October 29, 1960 The Game of Kings by D.M. LeDain, Montreal Gazette

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The Game of Kings 29 Oct 1960, Sat The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) Newspapers.com

Chess Olympics
A record entry of forty-one countries are represented in the world team championship at Leipzig. The U.S.A. team has been strengthened by the addition of W. Lombardy, who was recently accorded grandmaster status by the FIDE. Although both he and Bobby Fischer dropped games in the early rounds of the preliminaries the team is well on the way to qualifying for the championship final.

World Champion Injured
Mikhail Tal suffered a slight brain concussion in an auto accident on his way to the world team championship. After a few days rest doctors allowed him to continue but advised against playing. However, he turned up for the fourth round and brilliantly defeated Campomanes of the Philippines in 27 moves to give the USSR a 3-1 victory.

From a team match, Germany, 1956:

Dahl (white) vs. W. Schulz (black)
Ruy Lopez: Open, Classical Defense

Descriptive 1. P-K4 P-K4 2. N-KB3 N-QB3 3. B-N5 P-QR3 4. B-R4 N-B3 5. O-O P-QN4 6. B-N3 NxP 7. P-Q4 P-Q4 8. PxP B-K3 9. P-B3 B-K2 10. B-K3 O-O 11. QN-Q2 B-KN5 12. NxN PxN 13. Q-Q5! PxN 14. QxN PxP 15. QxKNP Q-Q2 16. Q-N3! P-B3 17. P-K6! BxP 18. B-Q4! P-B3 19. Q-N4! K-B2 20. KR-K1 Resigns

Algebraic 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. 0-0 b5 6. Bb3 Nxe4 7. d4 d5 8. dxe5 Be6 9. c3 Be7 10. Be3 0-0 11. Nd2 Bg4 12. Nxe4 dxe4 13. Qd5! exf3 14. Qxc6 fxg2 15. Qxg2 Qd7 16. Qg3! c6 17. e6! Bxe6 18. Bd4! f6 19. Qg4! Kf7 20. Re1 1-0

Paul Troeger vs Mikhail Tal
FRG-URS (1960), Hamburg FRG, rd 6, Aug-02
Dutch Defense: Staunton Gambit. General Variation (A83) 0-1