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...vast stage, two men huddled over a small table for hours like grad students cramming for their final exams. At the slightest stir in the sellout audience of 1,200, red signs flashed SILENCIO. The tension was almost palpable. Grand Masters Bobby Fischer of the United States and Tigran Petrosian of the Soviet...
...first game, the foxy Petrosian did just the opposite. Countering Fischer's predictable king's pawn opening with the aggressive Sicilian Defense, Tigran went by the textbook through his first ten moves. Then on his eleventh, he offered a surprise pawn sacrifice that was undoubtedly the fruit of the Soviets' intensive analysis of Fischer's game. Though he had seized the initiative, Petrosian, seemingly unaccustomed to the role of aggressor, was unable to take advantage of his superior board position. Pressed for time (each player is allowed 2½ hours to make the first 40 moves...
...American has ever won the title; indeed, in the past quartercentury (the championship is held every three years) no Western player has even advanced to the finals. To gain his showdown with Spassky, Fischer must first meet the winner of a semifinal match now being played in Moscow between Tigran Petrosian and Victor Korchnoi...
...defending champion was wily Tigran Petrosian, the former street cleaner who swept through the ranks of top chess players to win the world title in 1963. The challenger was bold, brilliant Boris Spassky, who closeted himself with a psychologist for six months to get in shape for the match. Their championship contest was only the seventh held in the past 21 years. The fact that once again, as in the previous six title matches, both men were from the U.S.S.R.* attests to the country's domination of the game. In team play, the Soviets have won every World Team...
...last Botvinnik sighed, smiled wanly, and stuck out his hand in concession. Tigran Vartanovich Petrosyan was Russia's latest sports idol. Fans chanted "Tigran! Tigran! Tigran!" Flower-bearing women fought to plant kisses on his cheeks, and out in Armenia, a set of triplets was named Tigran, Vartan and Petros...