ANew York Times, New York, New York, Saturday, June 06, 1959
2 Russians Beaten In Chess At Zurich
Both Soviet players suffered unexpected defeats in the Jubilee chess tournament yesterday, according to a report from Zurich, Switzerland.
Mikhail Tal was beaten by Svetozar Gligoric of Yugoslavia. Bobby Fischer, the United States champion, defeated Paul Keres, and moved into a tie for first place with Tal at 10—3. Two of the fifteen rounds remain to be played.
The Fischer-Keres game had been adjourned twice from the twelfth round with the 16-year-old Brooklyn boy a pawn ahead. Fischer captured a second pawn and won in eighty-one moves.
Tal had the white side of a Ruy Lopez. He had adjourned in a position so unfavorable that he resigned after forty-two moves. Gligoric, at 9½—3½, took third place.
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A passed pawn enabled Svetozar Gligoric to win his eleventh-round game with Bobby Fischer, according ot the score of the game, which arrived yesterday.
The score:
