The Central New Jersey Home News New Brunswick, New Jersey Wednesday, July 27, 1966 - Page 29
Fischer Drops 3rd Chess Match
SANTA MONICA. Calif, (AP) — Bent Larsen of Denmark has moved into a tie for second place in the sixth round of the Piatigorsky Cup international chess tournament.
Larsen won his fifth-round match yesterday by defeating Miguel Najdorf of Argentina and then beat 23-year-old Bobby Fischer of New York.
With a 3½-2½ record, Larsen is tied with Boris Spassky of Russia and Hungary's Lajos Portisch.
America's Samuel Reshevsky, who has completed only five matches in the 18-round competition, holds a slight lead with a 3-2 record.
Fischer and Najdorf are 3-3, while Holland's Jan Donner, Wolfgang Unzicker of Germany and world champion Tigran Petrosian of the Soviet Union are 2½-3½. Yugoslavia's Borislav Ivkov is last with a 2-3 mark.