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Professor finds chess moving experience
By ROSE SIMMONS Staff Reporter
It was a long time in coming, but the
it was a long time in coming, but
for Contikoi to a national championship,
for Contikoi to a national championship,
Last week, Contoski, a KU professor of English, won the Correspondence tournament after four years of exchanging postal cards with opponents.
Unlike across-the-board chess players, postal chess players write their moves down on postal cards and mail them to opponents. Postal chess games sometimes take months to finish.
The lengthy game time is just one of the attractions for Contoki. He said he preferred postal chess because it did not require his with teaching, writing or home life.
CONTOSKI SAID HIS most complicated game of the tournament took a year and a half to complete.
"It usually takes about 20 minutes to reply to a postcard," he said. "It is more relaxing than playing three games over a weekend where you might spend a minimum of 12 hours a 'fav just thinking.'"
Contoski said that he spent a lot of his
time teaching and writing poetry and that a collection of his poems would be published shortly by a Lawrence publishing company.
Contoski, a contagiously happy person, hardly fits the poet or chessplayer stereotype, except for his black-frame glasses. Yet he has been fascinated with chess since his grammar school days.
Although he said that he could not remember exactly what sparked his interest in chess, he joked that his interest in chess began when he was told by a nun in school that when heaven and earth disappeared away, people would go to beardless and have little hair. He then wanted something to do with his mind then so he would not get bored.
Whatever the reason, Contoski stuck with the game throughout his schooling.
After getting his master's degree at the University of Minnesota, he went to Wola and Fulbright scholarship. Students in Poland have sequenced chess pearls and got married.
AFTER RETURNING TO America, he continued to attend chess tournments, but soon he started playing postal chest after his wife told him it was not too thrilling being a chess spectator.
"She was a good sport about it." Contoski said. "She's not speak English very well then and the games were boring for her. I started playing postal chest because we like to do things together."
Contoski said chess was like music and poetry because all three have patterns.
"I like to see a mind make intelligent patterns," he said.
Contoski already has started studying new patterns. He said he was participating in a world championship match put together by the International Federation. His opponents mail in their requests from Finland, Germany and Brazil.
Contoski turned down an offer to defend his newly won championship—but it will take at least four years before he is displaced by a new champion.
Man arrested after shots fired
An unidentified man was arrested late last night after barricading himself inside a house at 1017% Rhode Island St., and holding Lawrence police officers at bay for nearly an hour, police said.
Altenbernd, 30, said he heard several shots.
"I was driving down Massachusetts when I heard gunshots so I drove on over here," said C.W. Altenbernd, one of the witnesses. "Right about on, the cop car came flying down the street, so I backed off and thought I'd watch."
According to police at the scene, the suspect was seen in an alley behind the house, shooting at random, when police were called. Two witnesses said they heard loud gunshots, possibly shotgun firing.
Neighbors were told by police to stay in their homes.
Six police officers surrounded the house, several wearing bullet-proof vests, as they attempted to flush the suspect out.
At 11:40 p.m., at the height of the search, the fire alarm at the Lawrence Linen Supply, 1029 New Hampshire, sounded. It was a false alarm, but fire trucks responding only complicated the situation.
Ron Olin, assistant police chief, said that the suspect voluntarily surrendered to police.
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