AThe Vancouver Sun Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Thursday, April 08, 1971 - Page 13
Fischer, Russian Play Match Here
Vancouver will host a world chess championship elimination match next month between Bobby Fischer of the U.S. and Mark Taimanov of the Soviet Union.
The match, best of 10 games, will start May 13. Games will be played every Thursday, Sunday and Tuesday evenings at the University of B.C. Graduate Studies Center.
Vancouver was accepted as a neutral site after Fischer and Taimanov couldn't agree to a split of games between the U.S. and Russia.
Grandmaster Fischer, 27, led the interzonal qualifying tournament in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, last December with an 18½-4½ score.
Veteran Taimanov, who is a professional pianist as well as a grandmaster, was the last of the six qualifiers in the tournament, with a 14-9 score.
Fischer and Taimanov will play in a private room at UBC, attended only by their seconds and officials. Spectators will be able to follow the play on a demonstration board in an adjoining room.
Winner of the match will be the first player to score 5½ points (one point for a win, half-point for a draw.) He will then meet the winner of the match between Bent Larsen of Denmark and Wolfgang Uhlmann of East Germany.
In the other half of the elimination series are defeated world champion Tigran Petrosian of Russia and young international master Robert Huebner of West Germany, and Russian grandmasters Yefim Geller and Viktor Korchnoi.
