New York Times, New York, New York, Sunday, March 10, 1957
Game Adjourned After 40th Move
Botvinnik and Smyslov Are in About Equal Positions in Title Chess Match
Mikhail Botvinnik and Vasily Smyslov played for five hours in Moscow last night before adjourning their third game in their world chess championship series, according to a report received through Soviet news sources. The Russian rivals halted play in comparatively equal positions after forty moves.
Botvinnik, the defending title-holder, conducted the white pieces in an Old Indian defense. After ten moves, Smyslov introduced a variant requiring careful study. Botvinnik, however, survived in good order and, after twenty-five moves, evaded an exchange of queens.
Smyslov is ahead with a score of 1½ to Botvinnik's ½.
The scores of the first two games show that Smyslov won the first contest in forty-one moves in consequence of his establishing a passed pawn on the open queen rook's file and that in the second, with the colors reversed, Smyslov again came through with a favorable ending. However, after a second session, he was unable to go on to victory.
Dr. Max Euwe of Amsterdam, chess champion of the world in 1935, yesterday defeated Bobby Fischer, 13-year-old Brooklyn player, after twenty moves in the first of two-timed exhibition games at the Manhattan Chess Club.
The distinguished visitor played the Queen's Pawn opening. His youthful opponent set up a Nimzo-India defense. Never losing the initiative, Euwe set up a battery with queen and bishop against the black king, forcing it to move. A brilliant combination, slashing the center, brought about a situation in which Fischer was faced with the alternative of losing his queen or being checkmated.
The second game is scheduled for 2:30 o'clock this afternoon at the Manhattan C.C., when Fischer will play the white pieces.
