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12 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1992 19 COURT AND SOCIAL Court Circular BALMORAL CASTLE 13th September Divine Service was held in Crathie Parish Church this morning. The Rev David Munro preached the sermon. BUCKINGHAM PALACE The Prince Edward? this morning September departed from Dyce Airport, Aberdeen, to the Paralympic Games in Barcelona, Spain. Lieutenant Colonel Sean O'Dwyer attendance. KENSINGTON PALACE 12th September The Duchess of Gloucester today visited South Glamorgan and was received arrival by Her Majesty's for South Glamorgan (Capt Norman LloydEdwards).

Her Royal Highness, Commandant-in-Chief, St John Ambulance, Wales, attended Welsh Cadet Forum at South Glamorgan County Council Headquarters, Cardiff, and later was present at a Reception at Mansion House. The Duchess of Gloucester, Patron, Bobath Centre, visited the opened Bobath Cymru, 19 Park Road, Whitchurch. Afterwards, Her Royal Highness attended a luncheon at Vale of Glamorgan Borough Council Civic Offices, subsequently visited St John Ambulance Barry Inshore Rescue Division. Miss Suzanne Marland was in attendance. FORTHCOMING Capt Newson and Miss LA Atkinson The engagement is announced between Captain Howard Newson, Anglian, elder son of Mr and Mrs Reece Newson, of York, and Louise, elder daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Atkinson, of York.

Mr PJ Kelly and Miss Stone The engagement is announced between Paul, son of Mr and Mrs John Kelly, of Liverpool, and Victoria, daughter of Cdr and Mrs Rodney Stone, of Marlborough. Mr Lander and Miss I Thomas The engagement is announced between David Robert, elder son of Mr and Mrs A Lander, of Malvern, Worcestershire, and Katharine Isobel, younger daughter of Dr and Mrs Thomas, of Denmead, Hampshire. WEDDINGS Mr A Pollock and Miss A Langrishe is being spent on the Continent. Mr A Norman and Miss Bingham The marriage took place on Saturday at St Patrick's, Enniskerry, Co Wicklow, of Mr Arthur Pollock, elder son of Mr and Mrs John Pollock, of. Mountainstown, Co Miss Atalanta Langrishe, youngest daughter of Sir Hercules and the Hon Lady Langrishe, of Arlonstown, Dunsany, Co Meath.

The Very Rev JAG Barrett, Dean of Clonmacnoise, officiated. The bride, who was given away by her father, was attended by Miss. Leanda Hutton, Richard and Victoria Langrishe and Alice Markes. Rupert Pollock was best man. A reception was held at Powerscourt and the honeymoon The marriage took place on Saturday in the Cathedral Church of St John the Evangelist, Brecon, Wales, of Mr Jesse Norman, eldest son of Mr and Mrs Torquil Norman, of London, and Miss Kate Bingham, daughter of Sir Thomas and Lady Bingham, of London.

The Dean of Brecon, the Very Rev Huw Jones, officiated. The bride, who was given away by her father, was attended by Nick, Lewis and Tom Dawnay. Mr Casey Norman was best man. A reception was held at the home of the bride and the honeymoon is being spent abroad. Mr EH Guinness and Miss A Cubitt The marriage took place on Saturday at the Priory Church of St Mary, Usk, of Mr.

Christopher Guinness, elder son of Sir Howard and Lady Guinness, of Sherborne, Dorset, and Miss Alicia Cubitt, daughter of Mr TB Cubitt, of Kintbury, Berkshire, and Mrs Dean, of Usk, Gwent. The Rev Davies officiated. The bride, who was given away by her father, was attended by Miss Natasha Cubitt, Ishbel Campbell, Isabella Gent, Katherine and Laura Rollo and Henry James. Mr Dominic Guinness was best man. A reception was held at the home of the bride and the honeymoon is being spent abroad.

Mr Davies and Miss McLaren The marriage took place on Sept 5 at St Peter's Church, Little Rissington, Gloucestershire, of Mr Nigel Davies, elder son of Mr and Mrs Yorwerth Davies, of Penscynor, Neath, and Miss Emma McLaren, elder daughter of Sir Robin and Lady McLaren, of the British Embassy, Peking. The Rev Nigel Abbott officiated, assisted by the Rev David Bush. The bride, who was given away by her father, was attended by her sister, Miss Jessica McLaren. Mr Paul Hirst was best man. A reception was held at the Lords of the Manor, Upper Slaughter, and the honeymoon is being spent in France.

Dr Saward and Mrs NJ Whittingham The marriage took place quietly on Friday, Sept 11, in the Lake District, between Dr Michael Peter Saward and Mrs Nicola Judy Templeton Whittingham Brett). Mr du Pare Braham and Miss 0 Baldwin The marriage took place on Saturday, Sept 12, 1992, at Farm Street Church, Mayfair, London, W1, of Mr. Guy Beetham Maurice Henry du Parc Braham, eldest son of Mrs Susanne du Parc Braham and the late Lt-Col Julian du Parc Braham, and Miss Olivia Frances Marion Baldwin, second daughter of Mr and Mrs John Baldwin. Father Vincent Hawe, officiated. The bride was given in marriage her father and was attended by Miss Alison Baldwin and Miss Sarah Baldwin.

Mr Quentin Garruthers was best man. A reception was held at the Oriental Club and the honeymoon is being spent abroad. NEWS OBITUARIES Anthony Perkins Perkins as Norman Bates in Psycho (1960) as a preacher in Ken Russell's Crimes of Passion. Afterwards Perkins was called upon preside over several ceremonies, notably Russell's marriage aboard the Queen Mary at San Francisco. But, for all his eccentricities such as his walking barefoot around town Perkins was known in the movie industry as ar articulate, intelligent and conscientious actor.

"I was always very he declared. "I would do anything they asked of me." His eagerness to please led Perkins, perhaps against his better judgment, into taking a number of unsuitable roles in forgettable films, which tended to obscure a very real talent. Anthony Perkins was born in New York on April 4 1932. His. mother was a strongwilled New England woman, who, after the sudden lost.

of her husband, transferred her maniacal attentions on to her son. Perkins later attributed his "fierce, compulsive ambition to act" to his need to escape her domination. At 13 he began painting scenery and selling tickets, and went on to act with "summer stock" companies during his school holidays. In 1953, while studying history at Rollins College, in Florida, he heard that Elia Kazan was auditioning for The Actress, and hitch-hiked to Hollywood, where he persuaded the director to give him a screen-test. He heard nothing for six months, but then received a call from Kazan summoning him for a costume fitting.

After making his film opposite Jean Simmons in the film in 1954 Perkins moved back to New York, where he joined Kazan's Actors' Studio. His next role was as the young student, seduced by his housemaster's wife, in Vincent Minelli's flop Tea and Sympathy (1956). But in that year he made Friendly Persuasion with Gary Cooper, which earned him an Oscar nomination for supporting actor; and in 1959 he co-starred with Gregory Peck and Fred Astaire in the celebrated film of Nevil Shute's anti-war book, On the Beach. The release of Psycho the next year brought Perkins the recognition he had always sought, though he quickly decided that fame was a mixed blessing. Tired of being typecast as "neurotic and he moved to Europe, where starred in the romantic comedy, Goodbye Again (1961), opposite Ingrid Bergman.

Perkins won the best actor award at the Cannes Film Festival for his part as the young law student seduced Bergman, though his private romantic life did not run as smoothly. Perkins recalled Goodbye Again as just one of the countless occasions on which "overwhelming fear of girls" the better him. During the making of the film he was informed by friends that Bergman was attracted to him, and thereafter insisted that they were never alone when rehearsing love scenes. In 1962 Perkins collaborated with Orson Welles on The Trial. He and Welles worked closely for several months, despite endless arguments about the guilt of the main character.

'We ate every meal together," Perkins remembered, "'went nightclubbing together and talked about everything. It was a rare friendship for me." The film was considered over- elaborate by critics. Of the other productions Perkins made in Europe in Brigadier Gerald Thubron Nasirabad. In 1930 he returned to Britain for two years, and then went back to Madras, where he became adjutant and later company commander. After a tour of staff duty at HQ Deccan district in the late 1930s, Thubron returned to England and became brigade major of 166 Infantry Brigade (TA) at Lichfield.

Shortly after the outbreak of war he attended the Staff College, Camberley, and was appointed GS02 at HQ 29 Independent Infantry Brigade. This was followed by a period as instructor at the senior officers' school in 1942, after which he became GS01 in HQ 1 Infantry Division. The Division was engaged in the dour fighting which broke out after the "Operation landings in November 1942 and continued until the fall of Tunis and Bizerta the next May. In January 1944 Thubron took part in the Anzio landings which were vigorously opposed by the Germans, and later commanded the 2nd Battalion, North ANTHONY, PERKINS, in the actor who has died Los Angeles aged 60, specialised in the portrayal of gawky, neurotic young men, the most memorable of them being Norman Bates, the murderous motel-keeper in Alfred Hitchcock's classic Psycho (1960). The film, originally devised by Hitchcock as a tease, was at first panned by the critics as a nasty piece of titillating voyeurism.

Later, though, Psycho was credited with having introduced a new genre of horror movie, which dispensed with the traditional ingredients of supernatural shenanigans in gothic castles and. brought the possibility of terror closer to home. Many axe-wielding lunatics have run wild on the big screen since then, but few have matched Bates's spinetingling brand of mild-mannered monstrosity, or the which, wigged legendary and scene, dressed in his mother's clothes, he frenziedly knifed the unsuspecting Janet Leigh in the shower. Perkins did indeed seem disturbingly at ease with the part of the stuttering psychopath, locked inside the old weather-boarded house, with nothing to brood upon but his stuffed birds and his dead mother's memory not to mention her skeletal remains. To the actor's consternation, his own personality became associated with his deranged creation.

After Psycho was released Perkins refused to give interviews or to discuss any similarities between himself and Bates. His feelings of panic about the reaction to the film led him to seek psychiatric help, and it was only a matter of time before he was publicly admitting to having suffered childhood feelings of jealousy towards his father. "I remember praying for him to die," he recalled, "so I could have my mother all to myself." In the event his father Osgood Perkins, the stage and film actor, did die young, when the boy was just five, throwing him into a claustrophobic relationship with his mother which led to years of repression and guilt: "'We were more like lovers than a mother and Perkins also unburdened himself of the fact that he had been a virgin at 39 and had nursed a "pathological fear of women" for more than 20 years. If Perkins's identification with his role in Psycho came easily, there were other occasions on which he went to extremes to imbue his characters with verisimilitude. In 1984 he distinguished himself from his Hollywood peers by being ordained as a minister of the Universal Church of America to help him "get the feel" of his role BRIGADIER Gerald Thubron, who has died aged 89, gave gallant service in the Second World War tioned in despatches in North Africa in 1943, he was appointed OBE in 1944 and won a DSO the next year in the Italian campaign.

Tall, athletic and strikingly handsome, Thubron was an outstanding officer in every sense of the word. But he was an extremely modest man, drawn and on refused his towhe experiences. Asked what had been his most dramatic moment in the war, he was apt to recall an incident in the Apennines. He had sat on the carcase of a dead pig to write up the war diary, only to be interrupted in mid-sentence when the pig suddenly rose to its feet and walked away. Gerald Ernest Thubron was born on July 13 1903 and educated at Lancing and Sandhurst.

Commissioned into the North Staffordshire Regiment in 1924, he was posted to India, where he served in Calcutta, Secunderabad and Fischer 3-2 ahead BOBBY Fischer is back on form and has regained the lead after outplaying Boris Spassky in a strategically masterful game, the eighth of the match at Sveti Stefan. Spassky blundered after becoming becalmed and bemused by a highly original king walk from Fischer. Fischer is now 3 wins to 2 ahead in the first-to-ten-wins match. He will play white in Wednesday's ninth game, and is once again clear to take the winfavourite, million prize. He has discovered to his cost that Spassky is very comfortable after an exchange of queens and yesterday changed tactics.

Playing black in a King's Indian Defence, Fischer diverged from Game 2 on the fifth move avoided a queen exchange. Significantly this was a new Fischer playing 1990s chess theory and playing it well. His chosen defence can lead to very sharp play and SMYA9 EHTAI8 WAY OF THE WORLD ban simotolV 101 AUBERON WAUGH 21AAOM Sporting opportunities WHEN news reached me that it was possible to buy YORK HOUSE 12th September The Duchess of Kent, Patron of Helen House Hospice, this morning attended a Service of Thanksgiving at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, to Anniversary of the Foundation of the Hospice and was by Her Majesty's for Oxfordshire (Sir Ashley Ponsonby, Bt). Mrs Fiona Henderson was in attendance. The Princess of Wales, Patron, British Red Cross Youth, will visit the Red Cross National Headquarters at 9 Grosvenor Crescent, SW1, on Thursday.

Mr Timothy Renton, MP, is to succeed Sir Timothy Raison as Vice-Chairman of the British Council. Penrhos, former Leader of the Opposition in the House Lords, 76; Mr Michael Howard, composer and organist, 70; Sir Paul Dean, former Conservative MP, 68; the Hon Sir Angus Ogilvy 64; Lord Willoughby de Broke 54; Mr Nicol Williamson, actor, 54; and Mr Kepler Wessels, Australian cricketer, 35. TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS Sir Hugh Mais, former High Court Judge, is 85; Lord Cledwyn of MARRIAGES Mr Maher: and Miss Hull The engagement is announced between John, only son of the late Mr John Maher and of Mrs Muriel Maher, of Rhinebeck, New York, USA, and Sophie, daughter of Mr GW Hull, of Marbella, Spain, and Mrs Moseley, of Englefield Green, Surrey. Mr A McColl and Miss Jinks The engagement is announced between Angus, son and Mrs I McColl, of Wavendon, Buckinghamshire, formerly of Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, and Caroline, elder daughter of Mr and Mrs TE Jinks, of Tenterden, Kent. Mr Bound and Miss Clarke The engagement is announced between Christopher, eldest son of Mr and Mrs David Bound, of Shepperton, Middlesex, and Sylvia, only daughter of Mr and Mrs Donald Clarke, of Worcester, Hereford and Worcestershire.

Mr Speed and Miss A Botham The engagement is announced between Martin, only son of Mr and Mrs Speed, of Hallfield Hall, Shirland, Derbyshire, and Kerry Amanda, younger daughter of Mr and Mrs John Botham, of Nethermoor Cottage, Wingerworth, Derbyshire. Mr Fulford and Miss Rieniets The engagement is announced between James, son of Mr Richard Fulford, of Chelsea, London, and Mrs Ian Bowie, of Northington, Alresford, Hants, and Kathryn, second daughter of Mr and Mrs Adrian Rieniets, of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Mr Bridgett and Miss Bramley The engagement is announced between Victor, elder son of Mr and Mrs Bridgett, of Cheadle, Staffordshire, and Susan, daughter of Mr and Mrs A Bramley, of Leigh, near Tonbridge, Kent. Mr Knight and Miss Turton The engagement is announced between Digby, only son of Mr and Mrs Bob Knight, of Ringstead Bay, Dorset, and only daughter of Mr and Mrs Michael Turton, of The Thatched House, Fetcham, Surrey. WEDDINGS Mr A Macdonald and The marriage took place on Miss Foron.

day, Sept 7, in Monterey, California, United States, of Mr Alasdair Macdonald, eldest son of Major and Mrs Ian Macdonald, of Sherborne, Dorset, and Miss Joanne Ford, youngest daughter of Mrs Lili Lafferty, of Thorpe Bay, Essex, and the late Mr Peter Ford. Mr St Hoare and Miss Stanton The marriage took place on Saturday, Sept 12, at the Church of St Nicholas, Dersingham, between Mr Oliver Hoare, youngest son of and Mrs Michael Hoare, of Little Thurlow, Suffolk, and Miss Sophie Stanton, only daughter of Mr and Mrs Richard Stanton, of Dersingham, Norfolk. Geoffrey Hoare, brother of the bridegroom, officiated, assisted by the Rev Thomas Jardine and the Rev Hugh Pollock. The bride, who was given in marriage by her father, was attended by Caroline Stanton, Alice Barnes, Lily Fisher and Oscar and Giles Hoare. Mr Rupert Kimber was best man.

A reception was held at the home of the bride and the honeymoon is being spent overseas. Mr Betteridge and Mrs A Davis Mr Nicholas Betteridge and Mrs Angela Davis were married on Saturday, Sept 12, 1992, at Lewes. A service of blessing followed at St Mary's Church, Newick. CHRISTENING The infant son of the Rev the Hon Michael and Mrs Erskine was christened Euan Stewart by Rev A Rodger yesterday at the Parish Church of Craignish, Argyll. The godparents are Mark Atkinson and Susan Burgess.

STOVER SCHOOL Head Girl is Emma Wyness. THE ORATORY SCHOOL This term School celebrates its diamond jubilee with a service of thanksgiving in Exeter Cathedral on Friday, Oct 23, at 11.15 am, to which Old Girls and wellwishers are warmly invited. The Head Girl this term is Hayley Newbury and the Deputy Michaelmas Term begins today at The Oratory School. Mr MH Povey has succeeded Mr McCarthy as Housemaster of Faber. The School Captain is KS Price.

Captain Rugby is GD Oct 24 to Nov Oratory Opera MacRae. term will be from will perform "Cosi fan Tutte" on Nov 13 at the school and on Nov 15 at the Holywell Music Rooms, Oxford. The school play, "Much Ado About will be performed by the Cardinal's Men on Dec 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12. Term ends on Dec 13. the early 1960s, the one which best displayed his range was Five Miles to Midnight (1963).

As Sophia Loren's sinister, conniving husband, he gave a bravura performance of controlled menace. Back in America, after playing another psychopath Pretty Poison (1968), he showed that he could be equally impressive in a slight, well-meaning role, this time as Chaplain Tapman in Catch 22 (1970). Two years later, during the filming of John Huston's The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, Perkins met and fell for Victoria Principal, with whom he embarked on a 'week of passion and He duly dropped his psychoanalyst and "started dat-. ing and in 1973 married Berry Berenson, whom he had met when she profiled him for Andy Warhol's magazine Interview. Sixteen years Perkins's junior, she remembered "being in love with him at By 1983 Perkins said he felt sufficiently comfortable with himself to accept, the chance to play Norman Bates again, in the first of two unremarkable Psycho sequels.

The original house was, surprisingly, still standing, after it had been and it was filled built on the studio, "back with the same choice examples of Victoriana, in the production. Critics condemned the film advertised with the slogan "Norman Bates is coming as imitation Hitchcock, but this did not stop Perkins making a third attempt in the late 1980s, this time as director as well as star. He bought books on directing, but found them too technical, and eventually "just went on Psycho III enjoyed more success at the box office than its predecessor, perhaps because Perkins's approach was more tongue-in-cheek. He included a number of jocular references to the 1960 original. one point Bates prevented a suicidal from slitting her wrists in the shower.

She apologised for the terrible mess, and Bates replied "I've seen it worse." Latterly Perkins tended to turn down work if it took him away from his family. He described himself as an indulgent father, who allowed his two sons to "stay up and watch Psycho on If ever they had trouble sleeping, would comfort them with the thought that they were "under the same roof as Norman Bates, the owner of the motel and the what else can possibly happen to you?" actor died from complications from the Aids virus. Dryden and sister of Sir Noel Dryden, 10th Baronet, descendant of the poet, playwright and satirist John Dryden. They had a son, Colin Thubron, the author, who won the Hawthornden Prize for Literature in 1987, and two daughters (one deceased). him to Canada, as Senior Army Liaison Officer and Adviser to the High Commissioner.

His last post was as deputy director of military training at the War Office; he retired in 1956. Thubron was also the last colonel of the North Staffordshire Regiment before it amalgamated in 1959, and was a deputy colonel of the new Stafford Regiment. In retirement he embarked a new career, restoring old and derelict houses, many of which were Elizabethan. In his youth Thubron had been a successful long-distance runner and later he was an above-average tennis player. He was an expert ornithologist.

He married, in 1931, Eve Dryden, daughter of Major Thubron: modest Thubron: modest Staffordshires (98th), for which he was awarded the DSO. In 1945 he was appointed commander of the 11th Infantry Brigade in North Italy and Austria, before commanding the senior officers' school in Britain in 1946. Subsequent postings took after a stylish By Malcolm Pein, Chess Correspondent CHESS Game 8 11 Bxg7 Kxg7 12 d5 Ne7 Fischer 6 5 3 2 a Spassky Position after Spassky Fischer Game 8 1 d4 2 c4 3 Nc3 503 0-0 6 Be3 Nc6 7 Nge2 a6 8 Qd2 Rb8 9 h4 h5 10 Bh6 e5 Russian 9M114 missiles at the Nizhni Novgorod arms fair, my first reaction was to to purchase some. They are primarily intended for prey against tanks and other small, moving armoured targets. We are not much worried by tanks in Combe Florey, but they can also be used against helicopters and military aircraft, which are becoming a serious nuisance.

Russia is in a terrible state financially, having to print roubles in one month than were printed in the previous 30 years. The problems of Britain, Italy and Sweden are trivial by comparison. All Russia has left to sell are these mountains armaments. The least we can do is to buy some of them. Then it occurs to me that they might fall into the wrong hands.

The British police could easily decide that a few 9M114s were just what they needed in their war against drink-driving. It would be a very popular thing if drinkdrivers could be blown off the face of the earth by the police would accidentally injure themselves. We pinpoint, split second targeting, but it is more likely that have all too few police as it is. Even more worrying than the thought that the police might be tempted to buy these 9M114 missiles is the thought that small, oil-rich countries like a a Saudi A Arabia, Libya, Iran and Iraq might be tempted to buy whole nuclear submarines with their missiles in place. There is no effective defence against these weapons.

How much are we prepared to pay for the pleasure of having Salman Rushdie live among us once Iran has a nuclear submarine? Even national leaders like Saddam Hussein, although popular and respected among their own people, might prove troublesome if they chose to play a greater role on the world scene. The best solution would be if the United States undertook to buy all Russia's surplus arms. American citizens have an almost insatiable appetite for weapons of every sort. Welcome reminder I WONDER if I am alone in detecting a note of accidie sloth, torpor or spiritual exhaustion in the tabloids' continued persecution of the Royal Family. It is almost as if, having grown weary of freedom, they are begging to be gagged.

Listen to the Sun on Saturday: "They Won't Silence Can Pass Any Law Like. They Fine Us. Jail Us. String Us Up By Our Thumbs. Nothing Will Stop Us Printing What We Believe You Have the Right to Know This may be seen as a desperate cry for help, especially when taken with the two examples given that day of the sort of thing Sun thought we had a right to know: the "exclusive" news that the Princess of Wales was visiting a masseur for back pains caused by stress, and the announcement of a new "exclusive" series, Downfall of a Duchess, explaining why then Duchess of York has enrolled in a group therapy centre.

My main reason for hoping that the tabloids are not gagged or made to behave better is that we shall thereby have lost our last reminder of how extraordinarily cruel and unpleasant the lower classes are. In England it is normal to assure ourselves that these people are the salt of the earth, and so they are, no doubt, until they take control. Until recently we had the oppressive and incompetent regimes of eastern Europe to remind us what happens when the "workers' leaders have their way. Before that, we could contemplate our own trade union leaders as they created misery and poverty around them. Now we have only the tabloid newspapers to remind us how nasty life would be in a proletarian society.

Mr. David Mellor, the Heritage Secretary, has complained of being dragged into a circulation war between the Sun and the Daily Mirror. One remembers how, in ancient times, if the plebeians wanted a treat, shown prisoners being pulled apart by horses. It would be hard to imagine a more suitable candidate for this treatment than Mr Mellor, who, by his populist and vulgarian approach, has encouraged the very people who are now pulling him apart. Others in the Cabinet may pulling their weight, but it seems to me that Dave is doing a grand job reminding us all of what we need to be reminded about.

Sun Mi War Against ONE of the funniest news pictures ever showed 12 policemen and a police dog lying in ambush outside the Flying Scud pub in London's East End last Friday. member They had of an been armed told thane might have taken refuge there after an attempt to rob a customer of a nearby bank. Some of the fearless 12 were armed with Heckler and Koch carbines, others with Glock selfloading pistols. Some wore metal helmets; one 'carried a riot others wore bulletproof jackets. At least one carried a fire extinguisher in case of petrol bomb attack, and one wore a night camouflage hat in broad daylight, for some reason best known to himself.

Three suspects, wearing tracksuit tops with the Crime hood pulled up, had approached the bank but, apparently sensing the presence of forces of the law, turned on their heels and fled when within yards of the door. One brave policeman gave chase in an unmarked police car which crashed into some park gates. out of the Climbing, the policeman accidentally shot himself in the groin. It is a pity such a happylooking scene ended so sadly. Perhaps the police need more resources if they are to undertake such operations.

A police helicopter gunship hovering overhead might well have discouraged the suspects in the first place, and these accidents would never have occurred. Prevention must be the keynote. return to form Spassky chose the most aggressive line and went for mate. Fischer's 9th move halted the white attack and it was here that Spassky played another aggressive but strategically dubious move. He exchanged bishops to weaken Fischer's defences but by fixing central pawns on dark squares Fischer left Spassky with a "bad" white squared bishop.

While Spassky moved his pawns forward Fischer's knights took up excellent posts. He stymied Spassky's advance and then came the best move of the match so far. The black king headed for the queenside where it would be safe forever. Spassky tried to cut the king off but then blundered material in a position where he could achieve nothing. There was a comic finish, Spassky lost his queen and the black king calmly returned whence it came.

13 Ng3 c6 14 dxc6 Nxc6 150-0-0 Be6 16 Kb1 Ne8 17 Nd5 b5 18 Ne3 Rh8 19 Rcl Qb6 20 Bd3 Nd4 21 Nd5 Qa7 22 Nf1 23 Nfe3 Bxd5 24 cxd5 Rbc8 25 Refl 26 g4 Nd7 27 g5 28 Ke8 29 Bf1 Nc5 30 Bh3 Rc7 31 Ncb3! 32 axb3 Nxb3 33 Rc6 Nxd2 34 Rxd2 K18 35 Rxa6 Ra7 36 Rc6 Kg7 37 Bf1 Ral 38 Kxal Qa7 39 Kbl Qxe3 40 Kc2 b4 0-1 Fischer had to negotiate a tactical minefield sown by his opponent to win the 7th game. After playing badly last week, he switched openings to' avoid confronting Spassky's Breyer Defence a fourth time. Playing white, Fischer chose a slower version of the Ruy Lopez by advancing his queen's pawn one square only on the ninth move. Spassky charged forward in the centre leaving his queen's knight on the edge of the board as bait. After long thought Fischer decided to accept Spassky's sacrifice and then had to defend as Spassky's two bishops and queen took control of the long diagonals.

It was an ingenious idea from Spassky but it had a concealed flaw that was exposed by Fischer's 26th move. By the piece Fischer blunted the attack and exchanged queens to reach an endgame where he was one pawn up. Spassky had two powerful bishops against knights but this advantage could not overcome his material deficit and when he was forced to exchange one bishop for knight on move 34 his fate was sealed. The resulting endgame L0 knight four pawns to Fischer and bishop and three pawns to Spassky looked difficult, but Fischer made light work of it. He simply advanced his passed pawns up board and on move 44 Spassky could not prevent one of them becoming a queen and resigned.

Fischer Spassky Game 7 I e4 e5 2 N03 Nc6 3 Bb5 a6 4 Ba4 50-0 Be? 6 Rel b5 7 Bb3 0-0 8 c3 d6 9 d3 Na5 10 Bc2 11 Nbd2 Re8 12 h3 13 NFI Bb7 14 Ng3 15 Bg5 h6 16 Bd2 17 exd5 c4! 18 b4! cxd3 19 Bxd3 20 Be4 Nxe4 21 Nxe4 Bg7 22 bxa5 15 23 Ng3 24 Nh4 B16 25 Nxg6 26 NI41 Qxd2 27 Rxe3 Qxd1 28 Ridl Exe3 29 fxe3 Rd8 31 Nxf5 muste 33 35 Bxc3 OSCE ka3 noisy 39 ha 100.