ANew York Times, New York, New York, Monday, October 19, 1959
Tal Beats Smyslov, Lifts Lead In Chess
A notable defeat of Vassily Smyslov, a former world chess champion, enabled Mikhail Tal of the Soviet Union to increase his lead last night in the world challengers' tournament at Belgrade, according to a report from Yugoslavia.
It was the only game of the twenty-second round that reached a decision. Three games were adjourned and will be played off tomorrow.
Paul Keres of the Soviet Union, in second place with 14-7, played Bobby Fischer, the 16-year-old United States champion from Brooklyn, for the fourth time. Keres, a Latvian, played black in a Caro-Kann defense and won a pawn. With this handicap hanging over him, Fischer did well to hold out for forty-one moves but faced an uphill fight upon resumption.
Two more were adjourned after forty moves. Fridrik Olafsson of Iceland that the white side of a queen's gambit declined with Tigran Petrosian of the Soviet Union. Svetozar Gligoric of Yugoslavia reached a fairly even knight-and-pawn ending with Paul Benko of New York.
