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Chess by Isaac Kashdan 24 Jul 1960, Sun The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) Newspapers.com
Reshevsky Leads In Argentine Tourney
Samuel Reshevsky of Spring Valley, N.Y., former U.S. chess champion, recovered from an early setback to take the lead with a score of 6½-2½ after nine rounds of the international masters' tournament in Buenos Aires, according to a report from the New York Times.
In the first round Reshevsky lost by overstepping the time limit after a difficult battle against Larry Evans of New York, also a former U.S. titleholder. After that Reshevsky won five games and drew with Svetozar Gligoric of Yugoslavia, Victor Korchnoi of Russia and Laszlo Szabo of Hungary.
Korchnoi, who won a critical game from Gligoric, is tied for second at 6-3 with Fridrik Olafsson of Iceland. A half step behind, tied at 5½-3½, are Evans and Wolfgang Unzicker of West Germany.
U.S. champion Bobby Fischer, brilliant 17-year-old Brooklyn schoolboy, lost three of his last four games to slump to 3-5. He has a slight advantage in an adjourned game against Mark Taimanov of Russia. The fourth American in the tournament, Paul Benko of New York, is in a group tied at 4½-4½.
Following is the standing of the players after the ninth round:
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No games are on hand from the tournament. The following were played in a similar event last April in Mar del Plata, Argentina, in which Fischer tied for first with Boris Spassky of Russia.
