The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Sunday, September 12, 1965 - Page 104
Fischer Tied For Lead In Tourney
U.S. chess champion Bobby Fischer, playing by teletype from New York, was in a triple tie for first place after nine rounds of the Capablanca Memorial Tournament in Havana.
Fischer had won five games and drawn four for a score of 7-2. After three victories and a draw in his first four combats, Fischer drew in succession with Alberic O'Kelly of Belgium, Robert Wade of England and Bruno Parma of Yugoslavia.
Curiously, Fischer was a pawn ahead at some stage in each of the three games, but inferior positions in other respects proved too much to overcome. Fischer then started on another winning streak, taking the measure of Laszlo Szabo of Hungary and Gilberto Garcia of Cuba.
Tied with Fischer were former world champion Vassily Smyslov of the USSR and Boris Ivkov of Yugoslavia. Smyslov won seven games outright but lost to both of his chief rivals. Ivkov's score was identical with Fischer's, five wins and four draws.
Other leading scorers were Ewfim Geller of the USSR, 6½-2½; Ratmir Kholmov of the USSR and Ludek Pachman of Czechoslovakia, 6-3, and Jan Donner of Holland, 5½-3½.
There are 22 players in the tournament, engaged in round-robin competition. All but Fischer are in Havana, facing each other over the board as usual.
Fischer has to devote more time to each game, as the transmission takes anywhere from an hour to two hours. True, this allows more time for consideration, but Fischer, who is generally faster than his opponents, does not benefit.
Following are games from the tournament:
Piatigorsky Cup
The second tournament for the Piatigorsky Cup is definitely set for Los Angeles in 1966, with the likely dates being July 17 to August 10.
Mrs. Jacqueline Piatigorsky, president of the Piatigorsky Foundation which is sponsoring the tournament, informs us that it will again be a double round-robin with eight of the greatest world masters.
Among those virtually certain of being invited are two Americans, U.S. champion Bobby Fischer and Samuel Reshevsky, who held the title for a number of years.
Also on the list are world champion Tigran Petrosian of the Soviet Union, and either Boris Spassky or Mikhail Tal, who are scheduled to play a match next month to determine the challenger for Petrosian's title. Your editor has again been appointed the tournament director.
