AThe San Francisco Examiner San Francisco, California Monday, May 17, 1971 - Page 22
U.S. and Russia - Chess Masters Knock Off at 40
Vancouver — (AP) — Grandmasters Bobby Fischer of the United States and Mark Taimanov of the Soviet Union adjourned the opening game of their world chess championship quarter-final match yesterday after the 40th move.
At adjournment, Fischer, playing black, was two pawns down but held a strong position. The game was to be completed this afternoon.
Taimanov opened passively against a king's Indian defense and was a pawn down entering the middle game.
He sacrificed the exchange, however, and created complications by exerting pressure on black's kingside side.
Fischer fought free and exchanged queens. Allowing black to collect pawns, he meanwhile placed a rook on the eighth rank and mounted a mating attack.
White sealed his 41st move.
The game, postponed three days because of a dispute over playing facilities, was held before an audience of 200 in the University of British Columbia's student union building movie theater. The second game will be played tomorrow.
Winner of the 10-game match advances to the semi-finals of the challengers' round. Eventual winner will meet world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union for the title in 1972.
