ANew York Times, New York, New York, Wednesday, September 16, 1959
Fischer Downed 2d Time In Chess
Tal Scores Over Brooklyn Youth in 41-Move Game at World Tourney
Bobby Fischer, the United States champion, suffered his second defeat in the world challengers' chess tournament in Bled yesterday according to a report reaching here last night through Yugoslav news sources.
Fischer again lost to a Soviet grandmaster: Mikhail Tal, twice the national champion of Russia. Tigran Petrosian had sent Fischer to his first setback.
Still undefeated, Petrosian leads the field with a score of 4—1. Tal moved into second place with 3½—2½, ahead of Paul Keres, Soviet Union, with 3—2.
Fischer, with the black pieces, resorted again to his favorite King's Indian defense. He held his own throughout a complicated mid-game struggle. Tal excelled in the ending and won in forty-one moves.
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In the fourth-round game won by Fischer from Gligoric, the American again engineered a successful attack against the Sicilian defense after castling on the queen's side of the board. With the sacrifice of the exchange, he opened the king's rook's file and soon thereafter had his opponent at his mercy.
The score, which reached here by air mail yesterday:
