APacific Daily News Agana Heights, Guam Tuesday, December 21, 1971 - Page 22
Spassky Does Poorly
Moscow (AP)—Russians captured the first seven place sin the 153-game international Alekhine Chess Tournament which ended here Sunday.
Soviets players Anatoly Karpov and Leonid Stein took first and second with 11 points each out of a possible 17. World champion Boris Spassky—who faces American Bobby Fischer next year for the crown—was sixth with 9.5 points.
Moscow's central chess club was packed this weekend for the tournaments final game between Olafsson and Spassky.
The match was adjourned on the 41st move Saturday night with Olafsson in a hopeless position, Tass News Agency said.
Sunday, Spassky's material advantage was too great and Olafsson resigned on the 49th move.
Despite Olafsson's loss to Spassky, Tass said the Icelander is a player of rate inventiveness, particularly dangerous in combination situations.
Robert Byrne of the United States reached eighth place with nine points.
Commenting on the tournament, International grandmaster Andrei Lilienthal of the Soviet Union said that all chess events are now studies through the prism of the forthcoming match for the World Chess Crown between Spassky and Fischer.
He noted that some people said during the Alekhine Tournament that if Fischer had been playing, the other participants would have found first place closed to them.
