AThe Province Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Friday, April 23, 1971 - Page 45
Chess Masters Coming
Two chess masters are to compete at the University of B.C. next month in one of the quarter-final matches for the world championship.
U.S. grandmaster Bobby Fischer and Mark Taimanov of the Soviet Union are to compete in the match starting here on May 13.
Each won the right to advance to the quarter-finals in the International Chess Federation's inter-zonal tournament at Palma, Majorca, last December. Fischer finished first and Taimanov fifth in that competition.
The secretary of the Canadian Chess Federation, George Bryant of Vancouver, says the best-of-10-games match at UBC will probably last three to four weeks.
The other quarter-finalists are Robert Huebner of West Germany, Bent Larsen of Denmark, Wolfgang Uhlmann of East Germany, and Viktor Korchnoi, Efim Geller and Tigran Petrosian all of the Soviet Union.
The winner of these eight masters earns the right to play world champion Boris Spassky of Russia in the 1972 world tournament in Moscow.
Fischer was a comparatively easy winner in the Majorca competitions, gaining 18.5 points in the 23-round tournament, 3.5 points ahead of Huebner, Geller and Larsen who had 15 points each.
A Vancouver competitor, Duncan Suttles, finished with 10 points in the same tournament.
Spassky, the world champion, will visit Vancouver to compete in the Canadian open championships that begin Aug. 23.
