ANew York Times, New York, New York, Thursday, October 01, 1959
Fischer Picks Up 1½ Chess Points
Brooklynite Scores Victory and Draw in Yugoslavia—Keres in First Place
The first half of the world championship challengers' chess tournament concluded yesterday at Bled, according to a report from Yugoslavia.
The leader, Paul Keres of the Soviet Union, drew his last game with Svetozar Gligoric of Yugoslavia, adjourned from the thirteenth round. It lasted seventy-two moves.
Keres, an Estonian, had a score of 10-4. Mikhail Tal and Tigran Petrosian of the Soviet Union are next.
Bobby Fischer, the United States champion, picked up 1½ points in two adjourned games and is in sixty place. First the 16-year-old Brooklyn student won his twelfth-round game from Fridrik Olafsson of Iceland in seventy-eight moves after three sittings.
Next Fischer drew in forty-six moves with Vassily Smyslov of the Soviet Union in the fourteenth round. Fischer made an ingenious attempt to find a winning line but was foiled at every turn. Smyslov improved his standing by outplaying Olafsson in their thirteenth-round match.
Play will resume Saturday at Zagreb for seven rounds until Oct. 14. The remaining seven rounds will be played at Belgrade.
The moves of the second game between Fischer and Svetozar Gligoric, won by the Yugoslav in the eleventh round, reached here yesterday by air mail.
Gligoric sacrificed a piece for three pawns. In the ending he had two rooks and four pawns opposed by a rook and two minor pieces, leaving Fischer in a hopeless position.
The score:
