AThe Courier-Journal Louisville, Kentucky Tuesday, June 01, 1971 - Page 22
Soviet Grandmaster Korchnoi Gains World Chess Semifinals
Moscow (AP) — Soviet grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi eliminated countryman Yefim Geller from the World Chess Championship quarter-finals yesterday, defeating him on the 38th move of their eighth game.
Korchnoi will next play in the semi-finals against Soviet grandmaster Tigran Petrosian later this year.
In another match being held at Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, Grandmaster Bent Larsen of Denmark defeated East Germany's Wolfgang Uhlmann, who resigned on the 64th move. The game was the ninth of their scheduled 10-game series.
Larsen finished with the 5½ points necessary for victory while Uhlmann had 3½. The Danish player will meet the winner of the Bobby Fischer-Mark Taimanov series being played in Vancouver, B.C. The American presently leads the Soviet grandmaster 5-0.
The world title now is held by Russian Grandmaster Boris Spassky.
