The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Tuesday, September 28, 1965 - Page 7
Russian Wins Annual Cuba Chess Series
Havana (AP) — Vassily Smyslov of Russia won the fourth annual Capablanca International Chess Tournament Sunday night with a final round victory over Zbigniew Doda of Poland.
Smyslov finished with 15½ points in the 21-round tourney lasting 30 days.
Borislav Ivkov of Yugoslavia, the tournament leader after 20 rounds, lost his final match to Karl Robatsch of Austria in 58 moves. Ivkov wound up tied for second place with Bobby Fischer of New York City and Ewfim Geller of Russia, each with 15 points.
Fischer, competing via telephone and teletype from New York, defeated Wolfgang Pietzsch in 24 moves. The U.S. State Department denied Fischer, American grand master, a visa to go to Cuba.
Geller tied Alberik O'Kelly of Belgium in 18 moves.
Smyslov, the world champion in 1957, won 13 games, lost three and tied five in the tournament, named in honor of Cuban Jose Raul Capablanca, the world champion in 1921 and 1927.
Finishing fifth among the 22 players from 15 countries was Ratmir Kholmov of Russia with 141 points.
