AThe Gazette Montreal, Quebec, Quebec, Canada Saturday, June 05, 1971 - Page 52
World Series
Bobby Fischer, U.S.A., has overwhelmed his Russian opponent, Mark Taimanov, with five successive victories in play at Vancouver and will now meet the winner of the Larsen vs. Uhlmann match taking place at Las Palmas, Canary Islands. Uhlmann surprised his Danish opponent by winning the 8th game in the best of ten series, which left the score: Larsen, 4½-Uhlmann, 3½. Petrosian will tackle the winner of the Korchnoi-Geller match. The semi-final matches are scheduled for July, each a best of ten games series.
The marathon 2nd game of the match, which early went into an ending, required three sessions to complete.
52. Ra2(a) Nc7
56. Ke3(b)
64. Rb4+ Kc3(c)
(a) Retreat seems a bit strange when he had the alternative 52. B-K4.
(b) He has to give back the P but obtains the initiative on the K-side in compensation.
(c) The only way to keep alive, for is 64. … K-B4; 65. R-N7 N-N3ch; 66. K-N5. But now the K is far off from the critical area of the eventual passed P.
