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I THERE'S NO PLACE FOR THE TIMIDEgo's TheBy JOSEPH MILL BROWN Copley News ServiceSomeone once wrote that anyman who stoops to taking backh|s move in a game of chesswill not be above picking your pocket.Because chess resembles life, the timid nail their money down with safety pins. But the chess master is the supreme individualist; his ego precludes the thought that his destiny can be affected by potzers or crooks.When reporters at Iceland asked Bobby Fischer if he was conducting psychological warfare against Boris Spassky,Bobby responded, “I don’t believe in psychology; I believe in good moves,”Not so with Spassky, however, who does believe to psychology.At the European Team Chess Tournament, in Bath, England —his second appearance to the West since losing his title—he resembled the modish Hollywood personality, alternating affable charm with spells of depression, which he considers normal among chess players.“I play tennis—about twice a week and it helps me to relax,” he told reporter Sandy Fawkes of the London Daily Express, who reported his sex appeal to a breathless readership. “Tennis is like chess. It is two people alone playing each other and the battle is psychological.”The emphasis on individual)extraordinary comeback.If You'd Be Chess Kingsport is interesting. In team games, a player’s success depends on external events. He will be a luckless loser to bridge if he’s stuck with weak cards and a rotten partner. But to chess a potzer can win or draw against a superior opponent at least once in a lifetime.A moment of brilliance can happen, especially if your opponent has come down with a toothache, a head cold, or a divorce.*The Leningrad Interzonal was news for America with the surprise qualification of Robert Byrne. It was predictable news for the Soviet Union with the first-place tie of Anatoly Karpov and Victor Korchnoi. It was bad news for chess fans with the failures of Mikhail Tal and Denmark’s Bent Larsen.ftEach was apparently a victim of galloping ego. Mikhail Bot-vinnik once observed that “Larsen is ready to play for a% win against any opponent.” His peers contend that Larsen would be champion if only he would occasionally settle for the draw instead of risking everything for the win.As for ex-champion Tal, he has been the perennial wizard of making something out of nothing, winning games he never had a right to win.A protracted kidney illness diminished his star in the sixties, but last year he made anEveryone believed nothing could stop Tal at Leningrad, but someone forgot to tell Estevez, of Cuba—the lowliest player to the tournament—who upset theformer champ in an early* .round. From then on it wasapparent that 1973 was not going to be 1972, as another ego bit the dust.Perhaps ego without thestrength of youth to back it up■is what wreaks all the havoc. In a television interview before the Spassky match, Fischer revealed that, for him, the greatest moment to a game came when his opponent drifted into a lost position and “I feel I can crush his ego.”At Bath, British publisher Tony Gillom of The Chessplayer, clapped the 22-year-old Karpov on the shoulder and told him, “You will be world champion to two or three years.”“No,” said Karpov modestly. “In five or six.”Game follows: Larscn-Kavalek) LUGANO, SWITZERLAND -1970LARSEN’S SYSTEM B. Larsen (Denmark)L. Kavaiek (U.S.A.)1. P-QN32. B-N 23. P-QB 44. P-N35. B-N26. P-K37. N-K28. QN-B39. P-Q3B-K310. N-Q5Q-Q211. P-KR4P-B412. Q-Q2QR-K113. P-R5P-QN414. RPxPRPxP15. KN-B3PxP16. QPxPP-K517. 0-0-0N-K418. N-B4R-Ql19. K-NlB-B220. P-KN4NxNP21. P-B3PxP22. BxPN-K423. Q-R2BxP24. PxBNxB25. Q-R7chK-B226. N(B3)-Q5R-Knl27. NxNR-Nl28. K-RlQxN29. QxPchK-Bl30. N-K6chQxN31. BxBchK-K232. B-B8chQRxB33. R-R7chResignsP-QB4N-QB3P-K4P-Q3KN-K2P-KN3B-N20-0Fish Depleted By Heat WaveA recent heat wave of 10 days of unusually warm weather combined with strong sunlight depleted the oxygen content of the surface layer of the River Seine in Paris, causing thousands of fish to die and float to the surface.Some fish which surfaced alive were rescued and dunked in tubs of fresh water, which provided the equivalent of artificial respiration.—CNS
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Santa Ana Orange County Register
Santa Ana, California, US
Fri, Aug 31, 1973
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