European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 9, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday june 9,1987 soviets Marvel at . Computer show Moscow up1 soviet citizens fingers itching for the fabled personal computer waited in mile Long lines to play computer chess and simulate instrument landings at the first american exhibit in the soviet Union since 1979. It s like you be shown them the ultimate Christmas present said Stephen Morgan Stern 34, of new York a com Puter specialist at the information Usa exhibit that opened in Moscow last week on an 18-month tour of the a pict Union that will include eight other cities. Even the muscovite perhaps the most sophisticated of the soviet Union s citizens were stunned at the sophistication of american computer technology exhibited at the first . Information Agency exhibit in eight years. There you have a Concrete example mumbled a muscovite to his Friend after watching a noiseless computer Cash Regis Ter tabulate a Price list. A pretty Bond girl familiar with the terminology of computers watched composite after composite unfold on an Apple computer. Of course we arc far from your level in this  she told a up reporter when asked her impression. For eight hours daily 23 american guides fluent in russian were deluged with questions c9st of the personal computers their availability in stores their capabilities and memory capacity. Although the soviet Union has about 100,000 mainframes and minicomputers it has Only a few thousand Micro computers and personal computers com pared with More than 30 million in the United states half of those in schools and Homes. Soviet personal computers Are drive by cassettes not floppy disks. The few available in stores Cost about $1,000 for essentially a keyboard and a Black and White television set. The soviets stood in lines stretching a mile at the achievement of the soviet Economy exhibition grounds waiting up to two hours for a glance at the Broad use in America of the ism Apple macintosh and Xerox products. The lines Are colossal you will not get in before evening a woman said when she was asked directions to the exhibit at the futuristic soviet exhibition Park which is fronted by a sculpture of rocket jutting skyward. But Pavel 32, who combined a work ing trip from his Home in the Crimea with a visit to the exhibit chuckled when asked if the two hour wait was Worth it and riveted his attention Back to the computer chess game and his next move. It was his second straight Day at the show which opened thursday and he planned to make it through All the chess software saturday. I think i will try a More strenuous program Pavel said As he kept the but ton depressed before releasing the Simu lated computer hand Over the Bishop. Pavel who works in computers and teaches chess to first and second graders As a Hobby said the program was a great tool and promised to be a great time Saver. I still beat my son regularly in chess but with such a tool i would t have to devote so much time to playing him Over and Over again he said. At the other end of the Pavilion alive with video playbacks of the final game of the 1986 world series and Alum s in Der scan explorations of the encrusted titanic soviet youngsters enveloped an Apple i a s screen showing an instrument panel of a Small aircraft and the horizon. The program is to practice instrument landings explained Linden Blue 23, of Denver a guide who also holds a private Pilot s License. Morgenstern the computer specialist from new York who on Friday sat for two hours in front on ism at compatible with two High school students mar veiled at their sophisticated knowledge and Quick grasp of the .-made com Puter. They got their hands on it and they knew How to steer Morgenstern said. Like a kid who has been driving a Jalopy and you put him behind the wheel of a Rolls he will be Able to steer  the Jalopy he referred to was the soviet Agat computer a copy of the first Apple i computer which they use at school. From Moscow the exhibit will go to Kiev. Before it ends in Minsk on dec. 31. 1987, it will also visit several other cities. Sas Floto by Brend Hosier concentration reigns As chess experts Battle it oat. In foreground. Staff sgt. Richard Vonderporten left of Vicenza Italy plays sgt Edward Shade of Wiesbaden. At the next table it s sgt Merrill Chancy left of Bamberg Germany a. Sec. David Mccoo Neu of Stuttgart no from Italy wins chess title by Brenda Hoster staff writer Heidelberg the dimly lit room was so quiet that it could have been vacant instead 32 men sat bunched Over game boards contemplating which chess piece to move to defend the King against a Choc in air during the Usa eur chess championships held at fatten Barracks. Each Man sat through five rounds of Swiss tournament play from Friday through sunday with a time limit of up to six hours per round. Sec. David Gavin of the 59th signal co Camp Darby Italy emerged As Usa eur s top chess player. Gavin ranked second coming into the tournament has played in Usa eur army wide and inter Scricc tournaments As Well As italian masters matches for the past several years. Second place honors went to 20-year-old pvt Michael j. Allen from he co 533rd military intelligence in Frankfurt. Allen said being ranked seventh going into the tournament also gave him the Edge. After reviewing the plays from his 4 / hour final round with Gavin he realized he could have had a possible draw. I just missed the Chance that s All there is to it he said. But i m still pretty satisfied with my  for most players the game of chess requires silence said Dante Banez a 15-year Veteran of the game. When you re trying to concentrate any sound will distract  each round had a time limit of two hours for each player to make 45 moves on the Board Banez said. At the end of that time and number of moves each player gets another hour to make 40 additional moves. Some players panic when they get into time trouble while other players get so uptight they lose control Banez  saturday one Guy said his opponent was distracting him and when he had All he could take he jumped up and said i quit i can t take this anymore and he resigned from the , who finished in a tie for second place in 1985 and 1986, was t Happy with his seventh place finish this year. Last year i prepared and worked hard be cause i thought i had a Good Chance of making it Back to the army championships but i did t. This year Iwasyn t As motivated so i had t prepared that  the top six finishers in Usa eur will be consid ered for the All army team said Bobbie Bakke acting chief of recreation centers Usa eur Community and family support Agency. Those selected will trave to the army chess tournament at fort Belvoir va., aug. 31 to sept. 4. Pfc. Pedro Samperio ranked 30 out of 32 coming into the tournament was the Success Story Bakke said. His rating will be Over 2,000 after this tournament she  is with he co 1st brigade 3rd army div Giessen Germany. Finishing in third place was spec. 4 Mark Marovitch,565th Ord co Pir Masens Germany fourth place sgt. Tony b. Simul Stuttgart military Community fifth place pfc. Fernando Serrano of he Btry 2nd in 3rd air defense arty bad Kruez Nach Germany 6th place Sam Perio. World today italian billiards player pockets International title Milan Italy a Italy s Carlo Cifala Defeated Nestor Gomez of Argentina in a thrilling final sunday night to win the world billiards championship. Sicilian born Cifala 39, d9wned the Classy latin american rival 250-204 in the final match of the four Day Competition held in a tent Thea Ter near the Sforza Castle in this North italian City. Cifala succeeds As world Champion another italian Piero Rossana. The italian broke into tears As he made the decisive Points amid a standing ovation from a partisan crowd. Another Argentine player Alfredo Fillia took third place defeating italian Altilio Scussa. 17 nursing Home residents killed in second floor fire Tokyo a a staffer tried in vain to control a Blaze with an extinguisher before it spread through the second floor of a Home for the elderly killing 17 people aged 71 to 93, police said sunday. Another 25 people were injured by the fire that broke out after most of the residents had gone to bed saturday night at the Shojun rest Home a three Story Concrete building in to Kyo s Northwestern outskirts said a police offi Cial who spoke on condition of anonymity. Most of those killed were bedridden patients on the second floor which housed 36 people he said. Hard Rock music drugs fans soviet expert says Moscow up Rock music produces a physical addiction so severe that a week of abstinence causes trembling hands and an erratic heart beat a psychologist has said. The interview in the newspaper Sove Skaya Ros Sia with . Amine Holder of the psychology chair at the University of Baskina was a throwback to the critical View that had largely Dis appeared under soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. A psycho physiological mechanism of Addic Tion develops in people who arc keen on listen ing to hard Rock music the newspaper quoted Araine saying. The scientist holds that music recordings played in a certain Range exerts a Strong narcotic effect the newspaper said. The euphoria of listening to such music is connected with the formation of morphine like