The Central New Jersey Home News New Brunswick, New Jersey Monday, July 18, 1966 - Page 3
4 Draws Mark Chess Tourney
SANTA MONICA. Calif. (AP) — The first round of the Piatigorsky Cup international grandmasters' chess tournament ended in four draws and one adjourned game which is likely to end in a victory for Borislav Ivkov of Yugoslavia over Bent Larsen of Denmark.
World Champion Tigran Petrosian of Russia drew a queen's gambit declined against countryman Boris Spassky in 29 moves yesterday, gradually working out a slight advantage which proved insufficient for a win as Spassky tenaciously defended his black side of the game.
Former United States champion Samuel Reshevsky, contender for the world championship for many years, also drew and halved the point with Bobby Fischer, who has won the United States championship six times in his young career.
Reshevsky managed to hold a slight edge for most of the game. But Fischer finally liquidated the entire queen side and wiped out the potential promotion of a white pawn to a queen by advancing his queen Knights pawn to the seventh rank.
In the Ivkov-Larsen game, the Yugoslav won the exchange by winning a rook for a knight through a check to the king on the 45th move and with adjournment one move later stands much better.