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15, and a Genius at Chess BOBDY NEW YORK a Batman bank on his bedside table mnd mck roll gram blariag ever radio. slouchy, gcitgly and crew-cut. But Batman is sprawled over an open chess book and his nail-bitten fingers are deftly moving chess pieces over the black and white board wbich means more to him than anything else in his life. Bobby Fischer want to be a baseball star or a football player or the most popular fellow at the prom. He wants to be chess chaonpion of the it seems a pretty sure bet he will be.

Most Americans know it, but their honor in a big international contest with Russia is riding on the thin shoulders of this 15-year-old boy from Brooklyn. Bobby is hailed by the experts as the greatest chess mind the world has prcxluced in many years. look like one he looks more like a boy than an be a says Hans Kmoch, wee- retary of the Manhattan Chess Club, which the nerve center of chess in the United States. Is something unique. None of the grcot ones ever accomplished so much so He has become an international grand youngest in the long histwy of will meet the top seven players this in a tournament.

The exact date and p4ace remain lo be determined. The winner wHl get a crack at the world diampion, Russia's Mikhail Botvinnik. If be makes it this he'll be the youngest world thampion in chess only the sec- IS THIS YOU? you the one chosen by this week's lucky arrow? If you ore, there's a $5 bill owaitirig you at Son Anton'jo Express and News. To claim your money, identify yourself to the city editor. NECCHI -ELNA Sewing Circle 1516 NORTH MAIN AVE.

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Nobody else thinks be will maiw tt time. But then, nobody fhimpht he ctiuW win the American chess championship at 14 atid oehody expected him to do well at the recer.i mternatiooal chess toorna- ment in Bobby, playing in his first international compeliikin, tied tor fifth his place in the star-studded Challengers. Bobby has few friend.s his own age. He comes home from school about 2 and picks up a chess book. Every spare minute, he is either reading about cbess, analyzing moves on his chess board or going somewhere to play chess.

Girls arc nothing to him. Girls play be says. kn't inlenesied in anybody they play there just many kids who like says Mrs. Fhwber. Mrs.

Fischer, a University of CokM-ado graduate, 'is a registered now earning her MA degree. Bobby, is no dtsctplkiary probtom. mjthing to him Mrs, Fischer explains. only thing 1 do is nag him lo lake out of his chOM books and go outside for some fresh air." started in the game at age 8. Mrs.

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