Courier-Post, Camden, New Jersey, Thursday, August 21, 1958
Bobby Fischer Doing Extremely Well with 4-3 Score
For the second year in succession the U.S. Open Championship has produced an upset winner. He is Eldis Cobo-Arteaga, of Havana, who has no official ranking in this country but is a well known figure in Latin American chess.
Cobo-Arteaga succeeds Bobby Fischer, who is playing in the interzonal tournament in Yugoslavia and could not defend the title he won last year.
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After eight rounds in the interzonal at Portoroz, Tigran Petrosian, Russian grandmaster, led with a mark of 6-2. Pal Benko, Hungarian refugee now living in Cleveland, was second at 5½-2½. Soviet champion Mikhail Tal and Yuri Averbakh, another Russian, were tied with Alexander Matanovic of Yugoslavia at 5-3.
Bobby Fischer, in his first tournament against the class of competition he is meeting now, was doing extremely well and had a score of 4-3 with one bye. He has played seven games, drawing four and winning from Bent Larsen, Denmark's grandmaster, and Geza Fuster, of Canada. He has lost only to Benko. He drew not only with Auerbach but with David Bronstein, another Soviet grandmaster and erstwhile challenger of Botvinnik for the world's championship, a match which ended in a tie.
