Newsday (Suffolk Edition) from Melville, New York • 29

Chess World Waits and Waits In Reykjavik Ctmbined News Service Reykjavik Iceland Bobby Fischer is headed home No he Bobby Fischer continue his world championship chess match with Boris Spassky Yea he wilt Bobby Fischer is a camera enthusiast Like hell The third game between the American challenger and Spassky the reigning champion is scheduled to start tomorrow at 1 PM (5 PM EBT) if Fischer shows up He appear for second game when the organizers failed to honor his request that three hidden cameras he removed from the Sports Palace site of the matches Hie game was awarded to Spassky by default giving the Russian a 24 lead in the $250000 tournament Fischer protested but an appeals committee yesterday rejected his request to replay the game So Fischer has now lost two matches and two protests He may be ready to pack it in and fly back to Editorial Fischer Forfeit' Page 16 New York Rumors of a Fischer withdrawal circulated here yesterday They were denied by Rev William Lombardy second heard anything about that and I hope not the Catholic piieet said "Everything is still 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 was losing his opening game to Spassky "If it all boils down to cameras or no cameras I guess try to remove them said Gumundur Tho-rarinsson He added that if Fischer decades to quit and return 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 the Icelandic sponsors $45000 from a purse of about $120000 offered by British financier James Slater and $27500 from television and movie rights Fischer remained in his hotel jroom yesterday moaning about rejection of his latest protest In a seven-page letter to Lothar Schmid the chief referee the American said he had been told the cameras would be silent and invisible but could have been farther from the Fischer added "The bungling unknowns who claimed to be profea- i-ional cameramen were clumsy rude and deceitful The only thing invisible silent and out of sight were the organizers It seemed to me that the organizers deliberately tried io upset and provoke me by the way they coddled and kowtowed to that camera crew A copy of letter of protest was delivered to hotel by the challenger himself He stuck the scaled envelope hi message box The Russian read it as he was eating breakfast in the hotel dining icotm He said about everything except Chester Fox the New York promoter who bought the film rights to ilhe championship said he discussed arrangements with Fischer at the Yale Club in New York June 28 itovis- rhvto In Helsinki Who said chen an outdoor game? Hera if played Finnish style on a huge park "board" during an unprecedented heatwave Ten-yeer-old Vea Ahlquist tries hs hand with aght-pound chessman whila his shirtless opponent looks on Chess can be played as an outdoor sport until 3 AM during Finnish summers If Xpu' York New York 1 Temperamental Bobby Fisclier may lie a nuisance to international chess officials but a bonanza to makers of chess pieces and boards and instructors in tlie ancient gome The chess men often with matching boards sell for anywhere from $5 to $1000 Occasionally tlie finer antique shofis have more exiiensive set Aliercrombie Filch possibly New most exclusive store catering to gaming and sports enthusiasts said I Fischer-Sixnky match has produced Ihe same kind tf stimulated ilemand for sets tliat Hie visit of tlie American table tennis team to China last win1cr crenled for ping pong tallies halls anil paddles the exclusive Fifth Avenue lmokslnre which has branches in Washington and Baris said sales of books aiiout how to jday chess which cost around $S95 on the average also have been good Chess instructors who charge f-r an hour as a rule have had a marked increase in business Public dies and checker halls that rent hoards and a place to play at $1 an hour per playc also reported a spurt in business that captured the i mo gi nation Perhaim bored with the knowledge that the world crown has remained in Russian hands for 24 years tlie man on the street was not overly distraught when Fischer crusher! Tigran Petrosian for the right to face Spassky The prospect of a major Sovicl-American confrontation over the chess board was exciting and appealing But the admiration has turned to disgust For the park bench players Fischer is either crazy or reared The news media here devoted much attention to tlw chess match but thp average Russian chess player knows Fischer is down two points and that Spassky even begun to fight Confused at first but willing to accept the American's desire for more money most of the park playprs now attribute latest demands to fear of defeat at Ihe hands of the world champion To the accompaniment of his nodding heads an elderly Muscovite explained that is creating a big hullabaloo about nothing because he thinks he's going to lose an artificial alibi in case he needs to justify a In Moxeow Moscow Moscow's park bench chess players used 1o call him Now They ured to respect and even privately root for the American who wants the world chess crown They anymore slightly touched in the muttered a chess enthusiast as his opponent pondered the next move on a board balanced across a bench About Russians take chess seriously and there a growing feeling among them that Fischer has become downright insulting is chess not baseball said one chews fan no There was only praise for Boris Spassky the Russian world champion who has waited patiently in Reykjavik Iceland as Fischer causes delay after delay over his demands for more money for better lighting ami at last report for the removal of film cameras from the match site It was self-confidence his individuality and bis public claim to being the test chew player.