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...enjoyed and appreciated your superb Essay on the psychology of chess [Sept. 4]. Oddly, I have never learned to play chess, but after reading about the people who do play and why they play, I think I should take it up. Like Dr. Karl Menninger, I need a hobby in which destructiveness and aggressiveness can be worked off. Like Dr. Menninger also, I think it is time for me to give up hunting because it is too destructive of our remaining wildlife...
...psychologist and as an avid amateur chess player, I found your Essay listing ridiculous "psychological" reasons for playing chess offensive on both counts...
...Slater was known to few outside British financial circles until Bobby Fischer threatened to boycott his world championship chess match with Boris Spassky. Slater put up the $125,000 in additional prize money that helped bring Fischer to the table. The 43-year-old investment banker has a passion for chess; he keeps a board in his London office and, until recently, had a correspondence match in progress at all times...
...status-and income-of chess masters continue to soar. Up in Iceland, a relaxed and happy Bobby Fischer feasted on suckling pig, sipped a sinister-sounding potion called Viking's Blood, danced with a pretty blonde named Anna Thorsteinsdottir, and uncharacteristically arrived ten minutes early for a meeting with Iceland's President Kristján Eldjárn. The world chess champion's chief worry, in fact, was how severely lawsuits would deplete the $154,687.50 purse he won for trouncing Russia's Boris Spassky. No matter. With offers flooding in (endorsements, book rights, exhibitions), Bobby...
...Like a chess game, the entire match was divided into three phases: opening, middle game, ending. No one knew better than Boris that he had failed to secure much of an advantage playing white in the first game and that Bobby had beaten himself by trying to win what was clearly a dead draw. Nonetheless, Bobby's mistake encouraged the Russian team, which had counted on his impetuosity and overconfidence...