ANew York Times, New York, New York, Saturday, October 31, 1959
Petrosian Takes Final Chess Game
Sets Back Gligoric to Finish Third—Soviet Foursome Sweeps Top Places
Tigran Petrosian of the Soviet Union beat Svetozar Gligoric of Yugoslavia in forty-five moves to finish third in the world chess challengers' tournament, according to a report yesterday from Belgrade.
Gligoric dropped into a tie for fifth with Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn.
Paul Keres of Estonia, who already had clinched second place, could not recover from a bad position in his adjourned twenty-eighth-round game with Fridrik Olafsson of Iceland. The Icelander, without resuming play, scored in forty-one moves.
Vassily Smyslov of Moscow wound up fourth and, with Mikhail Tal of Latvia No. 1 on the list following his draw with Paul Benko on Thursday, the four top places went to the Soviet grand masters.
The game Tal had won from Fischer in the twenty-seventh round kept the crowd of 2,000 on edge during the five-hour session.
The United States champion started the fireworks early by giving up a pawn. Next he offered a knight, which was refused. Then he held out the lure of a bishop. Still Tal wouldn't bite.
Complications increased as play progressed. Fischer constantly harassed the black king; consequently Tal could not castle.
When play was resumed, Tal won with rook and bishop opposed to a rook. The score follows:
