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Let's Play Chess 20 Sep 1958, Sat The Montreal Star (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) Newspapers.com
The Montreal Star, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Saturday, September 20, 1958
Let's Play Chess
Young American Champion Wins Grand Master Rating
Young Grandmaster
Bobby Fischer, 15-year-old United States chess champion, from Brooklyn, became an international Grandmaster at the Interzonal Tournament, recently completed in Portoroz, Yugoslavia.
At the same time he succeeded in qualifying for the next year's Challenger's Tournament, which will be held with a view to choosing a challenger for the World Championship, now held by Mikhail Botvinnik, of the U.S.S.R.
Six players qualified in the 21-round Portoroz event. They are, in order of their standing:
1. Mikhail Tal, U.S.S.R.,
2. Svetozar Gligoric, Yugoslavia,
3 and 4. Pal Benko, Hungary, and Tigran Petrosian, U.S.S.R.;
5. and 6. Bobby Fischer, U.S.A. and Fridrik Olafsson, Iceland.
Bobby Fischer is the youngest player in history to achieve the distinction of Grandmastership.
