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MUCH ADO ABOUT.../By ELLIOTT K, STEINWill the real... ?WASHINGTON, D.C.-Evcry once in a • while I like to Uke a couple.days off and. visit my friend Klaus von Kralzmir at theState Department. Klaus, like I, is an amateur chess aficianado, and we enjoy playing a game or two of the old mental sport, while reviewing great games of the past as played by Capablanca, Max Euwe, Mikhail Tal and the other all time grandmasters. We’d sit there', playing chess, talking about Indian defenses, queen’s gambits and en passents, sipping our brandies and listening to the music of the German Romantics. It was a very relaxing way to spend a couple of evenings and we’dboth return to our work afterwards completely refreshed.Klaus was the son of an old German centrist politician, who early on incurred the enmity of Adolf Hitler and .the Nazis and fled the country shortly after that crowd came to power. Klaus served in ilie American Army during World War II, became an interpreter during the occupation and.rose to the rank of major before returning to civilian life. He enteredU.S. chessman attacks SovietNEW YORK (AP) — The executive director of the United States Chess Club says Anatoly Karpov’s'comments afier being named the new chess champion of the world show the Russian is m unsportsmanlike “little mouse” who is M whistling in relief’ because he did not have to play against Bobby Fischer, Edmund B. Edmondson said it was “utterly ridiculous grandstanding” forKarpov to say he was ready to play Fischer, hut at the same time question whether the American was now mentally capable of playing chess.”The title passed from Fischer to Karpov last week without a match being played. This followed the American’s refusal to play the Russian under conditions set by the International Chess Federation (FIDE). 'Edmondson said Sunday in a telephone ‘interview from his Newburgh, N.Y., home that next to the genius of Fischer, Kar-. pov’s talent is that of a dull, plodding student rather than that of a Inic world champion.“Why didn't this little mouse roar like a lion when it might have taunted Mister Fischer into playing?” Edmondson said,. referring to Karpov. Why docs he only speak when It's too late? It’p typical Soviet ' sportsmanship — he sure to kick the man when he's down.”Middle School nine will open tomorrowMiddletown Middle School will open ils baseball season by playing a non-league game against Henry Lord Junior High tomorrow at 3:15 fit Berkeley Peckham Field. Ray Medeiros, former Sunset league pitcher, is coach of the Fall River team.Coach Tom Dutra of'Middle School has named pitcher Ed Silvia and catcher Bruce Snider as Iris battery.Middle School and Thompson School, co-Eastem Division champions last year, will meet in a league game this Friday at Berkeley Peckham.Princeton rather late, but went right through to a doctorate in international affairs and joined the State Department as a diplomatic expert. He was now a senior deputy assistant secretary with civil service status after serving as ambassador tc a couple of the newer countries, Upper Volta and Trinidad-Tobago, I believe.Inevitably the conversation worked around to Bobby Fischer's incredible decision not to meet-conditions for his world title defense as set down by the International Federation and the dcfault of his tide to the official Soviet challenger, the 23-year-old genius Anatoly Karpov.So the USSR scores again in the Cold War, although you State types keep insisting that the Cold War is over, I observed. Delcnle and that sort of garbage, while they beat our brains out in Vietnam, Cambodia, the Middle East and the grain deal.”Quite a speech, my friend, and all in on e breath,'' observed von Kralzmir, “ar.d quite inaccurate.”You mean my facts are inaccurate, Klaus?” I countered.No, ho, my friend. Your'facts are accurate. It's the interpretation you put cn them that is quite wrong, or sfopuld I say, your conclusion that the stalled Fischer default is another victory for the Soviets.” “Well, what llie hell else is it but a victory for the Soviets, Klaus? Fischer acts like a spoiled brat and hands the Soviets the chess title without making them even play for it.”Now there is where you’re wrong, my friend. Let's lake it from Ihe top: How did Karpov get to be the official challenger?1,1Why, he won a long-drawn-out series of matches from Ihe other lop contenders...’1 Most of whom were Russians, including several former world champions” Right, Klaus, Pelrossian,. Tal, Spassky.,.”Yes, yes. And in the process, it costlb cm a good deal of money to singe all these Russian vs. Russian matches. Tt caused a huge drain on their balance of payments, as their best grandmasters traveled Irithnr and yon all over the world to eliminate each other.”Why yes, it did, Klaus.”And if Fischer, so-called, should have played Karpov, Karpov stood to make more than $3 million, most of which he would have been obliged to turn over to his country’s chess federation, thus helping restore the USSR’s balance of credits deficit,”Right, Klaus. But Fischer stood to loseall that money himself. That makes no sense.”• I’m coming to that, my friend. But the main point is IKat every time we get in a business deal with the Soviets, we get cioDocrea me grain deal cost us dearly. The so-called Vietnam peace .agreement got my boss Secretary Kissinger the NobelscpiroisLJ]litThIwTuCOifir.3-0seePeace Prize but insured that the other sideMsivllwould have a chance lo grab off all the arms we supplied to that incompelen!Thieu government after our men left the country. I could go on and on. But actually ho capitalist country has a chance of besting a communist state in a business gm deal.” isecruelt;PC PLAYER OF YEAR ' CENTERVILLE, Mass. (AP) - Ron Wilson of Providence has been named first division player of Ihe year and Bob Miller of New Hampshire has been named rookie of Ihe year in the annual Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference ail-star hockey announcements.Boston University placed five on the Division I team announced Saturday-forwards RicR Meagher and Mike Eru* zlone.tiefenoemen Vic Stanfield and Peier Brown and goalie Brian Durocfier.Player of the year in Division 2 was Defenseman Dick Lambey of Salem State and Bowdoln forward Dan Claypool wasVVrookie of the year.In Division 3, forward Marv Dogon of . -Blair House/'Worcester Stale was player of the year and, ' '“you don’t say, Klaus.”■ r k . i. iilk.iiA i/Nisls paaHa KajIArc M1 iffi l'tvIrtfVigoalie Bob Fisette took rookie honors.“I sec your point, Klaus. But how did you get Fischer lo go along with your no-more-deals policy toward the Soviet Union?Easy. There really is no Bobby Fischer. There is a computerized robot, amazingly life-like, that can beat anyone in the world at chess. We’ve named it Bobby Fischer and it was that robot which wal originally won the title from Spassky, To Irai make it look authentic, we let it lose or writdraw a game every so often, but in fad no I he ione can beat the Bobby Fischer Chess pem Robot.” DCome to (Siink of it, no one lias seen firii:Bobby Fischer since lie beat Spassky, OrioKlaus. But they say he’s living in seclusion despin South Pasadena1, Calif.” gam“That Is just s rumor, a trial balloon, a the ■ riot*for-all ribui lion high source report, my Nt friend. No one has seen ‘Bobby Fischer’ in the South Pasadena, because 'he's’ actually Ihirr not in South Pasadena. 'Bobby Fischer so* optu called' is stored away in Ihe basement of haveimprYork1 da indeed, . HiT
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