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ESection Gannett Suburban NewspaperaSunday August 2 1992 BEGINNER'S CORNER wg EIHia "Early airmails were wise investments A reader has inquired about oammmmmmmaa the value of US airmails and CTAMDQ whether they are good Invest- 1 ment SYD KRONISH a BY SHELBY LYMAN abode fg WMTE WMS THE QUEEN Mikhail Tal was a true Road Kansas City Mo 64108 Orders must be postmarked by Sept 19 db According Ho Baity Krause author of Stamps For Pleasure and Profit" the first 18 US airmail stamps (from 1918 through 1933) have proven to be sound investments over the long term The airmails should he clean undamaged well centered and with rich color Stamps on cover or plate blocks are the best -ways' to invest in these early airmails Krause notes that early airmails' that rare but' die tremendously popular Some collectors reflise to part with their airmails but if you are really interested he adds you should shop around for a seller SOLVE-IT APTKR 21 Ksg2 Tal Canada has Issued a souvenir sheet of 12 stamps depicting works of art by Canadian paint- era to mark the 125th anniversary of the nation's official founding The theme of the set cranes from Canada's national anthem expressing a line home and native Each painting features a site associated with a province or territory The souvenir sheet is arranged in a diamond shape with each stamp separated from an-' other by a Theta are Canada's first diamondshaped stamps The denomination of each stamp is 42 cents Also seen on the stamps are Day" and the national oak leaf symbol The province names are noted at the left and right of the illustrations CORNER hint and explanation Divert Its defender Jlikhail Tal the former world champion who recently died in Moscow at the age of 55 was an authentic genius of chess So awesome were his mental powers that one famous grandmaster complained that it was unfair to have to play Tal because he had the memory and calculating ability of a computer But Tal was much more than a human chess machine He was an elemental creative force as well a man who had a passionate love affair with chess and life itself His brilliance at the chessboard charming wit modesty and warmth earned him worldwide' admiration and affection From his youth the of suffered from chropic and often debilitating illness resulting finally in his premature death I first met Tal id 1956 -a vital dark-haired youth with a piercing but friendly stare and a striking charisma Thirty years later I met him again in Brussels He seemed 10 or 15 years older than his actual age But it was the same Tal with the same chess powers and wit and he was even more respected and admired than before Below 1 a dynamic draw Tal played with Bobby Fischer in the 1960 Leipzig World Chess Olympics Fischer Tal 1 e4 e6 2 d4 d5 3 NcS Bb4 4 e5 c5 5 a3 Ba5 6 b4 cxd4 A new 23-eent USA Presprted first class stamp has been issued by the US Postal Service The design features the' letters in the upper half of the stamp The letten reflect the red white and blue of a windblown American flagVThe word appear in white against the blue background of the stamp beneath the Mg USA First-day cancelations also are available to collectors as follows: You can buy the stamps at a post office affix to your ehvelopes add six cents more postage to meet the first class rate of 29 cents place in a larger envelope and mail to: Customer Affixed Envelopes USA Presort Stamp Postmaster 315 Pershing Road Kansu City Mo 64108-9991 For Postal Service affixing: The USPS will only affix one 23-cent USA -Presorted first class -stamp and twohree-cent Conestoga Wagon samps to meet the first clan rata Send your ntoney orders or checks for 29 cents per envelope to USA Presort Stamp Postmaster 315 Pershing Belgium has issued three new stamps featuring a trio of paintings by Belgian masters which now are on display at the Paris Orsay Museum' The paintings are by Jacob Smits by Alfred Stevens and Man At the by Theo Van Ryssel-berghe Also released by Belgian postal authorities is a set of five stamps featuring tourist attractions in that country Depicted are the Landcommandery Alden Biesen Mannaken Pis the town' of Andenne the Great Procession at Touraal and at Ronse Syd Kronisk is 'a syndicated writer whose column appears weekly Draw Note (a): White cannot avoid perpetual check Solution to CORNER: 1 RhOchTimri (the pawn is Qxg8 Shelby Lyman is a syndicated writer whose column appears weekly European to be on view at US museums GIBS? 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