October 24, 1971 The Argus Chess by Richard Shorman

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Chess Sun, Oct 24, 1971 – Page 37 · The Argus (Fremont, California) · Newspapers.com

Fischer Two Up In Match
Soviet grandmaster Tigran Petrosian lost the sixth and seventh games of the final candidates' match in Buenos Aires, putting America's Robert Fischer two points ahead in their scheduled 12-game series. With the score now standing at 4½-2½ in his favor, Fischer needs only two more wins (or four draws) to clinch the match and to qualify as official challenger for the world's championship.
/Snipping 6th and 7th Match Games/
USSR Championship
Interest in the Fischer-Petrosian match has all but eclipsed this year's USSR Championship, regarded as the strongest national competition in the world. Prominent participants include Mikhail Tal, Yefim Geller, Vasily Smyslov, Anatoly Karpov, Lev Pougaevsky and David Bronstein.
Battling with exceptional vigor, Tal has been making good his boast that he will show the young Soviet contingent in this tournament how grandmaster chess is played.
Notes by former world champion Mikhail Tal, translated from “Sovetsky sport,” October 5, 1971.)