New Yorker Beats Rossetto in Chess - Fischer Draws in 2 Adjourned Games

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New York Times, New York, New York, Wednesday, June 29, 1960

Evans Gains Lead At Buenos Aires
New Yorker Beats Rossetto in Chess—Fischer Draws in 2 Adjourned Games
Larry Evans of New York, a former United States champion, yesterday defeated Hector Rossetto of Argentina to gain the lead in the chess tournament at Buenos Aires, according to a report from South American news channels.
The game, which had been adjourned after forty moves, found Rossetto resigning after only two more moves.
Evans now has a 3—1 total, leading six other players who have 2½-1½ scores.
In another adjourned game yesterday, Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn, the United States titleholder, drew a first-round contest with Alberto Foguelman of Argentina. Fischer also drew in the fourth round with Boris Ivkov of Yugoslavia.
The longest game was a second-round event between Pal Benko, United States, and Erich Eliskases, Argentina. It went eighty-three moves.
Samuel Reshevsky of the United States has two games pending with Victor Korchnoi of the Soviet Union and Osvaldo Bazan of Argentina.