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CHESS TIME
Players rise
after falling
r AEEPH MLL BROWN
amazing thing happened
to Russia's rising young chess
star, Victor Tukmakhov, on
Ids way to victory in the IBM
tournament at An.sterdam:
he was beaten by Russia's
fading old chess star, Efim
Geller.
To see one Rauaaan knock
another out of the winner's
circle in a foreign dean tour-
nament is an unusual specta-
cle, Max Euwe, World Chess
Federation president, who
made the awards, congratu-
lated the loser!
"For years," explained
Euwe, "the Russians have
been accused of playing
draws with each other to
score political victories. This
proves it is not so."
Maybe. What it probably
confirms is the .uniqueness of
chess: a game where young
players can suddenly become
expert veterans, and washed-
up veterans can just as sud-
denly rediscover the fountain
of youth. In no other sport
does it happen so often.
When Geller rose to receive
his, sixth-place award, Euwe
muttered that he didn't know
whether to congratulate him
or console him.
"Twenty-five years ago
Paul Keres introduced us and
said; 'Here is a young man
who always plays to win.'
Now," sighed Euwe accusing-
ly, "you are the player with
themost draws -- twelve in
fifteen games," • and Geller
shuffled back to his seat like a
man waiting for the bus to a
leper colony. -
But the mind is usually one
of the last things to go, and,
chess is so thoroughly mental
a sport. Get the right odds and
you can bet the 49 -year-old
'Geller will still be around
scoring upsets 40 to 50 years
from now.
This could well be, too, for
Vlastimil Jansa, the.. young
Czech grandmaster who
wound up in a three-way tie
for first with Tukmakhov and
' Boris ' I,��v,,,ko��vyy, of Yugoslavia.���yy��
(The ,MRWW'5; a .ria `.:tie"
break score won the official
designation of victor). @
Jansa is an affable, solidly
built ex -soccer , stalwart. In
football he was a rough vi-
cious motor, but in his
early :Chess days his style
was, paradoxically, staid and
overly. cautious. Suddenly his
play has become daring and
ingenuous, bringing Euwe to
speculate: "If I. was Bobby
Fischer, I'd be a little worried
about this young man." (In
the game below Jansa demol-
ishes Yugoslavia's Albin
Planinc with a stunning dou-
ble-check
onble-check that forces imrnedi-
ate resignation.)
Jansa's transformation is
no surprise to anyone *who
,knows how often chess has
proven itself a character -
builder. Football -- that alibi
for maudlin alumni and mer-
cenary coaches — is not even
in the same league. (One no-
table advocate of the benefi-
cence of the game was Brit-
ain's Lord Simon. I3is duties
as wartime cabinet minister
ihd not, apparently, demand
total rejection of chess. After
Winston Churchill's return
from the historic North Africa
meeting, it was Lord Simon
who inadvertently referred to
it in a House of Lords debate
as the "Capablanca" Confer-
ence.)
Indeed, because chess is a
form of combat where it's not
necessary to own muscles that
ripple, it appeals to the quiet
man who prefers dignity to
power. An interviewer once
asked avant-garde playwright
Eugene Ionesco his reasons
for admiring Samuel Beckett,
the Irish author.
Beckett, declared Ionesco,
"is a very generous man, very
loyal. Those are rare quali-
ties," and then added, "I was
told that for a long time his
principal occupation was to
play chess by himself."
IBM TOURNAMENT
AMS1'ERDAM —1974
VLASTIMIL. JANSA.
(Czechoslovakia)
ALBIN PLANINC
(Yugoslavia)
SICILIAN DEFENSE
1.P -K4
2. N-KB3
3. P -Q4
4. NxP
5. N-QB3
6. B -K2
7.0.0
8. P -B4
9. B -B3
10. P -K5
11.NxB
12. PxP
13. Q -K2
14. B -B4
15. QR -Q1
16.K -R1
17.14-N5
18. N(5)K4
19. P-KN4
20. B -N5
21. BxB
22. N -Q6
23. K N1
24. K -R1
25. N(3) -K4
26. Q -K3
27. Q -Q113
28. N-KB5db1 ch
If wither comes
P -Q134
P -K3
PzP
N-KB3
P -Q3
QN-Q2
P-QN4
B -N2
BxB
PxP
N -N5
R -Bl
B -K2
Q-N3ch
N -B1
N -R3
N -B4
N -R5
N(1) -N3
KB
Q-B3ch
Q-B4ch
Q-B3ch
NxP
P -B3
QR-Ql
Resigns
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REGAN (LINDA BLAIR) and her mother Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn) in William
Peter Blatty's "The Exorcist" from Warner Bros., directed by William Friedkin and
co-starring Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn and Jack MacGowran. William
Peter Blatty produced his screenplay based on his novel.
"Exorcise not a film
to be seen by the weak'
•by Vonnie Lee
On January 15, 1949, in Mt.
Rainer, Maryland, 14 -year-old
John Hoffmann (not his real
name, though a true story) was
spending an evening with his
grandmother, his parents enjoy-
ing an evening out. Suddenly,
they heard dripping sounds com-
ing from an upstairs bedroom;
followed by scratching under the
floorboards. Every night for the
next white tht Efairtegds came
from the,same ream, ,l finally
John's father called an exter-
minator to kill the offender.
But the `offender' was nothing
so simple as that which an exter-
minator could handle. The scrat-
ching stopped after about ten
days but a few nights later John
heard shoes squeaking under his
own bed. On another occasion he
heard feet marching and coming
closer ... and closer ... and clos-
er.
To get away from it all and re-
gain some sanity, the family went
for a ride one Sunday with John's
Aunt Dorothy. Without warning,
a robe in the car began to curl.
When the `fun' ride ended, John's
Dad, reaching to shut off the
motor, discovered the keys were
not in the ignition. They were
found under the front seat, no one
knowing how they got there.
A week later, Aunt Dorothy
died, and strange happenings in
the Hoffman household increas-
ed. John's bed rocked, taps were
heard on the floors, things flew
across rooms, a comb floated
from the bedroom to the living -
room and John's desk at school
moved across the floor. Exactly
six weeks after the first sounds
had been heard, red marks, like
brandings, appeared on John's
skin, some of them forming
words.
Neither physician nor psychi-
atrist
sych%atrist could find anything wrong
with John but still the strange
happenings persisted. The family
moved to St. Louis but that didn't
help. Although his parents were
Lutheran, their son's enormous
problem, to which there seemed
no answer, prompted them to see
a Roman Catholic priest. On
March 16, the Archbishop of St.
Louis gave one of his priests per-
mission to begin the formal rite of
exorcism, a ceremony to rid
John's body of the demon which
had taken possession of it.
It wasn't until the night of April
18, after gruelling experiences
and unrelievable happenings
during which John kicked, cursed
and spat on his benefactor, that
John, after a fit of violent
spasms, became normal, broke
into a smile and said he felt fine.
Twelve days later he and his
mother returned to Mt. Rainer
and he began a normal life, after
three months of hell.
Today, John is 38, married with
three children. He doesn't re-
member those three months but
the priest who passed through
that hell with him, has no doubt
but that John's body was, during
that time, possessed by the devil.
Twenty years after it happen-
ed, writer William Peter Blatty,
long interested in this type of
thing, wrote a novel in which he
changed the 14 -Year-old boy into
a 12 -year-old girl who suddenly
becomes `possessed'. He called it
"The Exorcist" and since it was
first published in 1971, it has sold
six million copies in the United
States and has been translated
into 18 languages. „If! 1973, War-
ner Bros. studio in . Hollywood -
Made a motion picture based on
the novel, a film that has turned
into the most controversial,
fascinating, disgusting, sickening
movie to be seen in many years.
"The Exorcist", -which isnow'
playing in theatres in this area,(it
starts in Wingham on the 25th) ,
has made some people physically
ill, completely disgusted others,
enthralled others. But f doubt
that anyone could see it without
being affected in some way. It is
not an entertaining subject; in
fact, it is a topic to be feared and
left alone. Flip Wilson's famous
line, "The devil made me do it!",
is not funny! For as surely as
good powers exist to form
thoughts of kindness, under, -
standing and love within the hu-
man mind and soul, powers of
evil can also inhabit the mind,
soul and body of us all. It is NOT a
film to let your children see for it
is young minds that most often
fall prey to Hollywood's sensa-
tionalism.
Good eventually triumphs over
evil in Blatty's book and the
movie. But in spite of that, it is a
very real problem (though not
understood as it should be); in
fact, a recent poll conducted by
Reader's Digest revealed that
more than 80 per cent of the 'US.
publicdo not even know the
meaning of the word `exorcist',
including a majority of those who
had read the book.
Laical theatre managers will
not be delighted with my reaction
- and I am well at rare that I will
probably not change your mind if
you haveNchosen to attend a
showing of this movie. But I leave
you with this warning; be VERY
sure, before;you.see, tbis,pictur.e,
, t� an;:y>OW)c, °own
ad / ; Pres-
ence of good far -outweighs the
bad; love is much stronger than
hate; hope far greater than des-
pair. Be strong and sure in your
beliefs for without you realizing
it, you may be influenced by this
picture and long after the screen
has gone blank, it may haunt
your thoughts .and your dreams.
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Farms Trophy to J. E. Freiburger, Listowel, (left) at the
Western Ontario Championship Holstein Show judged
September 13, in London. The trophy, which is donated by
R. M, Berry, Wilton Grove, is awarded to the best oddered
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Mr. Freiburger's A Future lope Crisscross Sophy who also
was Grand Champion Female.
In pito iecently ao: Amari
can agricultural +eestby the
name& Forest L. Goser,11 gave a
glowing account of th,e changes
whir area fof 0
"BY 1164," he said, "it will be
farewell to the private farmer on
the family Vie, By that
thlle," Mr. Goetsch continued,
ibulk of iyrulture on this
nt will be ,l the hands of
the modern food manufacturer
and computed agribusiness
firms. Once apiculture has been
placed on a strictly economical
basis and given the benefits of
financing from private investor
corporations and expert direction
it will have become such an effi-
cient ind lMtry thatjand will have
doubled in value. A section of
land in the midwest will be worth
a million and a half once it has
been given the benefit of corpo-
rate farming," Mr. Goetsch
.Prophesied -
And here are - some other
changes which Mr. Goetsch says
are just,ahead for farming. 'Me
pasturing of animals will disap-
pear everywhere except where
tillage is too expensive. ,Animals
will be kept in confinement and
the food brought to them. Any
other form of feeding them would
be too expensive. Farms subsidies
will disappear, and, giant busi-
ness firms with unlimited finan-
cial backing and the power to
achieve huge tax write-offs will
decide the kind of farming which
will be done. The man who actu-
ally tills the soil will have nothing
to say about it."
And for those of us who may
have some doubtabout whether
these are the predictions of a
genius or �meerely those of a
dreamer trVnto make the head-
lines, Mr. Lindley Finch came
onto the platform next and told
the assemblage that in the very
near future agriculture will be
dominated by the privately held
c prporation and private invest-
ment firms. "There may be no
more than half 'a million produc-
ing units in the entire U.S.," he
said. -
And who is this Mr. Lindley
Finch? Well, he is vice-president
of the Continental Bank. He is
also the agricultural consultant
of that bank, idi the 0 occasiow
which brought, Messrs. • Goetsch
and Finch together and onto the
same platform was an interna-
tional food seminar.
Well, I suppose that the giant
food corporations must have felt
quite encouraged to learn that in
another ten years or so they will
be in control of the whole food in-
dustry, and from the ground up.
But before they get too excited
about the fat promises of such ' a
future, someone other than an
expert might quietly pointout to
them that before# they can com-
plete this great takeover of agri-
culture they must first get the
land, and that a lot of us who are
now sitting on those old-fashioned
acres are just too stubborn and
too damned stupid to move off, no
matter what the price. Count me
one.
Someone should also remind
Messrs. Goetsch and Finch that
there is no guarantee whatsoever
that American industry will al -
Ways be in the hands of corpora-
tions which become . fewer . and
fatter with every passing year.
The • people may one day have
something to say about that.
Seems to tale that by 1984 the
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production of their daily calories
is one monopoly they dare not
permit, and if there is any argu-
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