Word: chess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...live out the rest of its days.") The bulk of the book consists of fascinating personal glimpses of Muddy Waters, Johnny Shines, Skip James, Robert Pete Williams, Howling Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis and Charlie Rich. Also included are two chapters dealing with Sam Phillips' Sun Records and the legendary Chess Records, a selected discography, and a bibliography...
...Russians to lose the race to the moon, it was a disappointment, but to lose the World Chess Championship will be a catastrophe, especially if the winner is American Bobby Fischer [Nov. 8]. It is akin to the Russians sending us football, basketball and baseball teams and then beating the Colts, the Celtics and the Orioles, all on the same...
...value except in relation to the whole. The individual is thus said to be an illusion. He doesn't exist. He isn't anything." But lonesco will not tolerate this negation of individuality. He says that in the game he plays the part of the "madman" (the French chess term for what in English is the "bishop"). "The individual, I, the madman, am aware of my personality as a madman...It is an ideological mania these days to put the accent on the group. I for my part am perfectly able to place the emphasis on what is different...
Desperate Attempt. Sniffing and sipping hot tea while he fought off a cold, Bobby began the second game by boldly launching an early attack without first castling his king into a protected corner-a basic defensive maneuver taught in every chess primer. That indiscretion proved costly; it ultimately gave Petrosian an opportunity to pin Fischer's exposed king in a devastating crossfire. Backed into a corner after the 32nd move, Fischer pondered his plight for ten minutes and then resigned. His win streak ended at 20 straight, Bobby suddenly seemed to lose his momentum...
...Russia, where chess is not only the national pastime but a symbol of Soviet culture, the maximum will also be demanded of Spassky. Since the championship play-offs were first instituted in 1948, the Russians have had a monopoly on the title. Indeed, no Westerner has ever even made it to the finals and the Bobby v. Boris encounter is already being heralded as the match of the decade-if not the century...