The Guardian London, Greater London, England Thursday, March 08, 1962 - Page 5
Bobby Fischer's Victory 08 Mar 1962, Thu The Guardian (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com
Bobby Fischer's Victory
Stockholm chess, March 7
The interzonal chess tournament at Stockholm lost little in suspense by the record victory of Bobby Fischer. United States champion, who clearly outdistanced his field and finally won with 2½ points to spare over his nearest rivals. With but two rounds to go no fewer than ten players still had a chance of gaining one of the six qualifying places for the forthcoming candidates' tournament. In the penultimate round Portisch and Pomar dropped out by losses to Aaron and Bolbochan, while the last round saw the elimination of Stein, who lost to Olafsson, while his fellow countryman Korchnoi had an exceedingly rough passage at the hands of Yanofsky, who missed at least one clear winning line. When the game was adjourned the Canadian still was a pawn ahead but with only the slightest of winning chances, and on resumption of play peace was concluded before war had really broken out.
Filip had meanwhile reached port by saving his end game against Pomar and taking a peaceful draw against Schweber, and it was left to Gligoric and Benko faced by Bolbochan and Barcza, to provide the last thrills of the tournament. However, Gligoric was unable to make headway with his extra pawn and Benko drew after a long end game.
The final scores of the leading players are as follows:
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Stein, while failing to qualify under the rules, has automatically acquired the title of fide grandmaster by beating the norm of 13 points. Benko and Gligoric will have to play off for sixth place.
