AThe Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Wednesday, October 06, 1971 - Page 3
Fischer Beaten, Chess Streak Comes to End
Buenos Aires (AP). — The greatest winning streak in chess tournament history ended Tuesday night when U.S. ace Bobby Fischer resigned after 32 moves in the second game of his 12-game match with former world's champion Tigran Petrosian of the Soviet Union.
The winner of the series, to run through Oct. 31, will meet world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union next spring for the title.
Fischer, playing black, chose a sharp variation of the Gruenfeld Defense. He sacrificed two pawns to gain time in development.
He regained the pawns but allowed his king side to be weakened and found he could not castle.
Petrosian played forcefully. In contrast to the first game, he refused an exchange of queens and played directly for a king-side attack.
Petrosian gave up a rook for a bishop to advance his center pawns in a threat to promote to queen. This and a continuing attack against his king left Fischer hopeless.
