Albuquerque Journal Albuquerque, New Mexico Monday, October 18, 1971 - Page 12
Chess Giants Adjourn Sixth Game in Playoffs
Buenos Aires (UPI) — The sixth game of the final candidate's chess playoffs between Bobby Fischer of the United States and Tigran Petrosian of the Soviet Union was adjourned here Sunday night after 41 moves.
The game will be resumed this afternoon. Petrosian left his 42nd move in a sealed envelope with referee Lothar Schmid of West Germany.
The two chess masters played amidst the odor of a stink bomb hurled from the balcony audience at the downtown San Martin Theatre where the match was held.
The two men ignored the smell.
At the time of the adjournment. Petrosian, former world champion from 1963 to 1969, had five pawns, a knight and a rook left.
Fischer, 28-year-old chess genius from Brooklyn, N.Y., had five pawns, a bishop and a rook. However, Fischer was threatening to capture an isolated pawn on the Russian's queen's rook file.
Winner of the 12-game series will challenge Russia's current reigning world champion, Boris Spassky, for the title next spring.
The match marked the first time a game had been adjourned. No victories have been notched by either player since the second game.
Petrosian won the second contest after Fischer took the opening game. The next three games ended in draws, giving each player two and one-half points.
Petrosian started the game with a Nimzovich opening and was countered by Fischer's choice of a system similar to the Steinitz.
During the opening game, Fischer, although playing blacks, went on the offensive with his pawns forming a pyramid in the center with Petrosian lying in wait to ensnare his opponent.
The first wholesale exchange of pieces occurred on the 24th move, sparked by Petrosian.
Both castled king side on the ninth move.
