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The Game of Kings 20 Sep 1958, Sat The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) Newspapers.com
On His Way to the World Championship
The big news from the Interzonal tourney at Portoroz, Yugoslavia, is not that Mikhail Tal, USSR champion, won it, but that 15-year-old Bobby Fischer, USA champion, qualified for next year's Challenger tourney by finishing among the first six. By far the youngest ever to compete in either tourney, or to gain the title of international grandmaster. The boy won six games, lost two, and drew with twelve in the 21-player tourney. There is a talk of a Broadway parade on his return to New York. Scores of the top six qualifiers: M. Tal, USSR, 13½-6½; S. Gligoric, Yugoslavia, 13-7; P. Benko, Stateless, and T. Petrosian, USSR, 12½-7½ each; R. Fischer, USA, and F. Olafsson, Iceland, 12-8 each.
