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THE SUNDAY RECORD, SEPTEMBER 3, 1972 Bergen Catmfy. Ke Jersey A 16 Fischer is mild for chess champ Spassky seeking rematch it' JF -o. sr? r'- 1 I 4 'lit 4, AP Photo the game, pieferring instead to hold raging arguments over politics with members of the audience. Alexander Alekine: First of the great Russian world champions, Alekhine was the most miserable grand master who ever lived. He was generally despised during the two periods he was champion (1927-1935 and 1937-1946), mostly because of his arrogance and often-stated contempt for anybody else in the world.

(He once demonstrated his anger at a tournament by urinating on the floor). Wilhelm Steinitz: For sheer ego, Steinitz, champion from 1866 to 1894, has no peer. Asked about his chances in a championship tournament, Steinitz replied, "Excellent. Everyone else has to play St.einitz, but I don't." His supreme moment came when he offered to play God, with the Almighty given odds of a pawn (God's response to this generous offer is unknown). Jose Capablanca: Modern experts sometimes call Capablanca (champion from 1921 to 1927) the "Joe a a of rhess." and there are some interesting similarities.

was the only champion who was a confirmed ladies' man, celebrating some of his victories with all-night orgies in nightclubs. Capablanca never studied chess much, and played with an intuitive genius. He much preferred other recreations, one time arriving at a match dressed for a tennis game he hoped to begin after the chess concluded. Emanuel Lasker: Nobody ever quite figured out Lasker, the brilliant champion whose reign bridged two centuries (1894-1921). For one thing, Lasker considered his chess games merely an interruption to his lifelong task, which happened to be an attempt to prove mathematically the philosophical concept of free will.

For that reason, Lasker spent hardly any time at the chessboard, to play matches. Most of his time was occupied by preparation of a book on his obsession. FAMILY MAN Boris Spassky with his son Vasya in Iceland. For Spassky, to be a fatal From Page A-l Schmid showed him the drawing move and, taking his arm, helped him away. "Spassky should have drawn and the whole match would have been different," said Denmark's Jens Enevold-sen, a chess master.

"That defeat shook him so much that he lost a win for a draw in the next game." Psychologically, Spassky's worst hour may have come in the third game, when he appeared to be holding all the cards. He had never in his life lost a game to Fischer. He was two points up in the match, having won the first game over the board and the second on a Fischer forfeit. He was first with white. Yet Spassky lost.

was photographed in June He was world champion then. 13 proved number Fischer took the game out of the well known "book lines" with an abnormal 11th move that sacrificed a knight that offered a knight sacrifice tc open a file toward the Russian's king. A pawn down on adjournment, Spassky resigned as soon as he saw Fischer's resuming move. "He never expected Bobby to come back and to come back so strongly," said Father William Lombardy, Fischer's second. Grand masters generally were satisfied with the quality of play in the championship, despite Spassky's poor showing in the first half.

"This match was better than most others," said Max Euwe, a former world champion and president of the International Chess Federation, the world's ruling chess body. "There was more struggle and fewer draws." WORKED ON WANKELEngineers M. W. ing of Oakland check new Curtiss-Wright Galliers, left, of Glen Bock and H. D.

Lamp- engine. An engineering gamble wins for Curtiss-Wright By ERXEST VOLKMAN Special from Newsday Aron Nimzovitch, one of the greatest international chess grand masters in history, narrowly missed becoming world champion back in the 1930s. Which is too bad, because his style and temperament seemed to make him an ideal candidate for that strange collection of people who make the rarefied circle of world champion. Consider, for example, Nimzovitch's favorite method of resigning a lost game he thought he should have won in a Berlin tournament, he jumped atop the table and screamed, "Why must I lose to this idiot!" That's the sort of behavior that has marked world champions for 100 years, possibly explained by the fact that it is only a rare type of mind which is capable of devoting an entire existence to chess. Bobby Fischer's tempestuous encounters with the chess world are well known and, while his reputation as a full-fledged neurotic is part of the world champion tradition, he is a piker compared to some of the real kooks who have preceded him: Paul Morphy: The last American world champion, Morphy reigned from 1858-1863.

Often called the greatest player of all time, he beat every champion player in the world, then "retired" at age 19, when no one would take up his challenge to play all comersat odds of a pawn and a move. He wanted to play the English a i but rebuffed, retired to his room where he spent his time arranging women's shoes in a circle. He became quite mad. Louis de la Bourdonnais: The game's great slob, Bourdonnais infuriated the staid chess world during his reign (1834-1840) by i personal habits, which included dressing in ragged clothes and eating great dishes of gooey food during matches. He disconcerted his opponents by paying virtually no attention to Full-Service imm my VUml 1 il 1 From Page A-l wants to defend his title often and Russians.

"I feel I a 't played enough chess," Fischer said. "I definitely want to take on some more of these Russians if they are willing to play me and if the money is right. "When the party begins, they know they'll get beaten again. They may not particularly want to play me," he said. Fischer stands to get 000 in prize money for his defeat of Spassky that made him the first American in a century to win the title.

May compete for U.S. Fischer said he may compete for the United States against the Russians in three weeks at the World Team Title Olympiad at Skopje, Yugoslavia. At the end, Spassky seemed too exhausted to struggle on. He made a weak move when the 21st game was adjourned Thursday and resigned Friday in a phone call to the referee, Lothar Schmid. Fischer said he had been stunned by the resignation.

Fischer said he thought Spassky had played well in the second half of the match, which included seven straight draws, but poorly in the opening games, when Fischer built up a three-point lead. "My good play put him off," Fischer said. "Bobby is stronger than me now," Spassky said, relaxing in an armchair, his shoes off. "But I am sure I can beat him. I feel inside me enough strength to beat him.

I will not repeat my mistakes, on or off the chess board." Spassky looked tired and said he needed to "sleep and sleep and sleep" before trying to understand why his game collapsed in the first half of the match. He said he had been disturbed by Fischer's delay in reaching Reykjavik to start the match and by the American's temperamental behavior. But the Russian was angered only over Fischer's forfeit of the second game. "I wanted to fight," Spassky said excitedly, "but not to get points without play. I didn't like that.

"Bobby has a very individual way of doing things. Sometimes he behaved badly. I prefer to find other ways, but I don't like to criticize him." Russian press brief The Moscow press, which had criticized Fischer throughout the match, reported victory briefly and without One paper put the news in a black-bordered box, as if it were an obituary. That was the Central Committee newspaper, Sovetskaya Rossia, which like nearly all others used the brief Tass announcement that Spassky resigned without resuming play and Fischer won the title. The top sports newspaper, Sovetsky Sport, gave the story the most prominent display, with a headline saying: "Match is over.

World championRobert Fischer." Spassky said his big mistake was in living near his Soviet chess analysts in a downtown hotel in the first weeks of the championship, until his wife arrived and the couple moved out of town. "I like very much to live in a private house when there is a match and so much nervous tension," he said. "My wife is very good for me. She doesn't disturb me. It is unfortunate she could not come earlier.

I spent too much nervous energy in the first half of the match. "I had so many bad games," he said, throwing his hands in the air. "I lost my chance to win so many times. 1 made so many blunders. There is a law in sports if you have a chance, catch this chance.

It's not possible to win if you lose such opportunities." Not the best "Fischer won a good match, I like his fighting spirit. He played very accurately and he showed himself a good technical but he is not imaginative, standing of chess is not the besj; tne world. He is practical but he is not imaginaitve, not very creative." Asked how long Fischer might hold the title, Spassky replied, "It depends on him. It is not as good as he thinks and he thinks the world revolves around him that is a danger for him. He needs the criticism of other grand masters.

He is not the best player in the world perhaps Petrosian is when he is not lazy." gear. Somehow this keeps all three edges and one side at a time compressed against the housing as the combustion explosions push it around. Causing an uproar The work of Wankel and of Building 66 at Curtiss-Wright has barely begun to touch the public, but the quiet engine is causing an uproar in the motor manufacturing industry, which can hear it coming. What's the reason? It must be a good one before huge corporations can contemplate junking 75 years of know-how and the world's biggest investment in a product of the industrial revolution: the internal combustion piston engine, heart of the automotive industry. You need a window into a car engine housing to see it, and that's just what Figart showed us in C-W's experimental Ford Mustang with a Wankel installed in place of the normal engine.

This was before GM beat Ford to the Wankel rights. They put in the window to show precisely nothing. In other words, the 15 inches of extra space left between the Wankel engine and the radiator 15 inches' difference between the Wankel and the normal engine space to make a shorter car, space for shock absorbers for the new bumpa-ble bumpers, crush space so a bad smashup doesn't push the motor into the front seat. "With only -t i as many parts, the rotary engine needs only half as much space and weight per horsepower as a piston engine," Figart said. "Another reason is that its simplicity makes pollution and exhaust control easier with less effect on engine efficiency." Mazda Motors was the only automobile manufacturer to announce it would have no trouble meeting the 1975 deadline for federal pollution standards.

A third reason may turn out to bt the most important for the Bergen County workers who will make the Wankel engine. It's the quiet. Quiet engines have their special uses. One thinks im mediately of airplanes, then perhaps motorboats. Curtiss-Wright was, a i-cally, an airplane engine manufacturer (its biggest work right now is overhauling Pratt Whitney engines).

Quiet in the sky The experimental small-plane Wankel engines turned out in Building 66 were so quiet that they've been used in experiments for a i r-plane that could sneak up on an enemy without being heard. The experimental Lockheed Q-Star for and a refitted Cessna were tested for quiet. In one test, the engine noise couldn't be heard 150 feet away. Implicit in some of these reasons are others. For instance, Figart noted, "A small engine will permit a completely new car to be built in every other way, with savings throughout.

It can be a small car on the outside but a big car on the inside." The RO-80 engine Is so light that its whole front-wheel drive motor is mounted in front of the forward axle. What does all this mean right now to Curtiss-Wright fighting its way backup with more overhaul work, nuclear work, and a new field of power generators (it has just sold its first one)? "It will give us a little more muscle," said treasurer Martin A. Sherry of Verona, "a little more chance of risking." As to production, "Automotive companies have traditionally manufactured their own engines. Aircraft companies have traditionally purchased their engines. We have to face that situation." Questioned further about it later, Figart would only add, "All I can say right now is that we are looking into the field of general aviation and of another use for a smaller Wankel engine." And what's going to happen to all the people who make and repair pistons and cylinders and whatever goes with the two-thirds of the car engine parts that Wankel will economize? Maybe someday there'll be a shift in empty parking lots.

From Page A-l Graupner Wankel hobby engine sells for $78.50. It will hush the telltale buzzsaw noise of flying a model plane. Cur-tiss-Wright's Allen, himself a hobbyist, says nobody believed his engine was running when they saw his model plane sitting still on the ground without the usual shakes and noises. Also soaring are sales of the Wankel-powered Mazda cars and station wagons (around They were a sensation on the West Coast this year, and advance man Dick Bauer of Oradell expects them to go on sale here before the end of the year. Porsche-Audi national headquarters in Englewood Cliffs was tight-lipped about plans to import its Wankel RO-80 model from its parent firm in Germany which shares the world rights with C-W and the original Wankel firm.

Figart drives an RO-80 around the Curtiss-Wright complex. Ingersoll-Rand of d-diff Lake has just signed up with Curtiss-Wright to make Wankel-powered engines for its large pumps and industrial equipment. So have the two motorboat rivals, Outboard Marine Corporation (Johnson, i e) and Brunswick both for outboards and snowmobiles, which OMC has started making. Artie also plans to start marketing a German-made Wankel power lawnmower this year. A host of other plans are being rushed by licensees such as Rolls Royce in England, Krupp and Mercedes Benz in Germany; Toyota and Datsun in Japan, Alfa Romeo in Italy, and Savkel in Israel.

Seen in cross-section, the Wankel looks impossible. In place of a circular cylinder, it has a housing shaped like an ellipse squeezed at the waist, which geometers call anepi-trochoid. Instead of a piston going up and down to compress and release a sparked combustion chamber, it has a bulging triangular shaft rolled around the inside by an off-center mm Open from 10 AM to 6 PIY1 on Labor Day. 0 The widest selection of styles at the widest range of prices. The best prices around because we're in a factory building and not in a high-price showroom.

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Figart of Waldwick, Wankel general manager; Charlei i.