AThe Times, Shreveport, Louisiana, Thursday, September 11, 1958
Russian Is Top Man in Chess Meet
Portoroz, Yugoslavia, Sept. 10 (AP)—Mikhail Tal of Russia tonight emerged as the number one player in the international chess tournament.
The Soviet champion drew with international master James Sherwin in a last round game tonight to finish the tournament with 13.5 points.
Bobby Fischer, 15-year-old American chess champion from New York, drew with Yugoslav grand master Svetozar Gligoric. That result left Gligoric in a firm second place in the final standings with 13 points, while Fischer held fifth place—at least temporarily—with a final score of 12 points.
Fischer's final position will be determined by the outcome of matches not finished tonight, and adjourned until tomorrow.
But he seemed almost assured of participation in next year's “tournament of candidates.”
The players who finish in the first six places will enter the “tournament of candidates” at a still to be specified site next year.
The winner of the “tournament of candidates” gets to challenge world champion Michael Botvinnik, of Russia, in 1960.
