Fischer Ties Tal For Lead In Chess: Brooklyn Youth Draws With Larsen in 92 Moves and Beats Unzicker in 66

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New York Times, New York, New York, Saturday, May 30, 1959

Fischer Ties Tal For Lead In Chess
Brooklyn Youth Draws With Larsen in 92 Moves and Beats Unzicker in 66
Bobby Fischer gained 1½ points yesterday in the Jubilee international chess masters tournament, it was reported from Zurich, and tied Mikhail Tal of the Soviet Union for the lead at 6½—½.
The Brooklyn schoolboy drew with Bent Larsen, 24 years old, of Denmark in ninety-two moves. It was the fourth session of their sixth-round game. Fischer had declined a draw after eighty-one moves. Larsen declined at the eighty-ninth.
Fischer then resumed his eighth-round game with Wolfgang Unzicker of West Germany, who was a pawn behind. Fischer soon took another pawn and scored in sixty-six moves.
Paul Keres of the Soviet Union and Svetozar Gligoric of Yugoslavia won adjourned games, tying at 6—2 for third place.