AThe Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, Sunday, January 05, 1958
Bobby Fischer Sets Pace In U.S. Championship
The oldest and the youngest of the 14 contestants are setting the pace in the tournament for the United States chess championship, being played at the Manhattan and Marshall Chess Clubs in New York.
Leader after nine rounds is 14-year-old Bobby Fischer, with a score of 7½-1½. The Brooklyn schoolboy has won six games and drawn three against Samuel Reshevsky, Herbert Seidman and Hans Berliner. Fischer, who last summer won the open championship of the U.S. Chess Federation, is playing steady and frequently brilliant chess, with mature skill in every department of the game.
Reshevsky, 46-year-old grandmaster, has a 6-1 score, having drawn with Sidney Bernstein as well as Fischer. He has a pawn advantage in an adjourned game against Berliner and is still to play his first-round game with Atillio Di Camillo of Philadelphia, who entered the tournament late as a replacement for Larry Evans.
Third and fourth place are shared by William Lombardy and James T. Sherwin, with totals of 5½-2½. Each has an unfinished game, Lombardy against Arnold S. Denker and Sherwin against Arthur Feuerstein.
The biggest disappointment of the tournament to date is defending champion Arthur S. Bisguier, who is down in the second division at 3-5. He has lost no less than four games, to Fischer, Reshevsky, Denker and Seidman. Denker, also a former U.S. Champion, is about as badly off with 2½-3½ and three adjourned games.
Following are last week's results and games from the tournament.
