From: "jay hack" <jay.hack@execnet.com>
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Date: 13 Aug 92 23:53:06 EST
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THE FOLLOWING ARE THREE RECENT ARTICLES/RELEASES WHICH APPEARED IN
WORLD MEDIA OUTLETS ON CHESS.  NOTE NOT ONLY A REPORT OF A PRACTICE
GAME BETWEEN FISHER AND SPASSKY, BUT ALSO THE REPORT OF A POSSIBLE
SECOND MATCH BETWEEN FISCHER AND ?.

If these articles interest you, please let me know at
jay.hack@execnet.com.  I have been posting news releases for about 6
weeks and now it appears that most have gotten stuck on the local server
without going out on the network.  I'd like to know whether the effort
is bearing any fruit.  Thanks.

                   United Press International 1992

                       August  6, 1992

HEADLINE: Fischer and Spassky 'warm up' before match

 BODY:
   Bobby Fischer, the U.S. former world  chess  champion, met his
Russian  arch-rival Boris Spassky in a Belgrade restaurant for
their first game in 20  years, playing a friendly warm-up for their
$5 million re-match beginning Sept.  2, the Tanjug news agency
reported Thursday.

    Fischer pulled out a pocket-size  chess  board and began
arranging the  pieces immediately after greeting Spassky on
Wednesday night, Tanjug said. The  two began by analyzing some
aspects of their last match, which they played in  Reykjavik,
Iceland, in 1972.

    The pair then played a short ''warm-up'' game, scrutinized by
an audience  comprised mostly of late-night restaurant guests, said
Tanjug, which did not  disclose the winner.

    The two came to Belgrade after agreeing to play a $5 million
re-match of  their Reykjavik encounter organized by Jezdimir
Vasiljevic, the owner of  Jugoskandik, a private Serbian bank.

    The match is to begin Sept. 2 in Montenegro's Adriatic resort
of Sveti  Stefan.The winner will get $3.35 million, with the loser
receiving the rest of  the prize money.

    Still unanswered, however, is whether the match would violate
the U. N.  sanctions slapped on Serbia and Montenegro for
underwriting the Serbian  territorial offensive in the newly
independent former Yugoslav republic of  Bosnia-Hercegovina.

    The sanctions, imposed on May 30, ban financial transactions
with the two  communist-ruled republics.

    Fischer, 49, a brash psychological maneuverer, captured the
world  championship title from Spassky in a celebrated tournament
in 1972. Fischer  showed up late for his games, complained about
everything and made noise while  awaiting his turns.

    Spassky became so distressed during the tournament that his
seconds accused  the Americans of using electronic devices and
chemical substances to disorient  the Russian national champion.

    Fischer automatically lost his title as world  chess  champion
in 1975 when  he refused to play Russian champion Anatoly Karpov on
terms set forth by the  International  Chess  Federation. The
Federation thereupon stripped him of his  title and gave it to
Karpov.
                               The New York Times

                August  5, 1992, Wednesday, Late Edition - Final


HEADLINE:  Chess  Moves Are Planned. Birthdays Happen.

 BODY:
   IT was a surprise party, a sweet 16. The guest of honor, Judit
Polgar, who is  the highest-ranking woman in the  chess  world
right now, and probably ever, was  told that the elevator at the
Beekman Tower Hotel on East 49th Street was  malfunctioning and
couldn't stop at her floor. She'd have to ride to the top and  walk
down a flight. It was one gambit she didn't anticipate.

   When the elevator opened onto the Top of the Tower cocktail
lounge,  flashbulbs popped and confetti flew and Ms. Polgar, a
pale, pretty girl with  long red hair whose expression in repose is
normally one of diffidence,  convulsed in embarrassed giggles. She
cut the cake -- frosted in black and white  squares -- and the
guests, among them maybe a dozen of the world's finest   chess
players, cheered.

    Two were Ms. Polgar's older sisters. Sofia, 17 years old, is
the  sixth-ranked woman player in the world; Zsuzsa, 23, is second.
But though  remarkable in their own right, most of the time the
older sisters are perceived  as they were this day, as guests at
her party.
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