Fischer Defeats Guimard In Chess

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New York Times, New York, New York, Friday, July 15, 1960

Fischer Defeats Guimard In Chess
Passed Pawn Decisive After 58 Moves—Wexler Also Wins at Buenos Aires
Bobby Fischer, the United States chess champion, yesterday won an adjourned fifteenth-round game from Carlos Guimard of Argentina in the Buenos Aires international chess tournament, according to South American news sources.
Fischer, whose form has been far below par in this tournament, employed a King's Indian defense and won in fifty-eight moves after promoting a passed pawn.
Bernardo Wexler of Argentina, utilized a Slav defense in defeating Wolfgang Unzicker of West Germany in fifty-five moves. Pal Benko of New York drew with Svetozar Gligoric of Yugoslavia in a seventy-five-move game involving an Old English opening.
Samuel Reshevsky of the United States still leads the standings with a 10½-4½ score, half a point better than Victor Korchnoi of Russia. Larry Evans of the United States is in a three-way tie for third place with Laszlo Szabo of Hungary and Mark Taimanov of Russia. Each of the three has a 9-6 mark.
In the thirteenth round, Reshevsky's twenty-five-move victory over Ludek Pachman of Czechoslovakia was considered outstanding.