The Vancouver Sun Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Friday, May 21, 1971 - Page 29
World Chess Match — While Fischer Fidgets, Taimanov Adjourns by Bill Rayner
Frustration combined with satisfaction was U.S. grandmaster Bobby Fischer's lot out at the University of B.C. Thursday night.
This unusual emotional mixture came about on the 42nd move of his world quarter-final chess game with grandmaster Mark Taimanov of the Soviet Union.
There was Fischer, attacking vigorously, with Taimanov's king reeling and a bishop about to fall on the next move. But the Russian insisted on the adjournment, and sealed his 42nd move while Fischer fidgeted.
When Taimanov does resign, probably without resuming play today, Fischer will hold a commanding 2-0 lead in the 10-game match. Thursday's game, the third in the match, is scheduled for resumption today.
Also scheduled for today is the adjourned second game, now in its 73rd move.
In Thursday's game, Taimanov took his white pieces straight into the same King's Indian defense that Fischer threw at him in the opening game.
For a while, he played more aggressively. He gave up a pawn and broke his rook through on the queen's bishop file. But an attack that looked promising actually suffered from too loose a deployment of white's pieces.
Taimanov took all this in while spending 74 minutes on his 20th move. When he did play, he began a retreat that quickly gave Fischer control of the board.
Fischer sliced open Taimanov's position, forced the Russian to part with his queen in exchange for two lesser pieces, and began stalking the black king.
Taimanov played on for several moves in a lost position. At adjournment his king was in check, and his bishop and knight peril.
Fischer leads the match 1-0 by virtue of his victory in the adjourned first game. Winner of the match advances in the elimination series designed to pick a challenger for world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union.
Meanwhile, in Seville, Spain, international master Robert Huebner of West Germany and ex-world champion Tigran Petrosian of the Soviet Union Thursday drew their fifth straight game.
In Moscow, Yefim Geller defeated Viktor Korchnoi. The two Russian grandmasters are tied at 2-2, while the Huebner-Petrosian match is also tied, 2½-2½.
