Statesman Journal Salem, Oregon Thursday, June 03, 1971 - Page 37
Fischer Gains World Chess Semis
Vancouver (AP) — Soviet Grandmaster Mark Taimanov resigned without further play Wednesday in the adjourned sixth game of his World Chess Championship quarter-final elimination match with Bobby Fischer, giving the U.S. grandmaster a 6-0 sweep of the match to select a challenger for the World Chess Championship.
Fischer now meets Danish Grandmaster Bent Larsen who earlier defeated East Germany Grandmaster Wolfgang Uhlmann 5½-3½. The series is being held to determine a challenger for world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union.