ANew York Times, New York, New York, Friday, December 30, 1960
Byrne Sets Back Berliner In Chess
Reshevsky, Benko Draw— Bisguier Downs Kalme — Fischer, Saidy Adjourn
Hans Kmoch, the referee, forfeited Hans Berliner when he overstepped the time limit in the Lessing J. Rosenwald tournament for the chess championship of the United States, today at the Hotel Empire.
Berliner's opponent was the United States open champion, Robert Byrne, who had concentrated his forces on the queen side of the board, and was effecting a major breakthrough.
Samuel Reshevsky and Pal Benko agreed to a draw after a sharp tactical struggle.
Arthur Bisguier, on the white side of a Ruy Lopez, outplayed Charles Kalme of Philadelphia. Bisguier pushed a pawn to the seventh rank and the imminent queening threat forced his opponent's resignation.
Another Ruy Lopez, played by Raymond Weinstein against William Lombardy, was victorious. In the middle game, Weinstein had a powerful two-bishop attack. Unable to find counter-play, Lombardy was in severe time pressure. When he lost his queen, he resigned.
Herbert Seidman accepted James Sherwin's queen gambit, defended well, and had a quite equal position in the middle game. But a somewhat questionable exchange of bishops gave Sherwin a passed queen pawn, and when his rook penetrated to the seventh rank, checkmate was unavoidable.
The game between Bobby Fischer, the defending champion, and Tony Saidy was adjourned after Fischer, as black, declined Saidy's Queen gambit. Fischer had at least an equal end-game position at adjournment after being outplayed earlier. When Saidy, a passed pawn to the good, weakened in time pressure, Fischer achieved excellent counter-play.
The scores of Bobby Fischer's victory over James T. Sherwin, and Samuel Reshevsky's victory over Anthony F. Saidy follow:
