New York Times, New York, New York, Thursday, October 08, 1959
Tal Adds To Lead In Chess Tourney
Soviet Union Player Scores Over Olafsson of Iceland in 42 Moves at Zagreb
Mikhail Tal of the Soviet Union strengthened his lead in the challengers' chess tournament at Zagreb yesterday. He defeated Fridrik Olafsson of Iceland in an eighteenth-round match, according to a report received from Yugoslavia.
The Icelander, who lost a pawn in defending a Ruy Lopez, resigned after forty-two moves had been recorded.
Tal, with 13-5 score, now tops the field by two points.
Paul Keres, Estonian grandmaster, drew an eighteen-move match with Tigran Petrosian, Soviet Union, a Caro-Kann defense, and remained second.
Another Ruy Lopez, between Bobby Fischer, the United States champion, and Svetozar Gligoric, Yugoslavia, resulted in a draw after forty moves.
Fischer had the white side and, after an exchange of queens, appeared to have the better position. They consumed too much time for the mid-game play and were in clock trouble toward the end.
Paul Benko, a Hungarian refugee from New York, played the King's Indian defense against Vassily Smyslov, the former world champion, whose position was superior at adjournment after forty moves.
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In gaining his second victory over Paul Keres of the Soviet Union in the fifteenth round of the challengers' tournament at Zagreb, Yugoslavia, last Saturday, Bobby Fischer, the United States chess champion, capitalized on the acquisitiveness of his opponent in most effective fashion.
Keres went out of his way to capture a distant pawn. He had a chance to better his position when he yielded to the temptation of another pawn capture at his seventeenth turn.
Fischer, for his part, carried on aggressively until an oversight by Keres at the twenty-fourth move virtually brought the struggle to a close.
The score, which reached here yesterday, follows:
