Yankee Boy, Bobby Fischer, Moves Up in Chess Tourney

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The Courier, Waterloo, Iowa, Sunday, August 31, 1958

Yankee Boy, Bobby Fischer, Moves Up in Chess Tourney
Portoroz, Yugoslavia (AP) —Fifteen-year-old Bobby Fischer of New York improved his chances of qualifying for the world chess championship yesterday when he defeated Columbia's Boris De Greff in a 15th round interzonal tournament match.
The top six in the interzonal play qualify for the world tournament. Fischer, picking up a full point, has 7.5 points with one adjourned match to be completed and six more rounds to go.
Two Soviet masters, Mikhail Talj and Tigran Petrosyan, lead with 10.5 points.
Fischer played boldly against De Greff and forced the Columbian to give up in the 35th move.

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