AThe Racine Journal-Times Sunday Bulletin Racine, Wisconsin Sunday, October 04, 1959
Candidates Tournament
After 12 rounds of play Paul Keres retains his lead in the Challenger's event now under way at Bled, Yugoslavia, with Tal second, in round 11 Bobby Fischer of the U.S. lost to Gligoric, and dropped back to seventh place. Fischer has one other adjourned game, from the 12th round, in which he holds a pawn advantage over Olaffson of Iceland in a twice-adjourned position. The other U.S. entrant, Pal Benko, improved his position in the standings with an upset win over former World Champion Vassily Smyslov in 74 moves, by virtue of his clever end-game play.
The standings at the end of round 12
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No game scores are available yet from the candidates tournament, but we have the following interesting game between Fischer and Keres from the Zurich tournament last June, showing that “The Kid,” as Reshevsky calls him, is not playing out of his league.
