AThe Gazette Montreal, Quebec, Quebec, Canada Saturday, June 12, 1971 - Page 50
Quartet Advance in World Series
Bobby Fischer, USA, Bent Larsen, Denmark, Viktor Korchnoi, USSR, and Tigran Petrosian, USSR, advance to the next round of the Challengers K.O. Match Tourney of the world series, having defeated their opponents in the first round by the following scores: Fischer 6, M. Taimanov, USSR, 0 at Vancouver; Larsen, 5½, Wolfgang Uhlmann, E. Germany, 3½, at Las Palmas; Korchnoi, 5½, E. Geller, USSR, 2½, at Sochi; Petrosian, 4½, R Huebner, W. Germany, 3½ (retired), at Seville.
The next round matches are scheduled for July, each best of ten games: Fischer vs. Larsen, and Korchnoi vs. Petrosian. The winners to meet in September in a best of 12 games match, and the winner of that to play world champion Boris Spassky, USSR, in a best of 24 games match for the world title in 1972.
