AThe Vancouver Sun Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Friday, July 09, 1971 - Page 8
Fischer Wins Again in Chess Semi-Finals
Denver (AP) — American grandmaster Bobby Fischer defeated Bent Larsen of Denmark Thursday to take a 2-0 lead in their 10-game chess match in the semi-finals of the World chess challengers tournament.
The third game will be played Sunday.
The winner of the Fischer-Larsen round will meet the winner of the Tigran Petrosian-Viktor Korchnoi semi-final now being played in Moscow for the right to challenge Boris Spassky of Russia for the world chess championship.
In Thursday's match there was little to choose between the players for the first 30 moves. The opening was a Sicilian defense with which both were thoroughly familiar.
Larsen, with only two minutes left for five moves, could not find a saving move and lost two pawns.
He played on through the 54th move, then resigned when faced with mate.
Petrosian and Korchnoi played to another draw Thursday in the third game of their semi-final match. The game ended on the 28th move.
Both of their earlier games ended in draws.
