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Chess 31 Jul 1960, Sun Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com
Buenos Aires Tourney Reveals Leaders Close
By T. M. Cherington, Chess Editor
How shallow is the high plateau of chess Mastery is revealed by the results of the Buenos Aires Invitational Chess Tournament which attracted National champions from the great chess centers of this mortal coil.
Of the 20 entrants, 17 were crowded into a 22 per cent point spread. Of 19 games played, 3 divided first place from tenth and only 1 game separated eleventh from seventeenth.
In the order of their achievements, with plus points; Sam Reshevsky of the United States and Victor Korchnoi Champion of Russia, 13 each; Laszlo Szabo, Hungary, 12; then a four way draw among Larry Evans, U.S.A., Carlos Guimard and Hector Rossetto both of the Argentine, and Mark Taimanov of the U.S.S.R. with 11; Wolfgang Unzicker, West Germany and Fridrik Olafssen, Iceland, 10½; Svetozar Gligoric of Yugoslavia, 10; Pal Benko, U.S.A. and Wolfgang Uhlmann, E. Germany, 9.
Then followed by another 4, Fischer, U.S.A., Boris Ivkov, Pachman, Czechoslovakia and Bernardo Wexler, Argentina at 8½, Erich Eliskases, Argentina 8; Oswaldo Bazan, Argentina, 6; Richard Wade of New Zealand and Albert Foguelman of the Argentine sharing last with 5½, not a discredible score in such company.
