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NASHUA TELEGRAPH, NASHUA, N. H. WEDNESDAY, SEPT 29,1965 Why Chess Is a Young Man's Game! By HAROLD C. SCHONBKKG (Cl 1985 N. Y.

Timn NIKI lirnim NEW YORK Bobby Fischer, the other day, gave a demonstration of why chess is young mini's game. Ho arrived at the Marshall Chess club at 3 p.m., nodded curtly to the referee, slipped into his seat and spent the next 7 hours and 14 minutes in a dis- cinlined fiercely intellectual world of his own a world without speech, virtually without motion, lime and space suspended. lie got himself into i nagging, exasperating, purely tactical kind of name with Elcazar Jiminez, the champion of Cuba. Playing black pieces against the Sae- misch attack, Bobby, the United Slates champion, worked out a tiny, tiny edge. For hours he bent every resource to exploit It.

At 10:14 p.m., after Jlmlnra had sealed his forty-first move, Bobby walked out of the Marshall Chess club, his face as expressionless as It had been when he walked In. The game was adjourned to 10 a.m. the next day. Bobby walked, alone, around the block to the Fifth av hotel, where he was staying. But not to sleep.

He had to figure out the possibilities of the adjourned position. He did not wish to play for a draw, for he badly needed this win. He had literally hundreds of variations to prepare before 10 a.m. And he also was faced with a full game against a new opponent, Johannes Donner of Holland, at 3 p.m. Thus In a period of 30 hours he got at most three or four hours of sleep.

That Is why tournament chess is a young man's game. Players have been known to drop 15 pounds during the course of as long a tournament as the one in which Bobby is currently engaged. Jiminez is not well-known player, and his cable match with Bobby attracted little attention. Most of the action of the seven hours took place in the wire room, where the Cuban govern- rrvnt had set up teletype and telephone facilities after the State had refused to give Bobby a visa. William Slater, Bruce Altschuler.

Larry Christopher and Joel Yoffie were in the room. Slater, 59, was in charge. He Is one of the governors of the Marshall Chess club, and he shared the teletype keyboard with the 19- year-old Bruce. Larry, 17, did clerical work, entering the notations of all the moves. Joel, 20, was the runner, bringing the moves of Jiminez from the wire room to the room In which Bobby was playing.

He would wait there until Bobby had made his move, and then he would run it back. A little before .1 p.m. Slater was exchanging chitchat with his opposite number in Havana, he suddenly let out a yell. The teletype had clattered the news that Ratmir Chotaiov of Russia had won from Borislav Kvkov of Yugoslavia. "Wait'll Bobby hears about this!" Slater chortled.

Ivkov was in second place, Bobby third. If Bobby were to win his game, only half a point would separate them. Jiminez had made Us first move promptly at 3. Bobby glanced at the board when he entered, Immediately made move and punched Mi ride the double-faced clock, stopping Us and selling Jlmloei' In motbon. The referee Sol Rubin, president of the Marshall Chess club notatcd the move on a piece of paper and gave It to Joel, who ran it to the wire room.

Larry hottted it on two score pads and Slater punched it out: "Blacks first move knight king bishop three. Time three one." Cuba repeated it, followed by an O.K. Total time elapsed was about 20 seconds. 'A man named Victor Kautzmann is at the other end," said Slater. "He went lo college in America.

He the weather's warm and sunny in Havana. He always says the weather's warm and sunny in Havana." Two hours later, the pace of the game had slowed considerably, as it always does. Master players make the opening moves almost by rote; they are in well- analyzed sequences. After the tenth move or so, though, opening theory no longer serves, and the imagination of the player is brought into play. In his room, Bobby was seated in his usual position close to the board, elbows on Die table, hands circling his head.

Once in a great while he would get up, pace nervously and seat himself again. He had a bowl of fruit in front of Mm, and concentrated on a large bunch of grapes. It was dead quiet, and the only noise in the room came from the clocks and the au 1 conditioner. In the main room, where a huge replica of the game was mounted on a board hung on the wall, six men, obviously strangers, sat without talking and stared at the position. Around 6:30, Bobby ordered his dinner.

He asked for Us usual-a bowl of vegetable soup, a let- luce and tomato sandwich with pickle, and a glass of milk. By then a new referee was in the room. David Hoffmann, vice- president of the American Chess federation, had relieved Rubin. The people in the wire room also ordered sandwiches. Slater told Cuba he was ordering dinner.

"So are we," Cuba said. "We have a Chinese waiter. His name is Macoo." While Bobby ate, he never took his eyes from the board. An hour later he was still staring. And an hour after that.

And an hour after that. The same six viewers sat motionless in the main room. Everything was still, and even the air felt heavy. When Bobby quietly slipped out, they all got up and left. Slater remained behind to clear the teletype and confirm resumption of play at 10 the following morning.

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