AThe Record Hackensack, New Jersey Wednesday, July 21, 1971 - Page 22
Brooklyn's Chess Whiz Wins Again
Denver (UPI) — Robert (Bobby) Fischer defeated Bent Larsen of Denmark yesterday for the sixth consecutive game and advanced to the finals of a worldwide chess tournament to select a challenger for world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union.
Fischer's shutout of Larsen was his second such win in the tournament playoffs. He defeated Mark Taimanov of the Soviet Union 6-0 in the quarterfinals last spring in Vancouver.
Fischer, 28, who has been playing chess since he was 6, said that Larsen had had many good chances during the six games and that the match was not nearly as one-sided as the score would seem to indicate.
Fischer will play the winner of a semifinal match between Soviet grandmasters Tigran Petrosian and Victor Korchnoi, now being played in Moscow.
The first eight games in that match have ended in draws and the score is tied at four points each. Five and a half points are required to win.
Fischer has played both Russians and has broken about even against them. The most recent meeting was last year when he won two games and drew two games against Petrosian in a match between 10 Russian players and 10 players selected from the rest of the world.
The winner of the final match will play 24 games with Spassky from his title in 1972.
