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VICTORIA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 19TI-1 SOVIET GRANDMASTER RESIGNS Fischer Eyes World Chess Title Cholera Sweeps West Bengal, Over 1,000 Die The winner of the challenger round will meet Spassky in 1972. Taimanov, 46, said Wednesday that Fischer undoubtedly is the best non-Soviet player he has met in his 19 years of international competition as a grandmaster. Taimanov, who had a high blood pressure condition that caused one game in the series here to be postponed on doctors orders, blamed his poor showing against Fischer on ill health. He said he also had violent headache attacks during several games here. "If it had not been for thesi circumstances, I would hava won games one and three and changed the complexion of the match," he said through an interpreter.

"But as it was, I made mistakes that I never made before, even as a small hoy." 1 CORONA STERfcC a TAPE CENTRES 2340 Douelaa 388 S3 11 CALCUTTA (AP) The health director of West Bengal state claims that more than 1,000 East Pakistan refugees have died in a cholera epidemic that broke out near Calcutta three weeks ago. should have been world champion 10 years ago." He said he stands to make "easily $100,000 a year as a professional" if he wins the world title, now held by Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. He received $1,250 in prize money for his win here while Taimanov got $750. Fischer, a grandmaster since he was 15, next meets Bent Lar-sen of Denmark in a semi-final scheduled to start July 4 at a site yet to be determined. The Danish grandmaster defeated grandmaster Wolfgang Uhl-mann of East Germany, 5Vi-3Vi.

The other semi-final starts July 4 in Moscow between Ti-gram Petrosian and Viktor Korchnoi, both of tbe U.S.S.R. Petrosian defeated Robert Heubner of West Germany 4-3 and Korchnoi beat fellow Russian Yefim Geller 5Vi-2a. LTy JOr Jw Jsr Jsr available in even the most remote village markets. The fluid, called the "cholera cocktail," is a weak solution made mainly from salt, but includes sugar, glycine and potassium. The patient is weighed to find out approximately how much body fluid he has lost.

He is encouraged to drink 16 pints of the "cholera cocktail" a day, a SEATO medical expert said. Most patients recover rapidly, usually within 24 hours. VANCOUVER (CP) Bobby Fischer, fresh from a one-sided victory here over Soviet grandmaster Mark Taimanov, said Wednesday he is confident he will go on to win the world chess title. The Russian resigned Wednesday without further play in the adjourned sixth game of their quarter-final elimination match to seek a challenger for the world crown, giving Fischer a 6-0 sweep of the best-of-10-malch. "The Soviets have been putting up road blocks for me for years, but I know I'm the best," said the 28-year-old Fischer, a native of Brooklyn, N.Y.

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