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Why Chess Is a Young Man’s Game!By HAROLD C. SCHONBEBG(Ci 1*06 N, Y. TifWli Ntwf linrittNEW YORK - Bobby Fischer, the other day, gave a demonstration of why chess is * young mon's gume.He arrived at the Marshall Chess club at 3 p.m., nodded curtlv to the referee, slipped into his seat and spent the next 7 hours and 14 minutes hi * disciplined fiercely intellectual world of Ids own — a world without speech, virtually without motion, lime and space suspended..He got himself into a nagging, exasperating, purely tactical kind of game with Eleazar Jimlnez, the champion of Cuba. Playing the black pieces ngainst the Sae-misch attack, Bobby, the United Slates champion, worked out * tiny, tiny edge.For hours he bent every re source to exploit if. At 10:14 p.m.* after Jimlnw had waled his forty-first move, Bobby walked out of the Marshall Chess dub,his face as expressionless *s **had been when he walked in, Thegame was adjourned to 1ftthe 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. Be 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 agatnsL a ntnv 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 lo drop IS pounds during the course of as long a tournament is the one in which Bobby is :un*ehtly engaged.Jiminez is not a well-known ]nyor, and bis cable match with Sobby attracted little attention. Host of the action of the seven lours took place in the wire *oom, where the Cuban grwera-jient had set up teletype and elophone facilities after the State 3 enactment had refused to give Snbby a visa.William Slater, Bruce Altschu-er. Larry Christopher and Joel kroffie were in the room. Slater, 19, was in charge. He is one of he governors of the Marshall Jhess dub, and he shared the detype keyboard with the lft-/ear-old Bruce. Larry, 17, did the derical work, entering the nota-ions of all the moves. Joel, 2ft,vas the runner, bringing the moves of Jimiuez from the wire room to the room in which Bobby was playing. He would wait there mfil Bobby had made his move, ind then he would run it back.Jimlaez had made Us liritmove promptly at S. Bobby glanced at the board when he entered, immediately made a move and punched Us ride of the double-faced clock, stopping Us and selling Jlmlm’ in motion. The referee — Sol Rubin, president of the Marshall Chest dub — notated the move on a piece of paper and gave It to Joel, who ran It to the wire room.Larry hoUttd it on two score pads and Slater punched it out: “Blacks first move knight king bishop three. Time three one/1 Cuba repeated It, followed by an O.K.Total time elapsed was about 2ft seconds.A man named Victor Kautz-mann Ib at the other end,” said Slater. “He went to college in America. He says the weather's warm and sunny in Havana. He always says the weather’s warm and sunny in Havana.’5Two hours later, the pace lt;rf 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 hb room, Bobby was seatedin bis usual position *— dose to the board, elbows on the table, hands circling his head. Once in a great while he would get tip, pace nervously and seat himself again. He had a bowl of fruit in front of 5im, 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 air conditioner.In the main room, where a huge replica of the game was mounted on a board hung on the wail, six men, obviously strangers, sat without talking and stared at the position.main room. Everything was still, afd even the air felt heavy.Around t:3fl, Bobby ordered his dinner. He asked for his usual— a bowl of vegetable soup, a lettuce and tomato sandwich with pickle, and a glass of niflk,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 oriered sandwiches. Slater told Cuba he was ordering dinner “So are we ” Cuba said. “We have a Chinese waiter. His name is Macon,”Wiiile Bobby ate, he never look his eyes from the boat'd. An hour iater he was slil! staring. And an hour after that. And an hour after that. The same six viewers sat motionless in theA little before 3 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 Cholmov of Russia had won from Borislav Kvkav of Yugoslavia.“Wait’ll Bobby hears aboutWhat one flavor improves all other sweet flavors?Baker9! fuU-streng t h Pure Vanilla. Just a little does a lot lor a surprising variety of other flavors: chocolate flavored foods, stewed and fresh fruits, spice cakes, gingerbreads. Great with children’s milk,too! Baker’s. Van ilia —pure, full-strength, versatile! Try it today!wifihMcCORMICK-BAKERWhen Bobby quietly slipped out, they hU 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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Nashua Telegraph
Nashua, New Hampshire, US
Wed, Sep 29, 1965
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