ANanaimo Daily News Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada Friday, October 08, 1971 - Page 5
No Decision In Chess Play
Buenos Aires (Reuter) — Soviet grandmaster Tigran Petrosian and Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn, N.Y., drew the third game of their 12-game semi-final world chess championship series Thursday night when Petrosian, a former world champion, was poised to win.
Petrosian and Fischer now have 1½ points each in the match to determine who will challenge reigning world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union for the world title.
Petrosian, playing blacks, was all set for a win, chess experts said, when he inadvertently repeated moves when hard-pressed by time. Referee Lothar Schmidt of West Germany declared the game a draw at the 33rd move after Fischer objected.
The fourth game of their match will be played Tuesday.
