The Vancouver Sun Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Monday, July 25, 1966 - Page 15
Hungarian, Russian Tie
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Russia's Boris Spassky and Lajos Portisch of Hungary have a strong grip on the lead today in the Piatigorsky Cup chess tournament after battling to a draw in the most spectacular match so far. The 18-round double round-robin tournament has three weeks to go.
In other matches, world chess champion Tigran Petrosian of Russia drew with Jan Donner of Holland after 35 moves.
Games between Borislav Ivkov of Yugoslavia and Samuel Reshevsky of the United States, Wolfgang Unzicker of West Germany and Bobby Fischer of the United States and Bent Larsen of Denmark and Miguel Najdorf of Argentina, were adjourned, to be played off he Tuesday.
The standings: Spassky and Portisch, 3-2; Donner, Fischer, Najdorf, 2½-2½; Reshevsky 2-2; Petrosian 2-3; Ivkov, Larsen and Unzicker 1½-2½