AWausau Daily Herald Wausau, Wisconsin Tuesday, May 25, 1971 - Page 26
Nerves Get to Chess Champion by the Associated Press
West Germany's Robert Huebner, citing frayed nerves, withdrew from the World Chess Championships Monday before the scheduled eighth game of his quarter-final elimination match against Russian Grandmaster Tigran Petrosian.
Huebner, beaten by Petrosian in 40 moves Sunday after their first six games of the 10-game series at Seville, Spain, ended in draws, said his nerves were too disturbed for him to continue with any chance of success.
In Monday's other quarter-final action in Moscow, Soviet Grandmasters Viktor Korchnoi and Yefim Geller played to a draw after 27 moves of the sixth game of their series. Korchnoi holds a 3½-2½ lead over his countryman.
The other quarter-final series—pairing American Grandmaster Bobby Fischer (house-guest of Lina Grumette, a resident of California) against Russia's Mark Taimanov at Vancouver, B.C., and Bent Larsen of Sweden against Wolfgang Uhlmann of East Germany at Las Palmas, Canary Islands—are to be resume today.
Fischer has a 3-0 edge over Taimanov and Larsen leads Uhlmann 4-2.
The tournament will provide a challenger for world champion Boris Spassky of Russia.
At Seville Monday, the British referee offered to postpone the Huebner-Petrosian game for a few days and continue play behind closed doors. But the German Grandmaster refused and Petrosian was declared the winner. The games had been played in a lecture room before 200 spectators daily.
