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Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 22

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tr 6B CORPUS CHR1STI CALLER Tups Julv 18 1972 ww Fischer wins on 41st move US titleholder captures first victory DOtAyfo RICHARD HARRIS (psota PLUS WILLIAM MUH WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP fiscki (iiieki Game 3 msss WMD JTpejijfcpjf bobo BBBBBBBBB mmm pOOOOOOBBBBBBg TWIN PALMSX- 4717 AGNIS 14 IHI FOR ADULTS ADMi 150 PERSON DAI Mg called this a blunder But others said Fischer was trying desperately for a win instead of a draw To retain his title Spassky must win 12 points and Fischer A victory in a game counts as a point and a draw a half point In this third game Spassky plyed the white pieces as he did in the first which allows him the first move This gives the player of white pieces that slight advantage But Fischer overcame this in the third game with power plays The resumption of the adjourned third game had been in doubt for a time Spassky protested the use of the private room on Sunday and said he wouldnot Just around noon Schmid announced that the game had been moved back to the exhibition hall The winner of the match receives $153125 from a purse put up by the Icelandic Chess Federation and British financier James Slater a chess enthusiast The loser gets $91875 Each player also will receive 30 per cent of the money received from the sale of TV and movie rights for the match Before Fischer complained about the cameras this had been expected to amount to $27500 for each player AIRCONblTIONED pn7 JOS REYJKAVIK Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer scored his first victory in the world chess championship against Boris Spassky on Monday with a move he had sealed in an eve-lope The Soviet titleholder resigned the third game playoff before the US challenger even showed up Fischer had sealed his 41st move in the envelope on Sunday after Spassky called for an adjournment It was bishop to queen six a move most grandmasters here had predicted would be the decisive one for the game It left the score in the 24 game match at 2-1 in Spassky's favor Spassky won the second game by forfeit As he has been throughout Spassky was in the 250seat exhibition hall exactly on time for the resumption of the third game Promptly at 5 pm noon CDT Referee Lothar Schmid opened the envelope entrusted to him by Fischer and moved Fischer's bishop to the sixth square on the queen side putting king in check Spassky waited five minutes before turning his king on its side signifying that he had conceded the game to the 29-year-old grandmaster from Brooklyn NY It was the first time Fischer had ever defeated the Soviet world champion Spassky walked off the stage and the spectators sat in silence Fourteen minutes after Schmid had started the clock for the resumption of play Fischer strode into the hall Some of the crowd cheered him but many of the youngsters in the audience booed Fischer's face seemed drawn as he entered but when left two minutes later he appeared relieved The fourth game is scheduled for Tuesday "Fischer's sealed move was swat initti Go3d7 SMosailiJiy SKETCH OF WINNING MOVE TWIN PALMS It AP Wirephoto Sketch) chess teacher said minutes before the sealed 41st move was opened that bishop to queen six was the rational move Asked whether the table Fischer would make that move he said: always does the rational thing Fischer -and Spassky began the third game in a private room offstage on Sunday because of Fischer's complaints that television and movie cameras had disturbed his concentration it was because of the cameras that Fischer did not show up on Thursday for the second game and lost it by for feit Fischer 1c moving move into the midst of pawns He took a Spassky pawn but lost a valuable bishop Grand piasters the best move" said Grandmaster Dragoljub Janosevic of Yugoslavia who beat Fischer in 1961 in an U-hour game "Spassky had to give in at once: He was rattled for the first time Fix' Spassky the whole game was a psychological blow "Fisher's 11th move yesterday was Janosevic added Fischer's 11th move was knight to rook four This was unusual in that it apparently enabled Spassky to smash Fischer's kingside pawn formation Fischer obviously had prepared the move well in advance however for only a few moves later he not only repaired his pawn formation but' launched a strong attack John Collins Fischer's first aaulftiL icmema'! 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You cant says a member of Spokane's gypsy colony unless you're bom a gypsy can't 'get to a gypsy you cannot 'be brought up gypsies you cannot be baptized a contends James Marks II 25-year-old member of this 150-person gypsy colony "People need to know more about us" he explained is why we are really looking forward to Ethnic Cultural Center It will give us an opportunity to show our culture and it will give us an opportunity to understand more of our own Marks said The gypsies live wrapped in a cocoon of vivid colors both in their homes and their garments They have their own language 'It's close to Hungarian but HONEYMOON? 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