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New York Times, New York, New York, Wednesday, September 27, 1961
Fischer and Tal Take Games And Lead International Chess
Belgrade, Sept. 26 (AP) — Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn and Mikhail Tal of Latvia won adjourned fifteenth-round games tonight and remained tied for first place in the international grand masters chess tournament.
The leaders had 11 points apiece. Fischer defeated Lajos Portisch of Hungary and Tal won from Arthur Bisguier of New York.
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Bobby Fischer moved into a tie for the lead with Mikhail Tal by drawing a fourteenth-round game with Mijo Udovic of Yugoslavia without resuming play, according to a report from Yugoslavia Tuesday.
Tal, paired in the fifteenth round with Arthur B. Bisguier of New York, a former United States champion, had the white pieces in a Caro-Kann defense set up by Bisguier. Each had a rook, bishop and three pawns at the end of the five-hour session when an adjournment was taken after forty-one moves.
Fischer's unfinished game with Lajos Portisch of Hungary was adjourned after forty moves of a Queen's Gambit declined. The national champion from Brooklyn had the black forces and was two pawns ahead at the end of the session with good winning chances.
Svetozar Gligoric of Yugoslavia and Paul Keres of Estonia were bracketed in third place with 9½—4½ after winning their games.
Gligoric, playing the black side of a King's Indian defense against Mario Bertok, Yugoslavia, triumphed in thirty-seven moves, while Keres gained the verdict over Udovic in a Catalan opening that lasted thirty-eight moves.
Tigran Petrosian, the Soviet champion, fifth in the standing, with 8½—4½, drew a Queen's Gambit in nineteen moves with Dr. Peter Trifunovic, Yugoslav champion.
Ewfim Geller, Soviet Union, was the other winner in yesterday's round. He defeated Bruno Parma, Yugoslavia, world junior champion, on the white side of a Sicilian defense after thirty-one moves.
A draw in sixteen moves of a Caro-Kann defense was played by Boris Ivkov and J. Germek, both of Yugoslavia.
