AThe Guardian London, Greater London, England Tuesday, October 19, 1971 - Page 1
Fischer On The Offensive by Leonard Barden
Bobby Fischer had winning chances when the sixth game of his world chess championship final eliminator was adjourned in Buenos Aires after 41 moves and five hours' play. Material was level with Fischer's king, rook, bishop, and five pawns against Petrosian's king, rook, knight and five pawns, but in the unfinished position Fischer was about to win a pawn.
The game was a contrast in styles. Petrosian believes in waiting tactics, hoping that the opponent will overreach, while Fischer follows the classical strategy of controlling the center of the board with pawns and pieces.
Petrosian's plan won him the decisive game in his quarter-final match against Victor Korchnoi, but Fischer's more active play gave him the initiative throughout the first session of the sixth game.
Fischer has tempered his notorious concern for perfect playing conditions and is clearly absorbed in the match to the exclusion of all else. After a light failure in the first match game (which Fischer won), two stink bombs were tossed into the auditorium after the ninth move of the sixth game, but Fischer did not even notice.
