AThe Boston Globe Boston, Massachusetts Sunday, October 01, 1961
Chess Notebook by Lyman Burgess
With two-thirds of the playing scheduled gone by Bobby Fischer held a half point lead over Mikhail Tal, former world champion. Fischer was 9-3 and Tal 8-3 at the top of a star-studded field. Bisguier was doing middling well. One of the shockers is the low standing of Fridrik Olafsson, Iceland, who a short time ago because of a series of outstanding successes, was looked upon as the “hope of the West.” He scored but 3 points out of his first 12 games.
Here is a win by Fischer over Ewfim Geller, one of the Soviet Union's best.
Robert James Fischer vs Efim Geller
Bled (1961), Bled YUG, rd 6, Sep-10
Spanish Game: Morphy Defense. Modern Steinitz Defense (C72) 1-0
Tal won in the 13th round as Fischer drew, then in the 14th Tal drew and Fischer adjourned against Udocic. Gligoric, Keres, and Petrosian maintained their positions just slightly to the rear of the two leaders. Meanwhile, Bisguier won twice to move into 6th place.
