AThe Vancouver Sun Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Tuesday, December 14, 1971 - Page 30
Spassky Accepts Draw in 13th Chess Round
Moscow (UPI) — World champion Boris Spassky played to a draw with Soviet grandmaster Leonid Stein in the 13th round of the Alekhine chess tournament, and Stein held his tourney lead, the news agency Tass said Monday.
Spassky, who has suffered two defeats in the tournament, agreed to a draw on the 30th move of Sunday's game with the tourney leader because he was running out of time, Tass said.
The Alekhine Memorial is in effect part of Spassky's early warm-up for the world's championship defence he must make next year against Bobby Fischer of the U.S.
“Spassky's 16th move created a position which occurred in the well-known game between Spassky and Fischer at the World Chess Olympiad in Siegen, West Germany, in 1970,” Tass said.
“But instead of taking a central pawn, Stein played bishop seven at the 16th move. Spassky launched at once an all-out attack on the king's flank and there was a moment when his victory seemed in sight.
“But pressed for time, Spassky agreed to a draw,” it said.
Stein's leading point total stands at nine out of a possible 13.
Soviet grandmaster Vasily Smyslov has 8½ and former world champion Tigran Petrosian, also a Russian, has eight.
