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features Battalion/Page $ January 27,11 Chess whiz is a jetsetter United Press International SEATTLE — If you picture the world of chess as two re cluses hunched over a board in a musty basement, take a look at the U.S. champion. Yasser Seirawan, 22-year- old international grandmas ter from Seattle who once con sidered a career as a. beach bum, comports himself like a professional sports figure, traveling to exotic places like any jetsetter. His friends live on every continent. He plays a good game of tennis and racquet- ball. He surfs, skis and scuba dives. The current U.S. Chess Champkm, Syrian-born Seirawan is ranked the 19th best player in the world. Based upon his tournament victories of the past year, he says he should move up to 12th when the 1983 rankings are published. He admits to traces of the hustler and says there’s no thing quite so satisfying as ex ploiting the weaknesses of opponents who underesti mate him. “All the world’s great play ers saw me and figured they would be able to lunch on a tender morsel,” he laughs, looking back on his early grandmaster tournaments. “They got a surprise.” A handicapped neighbor confined to a wheelchair taught young Seirawan how to play chess. He started hang ing out around the “Last Exit,” a bookish coffeehouse near the LIniversity of Washington that attracted the city’s better players. Seirawan was soon beating the best in the house. He organized a chess club at Seattle’s Garfield High School. In his freshman year the team won the Metro championship and finished second in the state champion ship. By his sophomore year, when Seirawan already was Washington State Champion, the team “chewed everybody up” by winning all three tour naments — city, regionals and state. After graduating from high school in three years, Seirawan lit out for New York City and hustled bets over speed or “blitz” games on the streets and in the city’s chess clubs. Yasser began entering tournaments all over the Un ited States and abroad, rack ing up a string of victories over international players. He . achieved International Grandmaster status in Janu ary 1980 when he clobbered Soviet defector Victor Kor chnoi on his way to winning a tournament in Wijk ann Zee, Holland. He captured the U.S. championship in March 1981 by emerging with the most tot al points at an interzonal tour nament in South Bend, Ind. For all of his success at the game, Seirawan only recently has begun to make enough money to live well — about $50,000 this year, he esti mates, with the prospects of more in coming years. A fourth-place finish in an “interzonal” tournament in Toluuca, Mexico, last August edged Seirawan out of a chance to enter the world championship tournament in 1984. 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But he said as long as he is able to get donors, he will con tinue performing the opera tions. Doctors at Stanford Medical Center in California have had an excellent success rate in heart- lung transplants: 8 of the 11 pa tients in the past two years are still alive and after recuperation, they are leading “normal lives,” a spokesman said. The introduction of a new anti-rejection drug has added to the success rate of the relatively simple surgical procedure, Cooley said. The drug. Cyclos porine, enables the acceptance of the donor organ without weakening the other body de fenses. More than 375 heart-only or kidney transplant operations have been performen nation wide with an excellent success rate, officials said. But a spokesman for Blue Cross &: Blue Shield said although the insurance carrier considers each case individually, “we consider it (heart-lung transplants) experimental.” “If a procedure is not gener ally accepted by the medical community, then we would not consider it reimbursible,” said spokesman Jim Crawford. But, he said, for it to be approved “we would have to look at the entire case — technical and medical. We do not have any codes for this procedure. We would have to review it with our medical and legal staff first.” Dr. Rojjers Coleman, an asso ciate medical director for Blue Cross in Dallas, said if an opera tion is considered a safe and effective treatment for a disease, then it is not considered ex perimental. He said he has no medical proof that the heart- lung operation is anything but experimental. The average cost of a heart- lung transplant operation would be between $40,000 and $80,000, which includes the cost of the hospital stay, operation and medication if there are no major complications. A spokeswoman for Pruden tial Insurance Co. saidiki pany covers expenses "faEjl more established ti operations, like kidneysotj neas.” “But at this time westlH more information on ibtH united kinds of transplants, f u vlOSGOW bo rah Lerner, a spoilage ns a p for he Trenton, N.j.basem Europea ance company. ‘‘VVeares;; Stiviet Li luating the procedure n $f a zon . , r . r weapons Aetna Insurance Co.IJUl , Iin , yet had a claim forahean^B^ j.,) ] operation but each case ; , ,i reviewed individually, c. spokesman Gary Schade, ^L g I ' il f te But offic ials at the Hi ssiles in Ei Con n. -based Travelers ng panics said it a heart-luMj ation claim was irferredl company, it would bee “So ion ' ^ hI necessity, all expenses* covered," said Trail spokesman Alan Field don’t know when we wi but it is includedg case. policies.’ A spokeswoman American Lung Assoc New York said her group! comment about the oped “We are concerned onkj healthy lungs,” she said.' 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