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The Gazette Montreal, Quebec, Canada Saturday, December 10, 1960
World Team Championship
Following are the complete results in the four preliminary sections of the world team championship at Leipzig. The best teams, based on previous records in this event, were seeded among the sections.
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The top three teams in each section advanced to the Championship Final. The next three went into Consolation Class B, and the last four of each into Consolation Class C. All tourneys were round robins.
How Tal Was Taken
The young British champion, Jonathan Penrose, never gave world champion Mikhail Tal a chance to get started in the final round match, England vs. USSR, in the world team championship at Leipzig, outplaying him from beginning to end. This was the only game the Russian team lost in the series.
From the World Team Championship (Preliminary No. 4), Leipzig, 1960:
Transatlantic Gobbledegook
From the English magazine “Chess” comes this item: “According to a fantastic report from Leipzig, Bobby Fischer claims that his mother was responsible, almost single-handed, for the U.S. team's participation there; that she organized banner demonstrations in front of the White House and finally went on a hunger-strike to make the authorities fork out the necessary $6,000 and permission!”
There is no doubt that Mrs. Fischer played a major role in getting the team project rolling against after it had been stalled. But it is a known fact that expenses were underwritten by various non-political bodies, with the U.S. Government finally agreeing to issue visas.
