AThe Gazette Montreal, Quebec, Canada Saturday, July 30, 1966 - Page 28
Peace On Two Fronts
At the USA championship at New York. American champion Bobby Fischer and veteran champion, Samuel Reshevsky, were seen to shake hands and to chat amicably. They had been on the ‘outs’ ever since the unhappy finish of their match a few years ago, when Fischer withdrew before its completion, due to a defaulted game registered against him for failure to show at a re-scheduled hour. The quarrel was primarily with the committee but Fischer threatened to sue Reshevsky for his share of the purse. Nothing more has been heard of that.
Fischer has also expressed regret over his attack on Russian players for their alleged collaboration to assure a Russian victory. This was the reason for his withdrawal from the world series.
Champion Trailing In Piatigorsky Tourney
Boris Spassky, USSR, leads the Piatigorsky Cup tourney at Santa Monica, Cal., 3½-2½ pts., ahead of M. Najdorf, Argentina, S. Reshevsky, USA, and L. Portisch, Hungary, 3-2 each; R. J. Fischer, USA, and B. Larsen, Denmark, 2½-2½ each; world champion Tigran Petrosian, USSR, and J. H. Donner, Holland, 2½-3½ each; W. Unzicker, W. Germany, 2-3. and B. Ivkov, Yugoslavia, 1½-2½. Unexpected results were Petrosian's loss to Portisch, and Fischer's to Larsen in 29 moves. Larsen lost earlier to Ivkov, Reshevsky brilliantly defeated Donner in moves.
Larsen, Best in the West
Bent Larsen, young Danish grandmaster, defeated Ewfim Geller, USSR, 5.4 pts., in a match at Copenhagen. This play-off match decides third place in the Challengers tourney of the last world series, and earns him a seeded place in the 1967 Inter-Zonal of the new series.
Larsen's string of successes in the last few years has surprised the chess world, and on his record many regard him as the leading player outside the USSR, ahead of Fischer, Ivkov and Portisch. The current Piatigorsky Cup tourney, in which all four are competing, will throw more light on this. Fischer, of course, is trying to regain his place after an absence of several years from the international field.
Questions Arise: Did D.M. LeDain actually write this piece, or an intern??
“Fischer has also expressed regret over his attack on Russian players for their alleged collaboration to assure a Russian victory. This was the reason for his withdrawal from the world series.”
—NOTE: Source not cited. Questionable, since Fischer continued to allege the same suspicions for years after. Later, the same accusations corroborated by Soviet players themselves. But if so, in what actual context?
“Fischer, of course, is trying to regain his place after an absence of several years from the international field”
— Fischer was not absent from international chess for “years”, his presence in the Cuban Capablanca Memorial, was noted the prior year, 1965.
