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Larsen Close To Chess Win
(AP) Grandmaster Bent Larsen of Denmark is just one point from victory in his World Chess Championship challengers quarter-finals with East Germany's Wolfgang Uhlmann.
Larsen lost a bid Thursday to win the 10-match competition when he gave up after the 41st move in their contest at Las Palmas, Canary Islands. Larsen needs 5½ points to win. He now has 4½ to Uhlmann's 3½. The ninth match is scheduled for Sunday.
In another quarter-final match being held in Moscow, the seventh game of the Viktor Korchnoi-Yefim Geller series was postponed because Korchnoi was indisposed. The game had been adjourned Wednesday.
In Vancouver, grandmasters Bobby Fischer of the United States and Mark Taimanov of the Soviet Union Thursday night adjourned the fifth straight game in their quarter-final elimination match to select a challenger for the World Chess Championship.
At adjournment after 41 moves, Fischer was a pawn ahead and held the initiative. The game was played cautiously by both sides.
Entering the end game, Fischer had control of more space and Taimanov was forced on the defensive.
The game will be continued today.
Fischer holds a 4-0 lead in the 10-game match and a win in the fifth game would leave him needing only a draw in the remaining games to advance to the semifinals.
The eventual winner of the elimination rounds will meet world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union in 1972.
