The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Sunday, July 24, 1960 - Page 68
Reshevsky Favored In Argentine Chess
With two rounds to go, Samuel Reshevsky of Spring Valley, N.Y. and Victor Korchnoi of the Soviet Union maintained their 1-2 position in the stiffly contested International Masters' Tournament at Buenos Aires, according to a New York Times report.
Reshevsky, making his best showing in some time, defeated Hector Rossetto of Argentina in the 17th round to bring his score up to 12-5. In the previous session he drew with Mark Taimanov of Russia.
Korchnoi kept pace by winning from Ludek Pachman of Czechoslovakia and drawing with Erich Eliskases of Argentina, for a tally of 11½-5½. Both Reshevsky and Korchnoi have won eight games outright. Korchnoi has lost twice, to Rossetto and Richard Wade of New Zealand. Reshevsky has not been set back since his first-round loss to fellow American Larry Evans.
In third place is Laszlo Szabo of Hungary, with 10½-6½. He won five games, lost but one to Wolfgang Uhlmann of East Germany and drew 11 times. Fridrik Olafsson of Iceland is close behind with 10-7.
The biggest disappointment of the tournament is the lowly position of brilliant U.S. champion Bobby Fischer, tied at 7½-9½ with the fourth U.S. representative, Paul Benko of New York.
Following is the standing of the players after 17 rounds and games of the event: