ANew York Times, New York, New York, Saturday, September 06, 1958
Tal Wins a Match Then Plays Draw To Lead in Chess
Mikhail Tal, the Soviet national champion, regained first place in the interzone chess tournament at Portoroz last night by winning 1½ points from two adjourned games, according to a report from Yugoslavia.
He took his seventeenth-round match with Oscar Panno of Argentina and then drew in the eighteenth round with Fridrik Olafsson of Iceland. Tal's score of 12½-5½ then topped the 11½-6½ of Tigran Petrosian of Russia.
Third place was taken by Svetozar Gligoric of Yugoslavia with 11-6, who won both his unfinished games. In the seventeenth round he scored against Otto Neikirch of Bulgaria and followed with a victory over Geza Fuster of Canada.
David Bronstein of Russia, at 10½-6½, was tied by Olafsson because of the latter's draw with Tal.
Bobby Fischer, the United States champion, on equal terms with Laszlo Szabo of Hungary, was tied at 10—7 by Alexander Matanovic, Yugoslavia, who lost his seventeenth-round game to Pal Benko, Hungary.
