AThe Spokesman-Review Spokane, Washington Tuesday, July 27, 1971 - Page 7
Petrosian Wins Chess Semi-Finals
Moscow (AP) — Tigran Petrosian Soviet chess grandmaster, won his semi-final match Monday night against Viktor Korchnoi in a tournament to pick a challenger for the world chess championship.
Petrosian will meet U.S. grandmaster Bobby Fischer in the challengers' finals in September. The winner of that match will play Soviet champion Boris Spassky next spring.
Petrosian, a former world champion, drew his 10th game with Korchnoi on the 41st move Monday night. The draw was enough to give him the victory, 5.5 points to 4.5.
The two Soviet grandmasters drew nine of their 10 games. Petrosian had won the ninth game, which gave him the edge over his opponent.
Fischer had qualified for the finals by defeating Denmark's Bent Larsen 6-0. In the previous round he defeated the Soviet Union's Mark Taimanov, also by a score of 6-0.
