The Vancouver Sun from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 35

The VANCOUVER SUN: May 22, 1971 N- i w- --r Fischer rips through cold war chess strategy veteran Taimanov, a classic lesson in endgame technique. With rook, bishop and pawn against black's rook and knight, Fischer coaxed Taimanov into a position where rooks were exchanged. Then Fisher demonstrated the absolute superiority of a bishop over a knight, making positional moves with his bishop that shut off Taimanov's king from any further part in the action. Taimanov's knight was soon helpless to halt the advance of Fischer's pawn. After a futile check, Taimanov resigned on the 89th move with the pawn one square away from queening.

Fischer, grinning broadly, went off for a stroll while Taimanov remained in front of the board, trying to figure out where he went wrong. When Fischer returned, Taimanov then resigned without further play in the ception of Balasov. Their expertise seems to be doing little good. The first battle in the cold war was the dispute over playing conditions. Fischer lost that one, but seems to have adjusted well to playing before an audience, rather than in the private room he had originally demanded.

But over the board, there seems to be no battle at all. If chess players were betting men, the odds would be astronomical that Fischer will not advance in the elimination series to pick a challenger for world champion Boris Spassky. Meanwhile, Tigran Petrosian of Russia and Wolfgang Huebner of West Germany played to their sixth consecutive draw at Seville, Spain. At Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, Bent Larsen of Denmark and Wolfgang Uhlmann of West Germany drew in their fifth-round game. Larsen holds a 3-2 lead.

By BILL RAYNER "Let's go home," said Bobhy Fischer to companion Ed Edmonson of the U.S. Chess Federation. Home for the U.S. grandmaster meant back to his hotel, with a crushing twin victory in his pocket over Soviet grandmaster Mark Taimanov in their world chess championship quarter-final match. The two victories in adjourned games Friday came in just 39 minutes.

They gave Fischer a 3-0 lead in the match and bolstered his reputation for being the most dynamic player in the game today. When play started in the Student' Union Building movie theatre at the University of B.C., Fischer and Taimanov were in what appeared to be a drawish position in their twice- But Fischer, playing the white pieces and relentless stalking the win, gave the as long as possible and by piling up the adjournments. They did not expect to win the match, and expect it even less now. But they are trying to salvage some of the waning Russian prestige in chess by keeping the score close. If Taimanov can force Fischer to play impetuously, and perhaps snatch a win or several draws, then his task of dimming some of Fischer's aura will be accomplished.

Fischer is retaliating by showing his disdain for his opponent. He has shown up late for every playing session but one, allowing his clock to tick away the minutes. Taimanov, perhaps because of this, has been in time trouble in two of the three games. Fischer has also let Taimanov know what he thinks of Taimanov's refusal to admit defeat over the board in the two other adjourned game, suspended Thursday night on the 42nd move. In that one, Taimanov was in an obviously lost position.

Friday's results were exactly what Fischer expected. Earlier in the day he had refused Taimanov's offer of a draw in one game in return for Taimanov's resignation in the other. Combined with his win in the first game of the match, Fischer now has a virtual lock on the outcome. Should he win the next game (4 p.m. Sunday) and go on to sweep the 10-game match in the minimum of six games, the Russian's worst fears will be realized.

From the beginning, the match has been a battle on the political and psychological fronts as well as across the board. Taimanov and his three advisers are desperately trying to blunt Fischer's killer instinct by stretching the games games he lost so badly. He has boiled out of the theatre twice, while Taimanov was pondering his sealed move. Fischer has also charged Taimanov with deliberately attempting to distract him, and has complained officially of Taimanov's inertia when the game is out of reach. And Fischer, of course, does it all alone.

Apart from Edmondson, who cheerfully admits he is out of his league as far as giving Bobby advice, Fischer keeps to himself. He has no seconds, no roach, no advisers. It has been this way most of his career, except for some occasional help from U.S. grandmaster Larry Evans of Reno. Evans is not expected to come here for this match.

The three Russian advisers to Taimanov, named Vasiulkov, Balasov and Kotov, are grandmasters with the ex For those watching, an aura of genius out from his position behind the wings to gaze sorrowfully at the audience. An official of the B.C. Chess Federation scurries into the lobby to shush the crowd. Apart from the three glum Russian advisers to Taimanov who are spending less and less time in the theal re the audience is almost exclusively pro-Fischer. They have learned to look for that tell-tale sign of Fischer irritation.

When he is upset, when the taut spring inside is wound to its very tightest, his right leg begins to move. Up and down the knee jerks, faster and faster, almost uncontrollably. Then, with the problem solved, or the irritation removed, it slows down. When Fischer, tall, gangling, looking all the world like a painfully shy teen-ager, comes loping up the aisle from the stage and through the lobby after the close of play, he is regarded with awe. He looks at no one, and no one dares approach him.

Sometimes someone says, "Good game, Bobby." Sometimes he will say "Thank you," sometimes not. At the end of Friday's first adjourned game, which Fischer won brilliantly in 89 moves, the audience burst into applause. It was a spontaneous acknowledgement of this giant among them. By BILL RAYNER Some say watching a chess game is like watching grass grow. Not so.

Even to the most casual chess player in the audience, the Bobby Fischer-Mark Taimanov match out at the University of B.C. is a combination of fascination, suspense and endless speculation. The setting is this: Fischer and Taimanov sit at a specially constructed chess table in the centre of the stage at the Student Union Building movie theatre. The stage is brilliantly lighted by fluorescent lights, hastily installed at the demand of Fischer. The audience, which has ranged from 50 persons up to more than 200, sits in darkness.

They follow the play from two demonstration boards. A huge sign on the stage implores: "Silence Please." The first 10 moves or so of each game are played quickly as the combatants run through well-memorized variations. Those spectators keeping score of the game scribble down the moves hastily. When the play slows down, several rush out of the theatre to the lobby, there to check the sequence of moves, argue and speculate. A theoretical novelty in the opening is analysed.

Taimanov andor Fischer is pronounced in trouble andor in a winning position. Sometimes the discussion reaches a level several deciblcs above the required whisper. Then Fischer and Taimanov may glance distractedly toward the source of the trouble. Referee Bozidar Kazic of Yugoslavia walks Second Cnmf Black Millie While I-ischcr 73. K-NS 74.

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KxR Natalie Wood content these days Kamloops drama consultant gets high praise at festival Here is an impressive Bel Air home that borders on being a mansion. It is set in a tropical garden complete with swimming pool. For an actress who began her film career at age 4, and with more than 35 movies to her credit, Natalie's indifference to work is a bit unsettling. At her age 32 most movie stars are deeply immersed in their careers. "I don't even read the scripts that are sent me," she said.

"I return them unread." Her last movie was Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice in 1968. Reminded that Hollywood has a short memory and that fan clubs are somewhat less long-lived than, say, Cuban dissidents, Natalie shrugged. "Maybe by the end of the year I'll feel like working again," she said. "My interests just don't include acting at the moment. Fortunately Richard and I are financially able to do as we please.

And he is busy on several projects, including one for me." Will little Natasha become a child star as did her mother? Natalie raised an eyebrow, it was sufficient and eloquent reply. One suspects Natasha will not miss a full childhood, nor her mother the joys and pains of parenthood. Special to The Sun PRINCE GEORGE Tom Kerr. Kamloops drama consultant, ranks first among Canadian directors, the adjudicator of the B.C. High School Drama Festival said Friday.

Gil Bunch of Victoria spoke after seeing the last three of a showcase of 12 plays. The play directed by Kerr and performed by Kamloops senior secondary school, Ber-toldt Brecht's Impressions of Arturo Ui, was selected for an honors performance today. Also chosen for the honors showcase were Centennial school of Coquitlam in Sam She-pard's Cowboys Number Two and Queen Elizabeth senior secondary school of Surrey in Jean Claude Van-Itallie's Interview. These were performed earlier in the week. The three were not placed in order of merit.

Discussing Kerr's work, Bunch said, "I've seen a great deal of Canadian theatre and for my money this is the best Canadian director we have." Bunch had high praise for the last scene where a convention of vegetable sellers turns into a Nazi rally. "There are one or two moments in a persons' theatre experience when something strange happens." Commenting on the two other plays presented Friday, Bunch said each cast needed another month of rehearsal to come fully to grips with its script. In Leonard Cohen's The New Step, presented by Burnaby South senior secondary school, the characters of Diane and Mary should take on more distinct roles of superiority and inferiority, he said. The cast from Prince George senior secondary school in John Nolan's A Boxful of Why ueeded to study the character of the young man to decide what he was, said Bunch. If the actor knew, he didn't show it.

HOLLYWOOD (UP1) -r- If you've seen, heard or read little about Natalie Wood in the past year, the scarcity of public activity may be placed on a scheming female. This particular female is six months old. Her name is Natasha, and she is Natalie's daughter. At one time Natalie was the favorite target for Hollywood's gossips. Each time she appeared at a discotheque, chic restaurant or party on the arm of an escort, speculation soared about the intensity of her romance.

Two years ago Natalie married English producer Richard Gregson and put an end to the rumors. But tiny Natasha has temporarily put an end to Natalie's career. "Since Natasha was born I have absolutely no desire to work," the dimunitive (5-foot, 2-inch) actress said. "All of my values seem to have changed. "Motherhood, for me at least, is the greatest thing that's ever happened.

Em content to spend most of my time at home with Richard and Natasha." In her swinging single days, Natalie was out on the town, attending parties, having dates, travelling abroad constantly. P'or a time she was an ex-officin member of Frank Sinatra's clan. She and Shirley Mac-laine were the only two women to enjoy access to the group. "AH that has changed," said Natalie. "Now we may go out two or three times a week at most.

Then it's to dinner parties at the homes of friends or we have people here." Victoria group proves hit i Hfp ifr i Frazier frustrated FRANKFURT (UPI) World heavyweight champion Joe Frazier is suffering one knockdown after another as a singer on his current German tour. Organizers cancelled his shows at Essen and Dortmund today because of lack of interest. There were only 250 paying fans at Cologne's' Sports Hall Thursday night and Frazier refused to go on stage there at all. It took his music managers half an hour to convince him that he had to fulfil his contract. At Stuttgart on Friday night the Killcsberg Hall was more than half empty.

The boxing champion's next show is scheduled for Sunday at Berlin's Sportspalast. Berlin promoters disclosed that not even 100 tickets have been sold in advance. By KATHY DENMAN OTTAWA (CP) A well-received change in tone was set at Theatre Canada 71 presentations Friday night by a Victoria Fair Theatre performance of the drama Justice, Not Revenge. The Victoria, B.C., group delighted (he National Arts Centre audience with an opening scene depicting an attractive prostitute with a single breast unclad. The rather off-beat day began in near-chaos as a horde of kids trtod to follow the action in a children's play by Ottawa's Le Cerf-Volant.

In another effort, 15 prisoners from Collins Bay Penitentiary, a federal prison near Kingston, did an impressive job playing The Criminal Record, written by former prisoner Peter Madden. It featured a tape-recorded litany of the mental torment experienced by those in jail. The man whose voice was used escaped from Collins Bay two weeks ago, after making the recording. The Gorsebrook Players of Halifax presented Modesty Clean Meets the Devil, with villain called Bedford Basin. The real Bedford Basin is a body of water adjoining Halifax Harbor.

Message of Modesty Clean was to fight pollution using low-phosphate detergents. The singing was good, the jokes funny, the point marie. La Bibliotheque de Babel, by l'Atelier de Re-chcrchcs Theatrales, Montreal, raised the problem of trying to find anything in a library. It was a one-man show that also played to a sympathetic audience. L'Acle Sans Parole, by the same group, was in pantomime with actor Richard Hetu somehow getting laughs in a morbid role.

Manager chosen NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, Ont. (CP)-Tnm Burroughs, 37, managing director of Yale Repertory Theatre, has been named new general manager of the Shaw Festival to succeed Muriel Mrs. Sherrin leaves the festival July 1 to join her husband, Robert Sherrin, recently appointed artistic director of Halifax's Neptune Theatre. Burroughs has been with Yale since 1967. NATALIA WOOD values have (handed Jack Wasserman he couldn't understand the visitor's concern, because he wouldn't have expected anything different.

"I am surprised that you are not surprised," Navasal explained. "I have been travelling around the world for 35 years and I expected something would be gone from (he wallet. Only in Norway have I had a similar experience where nothing was stolen." VP 'N ITEM Deal for the sale of Eaton's Hastings store could happen any second now. The documents for the transfer, which involves, about $4 million, are in Vancouver waiting to be signed. Coincidcntally with the sessions of the Canadian Radio and Television Commission there were all sorts of secret meetings.

CRTC chairman Pierre Juneau had a private luncheon with Premier A. C. Bennett earlier this week, and directors of the CRTC and the CBC who met in Vancouver at the same time as the CRTC meetings held a private get together at UBC on Thursday. While the CRTC regularly meets with private broadcasters, the meetings with the CBC are unusual because neither group wants the public to get the idea that two government agencies are getting overly chummy. Among applicants for the convention manager's job at the Tourist Bureau is Aid.

Brian Cal-tler which caused some snickers among the bureau's do-gooder brass. They were titillated by the idea that a guy who has expressed concern about transient kids should consider himself eligible to worry about convention business. That just goes lo prove how dumb they are at the bureau. Calricr is undoubtedly the best applicant they've ever had for a job there. WRITE ON The story around the town is that Sam Hashman reached across the street and hired Eric Cameron away from the Burrard Building to make him manager of the Royal Centre on a five-year contract starling June 1 Consumer crusader Ralph Nader's proposed July appearance at the Agro-dome would be part of a Seattle Portland Vancouver tour promoted by Peter Mack, who acts as a publication consultant for the tourist bureau.

Mack plans a two-hour session in each city, with a panel of media personalities asking sharp questions after Nader's speech. Incidentally, Mack who will run the promotion as a strictly private venture, explained Nader's confused answer to a question about his lack of concern about money. When Mack drove him to the airport Nader expressed concern about the question which arose at a press conference and asked, "By the way, Peter, how much was I paid?" Herb Ca-pozzi gave Jack Webster a 15-point the property in the 700 block Eobson from the corner of Howe east to the alley, which gives the hotel virtually all the land in the 800 block Howe. In fact the entire block bounded by Granville, Robson. Howe and Smilhe, is now owned by three groups, one of which is Odeon Theatres, and they're talking about their own civic redevelopment scheme One of our town's brighter producers of filmed TV commercials, Ilar.ry Campbell, is off to Toronto, because he couldn't find any agency locally that could afford a now film technique he's developed Metro council of the United Church is still looking for rooms for transient youngsters this summer, riinne 228-4902.

WASSERMANIA Overheard at Sneaky Pete's: "All loo often it's a girl's geography that determines her history." handicap in a paddle-ball game earlier this week and still beat him for $5. Give Capozzi marks. He's a guy who obviously doesn't care what is said about him on the radio. WEEKEND WIND DOWN One of I he sad stories of our town concerns the veteran policeman who retired about five years ago. He was from the old school and he retired with a heap of honors, both for what he represented as a pillar of the force, and for acts of great personal heroism.

Later he was involved in an automobile accident, in which another person was killed. There was evidence that the former policeman had been drinking. The tragedy weighed heavily upon him. The other night there was a call to his home. Investigating officers found their former colleague had taken his own life The Grosvenor Hotel's Baynes family has now acquired THE TOWN AROUND US Visitor in our town this week was Jose Navasal, foreign affairs expert of El Mercuric, in Santiago, Chile, and a world traveller who was en route home after a tour of Korea.

Because he is a press man he was taken in tow by CP Air's Jim McKeachie and wife Joyce who escorted him on a tour of the town. While they were touring Navasal realized he'd loll his wallet on the night table in his Hotel Vancouver room. He became quite agitated. When they returned to his hotel room Navasal spotted the wallrt and immediately checked the contents. Everything, including the cash was Intact.

Navasal expressed his pleasure and surprise. McKeachie asked why he was so surprised Navasal asked McKeachie if be wasn't surprised too. McKeachie said.