ANew York Times, New York, New York, Thursday, May 27, 1971 - Page 43
Fischer Beats Taimanov Again; Now Leads in Chess Match 4-0 by Al Horowitz
Vancouver, British Columbia, May 26—Bobby Fischer of New York, defeated his Soviet opponent, Mark Taimanov, for the fourth game in a row in their quarter-finals knockout chess match.
The match is one of four to qualify a challenger for the world championship, now held by Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union.
The Fischer-Taimanov match is a 10-game affair with a 5½ point score needed for victory, of which the American has already posted 4.
Today's game had been adjourned, at which time not a pawn difference existed between the antagonists.
But Fischer retained a number of intangibles, such as time, space and force. He also had a commanding bishop to his opponent's knight, and he knew how to command the bishop.
In a few moves Fischer set the stage. To begin with, he swapped rooks. Then he tied down the enemy's king and knight to the defense of pawns.
Then he maneuvered with precise tempo, in such a way that neither the enemy knight nor king could move without leaving something unguarded. This tactic, known as zugzwang, compels a player to move against his will and impair his own position.
The next game will be played tomorrow.
The Match Results
In another quarter-finals match, Bent Larsen of Denmark and Wolfgang Uhlmann of East Germany, playing in Las Palmas, Spain, agreed to a draw on the 44th move of their seventh game yesterday, according to The Associated Press.
And Tass, the Soviet press agency, reported in Moscow that the seventh game of the quarter-final match between two Soviet grandmasters, Viktor Korchnoi and Yefim Geller, was adjourned on the 41st move. There is to be a playoff today.
