New York Times, New York, New York, Wednesday, November 02, 1960
Fischer And Tal Draw In Leipzig
Split Point After 21 Moves—Soviet Union Leads U.S. Chess Team, 2 to 1
After gaining a victory over Yugoslavia, 2½—1½, yesterday in an adjourned fourth-round match, the United States met the powerful Soviet Union quarter in the fifth round of the chess Olympics, at Leipzig, according to a report from East Germany.
After five hours of play, the Soviet team led the Americans, 2—1, with one game adjourned.
With a total of 14½—4½, the Soviet Union holds first place, followed by the United States with 12½—6½.
Bobby Fischer, the United States champion, opposed Mikhail Tal, the world champion, at the top board. The players castled on opposite sides of the board and, in a sparkling attack and counter-attack, they agreed to split the point after twenty-one moves of a French defense.
At the second board, William Lombardy adjourned a King's Indian defense with Mikhail Botvinnik, the former world champion, after forty moves.
A repetition of moves forced a draw in a Nimzo-Indian defense between Robert Byrne and Victor Korchnoi in eighteen moves.
Arthur B. Bisguier lost to Vassily Smyslov after forty moves of a Queen's Gambit, semi-Tarrasch defense. The Soviet player forced a mate in forty moves.
Yugoslavia defeated Argentina, 2½—1½, and Hungary won from the Netherlands by the same score. West Germany and Bulgaria tied at 2-all. Czechoslovakia and England were tied at 1-all with two games adjourned as were East Germany and Rumania.
In fourth-round adjourned matches the Netherlands defeated East Germany, 2½—1½; Rumania beat Czechoslovakia, 2½—1½; West Germany downed England, 3—1; Bulgaria and Argentina tied at 2-all, and the Soviet Union beat Hungary, 3½—½.
