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Chess 25 Sep 1959, Fri The News (Paterson, New Jersey) Newspapers.com
The eyes of the chess world are still focused on Yugoslavia, where the Challenger's tournament is in progress. American eyes, as well as all wondering eyes, are upon 16 year old Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn. The burning question is, “How will he fare against the Soviet grandmaster?”
His most recent success is that he held the former world champion, Symslov, to a draw. He has beaten such as Gligoric and Keres. Lost to Petrosian and Olafsson, and tied Benko.The leader had been Petrosian until he fell before the strategy of Gligoric and was outplayed by Olafsson.
The Fischer-Gligoric game has come to us and chess players might be curious to see how Fischer captured this one against the Yugoslavian champion, second only to Russia in chess might.
