ANew York Times, New York, New York, Saturday, January 27, 1962 - Page 36
23 Chess Masters Begin Play Tonight
Twenty-three chess masters, representing twelve countries, will participate in the interzonal tournament at the Kungshallen in Stockholm, according to a report from Sweden yesterday. The tournament will start tonight and last to March 8. It is the second step leading to the world championship.
The Soviet Union has four entries. Argentina, Hungary and the United States, three each, and East Germany and Yugoslavia, two apiece.
In addition, there will be one player each from Canada, Colombia, Czechoslovakia, Iceland, India and Spain.
The twenty-three players are Tigran Petrosian, Victor Korchnoi, Ewfim Geller and Leonid Stein, Soviet Union; Julio Bolbochan, M. Schwebert and B German, Argentina; Gideon Barcza, Istvan Bilek and Lajos Portisch, Hungary; and Bobby Fischer, Arthur B. Bisguier and Pal Benko, United States.
Also Svetozar Gligoric and Mario Bertok, Yugoslavia; Wolfgang Uhlmann and Rudolph Teschner, East Germany; Abe Yanofsky, Canada; Miguel Gueller, Colombia; Fridrik Olafsson, Iceland; Manuel Aaron, India; Arturo Pomar, Spain, and Dr. Miroslav Filip, Czechoslovakia.
