AThe Palm Beach Post West Palm Beach, Florida Monday, October 18, 1971 - Page 44
Chess Amid Smoke
Buenos Aires (UPI) — International chess grandmasters Bobby Fischer of the United States and Tigran Petrosian of the Soviet Union began the sixth game of their candidates' elimination playoff here yesterday.
They played amidst the odor of a stink bomb hurled from the balcony audience at the downtown San Martin Theatre where the match is being held. The two men ignored the smell.
Winner of the 12-game series will challenge Russia's Boris Spassky for the title next spring.
Thus far, Fischer, 28, from Brooklyn, N.Y., and Petrosian, 42, world chess champion from 1963 to 1969, are tied after five contests with two and one-half points each.
Each has won one game and three have ended in a draw.
