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Bogart was rated tops in HollywoodB JOSEPH MUX BRUITS Copley News ServiceTo read the histories of most chessmasters is to get the impression that tour nament success begins at age of 1, and if you haven't won a championship by 5 you might as well take up basket ballActually. this is not the case for the nulhons of players who raroe to the game later in live They manage, through study and steady playing, to acquire a proficiency that enables them to do well in dub cham-pionships and small tournamentsEven among the masters, precociousness is not a requisite. America's Larry Evans learned the game at 13, and Cuba's Silvmo Garcia came to it at 19 Hungary's Gedeon Barer* was a laie-bioomer; he didn't take up chess until he was almost 30For vears even, one be-«r •lieved the forte of Humphrey Bogart was playing Sam Spade while furiously making love to Lauren Bacall and Ingrid Bergman. Not so Next to television and movie writer Nttman t^essing, Bogey was rated the strongest amateur chessplayer in Hollywood, having learned the game “as a ‘‘tad harming around the shootu^g galleries in New York''The game below was a bhndfold exhibition by chess-master George Koltanowski Although Bogart had sight of the board and Koltanowski ekd not, it showed, the moviestar to be erf respectable cluh-player caliber Against Kolta-nowsfc he had good drawing chances until his blunder on the 40th move.' % r»The history of chess is made up of many famous amateurs. One of Paul Morphv s conquests was Gen. Winfield Scott, who lost the 1852 presidential race to Franklin Pierce. Had he won, chess today might be bigger than bowlir^ and roller derbies put together. More than likely, however, a president Scott would have sworn to Congress that he never even heard of the game.Women, especially, should appreciate chess as an instrument for domestic harrpony. For one thing, it's an inexpensive hobby. Occasionally you find a deadbeat hustling side-bets although the stakes are never as high as in poker and blackjack. But in the main, the attraction of chess is to be better in your current gamethan you were in your last.Once a wife accepts the factthat dress is a solitary art that requires great periods of silence, she has it made. Profanity at a chess table is rare. A disappointed loser may disgustedly sweep the pieces off the board, or hurl the clock at somebody's head. But never is a dirty word uttered.A chessplayer is almost certainly not a philanderer. If you have a wife, a chess set and a board, who needs another woman9 Besides, a chess game takes up so many hours, who can find the time?Finally, no other game outside of politics so inspires the intermingling of thedlogical philosophy with honest sweatIn his book aimed at thestruggling amateur (“How Not to Play Chess”), Eugene,Znosko-Borovsky justified his title with the question, Before trying to teach men how to become saints, is it not well to sbbw them how to avoid sin9HOLLYWOOD — 1952George Koltanowski Humphrey BogartFRENCH DEFENSE1.P-K4 P-K32. P-Q4 P-Q43. PxP PxP4.B-Q35. N-K2 S. 007, P-KB3 S.R-KB410. P-B3 U.BxB12, P-KB413, N-B315. Q~BI16. PxP17.Nlt;2H}4lt.NxN19. P-B520. BxN21.Q-B422. QR-K1SaladTuna-Honeydew ^N-KB3O.RxPRxRB-KN524.QxR( K4)B-Q325.Q-K3R-Kl!B-K336.Q-N3R-Kl;OOZ7.P-WP-RNllN-QB328Q-R4P-KR4N-K3». R-KlRxRcfcQxBSO.QxRQOJP-B431. NxBQ*Nlt;N-B432.Q-K7Qe»:N-K333.P-KR3Q-B3QR-B1 -34. P-QN4QxPlt;B6)QxPch35.Q-K8chK-R2*NxN36. QxPchK-R3IR-B237.Q-K7Q-BOch:»Q2S8.K-B2Q-KB3ch*PiB39K-K2Q-QB5chR-Kl40. K-B3K-N4R-K441 P B7chRcnptCUP *N‘ COOK♦-CopteyNaw 5»vic*%1 i»rW honaydtw malonuUttuct2'cans lt;8*1 or 1 or aach) tuna, drainad'o cup mayonnalsa «/i cup chopped fraah calory ’*2 taaspoon ground marjoram Daah pop par Fraah paralay for garnish Fresh lemon wedges for garnithaPara honeydew and cut into circtat 1 to i v, inchaa thick. Remove seeds and ptac# on had* of lettuce Mix tuna, mayoonaise. caltry and tattooing*. Spoon into cantdr* of honaydaw circles Garnish with fraah paralay and tamon wadgas. 6 servings.
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