ANew York Times, New York, New York, Friday, September 25, 1959
Petrosian Plays Draw With Keres
Fischer, on Defense Against Gligoric, Adjourns in 11th Round of Chess at Bled
Paul Keres and Tigran Petrosian, two of the four Russians in the world challengers' chess tournament at Bled, played an uneventful draw in the eleventh round, according to a report last night from Yugoslavia.
It was the only game finished in that round. The result left Keres in first place. Petrosian moved into second place.
Three matches were adjourned, including that between Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn, the United States champion, and Svetozar Gligoric of Yugoslavia. The 16-year-old Fischer, playing the black pieces, was kept on the defensive.
Endeavoring to extricate himself from an unpromising position, Fischer drifted into an ending in which his prospects were none too clear. Adjournment was taken after five hours and Gligoric sealed his forty-first move.
Mikhail Tal of Moscow, in third place, outplayed Fridrik Olafsson of Iceland and had the superior position when play stopped after forty-one moves.
