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Bobby Fischer Story of a Champ and Chess Bagel Pseudo
For chess players, the this century. He is therefore
Jewish Food-
general public that is inter- the best qualified person to
ested in the game, the new write about the champs and
Just American

volume by Dr. Reuben Fine,
"Bobby Fischer's Conquest
of the World's Chess Cham-
pionship — The Psychology
and Tactics of the Title
Match," published by Mc-
Kay, is a veritable treasure.

Dr. Fine, who held an in-
ternational chess champion-
ship, rated, next to Bobby
Fischer, as the outstanding
American chess expert of

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to list the best plays which
this book features.
Bobby Fischer is portrayed
by Dr. Fine as an "American
Folk Hero." The rise to
fame of this champ receives
interesting description in a
book that is almost a hero-
worshiping of the noted con-
queror of the world title.
Dr. Fine also lists the
other great plays, the
champs, including Wilhelm
Steinitz (1866-1894), Emanuel
Lasker (1894-1921), Mikhail
Botvinik (1961-1963), Boris
Spassky (1969-1972), and now
Fischer.
Sammy Reshevsky plays a
role in Dr. Fine's historical
record about chess players.
He describes a match be-
tween Bobby Fischer and
Reshevsky, when Bobby was
unable to beat Reshevsky
who was then, as Dr. Fine
states, "the dominant figure
in American chess after my
retirement."
At this point, Dr. Fine re-
lates: "In my second game
with Reshevsky in Pasadena
in 1932, we adjourned in a po-
sition which was a clear win
for me. The adjourned time
fell on a Jewish holiday and
was therefore postponed,
over my objection. For the
second adjournment the
game was rearranged for an
early time; which I failed to
keep. This time I was for-
feited, in spite of my objec-
tions. The tournament direc-
tor, a Dr. Griffith, took me
into the men's room and
consoled me with a medi-
cinal shot of Scotch (those
were still the days of Pro-
hibition). I was then 17 years
old, about the same age as
Bobby in his match with
Reshevsky."
Dr. Fine mentions Bobby's
being half Jewish. Then he
states: "In the late '60s he
suddenly experienced a re-
ligious conversion, joining a
sect known as the Worldwide
Church of God. This sect,
founded in Oregon 40 years
ago, is a blend of Old Testa-
ment Judaism and funda-
mental New Testament Ad-
ventism. It imposes Hebrew
dietary and Sabbath pro-
scriptions and preaches the
imminent return of Jesus

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BOBBY FIS CHER

Christ to set up a super-
organized world government.
It is said that he lives up
faithfully to the rules of his
church, and that he con-
tributes 20 per cent of his
income to it."
An informative chaper in
the book deals with Boris
Spassky, whose life story
and chess career are _fully
related.
Of the nearly 300 pages in
the book, some 180 are de-
voted to games, with moves
fully illustrated. This gives
the Fine volume the total
significance that can be at-
tached to a volume about
chess and chess players.

Iran Is Seeking
Games; Hopes
to Beat USSR

Neither bagel nor "real
Jewish rye" are really Jew-
ish foods, contrary to wide-
spread convictions of Jews
and non-Jews alike, accord-
ing to an expert on Jewish
cooking, who contends there
are no truly Jewish foods,
but rather centuries-old Jew-
ish uses of foods taken from
other cultures.
In fact, even the traditional
halla may not be a Jewish
food, says Mrs. Shonie B.
Levi, wife of Rabbi S. Ger-
shon Levi of Jamaica, N. Y.
She reported on the matter
hi "Keeping Posted," pub-
lished by the Union of Amer-
ican Hebrew Congregations.
The bagel, she asserted,
"is really a Johnny-come-
lately to the Jewish scene.
Its association with Jews is
largely an American phen-
omenon," for a Russian-
Polish delica introduced to
North America by Jews from
Eastern Europe. The Jewish
rye bread "originated in cer-
tain northern climes where
rye is the native grain."
Jews who settled in this
country "brought along an
acquired taste for it," Mrs.
Levi declared.

Raising the question as to
whether halla was "an or-
iginal or an imitation," Mrs.
(Copyright 1973, JTA, Inc.)
Less than a month after Levi commented that "may-
my Tel Aviv based interview be both go back to a com-
with Iran's Richard Avory mon source." She added that
concerning his country ap- "it really doesn't matter.
plying for the 1980 Olympics, What counts is the use" to
a story datelined Tehran which such foods are put by
broke internationally announ- Jews and what really mat-
cing that Iran would seek ters "is the way we Jews
the games. This is a step in have converted certain
the right direction and in dishes into celebrations of
_
line with what Avory, Is our
own holidays."
rael's Chaim Glovinsky and
She cited latkes for Ha-
I discussed a few weeks ago. nuka, hamantaschen for
However, there is much Purim, blintzes for Shavuot,
work yet to be done and the matza balls for the Passover
odds as mentioned here be- Seder. gefilte fish and simi-
fore are still 1,000-1 against lar food uses. On that
Russia losing out.
premise, she declared, "no
Let's not lose sight of the one can deny that our halla
fact that only 74 voters will belongs to the Jewish Sab-
determine the site of the 1980 bath, regardless of who orig-
games. Remember — the inated the recipe."
U.S. merely has two 'votes
She stressed that even
and nobody on the American such foods are not universal
Olympic team can dictate to all Jews but "only to
how our two International those originating in Eastern
Olympic Committee delegates Europe. There is no one Jew-
should vote. Good old Avery ish culinary tradition but
Brundage, who voted in quite a few." She listed
favor of the games going to among the varieties Hun-
Berlin in 1936, is still one of garian, Polis h, Russian,
the American IOC dele- Czech and Lithuanian.
gates. Brundage isn't what
The Hebrew word halla,
one might call a philo-Semite
nor a friend of Israel. He's she said, meant originally
an old buzzard, well past simply a loaf and "not even
80; and should have been necessarily of bread." She
dropped from all Olympic cited a reference in Leviticu
activity upon retiring as to both a loaf of matzo and
chairman of the IOC a few of oiled bread. Halla "has
come to signify the special
months ago.
It remains to be seen how delicious white bread used
much backing Iran can en- on the Sabbath" and in Yid-
roll in the next few months. dish, "and in English, this
has become its only mean-
Russia, anxious for the
ing,"
games, will be prodding all
She reported that she had
of the Iron Curtain countries
and their satellites around seen, at a Bar Mitzva recep-
the world. Israel, without a tion, one of the "most un-
vote, is- impotent and many usual and exquisite hallot"
other friendly nations, who in her experience, shaped
would like to see the games like a sheaf of wheat. She
out of Russia, are without later learned that a Jewish
bakery in New York had
voting power.
The IOC has always acquired a duplicate of the
been a "you scratch my original mold and produced
back and I'll scratch yours" halla in that shape for
fraternity so that budging "festive religious occasions."
the committee off its course
About 60,000,000 persons in
is going to take a lot of
the world are threatened by
doing.
yaws, a crippling disease.
Fiction or fable allures to For 21/2 cents, UNICEF pro-
vides the penicillin to cure a
instruction.
—Benjamin Franklin child of yaws.

By HASKELL COHEN

