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sday,January TO, 1974Play-by-play kinda toughBroadcasting of chess matchto rival football, baseball?By JAY SHARBtlTT reporting and analyzing the Brady, who estimates the An international arbiter ofAP Television Writer moves in four major chess board bouts average five the World Chess Federationvr»o* / a matches for two weeks now. hours a game, ortly comes and author of books onNB.W YORK lt;AP) — The winner in the finals on for 5 to 10 minutes, F'scher and chess strategy,T*Aadp^lt;llino c PAVnracfo DAL,., r... m i « — . . ' Da/1ii UnUrv3 ,,tv„“ c m me unajs on tor 5 to 10 minutes, r anu waiwy,Broadcastings coverage of plays Bobby Fischer for the Tuesdays and Fridays, on Brady said hed given the sporting events has grown world title next year. The the National Piihlie Radio most coverage this week tosporting events has grown world title next year. The the National Public Radio m0! ty leaps and bounds in most prominent match this system linking 167 stations therecent years Rut chplt;« tc maob a , ma*»» moBi piumineni maccn mis system unking 167 stations «*« big SpasskyByrne recent years. But chess is week, occurring in Puerto in most of the United States laicb. ignored because it neither Rico, is between Russia’s So what he’ll do is sum- 11 5 not hlK first Hing atleaps nor bounds. It just sits Boris Spassky and Robert marize each match “try to chess broadcasting. Twothere and moves now and Byrne of the United States give the essence of what summers ago, he went toBut chess fans needn’t went on” and perhaps hi- Iceland to report on thein nt Itn I t. .. A ....... j. 1 famnllc Cttoccl/llt' I cr/vUnv*BradygaP , ___________________radio, no less. He’s been thank heavens.gameThe atmosphere's the thingCoffee is unimportantTokyoshopBy LEONARD PRATT TOKYO (AP) - The country that turned drinking a cup of tea into high art has made drinking a cup of coffee anything you want it to be.Care to feel like you’re in Vienna about 1907? flow about the first class lounge on a White Star liner boundLeisureplus a public TV show that made a brief star out of New York chess champ Shelby Lyman,However, he isn’t at the Spassky-Byrne match. So how does he cover it?“What I’ve been doing for the most part is going ta Manhattan,” said Brady, 39, a resident of Moorestown, N.J. “At the Marshall Chess Club, in New York, they get the moves, move by move, by open telephone line from San Juan.“And I’ve been going there every Monday, Wednesday and Friday and sitting there, analyzing the game as they go along, interviewing people, getting comments and trying to put it all together for a five-for Le Havre circa 1928? Or space, ,n a Peasant at- Some coffee shops are so minute show.a museum of science, or the space to read, or gilded and polished that if Does he think hisdrawing room of a.Venetian T« lhat friend from they ever stopped serving descriptions of the gamescount? the office, who s really a coffee they could go into would be intelligible toThen come to Tokyo and better «iena than anyone business as diamond listeners with only a hazv have coffee. suspects, you hope. merchants. Still others idea of chess?Or at least half a cup of it And meetings of such specialize in the linoleum “Oh, yes,” he said. “Theyat prices that rocket past import are not to be con- fJ9or school of decoration, may not specifically knowone U.S. dollar with hardly a ducted in other than the 'v‘th autographed photos of what I’m talking about, for pause. appropriate “funtki, or American jazz musicians on example, when 1 startPretty steep, even in one atmosphere, something that walls. talking about ‘Sicilianof the world’s most ex- is very important to the The styles are endless, defenses’ or ‘Ruy Lopez.1” pensive countries, but then Japanese. Bavarian, Old English, pink This is true. However, henobody goes to a Tokyo So since the funiki’s the and white whipped cream emphasized, “I try to make coffee shop to drink coffee thing, it comes in all colors, dreams, turrets and it as simple as possibleanyway. shapes and sizes, something crenelated battlements. One because I’m not trying toThat’s because Japan is for every occasion from is decorated with nothing appeal to the diehard chess one of the world’s most Beethoven to Elton John, but antique Japanese time player, but to persons who crowded countries — with Say you’re determined to pieces. Others aren’t that just know the basic moves.” 1,083 persons per square prove to your boy friend that “g on facilities, but are re- NPR says Brady’s chess mile, compared to there's a lot more to you nowned for the beauty of reports, to continue until the America’s 85 — and so than meets the eye. Buy a their waitresses. playoff matches end, appearcoffee shop customers are beret so he’ll think you’ve More than a few at the end of NPR’s regular really just renting private been to France, and suggest multistoried Tokyo “All Things Considered”you spend some time at a buddings are nothing but program, which most classical music coffeee toffee shops, ranging from stations carry from 5 to6:39 house. 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