The Vancouver Sun Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Tuesday, June 01, 1971 - Page 4
2 Advance In Chess
Las Palmas, Canary Islands (Reuter) — Danish grandmaster Bent Larsen qualified Monday night for the semi-finals of the world chess championship series by beating East German Wolfgang Uhlmann in the quarter-finals.
Larsen won the ninth game of his encounter with Uhlmann to eliminate the East German, 5½ points to 3½.
In Moscow, Soviet grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi also advanced Monday be defeating Yefim Geller, another Soviet grandmaster, in the eighth game of their quarter-final. Korchnoi won the match, 5½ to 2½.
Tigran Petrosian of the Soviet Union has already advanced to the semi-finals over Robert Huebner of West Germany, while Bobby Fischer of the U.S. leads Mark Taimanov of the Soviet Union, 5-0.