ANew York Times, New York, New York, Wednesday, October 07, 1959
Tal Defeats Keres In Chess At Zagreb
Mikhail Tal of Moscow strongly entrenched in first place in the challengers' chess tournament at Zagreb, won for the first time from Paul Keres of the Soviet Union in the seventeenth round, according to a report from Yugoslavia yesterday.
Tal was on the defensive throughout, but outwitted his chief rival in the ending. Keres, who had won from Tal in the third and tenth rounds, resigned after forty moves, but retained second place. Tal's score is 12—5, against 10½—6½ for Keres.
Tigran Petrosian, Soviet Union, playing the white pieces, lost to Vassily Smyslov, Soviet Union, in thirty moves. Both of their earlier meetings had resulted in draws. Petrosian is tied for third place with Svetozar Gligoric of Yugoslavia.
Bobby Fischer, United States champion, played the black pieces for forty-two moves without arriving at a decision against Paul Benko, a Hungarian refugee from New York.
