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...ahead with the match. Late last week the champion and the challenger met to decide who would begin play with the white pieces, which have the first move. Upon seeing Fischer, Spassky warmly grasped him with both hands. Then, in a time-honored ritual, the champion put a white pawn in one hand and a black pawn in the other, juggled them behind his back and then extended his closed fists toward Fischer. Hunching over, Bobby pointed to Boris' right hand. Smiling, the champion opened his hand to show that the challenger had chosen black. Spassky may need every...
...Administration's decision to get involved in the situation was belated at best. Seeking to pre serve its leverage with Yahya in hopes of inducing him to restrain his troops, the U.S. managed only to outrage India, which felt among other things that it had become the pawn in the Administration's move to use Pakistan as the bridge for Nixon's detente with Peking...
Then there was a change. It will take another book to explain how it came about but the first hints of it come at the end of this one. On the last page of the book lonesco compares the world to a chessboard. The individual is "only a pawn on a chessboard. He has no 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...
...first game, the foxy Petrosian did just the opposite. Countering Fischer's predictable king's pawn opening with the aggressive Sicilian Defense, Tigran went by the textbook through his first ten moves. Then on his eleventh, he offered a surprise pawn sacrifice that was undoubtedly the fruit of the Soviets' intensive analysis of Fischer's game. Though he had seized the initiative, Petrosian, seemingly unaccustomed to the role of aggressor, was unable to take advantage of his superior board position. Pressed for time (each player is allowed 2½ hours to make the first 40 moves...
Whether or not Nixon is bluffing on a Two China policy will be determined in the months ahead. If he intends to use Taiwan as a pawn to a settlement on Vietnam, then his strategy has not grasped the reality that China cannot be bought on the question on Vietnam and Taiwan. But have always offered to peacefully negotiate all differences between the People's Republic and America...