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il KS Fischer Down 1 Game May Sit Out the Next One Combined New Service Reykjavik Iceland Bobby Fkcher one game down in his bid for the world chess championship threatened early today to stay away from the second game unless all television cameras were removed from the auditorium international chess sources said Fischer who lost the opening game to world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union on the 56th move yesterday made his demand known at a 1 closed-door meeting with representatives of the International Chess Federation the Icelandic organizers of the $250000 match and American companies owning the rights to televise the games The meeting lasted through the night without apparently solving the problem quite serious He may not play at said a member of entourage who did not want to be identified Ihe meeting produced a letter to Fischer appealing to him to accept the presence of the cameras and go on playing and the contest judge said simply "There will be a match tonight If Fischer appear he will take the The game could be declared forfeited if Fischer appear within an hour of starting time 5 PM (1 PM EDT) Angered by the presence of two dosed -circuit television cameras high above the contest stage Fischer got up and walked out for 35 minutes during the second day of play yesterday He later returned and conceded to the Russian on- the 56th move Judge Lothar Schmid said the chess federation could not accept latest demands because the so-called made by the organizers and the two players allowed closed-circuit TV coverage of the match the sources said Fred Cramer vice president of the US Chess Federation who announced demand at the dosed meeting noted that the 29-year-old American challenger had never signed the agreement but officials said they felt Fischer was bound by it because he had cabled his acceptance Income from the TV rights were vital to the Icelandic organizers who said they could lose nearly $100000 if the match were called off Flay yesterday lasted only one hour and three minutes session had adjourned sfter 40 moves with Fischer in a position the experts said could give him only a draw at best Spassky had his king a bishop that controlled the black diagonals and three pawns Fischer was down to his king and five pawns two of them loose on the side One cl pawns threatened a Fischer pawn when play concluded Tuesday night In the first move yesterday Spassky captured the pawn Fischer recaptured with his king and the game turned into an effort by Fischer to push his pawns a square at a time to the last rank under the escort of his king In ensuing play all the pawns on the side were lost Fischer shifted his king in a hopeless struggle to the other side of the board where two of his pawns and two of blocked each passage Fischer unblock because bishop could protect his position from long range Finally after 56th his king approached the jam on the side Fischer resigned He reached over and stopped his clock He offered Spassky his hand folded his scorecard and walked out pausing once to wave to the audience Fischer left the hall whitefaced and hurried to a waiting car From the car he spotted John Collins a paraplegic sitting a few feet away in a wheel chair Collins taught Fischer the game Fischer rolled down the car window and said sorry It will settle He left immediately for his air-conditioned hotel HOW IT ENDED: The chessmen stood like this at the conclusion cf the first game Fischer (the black pieces! gave up when he saw he could not prevent Spassky from moving his only surviving pawn to Fischer's side cf the board thus turning it into a queen the most powerful piece in the game An Analysis: Chess Makes Its Move By Isaac Kashdan International Grandmaster When Bobby Fischer and lfoiis Spassky resumed play in the second session of their first match game it was clear to the experts that Rpasskv slrould win Fischer continued the game yestrrday for an additional 15 moves them resigned He might have earned on for a few more moves or resigned earlier There was no longer any Itope for a draw task was not particulaily difficult lie had gained a bishop late in the first session due to an error by Fischer Fischer had two pawns as compensation for the bishop but tliey were separated and weak The pawns soon fell as a result of Sparky's good coordination of his king and bisliop There were thpn two courses open to Fisclter but there was no real hope with either one The one lie chose was to attack rook pawn Spassky had no objection going after queen-side pawns as Die quickest winning method Spassky would fire his one remaining pawn and in a few moves advance it to queen Whenever pawn moved up tlio long-ranging bishop was there to hold it The alternative course for Fischer was 0 retreat his king to QB1 or thereelouls 0 defend his remaining pawns This would have led to a draw if Spassky's pawn had been on R5 instead of R4 In that case all the pawns on the queen side would have been blocked and immobile king could never have Wen driven off with a constant danger of stalemate This is an unusual little-known position in which White cannot force a win despite the fact he has position Fortunately for Spassky the one rquare Wfwccn the pawns can be utilized In the game had Fisclier chosen the retreat indicated Spassky would stalemate the black king forcing the pawn to move He would then release the stalemate with his bishop and move to capture the pawn With his second pawn free Spassky would win routinely When play resumed Lasker kept moving his magnetic pieces and pointing out why things were getting blacker for Fischer "He save Lasker predicted "If he plays the pawn to rook four then in five moves Even if he plays the bishop to follow with the king in six moves He recalled a game in 1912 in which he defeated the British champion announced a checkmate in eight moves That game you can find in every chess Some of the spectators still hoped for a draw think he can draw because one said would have resigned if as hopeless as everyone But Lasker kept pointing to an innocent-looking' white pawn on the left border of the board fourth line that were moved up one square Fischer could run into the corner and get a he raid Comerford I 1 1 I I il i 4 Chess players never had it to good-For all those years hardly anybody in the United States knew or cared about the game they play so passionately Now suddenly all over the newspapers and television very big Fischer has done a great thing for American said Howard Ostennan a bearded CCNY student He was one of a score of buffs who gathered yesterday at the Marshall Chess Club to see the windup of first game against defending world champion Boris Spassky of Russia Ihe dub is a big airy austerely decorated room ori the second flow of a red brick building on West 10th Street in Greenwich Village All around the room members had set up boards matching the positions when play was suspended Tuesday They tried' move after move trying to figure some way Fischer could salvage a draw With the relish of baseball fans second-guessing a suicide squeeze or football freaks debating a fourth-and-one gamble they argued as they waited for play to begin about the move that had put Fischer in trtouble 1 His 29th move Tuesday took a baited pawn which cost him a bishop was very Ostennan said all aaw Fischer would be rFete Sepulveda a Columbia student said ouch a genius you think perhaps wrong that he has something up his sleeve Still it was a bad David Joseph an aooountant disagreed was he insisted "It waa psychology to show Spassky that there going to be any easy diawe to play on five-hour games the brain gets very said Dr Edward Lasker "Blunders are made Fischer risked too i The members had expected to see play on television but discovered that their set had been burglarized during die night They got the moves by phone 1 from United Press International Lasker a small white-haired 66-year-dd international master long retired from competition worked them out with magnetic pieces on a big wallboard and analyzed the developments After the first few moves came the frantic report 1 leaped from his chair in a fury end walked 1 off leaving the dock that Oaterinari said i a genius and they are1 ternpde pnlveda said I The 56 Moves: the white king always defends the pawn if the bishop attacks it The spectators nodded soberly Finally a man came back from the phone to announce that Fischer had givenup There will be many who believe he deserved to lose the first game that he should have forfeited it for not being in Iceland when the match was scheduled to start But the members of the Marshall Chess Club agree of the things Fischer has done reflect poorly on the Sepulveda conceded "but all for him one of the greatest believe he should have been Oaterman said of his gripes are Ignacy Grosman who was thought to be grandmaster material as a youth in Poland but decided he did not want to become obsessed by the game thought penalizing Fischer would have been dangerous he raid "I know him in person He is not stable He could commit suicide Remember many geniuses crack under the strain Btrera in this gams is beyond Grosman raid quictiy is the moet beautiful most profound game You could play every day for 50 yean and never have the same exact game The variations are infinite Hie brain can only take a certain 1 "SI I Ttondoy July 13 1972.