ANew York Times, New York, New York, Wednesday, September 30, 1959
Draw By Fischer In Chess Likely
U.S. Champion Adjourns in 14th-Round Game Against Smyslov in 41 Moves
The United States chess champion, Bobby Fischer, and Vassily Smyslov, a former world champion from the Soviet Union, met for the second time yesterday in the fourteenth round of the world challengers' tournament in Bled and adjourned after forty-one moves, according to a report from Yugoslavia.
When the five-hour session ended there was a strong likelihood that the result would again be a draw. Fischer had the black side of a Sicilian defense and sacrificed the exchange for two pawns. However, Smyslov found a good defense.
Fischer has pending another game after two sittings with Fridrik Olafsson of Iceland.
Olafsson, also playing the Sicilian defense, lost to Paul Keres, Soviet Union, in forty-one moves. Keres, who obtained a grip on the game through capture of a pawn, leads the field with a score of 9½—3½.
One point below him, with 9½—4½, is Mikhail Tal, who vanquished Paul Benko, a Hungarian refugee from New York, in a Sicilian defense lasting only thirty moves. A smashing attack carried the Russian to victory.
The other two contestants in the first division, Tigran Petrosian, Soviet Union, and Svetozar Gligoric, Yugoslavia, drew an English opening in thirteen moves by repetition.
Details of the game won by Fischer from Benko in the tenth round reached here yesterday. Benko lost time in his development of the queen's side of the board. Meanwhile, the United States champion built up a telling attack against the black king. It succeeded because of his manipulation of two knights in conjunction with the white queen.
