The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, Sunday, April 26, 1959
Fischer In Santiago
Bobby Fischer, youthful U.S. chess champion, flew north after completing the tournament at Mar del Plata, Argentina, and stopped off for another international event at Santiago, Chile.
Here Fischer will be called upon to face some of the same opponents he encountered in the Argentine resort. On the list are Ludek Pachman of Czechoslovakia, Boris Ivkov of Yugoslavia, Joao de Souza Mendes of Brazil and Hermann Pilnik and Raul Sanguinetti of Argentina.
Fischer, who took time off from Erasmus High School in Brooklyn to develop his chess career, will continue busy for some months. He is due in Zurich, Switzerland for a tournament from May 19 to June 8. This will be part of a jubilee celebration in that city.
The major event for which Fischer is preparing is the candidates tournament to determine a challenger for the world chess championship. The American ace is one of eight grandmasters who will compete for that honor in Yugoslavia in a quadruple round-robin tournament which will last from Sept. 6 to Oct. 31.
Fischer played erratically in Mar del Plata, losing two of his first five games, then scoring seven wins and a draw of his last eight. The following games are from the event.
