AFort Worth Star-Telegram Fort Worth, Texas Monday, October 18, 1971 - Page 7
U.S. - Soviet Chess Tilt Adjourned Buenos Aires (AP)— For the first time in their 12-game series, a game was adjourned yesterday in the grand master chess match between U.S. ace Bobby Fischer and former world champion Tigran Petrosian of the Soviet Union.Play in the sixth game was stopped after 41 moves were made by each contestant in the five-hour session at the San Martin Theatre.
Fischer, 28, had considerable advantage in the position at adjournment and was likely to win when the game is resumed today.
Fischer and Petrosian, 42, are meeting to determine who will challenge the world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union for the title next spring. They are exactly even now, with each man having won one game and with three games ending in draws.
