AGreeley Daily Tribune Greeley, Colorado Friday, July 16, 1971 - Page 24
Larsen Feeling Better, Match Expected Sunday
Denver (AP)—Danish chess champion Bent Larsen, sidelined by illness after four games in his match with American grandmaster Bobby Fischer, is expected to be well enough to resume play Sunday, match officials said Thursday.
Larsen requested a postponement of the match that had been scheduled for Thursday after a doctor examined him earlier in the week and advised several days of rest and medication for an undisclosed illness.
The Dane was down four games to nothing in the scheduled 10-game world semifinal elimination match against Fischer when he became ill.
Match officials said he appeared extremely fatigued following Tuesday's game, in which he resigned after 33 moves, and the doctor who examined him indicated his blood pressure was high.
It was believed that Larsen, a stocky man, might have been affected by Denver's one-mile altitude, which sometimes causes visitors to become fatigued.
Under the match rules, a player is allowed two postponements, and the next game conceivably could be delayed until Tuesday.
Fischer needs just 1½ points, with one point awarded for a victory and a half-point for a draw, to clinch the match and go against the winner of a Moscow match between Victor Korchnoi and former world champion Tigran Petrosian.
The winner of that match will challenge Russian Boris Spassky, current world title holder.
