AThe Vancouver Sun Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Monday, May 31, 1971 - Page 2
World Matches - Finale Nears In Chess
The three remaining matches in the world chess championship quarter-final round are nearing completion.
In Vancouver, Bobby Fischer of the U.S. is expected Tuesday to wrap up his match with Mark Taimanov in the minimum six games when they meet at the University of B.C.
Fischer leads, 5-0.
In Moscow Saturday, Viktor Korchnoi of the Soviet Union defeated countryman Yefim Geller in their seventh game to take a 4½-2½ lead.
Denmark's Bent Larsen and East Germany's Wolfgang Uhlmann adjourned their ninth game in the Canary Islands on the 43rd move Sunday. Larsen leads, 4½-3½.
The fourth quarter-final match has already been awarded to ex-world champion Tigran Petrosian of the Soviet Union. He was leading his match with West Germany's Robert Huebner, 4-3, when Huebner withdrew because of frayed nerves.
Those first scoring 5½ points or more in the 10-game matches advance to the semi-finals of the elimination series to pick a challenger for world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union.
The Fischer-Taimanov game Tuesday starts at 4 p.m. in the Student Union Building theater.
