Najdorf Record In Chess Studied: Scores From Two Games Played by Fischer

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New York Times, New York, New York, Saturday, April 11, 1959

Najdorf Record In Chess Studied
Argentine Is Only Player at Mar del Plata to Finish With No Setbacks
Of the fifteen players in the international chess masters tournament at Mar del Plata, Argentina, Miguel Najdorf of Buenos Aires, who shared first place with Ludek Pachman of Czechoslovakia, was the only one who did not lose a game. His score was 10½—3½.
Two defeats in the first part of the tournament prevented the 16-year-old Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn from finishing higher than a tie for third at 10—4 with Boris Ivkov of Yugoslavia, a former world junior champion.
Following are scores of two games played by Fisher:

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