AThe Ottawa Journal Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Saturday, October 09, 1971 - Page 31
Fog Lifted At Buenos Aires
A considerable contention arose at the annual business meeting of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) at Vancouver, regarding selection of the site for the Fischer, U.S.A., vs. Petrosian, USSR, match in the world Series Challengers event. Offers to stage it had come from Yugoslavia, Greece and Argentina. Fischer opted for Yugoslavia, and Petrosian for Greece. It was first decided that Congress as a whole would decide, and not the President alone. One day before the deciding vote, Dorazil of Austria, as main speaker, pressed for a decision by lot to prevent a further deepening of the rift in the FIDE, which had already become apparent at the Siegen meeting last year. It turned out that Buenos Aires was the winner. The Argentine Federation had already offered more than anyone else, financially, $7,500 for the winner and $4,500 for the loser plus $1,500 added to the FIDE treasury. Petrosian will be accompanied by his seconds, grandmasters Yuri Auerbakh and Alexandre Suetin.
