AThe New York Times New York, New York Saturday, May 15, 1971 - Page 34
Korchnoi Advances In Chess Tourney
The Soviet Grand Master, Viktor Korchnoi, defeated a countryman, Yefim Geller, in Moscow on Thursday in the first game of their challengers' quarter-final for the world chess championship. Geller exceeded the time limit on the 36th move and Korchnoi was declared the victor.
In Las Palmas, Canary Islands, a Danish chess master, Bent Larsen went to a one point lead yesterday after his first quarter-final world championship match against Wolfgang Uhlmann of East Germany who conceded defeat.
In Seville, Spain, former world champion Tigran Petrosian of the Soviet Union and Robert Huebner of West Germany drew in their first two matches yesterday.
Both matches lasted five hours and reached 41 and 42 moves respectively.
Today will be a rest day for the two masters, and tomorrow they will play the third games in the series.
The ultimate championship winner will meet the Soviet chess champion, Boris Spassky, for the world title in Moscow next year.
And in Vancouver, British Columbia, Mark Taimanov, a Soviet grand master, drew the opening white men in a 10-game series with Bobby Fischer and eight-time United States champion that starts tomorrow.
