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Two Share Lead At Buenos Aires
Korchnoi Beats Wexler and Ties With Reshevsky in Chess in Argentina
As Samuel Reshevsky was held to a draw by Wolfgang Unzicker of West Germany in the eighteenth round last night, the former United States champion was tied for the lead at 12½—5½ by Victor Korchnoi of the Soviet Union at Buenos Aires, according to a wireless report received through South American news channels.
Unzicker, on the black side of a Nimzo-Indian defense, agreed to a draw with Reshevsky after seventeen moves.
Korchnoi, playing the Nimzo-Indian defense, defeated Bernardo Wexler of Argentina in thirty-nine moves.
Laszlo Szabo of Hungary gained third place at 11—7 after a draw with Pal Benko of New York in an English opening lasting twelve moves.
Larry Evans, New York, adjourned a Slav defense with Wolfgang Uhlmann of East Germany after forty moves.
The United States champion, Bobby Fischer won a Ruy Lopez from Richard Wade of New Zealand in forty-five moves.
In the seventeenth round, Reshevsky beat Hector Rossetto in a Benoni counter gambit, lasting forty moves. Korchnoi defeated Ludek Pachman of Czechoslovakia and drew in his sixteenth-round adjourned game with Erich Eliskases.
