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Wednesday July 19 1972 THE WICHITA EACLE Page 3A Wichitans Like Fischer Watch on Eagle Wires WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP Game 4 DRAW vim 4 4" Odalisque Fragrance Boutique Spassky demanded a certain size board The two went through four boards before they found ono they liked He said the size of the squares was important that there was a special relation between the board and player He added that players thought in looking as far as 10 moves ahead SINCE CHESS competition in Wichita is limited players like Prichard and DeJong play through the mail sending their moves in letters Prichard said he is involved in about 10 such games playing opponents in New York and California His farthest game was' with a player in Spain Mail games take up to six months to complete FISCHER Nile three rich mists spirited eau do-parfum mist provocative perfume oil spray and persistent perfume mist oz each If cosmetics downtown twin comers twin lakes OLBIA Sardinia (AP) Goeran Gentele 55 new general manager of New York Metropolitan Opera and two of his daughters were killed Tuesday in a traffic accident on the island of Sardinia police said Gentele and daughters Anne 21 and Beatrice 15 were killed when their car collided with a truck three milca from Palau on northern coast officers added GENTELE took over as head of the Metropolitan Opera from Sir Rudolph Bing on June 30 He had been vacationing on this Mediterranean island west of the Italian mainland Police said his wife Marie and another daughter Janet 27 were hurt in the accident and were taken to a hospital Gentele was general manager of Stockholm Royal Opera Co before his appointment to the Metropolitan IN NEW YORK Anne Gordon a spokesman for the opera said just out of our minds We had all learned to love him in just the short time he had been She said the opera season would go on but just how was uncertain we can go ahead with the season the way he outlined she said Mayor John Lindsay called the accident a tragedy" and added: Gentele was a great artist most certainly headed for further DIAGRAM SHOWS FINAL POSITION OF BOARD Russian US chess champ agreed to draw Bobby Boris Battle to Draw mail phone orders add 3 tax $1 for mailing By SCOTT SPREIER Eagle Staff Writer While temperamental Bobby Fischer battles Boris Spassky for the chess championship in Reykjavik Iceland chess enthusiasts in Wichita sit huddled over checkered boards following the match play by play Nightly local players set up boards in The Eagle news- room and follow the games as they come in from wire services DAVID DEJONG who was runnerup in the state tourney earlier this year said Tuesday watching Fischer was similar to watching a pro athlete what you try to do is put yourself in their minds to see what things they think are important" said De-Jong adding it was also just fun to see what was happening DeJong in his 30's learned to play as a child but only took up the game seriously three years ago strictly a hobby" he said call it relaxation" Dan Prichard 24 who is the state chess champ also has been frequenting The Eagle to follow the match He agreed that watching it would help his game BOTH PRICHARD and DeJong compared Fischer to Muhammad AIL They said he was both hurting and helping the game Both favor the American although DeJong called him a DeJong pointed out that many Russian players also liked Fischer He explained that in Russia amateurs are i paid to play The more publi-f city the game receives the better off they are over there is much like football is to DeJong said a mighty good way to legally take out DeJong and Prichard agreed that the game could test nerves as Fischer has shown on occasion is an extremely nerve-racking said DeJong an extremely arduous game at that i anything but relaxed in a tourney" he said DeJONG SAID that in chess one had no one to blame for failure but himself and players take out frustrations by hitting someone as in other sports a battle of the said Prichard really depressing to lose something like that There is a lot of ego DeJong did not think it was unusual that both Fischer and first white and then black setting the pace HERE IS the play move-by-move in the fourth game of the world championship chess match Fischer Spassky (white) (black) 1 P-K4 P-QB4 2 N-KB3 P-Q3 3 P-Q4 PxP 4 NxP N-KB3 5 N-QB3 N-B3 6 B-QB4 P-K3 7 B-N3 B-K2 8 B-K3 0-0 9 OO P-QR3 10 P-B4 NxN 11 BxN P-QN4 12 P-QR3 B-N2 13 Q-Q3 P-QR4 14 F-K5 PxP 15 PxP N-Q2 16 NxP N-B4 17 BxN BxBch 18 K-Rl Q-N4 ELAPSED TIME: Fischer 44 minutes Spassky 26 minutes 19 Q-K2 QR-Q1 20 QR-Q1 RxR 21 RxR P-R4 Ck REYKJAVIK Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky struggled for five hours Tuesday in the fourth game of their world championship chess match then settled for a draw The score in the 24-game series now stands at 2 to for the Soviet champion and lto for the American challenger They play again Thursday THEY CALLED it quits at the 45th move The fight had been hard with a string of starting turnabouts Each contestant got half-point for the draw Spassky 35 won the first game and got the second by forfeit when Fischer failed to show The 29-year-old American won the third Spassky was stone-faced as he left the auditorium hardly acknowledging the applause of the crowd Fischer smiled and waved as he walked out Yugoslav grandmaster Svetozar Gligoric said Spassky had made a bad error on the 29th move throwing away the chance of a win US GRANDMASTER Robert Byrne said Spassky playing at a Blight disadvantage with the Mack pieces could have pocketed a draw at the 18th move by forcing an exchange of queens But the Russian chose to go for a win The game was packed with surprises with Bulgarians Traveling SOFIA Bulgaria (AP) -The Bulgarian Automobile and Touring Club now has about 200000 members the official news agency BTA disclosed we're turning the alligators loose FINAL TIMES Fischer 148 minutes Spassky 155 minutes United Savings Money Rates 6 5 Regular Passbook Savings UNITED SAVINGS AND LOAN 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