ADeseret News and Salt Lake Telegram Salt Lake City, Utah Thursday, August 21, 1958
Let's Play Chess - Cuban New U.S. Open Champion
Eldis Cobo-Arteaga of Havana won the open championship of the United States in Rochester, Minn., this past weekend. The tourney attracted 139 players to the headquarters of the International Business Machines that co-sponsored the event. … The new champion succeeds Bobby Fischer who is playing at Portoroz, Yugoslavia in the Interzonal Tournament for the right to compete in the world challengers championship meet.
Arteaga has to his record drawn games with Samuel Reshevsky and Larry Evans in the Havana International Tournament of 1952. In the team tournament at Helsinki, he was Cuba's No. 3 player and made a score of 8-6.
INTERNATIONAL—Bobby Fischer, Brooklyn, the 15-year-old United States champion, has been holding his own, although not quite playing at the top of his form in the international chess tournament at Portoroz, Yugoslavia.
After a well-played draw with Otto Neikirch of Bulgaria in the first round, he took a point from Geza Fuster of Canada in the second. Here he enjoyed a bit of good fortune, according to the details which have reached here.
Fischer, making his international debut, was a pawn behind and the outlook was unpromising, when, during a scramble against time, he managed to set a trap. Fuster fell into it, lost a clear knight and was forced to resign.
Another draw, against Hector Rosetto of Argentina, followed and then came Fischer's first and only defeat, by Pal Benko of Hungary, in the fourth round.
After a bye in the fifth he encountered David Bronstein of Russia in the sixth. After two sessions, the man who played a tie match with Mikhail Botvinnik for the world championship, was unable to make any headway against the clever young Brooklynite who halved the point.
