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Newsday (Nassau Edition) from Hempstead, New York • 28

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Hempstead, New York
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28
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JL yr ''Vj i I- i Chess World Waits and Waits In Reykjavik Combined New Service Reykjavik Bobby Fischer Jg headed home No he Bobby flecher continue hoe woild championship chess match with Boris Spassky Yea he will Bobby Fischer fe a camera enthusiast Lake hell The third game between the American challenger and Spassky the reigning champion is scheduled to start tomorrow at 1 PM (5 PM EDT) if Fischer chows up He appear for second tMi when the organizers failed to honor his request that three hidden cameras be removed from the Sports Palace site of the matches The game waa awarded to Spassky by default giving the Russian a 2-0 lead in the $250000 tournament Fischer protested hut an appeals committee yesterday rejected his request to replay the game 6o Fischer has now lost two matches and two protests He may be ready to pack it in and ily back to 't: ama7 Hais played Finnish style or a hu9 pa I' during an old Veta AWqmst tries his hard with aisht-pcurd chessman wk'e ns can ba played as an outdoor sport until 3 AM durirg Firnsh tummeu In New York that captured the Editorial 7110 Fischer Forfeit Page 16 New York Rumors of a Fischer withdrawal circulated here yesterday They were denied fcy Rev William Lombardy Fischer second heard anything about that end I hope not the Catholic priest said "Everything is stilly up in the air We have settled nothing so Meanwhile the president of the Icelandic Chess Federation indicated his group was considering removal of the cameras which Fischer claimed distracted him while he WS6 losing his opening game to Spassky "If it all boils down to cameras or no cameras I guess try to remove said Gumurdur Tho-Tarinsson He added that if Fischer derides to quit and home the organizers will not award him the share of the pot There is considerable money involved here As a legitimate loser Fischer would be entitled to $46875 from Ihe Icelandic sponsors $45000 from a purse of about $120000 offered fcy British financier James Slater and $27500 from television and movie fights Fischer remained in his hold room yesterday moaning about rejection of his latest protest In a seven-page letter to Lothar Schmid Ihe chief referee the American said he had been told the cameras would be silent end Invisible but could have been farther from the Fischer added bungling unknowns who claimed to be professional cameramen were clumsy rude end deceitful The only thing invisible silent and out of eight were the organizers It seemed to me that the organizers deliberately tried to upset and provoke me fcy the way they coddled and kowtowed to lhat canoera cipw A copy of Fischer's letter of protest was delivered to hotel by the challenger himself He stuck the sealed envelope in Spassky's message box The Russian read it as he was eating breakfast in the hotel dining room He said about everything except Cheater Fox ihe New York promoter who bought the film rights 1o the championship said he discussed arrangements with Fischer at the Yale Club in New Ycrk June 28 i In Helsinki Who laid chen an outdoor urprecedentad heatwave Tsn ysar uKriless dpperent Iccfcs on Chess In Moscow Moscow (AP) park bench chew players wed to call Hm Now They wed to respect end even privately root for Ihe American who the world chew crown They don't anymore slightly touched in the head" muttered a drew enthusiast as his erponent pondered the next move on a board balanced across a bench About 6000000 Ruseians take chew seriously end a growing feeling among them that Fist her has become downright insulting is chew not raid one chess fan no There was only praise for Boris Fpawky the Russian world champion who has waited patiently in Reykjavik Iceland as Fischer causes delay after delay ever his demands for more money for better lighting anti at las report for the removal of film cameras from the match rite It waB lf-ccnfidence his individuality end bis public claim 1m being the best chew player imagination For hope bored with the knowledge that the world crown has remained in Russian hands for 24 years the man the street was not overly distraught when Fischer crushed Tigran Petrosian for the right to face Spassky The prospect of a major Scvitt-American confrontation ever the chess board was exciting and appe aling But the admiration has turned to disgust For the park bench players Fischer is either or scared The news rredtia here devoted much attention to tie chess match but the average Russian tine player knows Fischer is down two points and that Spassky even begun to fight (VnfuNid at first but willing to ncccpt Ihe American's desire for more money most cf the park playe rs now attribute Fisohe Jr-test de mands 1o fear of eh teat at the hands cf ihe world champion To the accompaniment of his nodding heaels on elderly Muscovite explained lhat "Fischer is mealing a tig hullabalco about nothing because he thinks going to lose an arlifieial alibi in case he needs to justify a New Yewk (UPI is-mcntal Bobby Fisther nay le a nuisaneo to international 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