Evening Standard from London, Greater London, England • 13

I in EVENING 8TANDARD i 'r( WEDNESDAY JffLY lll72-i3 So you think dull chess REYKJAVIK Wednesday LAST night in Reykjavik Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky demonstrated that chess far from the boring academic game ithas the reputation of being is breathtaking as Cup Final football as gripping as the best of Wimbledon tennis and as tough as Canadian ice hockey Bobby Fischer the American (lullonger played a during Rune Unit will be discussed and remembered for decades to come Bnris Spassky the Soviet world champion met the challenger magnificently until the match adjourned at 930 pm local tunc (1030 pm in Britain) It left the chess world in cliff lianguig suspense Rather more than halfway through the match Fischer had made an extraordinary move when his black bishop took his opponent's white pawn thus leaving open bis bishop for confiscation by Spassky four moves later and leaving him Fischer with no worthwhile attacking piece on the board Chess experts gasped Was it Tj did ooo From MARY KENNY NEWS Row over in the SYDNEY Wednesday TIIE NEW South Wales Lawn Tennis Association last night recorded strong disapproval of nude sketches of Aus- -tralian champion Miss Evonne Gooiagong in the London newspaper The Sun The Association president Mr Esca Stephens said at a meeting of the management committee that he would ask the English Lawn Tennis Association to express concern to the newspaper Mr Stephens said after the meeting that Miss Gooiagong was depicted in a manner which caused 1 her distress and Opera-star dies at 47 AMKRIC'AX opera singer Jean Madeira (above) lias died at her home In Rhode Island after a two year illness She wag 47 Miss Madeira Joined the Metropolitan Opera in 1946 After a discouraging start to her rarrer in America she made her way to Europe and landed a contrart with the Royal Stockholm Opera in 195t Her rich dark voice was soon filling the major opera liouses of Europe The ew York Times called her one of the greatest European successes in American history Truman improves KANSAS CITY Missouri Former President Harry Truman 88 in hospital for an intestinal ailment was Improved today his doctors said (UPI) leaving the two only one space apart All during the night while Spassky slept three Russian Grand Masters worked intensely on all the next possible moves it would not be unfair to suggest that the entire chess brains of the Soviet Union are at his disposal whereas Fischer will have been silting up alone That is the mark of his exceptional that he can take on the collective Russian mastery by himself No phone calls will be flying back and forth to Washington one may be sure Even if Bobbv were not so fiercely proud or the Americans so ideologically opposed to that kind of tiling no one in Washington plays chess next move-sealed up By LEONARD BARDEN BORIS SPASSKY slept peacefully in Reykjavik last night while his seconds Ewllm (idler and Ivo Ney analysed the unfinished end game in the world chess match Seconds In international chess are on the payroll just so that a player can rest and be shown ihc winning or drawing moves before the game is resumed Squads of masters in Moscow's Central Chess Club arc also analysing the position and working out ways to beat Bobby Fischer Fischer analyses on his own or with his second Grand Master William Lombardy Can Spassky win? It all deixmds whether his king and bishop can stop and catch the black pawns on the king's side Spassky put his 41st move into sealed envelope ready for the resumption at 5 pm this afternoon Adjourned With smart tactics he adjourned half an hour early to enable his seconds to analyse rather than try to work out a win across the board AkiKwt certainly Spassky has sealed 41 PxP forcing Fischer to recapture by 41 KxP Can Spassky now break through with his king? Probably not for If 43 115 Fischer keeps the king airt by 42 B4 Oun Spassky stop Fischer's Fincher would rather resign than draw That's his nature: It began in the usual way that is to say Fischer arriving late The stadium surprisingly not quite full to its 2500 capacity waited with bated breath at 5 pm local time Spassky who is any girl's fancy with his ruffled locks and good-little-boy manners arrived exactly on time and within two minutes made his first move with his white men: pawn to Queen a text book opening Eight minutes later Fischer who is pretty after an athletic session but no fancy and probably no man's either because of these robot lights vibrations he sends out sort of loped out on stage Captured Hands were briefly shaken and almost immediately Fischer pushed his black knight to King's Bishop three Still textbook It is called the Nimzo-Indion engagement after Nimzo-vitch who invented it It consists of pawn to Queen's Knight four The game proceeded at first in a fast way with a fair amount of brisk activity Bishop to queen three pawn to queen's bishop four castled knight to bishop three pawn to rook three bishop to rook four knight to queen two black pawn takes bishop's pawn Spassky was the first to lose a piece Soon they swapped queens And a pair of knights When that happened which was moves 16 and 17 tne txt book was deported from The board cleared of many of the pieces and the hard concentration set in Spassky takes longer to move than Fischer Fischer is infinitely more fidgety leaning forward and lolling back a lot in his large swivel chair his long legs all over the place his long fingers covering his face when he is concentrating on a move They arc allowed to walk about on stage or even disappear backstage briefly on their honour Spassky who I favour because he is a true gentleman a proletariat gentleman with a stoical and introvertedly heroic streak all quiet and anguished inside while so impeccable to the exterior world and what girls call a real man seems tranquil and silent in all his motions The whispers When Fischer lost his bishop on the 34th move the Russians and Yugoslavs immediately started to whisper that he had lost But of course he has not The game rcadjourns tonight all through the night chess masters here have been attempting to play out the end game There are now 11 pieces on the board six of Fischer's black men comprising his king in position K5: and five pawns in positions QR3 QKt2 K3 KB 5 and KKt2 Spassky's five white pieces consist of his king in position KR4 liis bishop in QB5 and his three pawns in QR4 QKt 6 and K3 It will be Spassky's move when they start again He is considered likely to move his white pawn to capture Fischer's black and to see his own captured in an error? Or a deliberate tactic A mainstream school of thought was that Fischer had perceived that as the game was going ho could only draw at best And so he burst forth into one of his brilliant and eccentric gestures AWAITING the nest Fischer is black and Spassky white pawns? 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