AThe Sydney Morning Herald Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Wednesday, July 28, 1971 - Page 4
Soviet, U.S. Chess Masters to Meet
Moscow, Tuesday. — Tigran Petrosian of the Soviet Union last night won his semifinal match against compatriot Viktor Korchnoi in the tournament to pick a challenger for the world chess championship.
Petrosian will meet Bobby Fischer of the United States in the challengers' final in September. The winner of that match will play world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union early next year.
Petrosian, a former world champion, drew his tenth game with Korchnoi on the 41st move all night giving him 5.5 points to Korchnoi's 4.5 points.
Fischer's 6-0 semi-finals victory over Bent Larsen on Denmark has heightened Russian interest in his comping encounter with Petrosian.
The last challenger finals in 1968 and the world championship in 1969 were all-Soviet affairs.
At that time Spassky beat Korchnoi for the right to play against Petrosian then world champion.
