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The Rpssfito Eagle Games Hobbies H8 Sunday, January 26, 1992 There aren't just 2 sides to collectors ft By Jed Stevenson New York Times News Service To some people, coin collecting is a love and to others it's a legacy. The coin collection so cherished by the original owner gets passed on to his heirs who have neither the love nor the expertise to know what to do with all those old nickels and quarters. The first thing to do is to figure out which of three different types of collections you've inherited. nine 1 5 Harbor seals as photographed by nature photo-essayist Gustav VV. Verderber of Montgomery Center, Vt.

Print, slide contest winners announced Camera club features nature photography VUIUJ There's the true collection, one for which the collector spent hours pouring through catalogs and coin shops, carefully selecting the best pieces he could afford. Such a collection can take years to build and is usually handsomely pack-aged and meticulously cataloged. The second type is the collection built from coins of everyday life. Usually all U.S. currency, the coins may have come from change in the grocery or delicatessen and probably show some wear and tear.

The third type of collection is the one most people are familiar with: a jar, sometimes huge, containing loose pocket change. Possibly a large part of the national debt is cloistered this way and perhaps a smaller part of the balance of payments, as most leftover pesos and francs and marks from trips abroad go into this collection, too. No matter which of the three types of collection is bequeathed, the same rule applies: Know what you have. For the last two types, it is best to go to a local coin dealer and buy "A Guide Book of United States Coins" by R.S. Yoeman.

It's available by mail from Donovan Music and Toy Distributors, where it is listed as item No. 9051-92. The cost is $8.95, plus $3 shipping and handling, from the company at 732 Clinton Street, Waukesha, Wis. 53186; (800) 236-7123. Cameras Environmental awareness will be stressed.

Verderber is a free-lance nature photo-essayist with a master's degree in zoology. He has had research published in scientific journals and is the co-author of the World Book Encyclopedia entry on moths. He is an adjunct professor of biology at Johnson State College, Johnson, Vt, and teaches courses in photography and natural history at Johnson State and the Community College of Vermont His photographs have appeared in Vermont Life, Vermont magazine, New York Conservationist and The Country Journal, newspapers and textbooks. PITTSFIELD The Berkshire Museum Camera Club has announced the winners of the Jan. 17 print and slide competition.

First place in the black-and-white division was awarded to William Eisenmenger. Ann Kotowicz placed second and Pat Valiasek, third. In the color slide division, Class AA winners were Don Shedd, first place; Warren Anele, second, and Valiasek, third. In Class first place was awarded to Ruth Abele; second, Elaine Shaw, and third, Luis Girona. In Class Thelma Tomlinson placed first, Froni Crane was awarded second and Sue Seppa, third.

PITTSFIELD The Berkshire Museum Camera Club will present "The Magic Mason Jar," a slide presentation by Gustav W. Verderber of Montgomery Center, Vt, on Feb. 4 at 7:30 in the museum auditorium, the club has announced. Members of the camera club will be admitted free; the cost to non-members will be $3. Images of Mason jar nature photography, most of which have been published in leading outdoor magazines, will be featured in the slide presentation that will be accompanied by sounds from nature and traditional Celtic music on tape.

Judges were Tim Bachli, owner of the Village Print Shop in Dalton; Tim Zelazo, who has a stock photography business and has had photographs published in various magazines, and Maze Morray, a self-taught photographer and one-time resident of Tokyo who has presented slide shows on her travels, as well as two black-and-white exhibits: "Faces of Japan," at the Lenox Library in 1982, and "The Natural Beauty of the Berkshire Winter," at the Berkshire Museum in 1985. Render unto Caesar W.E.B. Du Bois stamp 1st-day cancellations available through mail Bridge By Omar Sharif and Tannah Hirsch Tribune Media Services Both vulnerable. South deals. Are you at all concerned about your contract? Stamps NORTH 752 9 7 6 3 0 A 10 9 A 3 EAST I ill I r.r-"- spade finesse.

You will still col WEST 9 0 7 6 5 2 10 9 8 10 8 3 10 5 0 8 4 4 2 5 SOUTH lect four spade tricks, four diamonds and two clubs, and if the ace of diamonds is onside, you'll net an overtrick. Can anything threaten your contract? Yes a 4-1 spade Associated Press China's Ministry of Posts and Communications issued a set of stamps yesterday to mark the Year of the Monkey, which starts on the Chinese New Year, Feb. 4. The 20-fen (4-cent U.S.) stamp shows a monkey with a peach, one of its favorite foods. The Washington Post Individuals who wish to secure first-day cancellations of the Black Heritage Series stamp honoring civil rights activist W.E.B.

Du Bois may either prepare their own envelopes with stamps purchased at local post offices or request postal workers to affix the stamps to their envelopes, according to the Postal Service. Collectors who purchase the stamps separately should mail their envelopes to: Customer-Affixed Envelopes, Du Bois Stamps, Postmaster, 3900 Crown Road, Atlanta, GA 30304-9991. Requests for postal workers to affix the sheet version of the stamps on up to 50 envelopes at a price of 29 cents per stamp should go to: Du Bois Stamps, Postmaster, 3900 Crown Atlanta, GA 30304-9992. All requests must be postmarked by March 1. Available as of Friday The 29-cent commemorative, the 15th stamp in the series, will go on sale Friday at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta where Du Bois spent 25 years as a professor.

The stamp features two views of Du Bois, a head-and-shoulders portrait and a smaller view of him at a manual typewriter. The portraits are framed by a thin border, a typographical device rarely seen on recent stamps. Du Bois, born in Great Bar-rington, founded the Niagara Movement, the forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He died in 1961 at the age of 95. Postal officials are promoting the stamp along with 17 others honoring Black Americans in a hardcover 68-page book titled "I Have a Dream A Collection of Black Americans on Postage Stamps." The book, which includes a forward by "Roots" author Alex Haley, will sell for $17.95.

It will be available at many post offices after Saturday. The first stamped envelope to carry a hologram was such a hit that the Postal Service has brought back the space station design in the form of a 29-cent envelope. The envelope, which was released Tuesday in Virginia Beach, is essentially the same as the 25-cent envelope that was released Dec. 3, 1989, during World Stamp Expo '89 in Washington. This time, however, the accompanying denomination is printed in green not blue and the price is four cents higher: 34 cents.

Collectors seeking first-day cancellations of the space station hologram envelope may send a peelable self-addressed mailing label and 34 cents for each enve- AK J64 8 2 0 3 7 6 The bidding: South West North East 1 Pass 2 0 Pass 3 0 Pass 3 Pass 4 Pass Pass Pass Opening lead: Jack of Do you know how to think logically about the play of a deal? Why not take a look at the North-South holding, then walk with South through a contract of four spades on this specimen from a rubber bridge game. North-South were playing five-card majors with two-over-one responses forcing to game. Since a forcing raise of a major should not be made with only three-card support, North made a temporizing bid of two diamonds before setting spades as trumps. South had no aspirations beyond game. West leads the jack of clubs.

Are you at all concerned about your contract? If spades break 3-2, your contract is safe even if you lose a break. If West has the long trumps, you are going to have to lose two trump tricks, and you'll need some luck to, avoid losing two heart tricks even if the ace is onside West will have to hold at least three diamonds. What if East has the long spades? You can virtually guarantee your contract as long as one of East's trumps is the three. After winning the ace of clubs, lead a trump and just cover any card East plays. Assume it's the trey and you play the four.

As the cards lie, West wins and, let's say, continues clubs. You win and cash a high spade to reveal the break. Cross back to the table with a diamond, take the marked trump finesse and claim. If East plays a higher spade on the first lead, win the king and enter dummy with a diamond or a club to lead another trump. Again, your intention should be to cover any card East might play, thereby assuring that you will lose a trick only to the safe hand.

Thursday; Waller Hall at Willamette University in Salem, to be released Saturday, and the Great Hall at Ellis Island, N.Y., to be released May 11. Postal cards will also salute the America's Cup competition in San Diego, May 8, and the Columbia River Gorge on May 9 in Astoria, a 29-cent envelope will honor disabled Americans on July 22. The U.S. Postal Service has issued its new Eagle and Shield non-denominated coil stamp with a value of 10 cents, the Associated Press has announced. The new design features a stylized, open-winged eagle in gold tones with a red, white and blue shield across its chest lope requested to: Space Station Stamped Envelope, Postmaster, P.O.

Box 2215, Virginia Beach, VA 23450-9992. These requests must be postmarked by Feb. 20. The envelope is one of nine pieces of postal stationery that the Postal Service will issue during the year. One of the most intriguing will be a 29-cent envelope made from recycled paper that will carry a "Protect the Environment" theme.

It will be released in Chicago on April 22. Other stationery releases include four postal cards saluting historic buildings: Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, which was released on Jan. 16; Cobb Hall at the University of Chicago, which was released Movie rights to Fischer biography sold for $100,000 SOLVE-IT AFTER T7RXC3? Chess 'Now is the time to tell Fischer's By Shelby Lyman Basic Chess Features I've long been an admirer of Frank Brady's meticulous in- BEGINNER'S CORNER Karpov mw mm 7 3. Nf3 4. g3 5.

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Qd4 21. Bxf3 22. Rxf3 23. b3 24. Rd2 b6 Ba6 Bb7 c5 Bxc5 o-O Be7 Na6 Nc5 Qc8 N(c)e4 Rd8 d6 Nxc3 e5! Nh5 e4 exf3 Bxf3 Bf8 Re8 Qc6 depth biography, "Bobby Fischer: Profile of a Prodigy." Brady, a longtime friend of Fischer, played a major role on the American chess scene as editor, writer and organizer during Fischer's formative years.

But despite his own involvement, he manages a remarkably restrained and objective account of the Brooklyn chess genius. Recently, film rights to the book were acquired by Darnay Hoffman Films for $100,000. Hoffman, a lawyer from a family with a background in radio and theater, has long been fascinated by the Fischer phenomena and its TV and film potential. "Now is the time to tell Fischer's story," says Hoffman. "Twenty years is a long time for Fischer to be out of the public eye.

He is one of the few important prodigies America has pro- duced, an authentic genius, the Mozart of chess. "Seemingly brash and self-confident, Fischer is a loner who struggled to achieve greatness against enormous odds. America loves the underdog. Although curiously, Fischer was even more of a hero to Russians than Americans. "In the '50s and '60s there was a crisis in American education.

We had an inferiority complex vis-avis the Russians. Remember Sputnik? "The Russians placed enormous importance on their chess prowess, and suddenly there was an American chess genius able to compete with them, on their own a terms. His victory was a shock to their cultural nervous system." Hoffman praises Brady for his ability to capture the milieu in which Fischer developed. "The book describes skillfully," he explains, "what it was like to play chess as Fischer grew up." Below is a win by ex-world champion Anatoly Karpov over the Russian grandmaster Yevgeny Bareyev from the 1991 Til-burg Interpolis Tournament. Karpov became champion in 1975, when Fischer forfeited his title.

Bareyev Karpov 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 a Bareyev BLACK TO PLAY (See teit game score) Solution to Beginner's Corner: lQf8ch K86 (or Kh7) 2 BfS mate. a WHITE MATES IN 2 Whit moves Beginner's Corner hint and explanation: Finish with the bishop. White resigns (a).

(a) White is a piece behind with negligible compensation..