U.S. Boy, 15, Gains In Try at Chess Title

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The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Sunday, August 31, 1958

U.S. Boy, 15, Gains In Try at Chess Title
Portoroz, Yugoslavia, Aug. 30 (AP)—Fifteen-year-old Bobby Fischer of New York improved his chances of qualifying for the world chess championship today when he defeated Colombia's Boris De Greif 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 Petrosian, lead with 10.5 points.