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The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Sunday, July 24, 1960
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:
