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World Chess Championship I fa I Fischer's Big Dream Comes True On Suriddy By IAN WK'STKIUUtKN REYKJAVIK (UPI)-Bobby Fischer's blB dream coincs true Stindiiy when lie sits down at the checkered board lo play world chess chumplrm Rods Spassky of the Soviet Union, The American chess genius considers the 24-gamo world championship match a mere formality. lie has said time and again that if he just gels shot at the champion, ho is certain of defeating him. Ever since he learned to play chess in Brooklyn al the age of six, the lanky American grand master, now 29, has cherished one big become the world champion in the oldest and most sophisticated of games. If he there are many experts who believe he wilt become' the second American world chain plon In the long history or chess and the first hon-Husslan lo rule as champion' since Max Kuwe of tJio Netherlands held Uic tlllo briefly In the 1930s. Ho would also pocket five eights of Ihe prize money which tolnls.

$125,000. money was put up by the Icelandic government and the city of Reykjavik to win Ihe right lo slage the mulch in this unlikeliesl of on an island in Ihe stormtossed North Atlantic. the UNBELIEVABLE of the Irritated' him, Fischer mid Spassky, al chess board made of white am green Icelandic stones aiu seated In specially conslruclcc will ho placed stage In the hall. The organizers, awaro Fischer's hot temper, firs suggested thai a glass wall erected between the player and the crowd. But Fische rejected tiio proposal, Oilier tilings which Iwv come under fire from Fischo are the lighting and Ih ventilation in the hall and Ih luko of Gorman grand musuu 1 otliar Schmid.

as umpire. However, Icelandic chess arc KUllsfied thai 'Ischer will accept! Ihe arrange- usnls, They not even worried when Fischer abruptly change his arrival laic. "We are. satisfied, he will here In lime," they said, The games playc'J Sundays, Tuesdays and 'Thui'H days with adjourned gamcf ing on'. Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays.

Thi match Is scheduled-for gamos will when one of the Iwt has readied 12.5. points more. The players gel one poln fitr a win and half a point for draw. To retain tiis title, Spassk needs only 12 draw To win the title, Fischer wi have to score 32.5 points more, Under the F1DIQ nileF ischer and Spassky must make 40 moves in and a alf hours. If the game Is still ndcoideil 'then, it will be djourncd finished later lib both required to make 10 IOVCK; an hour.

A player out of limes forfeits Iho ame. Fischer has predicted in victory, Spassky efbised lo speculate ahout tlu malch, who won Ihe title in H'(if) from follow counlrymai 1'iurnn Pelroslan, is the favor 10 of Danish aiand ma.slo; f-arson. Larsen, who was defeated Klschcr in Ihii dmlmition the Reykjavik match an solved as Fischor's adviser a lime, feuls Spassky' experience from two previou world championship games an heller nerves will decisive, "Fischer is a genius, a Lebanon Daily News, Lebanon, Friday, Juno 30, 1972 player who fights as as Ihcrc. is a pawn left on ho hoard," Larsun said. "Bui have to a favorite, I vr.uld pick Sp'assky because-a! is routine and.

belter norvo ontrol." Spassky lias paid tribute to whom hu described as 'a remarkable chess playsr Without him the wrld of chess would lie very dall." While FischfU 1 Kfios on attack l.o win every f.ame and is off balance by a draw ssky has pnvud in previous es that he nan come bad from a scries of drawn game: lo KLi'i'e decisive wins. 'I'licj- have five tinv: l.efdc, wilh Spdhsky winnin llircc games and drawing tw But the Russi in, who leads (X'l'forlablc lite on his earning as a professions' chess playsr grees lhat FiEi'her has got Ktru fire. Spais-ky. told corrd- he would rather bo al me in with his amity and friends "sharing ornc wine, and playing chess or fun" than competing for world title in Bo.vkjuvlk. To Fischer cbcss Is alrmisi and Kymssky says ho ekes not understand liis obsession.

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Finally FIDE presented an ultimatum to Fischer: Accept Reykjavik or lose the right to a world championship match: At that stage, with his big dream threatened, i er agreed to the conditions offered by the Icelandic Chess Federation. The Icelanders, although there are only 200,000 of them, are chess-mad and the organizers say they are assured of sellout crowds of 5,000 in the Laugardals -Ho'ellin indour sports arena. The crowd is another potential cause of trouble with the temperamental American challenger, who has been known to leave games because the 289 .95 LB.R. Audio Associates, Inc. 18Z3 E.

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