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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1974-02-14, Page 16Page 2- Crossroads-- February 14, 1974 -- CHESS TIME Game needs teachers? By JOSEPH MILL BROWN When chess was reborn at Iceland in the sununer of ,'72, it dawned on people that chessplayers might be live human beings who play the game for a living. Now it's time to think about those gladiators who have served bravely for years and are at crucial points in their careers. At the Interzonal Tourna- ment in Petropolis, Brazil, Sammy Reshevsky, who was a 'child prodigy over 50 years ago, had an easy mate against Russia's Vladimir Sairon. To everyone's horror, he pro- ceeded to sacrifice his queen and the game - in what an- other grandmaster charac- te'rizedas "the blunder of five centuries." It seems that, like everyone else these days, the establish- ment stars are being as- saulted by a combination of youthful, opponents and hardened arteries. New faces in the U.S. Championship at El Paso, Telt., belonged 'to California's John Grefe and Jim Tarjan, and Andrew Karklins of Chi- cago, who are in their twenz• ties. They scored'against vet- eran grandmasters Larry Means, Pal Benko and Arthur Bisguier who, though in their forties, impressed by playing while seated in conventional chairs, rather than shawl - draped rockers. Age is not the only culprit 'fora ebeasPhlYer's dimin- ished skills. I asked a British master his..reason for some disappointing tOUrnament performance.s by otir pjayers. "American grandMasters are, bridge players," he snapped, sounding like an acOuser • of transvestites. An English journalist in- formed me ' that Americans would replace the Russians in chess "if only they weren't so concerned about making money from the game." It surprised me as I hadn't real-. lied that. everyone else workedhard at chess, studied long hours, and wrote about it just for free boxes of cracker- jack,• The, fact is, American chessplayers have universal eating habits, though. some manage to starve to death when their games run into overtime. If too Many grand- masters play on long after their skills have diminished, it may. be because their alterna- tives are limited. A half -century ago, ex world champion Emanuel Lasker had an interesting idea. Chess, he reasoned, needed good teachers; Inas- ters of chess who could intro- duce young people into the game the right way; "by lec- hires, good books, by live play with their pupils, by assisting at matches of the pupils and making notesand comments on the good and weak points of the games played." _ The chess world, Lasker felt, could ease the difficult life of a master by making a profession out of. teaching. "Who would want the chess - masters who have the capacity ,for excellent teach- ers in them to become medio- cre in some other profession? The function of a chessmas- .ter, who would be principally a chess teacher, is useful Ad grateful. In other domains :of human activity... teachers of the above type are not even possible," Lasker said. • Now, at time when many other sports are moving to the • city4earn and league concept, why not chess? And with thou - '1 sands of new che#iddctall, over theC;Country, BEnanUOI Luker 's prophecy carries more relevanCe than ever he, fore. If novelty continues to Mask as modernity, theonly way . soon left for an overaged grandmaster to make a buck will be to play chess in the nude. Considering the PhYst- cal condition most of than are in, it would be enough to make the public switch to checkers. U.S. CHAMPIONSHIP, 1973 EL PASO, TEXAS SICILIAN DEFENSE James Milan, Sherman Oaks, Ca. Larry Gilden, Takoma Park, Md. 1.P -K4 2. N-11,133 3. N -Q133 4. P -Q4 5. NxP 6. P -B4 7.N -B3 8.B3 9,0-0 10. Q -K1 11. K -R1 12. PxP 13. N-KR4 14.N -Q1 15. N -B5 16. N( 1 )-K3 17.N -Q5 18. PxB 19. NxP 20. Q-N3ch 21. BtP(7) 22. BxN 23. Q -N6 24. R -B3 1. 25. QxNch 13442 27. R-R3ch 28. Q-K6ch 29. R -K1 30. R -R6 31. R-QB1 32. R-B8ch 33. Rx,Bch 34. R-R8ch 35. BxPch P-034 P -Q3 P-QR3 PxP N-KB3 P -K4 Q-82 B -K2 0.0 PQN4 B -N2 PxP P -N5 K-Rl N -N1 B -B4 RtN N -Q2 ICzN K -R1 ' P -B4 P-135 N -B3 RIEB It -N2 R-KB1 K -N1 R(1) -B2 13-413 C/xP Q.KB4 B -Bl KxR R -N1 Resigns Curr A DISSECTION PUZZLE TI -RE ARE MANY FAMOUS PUZZLES IN W1410-1 ,ONE. SWAPE, MUST BE CONVERT-' ED INTO ANOTWER BY mAK- -NG ME FEWEST NUMBER ,f0CeSm.‘16101-0-LitIERE:5-10.. gs • tre._ TI.(6 CIRCLE INTO TWE 'FEWEST NUMBER' OF PIECES SO TWAT IT CAN BE REASSEMBLED INTO AN IDENTICAL SIZE CIR- CLE, AND AT 'TWE SAME , TIME RELOCATING THE 'IS' SMALL DISKS SO TWAT EPICA OF TOE CENTERS FALLS UPON sir STRAIGWT LINE. el972, • ° RvAN Gam cotowy (SOLUTION MAY BE FOUR'? ON PAGE 4) YOUR HANDWRITING TELLS Frustrated dreamer must draw curtain on the past By DOROTHY 'ST. JOHN JACKSON Certified Master Graphoanalyst Dear Dorothy: My life lacks meaning. I have such high hopes, but nothing ever works out. I guess I'm a dreamer. Tell me how to make my dreams work for me. B.J. Dear B. J.: Everybody has day -dreams. now and then. Dreams can lead us to greater accomplishment or they can help us to escape re- ality. But, when they become a means of eseape too often, we can eipect the frustrations which go with it. You fear the non-accept- ance of others, seen in the last section of the m's. The large loop in your y builds on all kinds of reasons how people can embarrass or htuniliate you. You feel at a loss for what to say, how to act, and what to do when you are with groups. You feel awkward when confronted with any unusual reL 1201v LK AC GIS1 MI& b74, I Cr os sro a ds 1 Published every Wednesday as the big, action cross-country section in The Listowel Banner, The Wingham Advance -Times and The Mount Porest Confederate. Wenger Bros. Limited, publishers, Box 390, Wingham. Barry Wenger, Pres. Robert 0. Wenger. Sec.-Treas. Dick Eskerod, Editor. Display and Classified ad deadline - Tuesday, week prior to publication date. REPRESENTATIVES Canadian Community Newspapers Association, Suite 51. 2 Moor St., West, 't "wont° 9624000 Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assoc., 127 George St., 'Oakville 884-0184 type situation. Personality fears galore have caused you to stifle your relationships with other people. You want to be so,meone; you want people to like you, seen in your strong high t crossings. Then you go in re- verse; back to your past, re- calling all your unfulfilled basic needs, and you say, "I can't!" 'This agonizing confu- sion is seen in your variable writing slant. You are avowing your emo- tional wheel out of balanee, and you feel insecure. Reality becomes too demanding. So you escape to live in the clouds. As you view life from "way up there," take a good look around. You'll find that no one is really secure. Security ex- ists in an untroubled heart, and there are too few of those around these days. The only workable plan is to draw the curtain on your past. Then take positive steps ahead, accepting the risks that are involved. There's nothing wrong in having a castle in the air, as long as you build a firm foun- dation under it. D.J. A free handwriting chart of some common basic perton. ality tmits may be obtalned by writing to Dorothy St John Jackson, Copley News Serv- ice, in care of this newspaper. Enclose long, ,self-addressed, stamped envelope. , THE OPTIMIST CLUB Of Mount Forest proposed the Report A•Rusher program, which is, similar to the Turn In A Pusher progfarn initiated, In such urban centres, as London, Ontario and Tampa, Florida. The aim wass,to eliminaie the dealer -of -drugs. Where have they gone? and irreversible darnage to the overdose of nicotine can cause brain, liver and kidneys, you had convulsions, respiratr failure better find out more about this, and death. • the most popular, most danger- Marijuana, however, has not 'ous and widely used drug in our been • proven to cause such society, with the exception of, damage, although research is not perhaps, cigarettes, which can. complete on it. The effects 'vary also cause damage. with the method of ' ingestion, Tars and smoke irritate the tis- whether smoked or eaten,' and sues, increasing saliva and bron- can produce reddening of eyes, chial secretions, causing in- dry mouth -throat, coughing creased blood pressure and heart spells, talkativeness, laughter rate and enlarged pupils. An and a "high" feeling. \ CHILD'S PLAY . . Paint.a wintry „.. ,,,....wif,. It could lead to aggressive and anti -social behavior with moder- ate psychological dependence liability. -•. There is more to know about these drugs and the others listed. There' is more to your life than deriendence,on any. one of them. Believe in that, oveipower.your • hibit and get high on life. Scien- tists have proven it's pretty good once in a while. 46 ..pitttire. ,..,.,„ 1 II ;di By BUROKER & HUNTSINGER There's a big difference be- tween soap and detergent if you're doing more than wash- ing behind the ears. And there are many uses for these cleaning substances beyond the obvious ones that come to Mind. Next time you're washing dishes, remembef,that soap is important in polishing jewel- ry, Vulcanizing tires and for making pictures such as the accompanying illustration. Volume D, 1973 "World Book Encyclopedia" has a three-page article on the his- tory, development and manu- facturing precestes of this commodity. The term "soap opera" comes from the fact that leading brands in the in- dustry are among the heaviest advertisers On tele- vision, not only the sponsors who make daytime drama possible, but many other pro- grams too. Offered statistics claim, "On the average a person in the United States uses about 28 pounds of soap and deter- gent a year." There's no way of knowing, of course, if these figures include the bubbles blown intim backyard on a hot summer day or the amount consumed on a rainy one if you decide to experiment with an entirely new art medium. Black construction paper is best to use because sharp con- trast is desired. Pendl outline the picture you have in mind, as with any drawing. A wintry Scene suggesting lotsoof snow such as mountains or a snow- man is most appropriate. White glue that comes in a plastic tube and squeezes out in a fine line hi the easiest to use. The contahier then be- comes a paint brush. Howev- er, an ordinary, thin brush dipped in paste is another pos- Bible method. The important thing is to "paint" a glue out- line over the entire design. Work carefully as errors can- aot be erased. There is no need to rush since the white glue does not dry too quickly. Pour some detergent into a dish. The little.round globules make sharper pictures. An- other time,though, you may wishto experiment with soap- flakes and see how entirely different the results will be. Then, with a teaspoon, • sprinkle and shake the pow- der all over the glued areas. Next, shake off the excess. 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