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Chess 27 Oct 1960, Thu Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah) Newspapers.com
Let's Play Chess
U.S. Tied For First In Leipzig Games
By Harold Lundstrom
The United States chess team is in a first-place tie with Spain in the “Chess Olympics” preliminary now being played in Leipzig, East Germany.
Forty nations are competing in four groups in the tournament which is being conducted by the International Chess Federation (FIDE).
The USA team is in Section 4. Included in this section are teams from Romania, West Germany, Chile, Spain, Ecuador, Cuba, Lebanon, Belgium and Ireland.
BOBBY FISCHER, the United States champion, is playing Board 1.
WILLIAM LOMBARDY, is at Board 2; ROBERT BYRNE, the 1960 USA “Open Tournament” champion is playing Board 3, and ARTHUR B. BISGUIER, a former “Open” champion, and NICHOLAS ROSSOLIMO are alternating at Board 4.
In Round 1 the USA team defeated Romania, 3-1. Lombardy lost his game.
In Round 2, the USA team defeated Ecuador, 2½-1½. Fischer was defeated, and Bisguier secured a draw.
In Round 3, the USA team defeated Cuba, 3-1. (We don't know who lost.)
In Round 4, the USA team defeated Ireland, 4-0.
The leading scores of the preliminary match teams in Section 4 are:
USA 12½-3½; Spain 12½-3½; West Germany 11½-4½; Chile 10½-5½; Belgium 10½-5½.
The leading scores in the other three sections are:
Section 1—Yugoslavia, 13-3; East Germany, 12½-3½; Norway, 12-4; Bulgaria, 10½-5½.
Section 2—Argentina, 14-2; Soviet Union, 14-2; Austria, 11-5; Poland, 8-8.
Section 3—Czechoslovakia, 12½-3½; Hungary, 11-5; England 11-5; Sweden, 9½-5½; Mongolia, 9½-6½.
An upset in Section 2 was recorded when Dr. MAX EUWE, of the Netherlands and a former world champion, to lost M. Aaron of New Delhi, the India champion.
The world champion MIKHAIL TAL, is reported on his way to Leipzig to take his place on the Soviet team. He was delayed by poor health.
