The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Friday, July 16, 1971 - Page 8
World Chess Play Adjourns
Moscow — Soviet grandmasters Tigran Petrosian and Viktor Korchnoi adjourned their sixth game in the semifinal for the world championship here Thursday on the 42nd move, Tass News Agency said.
They will finish the game today with Korchnoi in a position to fight for a draw. All five previous games between the two players have been drawn.
In Denver, the fifth game of the Bent Larsen-Robert Fischer semifinal chess match will be played Sunday.
The game originally was scheduled for Thursday but was postponed when Larsen became ill, United Press International reported.
Fischer leads in the series 4-0.