AThe Ottawa Journal Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Saturday, August 14, 1971 - Page 46
On the Way to the World Championship
Former world champion, Tigran Petrosian, of Tiflis, who edged Viktor Korchnoi, USSR, 5½-4½, in the semi-final of the K.O. Match tourney at Moscow, earns the dubious privilege of meeting Bobby Fischer, USA, in the final. A best of 12 games match set for September.
Petrosian had heavy going with Korchnoi, winning only one game with the other nine drawn. In previous tourney play they had met 23 times, with the score 4-3 and 16 draws in favor of Petrosian, which may account for the caution this time. However, that is a large part of Petrosian's style, as in winning from R. Huebner earlier in the tourney, he scored only one win with six draws.
To what extent this “rock” will obstruct the “Computerized Steamroller,” as Time magazine calls Fischer, remains to be seen. Fischer's successive defeats of Taimanov and Larsen by 6-0 scores has the chess world agape. The winner will meet world champion, Boris Spassky, USSR, for the title next year.
