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...fashion illustrator's model in Texas; Keri Flynn as a dancer in a Montreal night club; Erica Dean as a model for paperback book covers in New York; and Ellen McRae in Broadway's Fair Game in 1957. Comments Burstyn: "I was a checker player, not chess. I could only see one move ahead...
...WORLD OF CHESS by ANTHONY SAIDY and NORMAN LESSING 247 pages. Ridge Press/Random House...
Remember Fischer fever? Mild nausea, mottled fury, odd sensations of Russophilia, night sweats about poisoned pawns. Get set for a new and more severe epidemic. In 1972 the delirium was nourished by a prize fund of $250,000, twelve times greater than any previous chess purse. In 1975 the provender is grotesquely more substantial. Bobby Fischer and Anatoly Karpov, the 23-year-old Russian challenger for the World Chess Championship, have been invited by the Philippine Islands to meet in Manila on June 1 and push little wooden soldiers round a checkered board for the second largest stakes...
...mere possibility of the match has reinduced Fischer fever in the U.S. publishing industry, which is currently flogging 15 new books about chess. Most of them are strictly for the professionals, but a few can be warmly recommended...
Misspent Youth. The World of Chess, by International Master Anthony Saidy and Senior Master Norman Lessing, is the handsomest and most informative chess picture book ever produced. Its illustrations include Persian paintings, medieval manuscripts, 18th century court scenes, 20th century abstractions, a few sly cartoons and some arresting photographs of the strange cold men who become grand masters...