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   Taken from the Asbury Park Press, Nov 18, 1985:

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     Chess isn't Garri Kasparov's only passion, says Eric Schiller, 
a Chicago-based chess writer and friend of the new world chess
champion.

     Kasparov, a student of English, also is an avid fan of American
authors, particularly Ernest Hemingway, Schiller said.

     And the tenacious 22-year-old Soviet, who on Saturnday ended the
10-year reign of fellow countryman Anatoly Karpov, is a gregarious sort
who "wants to know where the action is" when the boards and pieces have
been put away for the night.

     "He's something of a sex symbol in the Soviet Union," said Schiller,
who met Kasparov in 1980 at a tournament in Malta and has written three
chess books about him.

     "The new king will be good for the game, because he contradicts the
image of chess players as dull eggheads," Schiller said.

     "Karpov has the image of a wimp," he said. "His other greaatest
passion is collecting stamps."

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     Sounds like my kind of Russian.  Wonder if he likes Bruce Springsteen.
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## Mike Moroses, AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0938 ihnp4!ho95c!mrm