AThe Vancouver Sun Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Monday, July 19, 1971 - Page 11
It's Five Straight For Fischer
Denver, Colorado (Reuter) — U.S. grandmaster Bobby Fischer won his fifth straight game Sunday in his world chess championship semi-final match with Bent Larsen.
The Danish grandmaster resigned on the 47th move. Fischer, with a 5-0 record, now needs one-half a point in order to advance to the final of the challengers' competition to pick an opponent for world chess champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union.
The two Soviet grandmasters in the other semi-final, Tigran Petrosian and Viktor Korchnoi, drew their seventh straight game in Moscow Sunday. Each now has 3½ points in the 10-game match.
The pair agreed to the draw after only 13 moves, the shortest draw so far in the challengers' round.
Fischer's fifth win came in an endgame position where Larsen found he was helpless to prevent the American from winning the exchange. Each player had a king and three pawns left at the time.
