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Chess title on line in '72 then has the right to challenge world title holder Btoris Spassky of Moscow vance against the winner of the other semi-finol match, between Soviet grandmasters Viktor Korchnoi and Tigram Petrosiqn. The over-all winner in a match to be held sometime 1972. CASH TALKS CASH TALKS CASH TALKS CASH TALKS CASH TALKS ROHAHZA CARPETS Goes All hrJ U.S. grandmaster Bobby Fischer recorded the most one-sided victory in a grandmaster competition in recent memory, defeating the Soviet Union's Mark Taimanov in six games straight in play at the University of B.C. Fischer thus became one of four men left in the running with a chance st the world chess title.

He now meets Denmark's Bent La sen in the semifinals, scheduled to begin July 4 at an as-yet-undecided site. Winner of that match will ad-Aside from the obvious difference in talent, the University of B.C. match between Mark Taimanov of the TJ.S.S.R. and Bobby Fischer of the United States also showed the importance of being prepared for your opponent. Taimanov apparently didn't give game the same prior in-depth analysis as conversely the American had.

The Soviet grandmaster re peatedly committed serious errors that showed he had underestimated Fischer's capabilities. Prior to the start of the match, Fischer had been criticized for a lack of a good variety of openings. But, whenever Fischer had the opening advantage of white in Vancouver, he had Taimanov in trouble right from the early stages of the games. His end-game talents, for which he is so widely recognized, were a factor in irf BONANZA SHAG VELVET PLUSH New to the market, the best shag carpet available in many colors. el QC Was $13.95 Yd.

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Taimanov got himself into trouble in the first game when he played a risky N-KN5 that not only cost him a pawn. But the tempo of the game and probably the entire match. Both players missed counter-play opportunities the sec- Complete list of games Page 6 ond game, which lasted hours and was played over three days. In the third game, with Taimanov again playing white, the Soviet player had perhaps his best game of the match going, but an unorthodox rook move on the 19th move eventually forced him into a defensive position. He repeated the same rook tactic with the same measure of success in the sixth game.

The fourth game was all Fischer's and, with the American playing white, he displayed a rare genius when he masterminded a bishop gambit that netted him three pawns and forced Taimanov's resignation. Taimanov again committed a serios error in the fifth game, a round in which he should have had at least a draw. Instead of guarding his king in the late stages of the game, he chose to attack a relatively insignificant pawn with his rook, leaving his king vulnerable and indefensible. The sixth game featured an unconventional defence by Taimanov. but Fischer again proved the superior player, slashing Tatmanov's defence with bishop forays that left the centre of black's board vulnerable.

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