AThe Province Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Tuesday, July 20, 1971 - Page 30
Fischer Wins Fifth Straight
(Reuter) Denver, Colorado — American Bobby Fischer took a commanding 5-0 lead in a semifinal of the world chess championship elimination series Sunday night when his opponent, Bent Larsen of Denmark, conceded the game.
Fischer now needs only a tie which is worth a half a point to win the 10-game series. The next game will be played today.
The winner meets the winner of a series between Russians Viktor Korchnoi and Tigran Petrosian for the right to challenge world champion Boris Spassky of Russia next year.
All eight games of that series have been drawn.
Larsen conceded after 46 moves when each player had only a king and three pawns left on the board.
The Dane, who became ill on Friday, forcing the game to be held over until Sunday, initiated an exchange of pieces that left the player with a king and three pawns after only 40 moves.
Larsen moved to attack a pawn but Fischer made a flanking move on two unprotected pawns, blocking them from moving forward.
