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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1975-02-20, Page 20Page 2-C, essaoads-February 2% 1 5 - CHESS POINTS Manila's bid sets a record By ROSS WILLIAMS Three cities submitted bids to the World Chess Federation (FIDE) to purchase the right to host the Men's World Chess Championship Match sched- uled to be played an June, 1975. When Dr. Max Euwe, presi- dent of FIDE, opened the bids on Jan. 2,1975, he had an offer of $387,500 from Mexico City, $426,250 from Milan, Italy, and $5 million from Manila, Republic of the Philippines. Five million dollars? A bid of $500,000 from Manila could have won the competition. Why $5 million? To say the Manila offer is the highest bid in chess history would com- pletely ignore its magnitude. \ If Mexico City had been the high bidder, its offer would have been the biggest in chess history. At the turn of the century, $5,000 was a big purse for a world championship match. Boris Spassky won a prize of $1,400 when he defeated Petrosian for the World Championship in 1969. In 1972 Bobby Fischer was the chal- lenger and the ante was raised, The purse for the match in Iceland was $250,000. No previous purse had ever approached that amount, and the 1972 World Championship Match was touted as herald- ing a new era in chess history. What superlatives can we now use to describe the Manila of- fer? There's still the problem of solving the match rules dis- pute between the World Champion and FIDE. The Japanese Chess Federation has petitioned FIDE to hold • an extraordinary session of .the world federation's Gener- al Assembly in March to re- evaluate Fischer's demands. Bobby Fischer wants the. match to be unlimited 'in terms of the number oigames with the first player to win 10 games to his opponent's 8 or less declared the winner. FIDE wants to limit the -match- to 36 games with the Winner to be the player with the best score in 36 games, or> the first player to win 10 games, whichever occurs first. Under its Hiles, if a third of its membership vote in favor of the Japanese request, FIDE must convene the spe. cial session. With its present membership of 87 nations, 29 votes would be required. Twelve members, including the United States, have al- ready signified their ap- proval, and the special ses- sion is expected to occur, Tournament Notes: The 9th National Open, with $6,000 in prize money, is scheduled March 2-7, 1975, at the Star- dust Hotel, Las Vegas, Nev. Last year this event ended in a three-way tie for first be- tween International Grand- master and former U.S. Champion Arthur Bisguier, and USCF Masters Norman Weinstein and Edwards) Celoria. Game of the Week: Last week's game was Spassky's victory over Fischer at Mar del Plata in 1960. Spassky's use of the King's Gambit so impressed Fischer that. he wrote an article about this game, and had it published in American Chess Quarterly, Vol 1 (1961), No. 1. Fischer says the correct move is 3 ... P -Q3. This week's game is the ninth between Spassky and Karpov in the 1974 Candidates Matches. Could Spassky have won with a different line of play? Karpov 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 -K3 10. NN3 11: P-QR4 12. B -B3 13. N -Q4 14. R -B2 15. NxB 16. PxP, 17. Q-KB1 18. P -R3 19.B -N4 20. B3N 21.4-B4 „ 22. R -Q2 23. R-KB1 24.N N1 25. K -R2 26. P -B3 27. R -K2 28. N -Q2 29. N -B3 30.R 31. Q -K6 32. RaR 33. R -Q1 34. B -B5 35. RxB Spassky P-QB4 P -K3 PzP N-KB3 P -Q3 B -K2 0-0 N -B3 I3 -Q2 P-QR4 N-QN5 B -B3 P-KN3 P -K4 PxN PxP N -Q2 P -R4 QxB B -R5 Q -K2 KR -Q1 Q -N2 K -N2 N=R3 R-KB1 • B -Q1 P-83 B -K2 QR -Q1 BxR NNl R -R1 Resigns ENDURES -A reminder of the days gone by, this schoolhouse, now owned by Mr. and Mrs. Antony Christie, Ayton Road, stands at the crossroads. Missing is smoke from the chimney and footprints of children to or from school. Crossroads Published every Wednesday as the big, action cross-country section in The Listowel Banner, The Wingham Advance -Times and The Mount Forest "Confederate. Wenger Bros. Limited, publishers, Box 390, Wingham Barry Wenger, Pres. Robert 0. Wenger, Sec.-Treas. Display and Classified ad deadline - Tuesday, week prior to publication date. REPRESENTATIVES Canadian Community Newspapers Association, Suite 51, 2 Bloor St., West, Toronto 962-4000 Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assoc., 127 George St., Oakville 884-0184 WAITING -Many schoolhouses haven't been renovated appreciably. Bill Jackson owns this one on RR 1, Moorefield and.still has to make up his mind as to what the inside will look like. The role has (Continued from front page) They heat the building with an old wood stove which they bought for a few dollars. This is one rea- son the ceiling is lowered five feet. But it is slanting so as not to obscure the windows, which remain at their original height. The only talk of interfering with the outside is "to put on a little paint". The fun ,of it all, besides owing a place of his own, Mr. Schedler says, has been renovating. ' He's not a carpenter by trade, but "I knew quite a bit about car- pentry once I got finished with it." He now does carpentry work. Best Material - It's a slightly different story for Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Stevens, RR 1, Londesboro. Mr. Stevens is a professional carpenter. He has remodelled 22 homes. His schoolhouse bears little resemblance to the rec- tangular block it used to be. He hesitates to say how much it's worth but it could be close to $1001,,000. , . The reporter wants to know what he has done to it. "Take a look for yourself," he says. He has just come from the basement, which he is converting into a recreation room. Maybe that's why he hesitates to estimate the . value of the home -until he's finished. Mrs. Stevens takes the visitors around. Upstairs are three bedrooms and a bathroom. Naturally, the ceiling is. higher than it used to be when kids played hide and seek with teach- ers. What was once the main schooIro1 tff s divided into a large sitting room, a kitchen, a dining room, a bathroom and a bedroom -a small one which Mrs. Stevens explains will be turned into a den. The material used and the carpeting is the best on the mar- ket. Mr. Stevens, who has all the been changed time been calming two dogs, ex- plains that he bought the house about eight years ago, mainly be- cause it was close to his farm. For a while he used it as a barn. Then he sold the farm, bought a trailer and parked it beside the schoolhouse and he and his wife started renovating. The windows are not as long as they were in the classroom be- cause, he explains, he had to raise them for the second floor and split them with bricks. He has built a two -car garage beside the old schoolhouse and it has a concrete roof. Wood rail- ings make it the place to be on a sunny afternoon. "Many people come to look at it," he says, "particularly those who went to school here" In Mount Forest, Bill Jackson heard his father was selling -his farm. There was a schoolhouse on the farm. It had been divided into two bedrooms, a living -din- ing room, a kitchen and a bath- room. The partitioning was of plywood and it looked just like a normal apartment. "What are you going to do with it?" He shrugs his shoulders. He isn't sure. But he is sure he doesn't like it the way it is -the inside, that is. There are many more old schoolhouses, scattered all over the countryside. Only a few have been renovated in any appreci- able manner. Most are, well ... "Isn't it a shame the way some people abuse them?" says Mrs. Stevens. But ,there are people like Bill Jackson who own one and are still contemplating what to do with it. There are others wwio can't wait to get one. In any case, within the four brick walls, the likes of which are not built anymore, people will learn, even today, that creativity has bounds still to be explored. Agricultural Tidbits With Adrian Vos At a farmers' meeting I at- tended, the farmers were asked to fill out a questionnaire asking, among other things, what the value of their farm, equipment and livestock would be. Another question asked their average in - ,come over the last five years. The result was rather shocking. Eighty per cent had a value of between $100,900 and $300,000 in vested. The income from this in- vesta`nent, for 70 per cent, was less than $10,000 over the last five years. If one compares this with the $13,000 income per year that the postmen are asking, one must .ask oneself : "What am I doing farming? Why not take a job from 8 to 5 that requires no in- vestment, and in many cases, little brains, and sell the bloody farm?" Well, I guess you know 1 CROSSWORD • + By A. C. 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We don't work for the money alone. We like to be our own boss. We like to make our own.decisions and where else can -one expect to do this better than on the farm. We are nuts, but we are, by and large, contented nuts. So be it. 0 0 0 A story in Macleans magazine bewailed the fact that so much grain is fed to livestock. It is, by and large, a good article even if the writer's facts about the amount of grain needed to produce a pound of meat are way off base. If his figure was ac- curate, not One pound of meat would be produced, because the price would be so high that only the very rich could afford to buy it, His concern about the under- fed peoples of the world I share. However, before we, as farmers, should feel guilty for producing meat, and consumers for buying it, we should first get our priori- ties right. Enormous amounts of number one wheat, barley and corn are used to produce gin, beer and whiskey, while the grain used for livestock feeding is lower grade, which is not used for food. After society cuts out the use of alcoholic drinks and stops eating pastry, then I would feel guilty if there is a shortage of grain. I our western society would lift import restrictions on products from the poorer world and pay them a reasonable price for their product, they would be able to buy our grain at a reason- able price, or better still, they could afford to irrigate their crops and put on enough fertilizer so that they could grow their own crops. Witch doctors' loo proposed, MOMBASA, Kenya - Com- plaining about the state of the art of witch doctoring, Wam- bus wa Ndambuki wrote to his local paper that many of to- day's practitioners are "char- latans, money -thirsty African brothers who, day and night are busy making enormous sums of money for which they haven't shed a drop of sweat." He has now proposed that all witch doctors, wizards and kindred workers should form a Kenya African Witchcraft Union in which all practition- ers should be made to enroll and issued a union card to be produced for the patient's In- spection before treatment is prescribed. SETTER ENGLISH By D. C. Williams What is wrong with each of these sentences? 1. The enormity of the audi- torium was a surprise to both my wife and myselL 2. 1 sat down on the chair be- fore tasting of the food she had prepared me. 3. He earned well over ninety dollars while working inside of that building. 4. I will go along with you, providing you have proven your sincerity. 5. Losing his balance, he fell down onto the ground. 6. In the meantime, lets us pro- ceed on with our work. What are the correct pronun- ciations of these words? 7. Finale. 10. Iaeposition. 8. Abyss. 11. Routine. 9. Conspiracy. 12. Retort. Which six words in the follow- ing group are misspelled? 13. Centenary, centenial, sensi- bility,'sensuality, cicada, de- fensable, inconceivable, dis- soluble, pitiable, feasible, conference, continuance,pen- itenc e, concordence, reminis- cence, summarize, equalize, cauterize, compromize, epi- tomize, alien, equestrlen, denizen, comedienne, parti- san, falibility, congeniality, credibility, malleabieness, promiscuity. ANSWERS 1. Say: "The ENORMOUS- NESS of the auditorium was a surprise to both my wife and ME." Use "enormity" when referring to evil or wickedness, as, "Theenorm- ity of the crime" 2. Omit "down" and "of' and say, "She - had prepared- FOR me." 3. Say, "He earned CONSIDERABLY MORE THAN ninety dollars," and. omit "of". 4.Omit " along," and say, "I SHALL go with you, PROVIDED you have PROVED your sincerity." 5. 'Omit "down," and say, "he fell TO the ground." 6.Omit "on," and say, "In the meantime, LET US proceed with our work." 7. Pronounce fee-nah-lay, ac- cent second syllable. 8. Pro- nounce--a-bias, accent second syllable. 9. Pronounce sec- ond syllable as "spear," and not as "spire.!' 10. Pro- nounce first syllable as "depp," and not as "deep," with principal accent on third syllable. 11. Pro- nounce roo-teen, accent sec- ond , syllable.c' 12. Pro- nounce with accent on sec- ond sylfable, not the first. 13. Centennial, defensible, con- cordance, compromise, equestrian, fallibility. 1. Which language oftheworld has the largest vocabulary? 2. How long has the White House been the U. S. Presi- dential residence? 3. How many U. S. states were there when George Washing- ton was inaugurated as the first President? 4. Which three planets in our solar system are smaller than the earth? 5. What are the three largest fish caught for food purpos- es? 6. Who discovered the Virgin Islands? 7. What Amendment to the U. S. Constitution provides for our income tax? 8. What is the oldest capital city in the world? 9. What canal carries ships around Niagara Falls? 10, Who originated the custom of hand clapping as a sym- bol of applause? 11. What famous English phil- osopher and scientist, made the first mention in history of the use of lenses as a means of aiding eyesight? ANSWERS 1. English, which contains ap- proximately 800,000 words. 2. Since November 1800. 3. Thirteen. 4. Venus, Mars, and Mercury. 6. The sturgeon, the tuna, and the ewortush, which some- times attain a weight of a thousand pounds. 6. Christopher Columbus, on his second voyage to the New World in 1493. 7. The 16th Amendment, pas- sed in 1913. 8. Damascus, Syria; continu- ously inhabited for more than 4,000 years. 9.. Welland Canal. 10. The ancient Romans. 11. Ropr Bacon (1214-94) WAIT WAII 1 VIA K/ABDAAP Canada's Holiday Airline WINTER/SPRING 1974/75 HAWAII Flights depart from Toronto via Wardair Boeing 747 jet. Sundays: December 22, 1974 to April 6, 19-75, direct: -- Mondays: December 23, 1974 to March 24, 1975, via Winnipeg. 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