischer as the fa vorite to win by as much as three to one. And Fischer is III a evern more optimistic.

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