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1 t- MIAMI HER LD Wednesday Teb 4 1953 Chess Cup Delayed by Junior High Quiz Bobby handles himself like -w vw it 1oif uninitiated consider chess champions as doddering old gras beards who hardly can lift their heads from over a chess hoard They see groups of these antiquated brains silting hoar after hour trying to un fathom the uiles of their equally senile opponents But such is far from the truth oting men are the best chess players in general and in particular the American champion and international grandmaster of the game ts unable to rereiie his championship cup because the attendant ceremonies might interfere with his cramming for his junior high school examinations Bobby Fischer's unusual story is uortli-u bile reading i a 1 4 fvi4 hM I r-oi Srjf jmm timers at the Manhattan and Marshall chess clubs He was 14 when he beat famed Samuel Reshev sky then 46 for the US championship the first timp Repeating the feat a second year sealed achievement It be twice Short on friends his own age Bobby spends most of his after-school hours studying books on chess (which he remembers practically totally) and playing the game with adults Winning chess demands athlete -type training boning up on past games planning strategy That plus schoolwork puts a heavy straui on time For those who dare hope to checkmate the young champion or others just interested in how he does it book publishers Simon and Schuster are bringing out Fischer's Games of Nearing 16 surrounded by chess glory Bobby is beginning to notice the wrorld now and then other night he even came up and shook hands with my said a pleased former champion old enough to be a basketball player long-limbed and loose-jointed dropping a chess piece into place a fast game of 10 seconds a move) or (no pauses at all) He likes sports Some New York reporters have shined up to him by taking him to hockey games or hitting tennis balls with him A ski pro traded ski lessons for chess lessons with Bobby At Erasmus High he studied Russian to use In Moscow pretty good at Spanish and I like science astronomy most of he saj Born March 12 1943 Bobby loved puzzles as a baby according to his mother Mrs Regina Fischer a nurse His parents were divorced when he was two Ills sister taught him chess when he was six In fourth grade he won a scholarship to a Brooklyn school where his chess was encouraged At the Brooklyn Chess Club president Carmine Nigro me more than Bobby recalls By the time he was 12 he was taking on big- Bv MILT FREl DEXHEIM Mliml Hcrld-Cbtc Xw Win NEW YORK International grandmaster of chess Robert Fischer asked that presentation of his second consecu-tne championship cup be dclajed briefly The presentation would hare conflicted with his preparations for midyear examinations at Erasmus High School where 15-year-old Fischer is in his junior year Bobby Fischer said to be the joungest international grandmaster in the history of chess won't slight his school-work I had a lot of money I'd like to play in chess tournaments (and nothing else) But you make a living in he says His prize as American champ as $600 It took the combined efforts of a television show wealthy chess patrons the US State Department and the Soviet government to get him to Europe for big matches last year And the fact that Bobbj away from the chess is just a typical big clumsy shy self-centered teenage kid from Brookljn has cooled the ardor of would-be patrons more than once But the champ playing chess is another story He held his own with some of the best at the interzonal tourney last summer at Portoroz Yugoslavia as enthu- s'C'i tory to deliberately repel the advances of would-be biogra-pheis from Digest and the Saturday Evening Post Bobby contends the press aims to use him in a conspiracy make chess olayers look like funny Actually he looks like the boy down the block favoring bright flannel shirts never a tie corduroy slacks unshined shoes crew cut brown 1 needing a trim even on an evening trip to a chess club in Manhattan Press International Photo s'v "-WA siastic Yugoslav fan dubbed him won the right to return in September 1959 for eight-man playoffs The 3959 winner takes on world champion Mikhail Bot-vinmk of Russia in 1960 If by some combination of wizardry and good luck a teenage American beats the Soviet world champion the repercussions could be awesome In contrast to the which ignores chess and kids its experts the Soviets teach the game in school Russian champs are pampered given soft jobs and movie-star treatment But like competing with the Russians sputniks and luniks polishing up Bobby Fischer will not be easy The six-foot Chicago-born chess genius wishes the public would please go away He may be the first boy his age his- Champion Visits Hospital for a Chess Came Bobby Fischer plas Bruce Campbell confined to iron lung A School With a Purpose You Can Learn How lo Farm-In New York City the knowledge he accumulated in the vocational school system "This is a huge city with huge Becker said entire purpose of the vocational schools is to prepare young-steis for skilled trades and in of performing art-j AFL-C'IO President George a learned to be a plumber in a New York city trade school Charles Wilson rose to become president of the General Electric Co starting ith erintendent of schools in charge of the vocational schools said the institutions under his jur-isdiction have produced many famous persons Actress Susan Strasberg was graduated from the school crease the productive capacity of adults already employed in those trades attract or keep manufacturers without skilled manpower The time to teach a trade is when people are ed with a new piece of printing equipment so advanced that it has not yet been put on sale The manufacturer wants people to be trained to run the machinery before selling iL Philip Becker assistant sup g-M 'i! sn hi I1 'I'l'ijff'f'nin ti hi mi ij mi'! nv i iiif'H'iiiiii'tHi'ri'ir im ipn" ii i liillii i 111) JiiifillUliii 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extensive formal classroom trade school system in the nation The schools have a full-time day registration of 40000 youngsters studying to be secretaries cooks bookbinders gravestone makers and other occupations A total of 35000 adults attend night school to brush up on their occupational skills A girl can learn to work as a restaurant hostess a cashier or a dressmaker among other things There is training in jewelry manufacture stone carving barbering and wiring burglar alarms An old Liberty ship tied up on the East River serves as a school for training merchant seamen Gas pumps are being installed in a new school where filling station attendants will be trained A two-engine plane has been given to the new aviation trades school to train mechanics Students at the printing trades school have been provid with this skilled man Press Wirephoto ALL HE WANT for Christmas was his two front teeth the story on little Chris Stanley who was born Christmas week with two teeth Chris kept biting himself so Dr William Gray had to pull them both out Here Dr Gray gets ready to make the extractions while mom Mrs Jack Stanley of Inglewood Calif holds her son Demo Digest Coes Coed sjgCTmiamiBB Gals Pay Way 9 Crash Party Magazine Walker Laramore noted the change and said the decision to add the newsletter means women will receive this helpful material and more men will know about the varied and successful activities of our Democratic Tl WASHINGTON IT) Financial problems have forced1 the Democratic Digest to go coed The official monthly publication of the Democratic National Committee includes a two-page section and" About This was added because the Office of Activities found itj financially impossible to get out a free monthly newsletter which it has been distributing to 30000 Democratic women Katie Lourhhelm Democrat- i ic vice chairman and director of activities explained the plight of the newsletter in the Digest She said that from this Issue on the Digest will include a new 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