Fischer Will Face Russians In Chess: Brooklyn Boy to Play Keres and Smyslov Next Year in Challengers' Tourney

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New York Times, New York, New York, Sunday, September 14, 1958

Fischer Will Face Russians In Chess: Brooklyn Boy to Play Keres and Smyslov Next Year in Challengers' Tourney
By finishing in a fifth-place tie in the recent interzonal tournament at Portoroz, Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn earned the promotion to next year's challengers' tournament, to be held in Europe at a place yet to be determined.
On the strength of this showing, the 15-year-old United States champion is fully entitled to the rank of international grandmaster bestowed upon him by the authorities at Stockholm, headquarters of the International Chess Federation.
Fischer now will get the chance to meet Vassily Smyslov and Paul Keres, the two Russians he could not play on a recent visit to Moscow. Smyslov and Keres were seeded into the challengers' event.
Another selection of game scores from Portoroz includes two additional specimens of Fischer's play and examples by leaders. These include Mikhail Tal, the winner; Tigran Petrosian, Fridrik Olafsson and James T. Sherwin of New York.