AThe Indianapolis Star Indianapolis, Indiana Wednesday, October 27, 1971 - Page 38
Fischer Earns Chance For World Chess Title
Buenos Aires (UPI)—Bobby Fischer of the United States defeated former world champion Tigran Petrosian of the Soviet Union yesterday to win the final candidate's play-off.
The victory gave Fischer, the 28-year-old chess wizard from Brooklyn, N.Y., $7,500 and the right to challenge current world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union for the title.
The playoff will be held next spring at a site to be determined by the International Chess Federation.
PETROSIAN, world champion from 1963 to 1969, resigned at the 46th move to give Fischer an unbeatable lead of 6½ points to 2½ with only three contests remaining.
It was Fischer's fourth consecutive victory in nine games.
The 42-year-old Russian mounted an all-out-attack during the end game but Fischer was able to solve it and practically wiped out all of Petrosian's pieces.
Petrosian at the end had only a knight and a pawn remaining after Fischer destroyed his attack.
The American had five pawns, with one heading for promotion (queen).
FISCHER won the first, the sixth, seventh, eighth and the ninth games. Petrosian only won one, the second. Three ended in draws.
Fischer, playing whites, opened the game with his favorite opening, pawn-to-queen-four. Petrosian responded with a French defense.
After the middle game exchanges, Petrosian gambled on an all-out attack by his two rooks, a knight and his king-side pawns, but Fischer deftly managed to evade the trap.
