THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1967 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE ELEVEN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1 9 6 7 TilE MICI1I(~AN DAILY PAE~R KTJ~V~7 "%AI iIa/L T &- i Grayle Howlett - ---OFF BASE-- Out of the depths of journalistic despair some scribe coined the quote, "Football is just a giant game of chess," attributed it to Bear Bryant or some other pigskin intellectual, and produced the definitive column. Of great consequence to sports historians everywhere is that now famous quote wasn't exactly coined, but slanderously juxtaposed. To set the record straight, Bobby Fischer said before a match in Chester, New Jersey, "Chess is just a miniature game of football." The reason this little bit of trivia comes to mind is that Saturday Is the rematch of the greatest chess game I've ever seen. They called it the "match of the century," the "proverbial dream match," when almost a year ago Mr. 1 and 2 in the AP chess poll journeyed to Sharon, Pennsylvania, to play it off. It was a classic. The American public would finally see Ara Parchesi and Hugh "Duffy" Dominoes facing each other over a chessboard. The air was electric in that small mining town when I arrived with the horde of sportswriters on the eve of the match. Duffy, hailing from Sharon, had been there all week and was holding forth with his daily press conference as we clomped in. The Irishman was in rare humor. He recounted the World Championship match in Amsterdam in 1956 when Ewfim Geller beat him with a complicated and daring "castling" maneuver. "I was rooked," Duffy chuckled. His wit was just as evident when he began to spar with the writer's questions. In answer to how he would score on Parchesi's famous mobile defense, Duffy countered: "He can run all he wants, but there's no place he can hide." Duffy outlined his game plan: "I run from a typical pro-type offense known as organ pipes,' that is, instead of merely having two black pieces interfere with each other I have two distinct pairs of pieces interfering with each other. Now watch for me to separate the pairs of mutually interfering pieces. I call it 'split organ pipes.'" Parchesi arrived later that afternoon and immediately scowled for the reporters: "Just another game, boys. X know what I have Sto do." He was asked what he could expect from Dominoes. "He'll prob- ably begin with the Orang-utan opening, that is moving his pawn to the Jueen-Night-4 position. That's the one he teaches his boys (Dominoes is the coach of the official United States team). Only he pronounces it 'orang-utang' to make his team feel at home. He's such a recruiter that he outbid me for my son (Parchesi coaches the leading independent team)." Saturday afternoon was sunny with just a slight nip in the air. Perfect weather for a chess match I thought and headed for the battlefield where the "poll bowl" in chess was about to unfold. Dominoes and Parchesi were there far ,ahead of me. Neither had slept. Parchesi even retracted his statement of the day before. "Gosh, fellas, this isn't just another game. I got to think of the tradition behind me." Parchesi's family has always been big in games. Parchesi won the coin toss and elected to open. Dominoes decided to defend the north side. There was a draft coming in the south end and ol' Duff thought maybe Parchesi might get a crick in his neck. These guys don't miss a thing. Parchesi opened with his knight of King-Bishop-3 and Dominoes matched him. The game was under way. Both contestants looked more relaxed. "I always feel better after the first moves," Ara related and Duffy nodded. They both matched each other moves in the next two rounds. In round four, Parchesi castled and Dominoes followed suit. The crowd went crazy. In the eighth round, Dominoes drew first blood when he took a pawn. Parchesi returned the compliment in the ninth. At this point everyone nodded in the press box. We knew we had a ball game. How can I explain the next few thrl-packed hours. All the great moves in chess were there: the Noah's Ark Trap, the Saemisch attack, the Nowotny interference. Every trick in the book. Parchesi was losing heavily but kept in there. "I know it looked dark out there," Parchesi was later to recall, "but I just kept humming my fight song. I had come too far to disappoint." Duffy was weakening in the late stages. In the last five rounds Parchesi had made his move. In round 26 Parchesi cap- tured Duffy's knight. Duffy then moved his rook to Queen-2 and a deathly silence fell over the crowd. Everyone knew we had a draw. Quickly the press box clamored for some type of tie-breaking system. Dominoes was quick to agree but Parchesi declined. "Look, I hate ties like everybody else," an emotionally-drained Ara commented after the game. "But I wasn't about to throw away a great effort." Duffy'srwit was gone after the contest. He could only say, "Being No. 2 I had to go all out. I can see Ara's point. He's got a game next week out on the coast. If he wins that one big, he's in the No. 1 spot. I'm through for the season." Cagers Await '67-'68 By JOEL BLOCK U(6-6) will start a play from the Michigan basketball Coach Dave outside with Ken Maxey (5-9) Strack leaned back uncomfortably playing under the basket. in his leather chair with a sigh "In this way we'll be able to that indicated the topic of dis- move the opponent's big man out cussion wasn't to his liking. from under the basket where he "Yes, I'd like to forget all about won't hurt us so much on the de- last year, especially the last third fensive boards." of the season." The Wolverine h.Behind Strack's shoulder outside cagers pilfered away their last v. his picture window loomed the eight games to finish up a dismal - , spectre of Yost Field House. The 2-12 Big Ten campaign and 8-16 f . structure was so perfectly framed overall record. by the window that it looked like "What can you say when you a picture of the type of antiquated finish dead last, except that we warehouse Elliott Ness allegedly were bad. We were a punk team drove his trucks through during defensively, finishing last in the the 20's. Big Ten in that category. u "I hope we don't have to play in "We showed some good basket- it this year," Strack comment with ball at times on offense (Michi- tpossibly mixed emotions. "Oh, I gan finished fourth in team scor- guess the closeness of the crowd ing), but we were nconsistant. We and the lousy acoustics helped let down on defense and that's us along in some of the tight ones what lost us several close ball through the years. But we've been games." DAVE STRACK waiting so long for the new arena "I had to go with sophomores because of graduation losses. It Strack's problems didn't dis- Delays Hurt takes an exceptionable player like appear at the final buzzer of last After several delays in the con- a Cazzie Russell to step right into year's season-ending game with struction of the All Events Build- a starting position and adjust to Iowa, and he's first to admit it. ing for the past several years, it college ball as a sophomore. These "Our first task is to improve the was hoped that it would be just boys were stars in high school but miserable defense we had last about ready for this year's pre- they found out that basketball is year, especially defending against season practice. a little different up here. the opponent's big man. This is "We planned on using the In- "So like many other sophomores, going to be tough to do because we tramural Building for the first they made mistakes along with don't have a proven center on the two weeks of varsity practice until their fine plays. Those last eight team." the new place was ready," says games taught them something "We'll be OK on offense because Strack. "But then the plant strike about getting together and play- I plan to use a mobile attack hit the University in September ing as a unit." which will not place our players and construction stopped. ~------in the standard guard, forward, --- and cent- positions. It's possible SPORTS NIGHT EDITOR: Bing Spurt Leads that sometimes Dennis Stewart ANDY BARBAS Season Michigan schedule-makers also anticipated completion of the All Events Building by this year as they lined up perenial basketball powers Kentucky and Duke for Michigan's first two home games. Meet Top Teams "I'm glad that we'll get a chance rr!to meet a couple of the top teams of the country this yearbut like any other coach I'd rather play teams a touch easier at the be- ginning of the year," statesI Strack. Without a defense, without a center, and possibly without a new playing arena, Dave Strack al- ready has plenty of worries after just one week of practice. But his players are seasoned with a bitter tasto of experience and they'll be ready to encourage Baron Rupp's retirement come December 2nd. Newberry Wins Newberry captured first place in the Women's InterhouseaSwim ' Meet held last Tuesday at the Women's Pool. Chi Omega fin- ished second followed by Markley and Zeta Tau Alpha. Pacing victorious Newberry were Johanna Cooke with first places in the 50 yard breast stroke and 100 yard individual medley, Cheryl Barkovitch with a first in the 25 yard backstroke, and Lani Loken with firsts in the 50 yard back- istroke and diving. 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Detroit, now 2-2, trailed 92-82 when Dave Bing started an explo- sive comeback in which the Pistons outscored Chicago 25-7. Bing fired in four quick baskets to bring the Pistons even at 98-98 with less than two and one-half minutes remaining. * * * PHILADELPHIA - Hal Greer turned in his third straight 30- points-plus game last night inI leading the unbeaten Philadel- phia 76ers to a 117-114 National Basketball Association victory over the New York Knicker- bockers. Greer dropped in 33 points on 13 for 23 from the field and seven free throws as the 76ers broke the game open with a 34-11 spurt in the third period. * * * BOSTON - Sam Jones and John Havlicek combined to spark the Boston Celtics to a 118-104 victory over the St. Louis Hawks last night in a National Basket- ball Association game. The loss was the Hawks' first of the season, ending their seven- game winning streak. 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