ANew York Times, New York, New York, Tuesday, June 19, 1962 - Page 32
Illness Forces Tal To Quit Tournament
Willemstad, Curacao, June 18—Mikhail Tal, former world's champion, withdrew today from the Candidates' Chess Tournament because of illness.
Physicians advised Tal that a kidney ailment make it inadvisable for him to continue. The Soviet player will forfeit the seven games in the last lap of the tournament.
Three of the games already had been postponed. Each of his opponents in those games now receives credit for a won game. In each of the forthcoming games that Tal was to have played, his scheduled opponent will receive credit for a won game. As a result of Tal's withdrawal, Paul Keres moved into second place today because he was credited with a win in a postponed Tal game.
In the twenty-fourth round, completed last night, three games were drawn and the game scheduled between Pal Benko of the United States and Tal was not played.
Ewfim Geller and Tigran Petrosian, both of the Soviet Union, drew an Advanced Variation of the Caro-Kann Defense in eighteen moves.
Dr. Miroslav Filip of Czechoslovakia and Bobby Fischer of the United States drew a Tartakover Variation of the Queen's Gambit Declined. Victor Korchnoi and Keres, both of the Soviet Union, drew an English Opening in thirty-eight moves.
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Pairings of the twenty-fifth round follow: Filip vs. Geller; Fischer vs. Tal; Benko vs. Korchnoi; Keres vs. Petrosian. The first named played has the white pieces.
