At the end of round 16 with seven rounds to go, Fischer's score stood at 11.5. Trailing him were Geller and Uhlmann (10.5), Taimanov (10.0), Huebner, Larsen, Gligoric and Portisch (9.5). In the remaining rounds Geller could make no progress while Huebner and Larsen surged to tie him for second place. Fischer? He won seven games in a row.
One of the more famous incidents was when Argentina's Oscar Panno refused to play Fischer in the last round, in the last round. With the top six qualifying for the Candidates and a seventh spot available for a reserve. Any of the players with 12.5 had a theoretical chance of qualifying for the reserve spot. That was important because you could never be sure if Fischer was going to participant in the next event.
Panno was scheduled to play black against Fischer in the last round. The organizers had scheduled the last round to begin on Saturday at 4:0 PM. But Reshevsky and Fischer couldn't play due to their Sabbath observances so their games were scheduled to start after sundown at 7:00 PM. (Reshevsky was an Orthodox Jew and Fischer was at the time a member of the Worldwide Church of God,)
Panno protested that all games should start at the same time so nobody would have an unfair advantage. Reshevsky's opponent, Duncan Suttles, had no problem with the arrangement and the two played a 23-move draw. Fischer showed up at 7:00 PM. But Panno was nowhere to be found. Fischer played 1.c4 and not wanting to accept a forfeit, went to Panno's hotel room and tried to talk him into playing, but Panno refused.
According to Larry Evans, Panno arrived after the hour was up and he had been forfeited, wrote “Resigns” on his score sheet and left. I am not sure it this is actually what happened; Evans was known to be a little “loose” with his stories. Why would Panno bother to show up after he had been forfeited? Why write “Resigns” on his score sheet? He did not resign, he lost on forfeit. Panno's chance at qualifying were theoretical; he would have had o beat Fischer with the black pieces and the other games would all have to work out in his favor, but who knows what would have happen if he had played?
As it was, there was a playoff match between Portisch and Smyslov for the reserve spot was played in Portoroz in 1971. The match was drawn, and Portisch was awarded the spot due to better tiebreaks from the tournament. After this tournament Fischer went on to win the World Championship.
Ujtumen began Palma 1970 with three straight wins and was all alone in first place. Of course that wasn't going to last, but he DID draw Fischer. He ultimately tied for 20th place with a score of 8.5.
Tudev Ujtumen was born in Altaj, Mongolia August 27, 1939 and died at the age of 53 in 1993. He became Mongolia's first IM in 1965. In 1969, he won the West Asian zonal tournament in Singapore. In other international tournaments, he took 15th at Sochi 1964, 15th at Sochi 1965, 9th at Havana 1967, tied for 11-13th at Tbilisi 1971 and 9th at Dubna 1973.
Ujtumen was a three-time winner of the Mongolian Chess Championship, in 1972, 1978 and 1986. He played six times for Mongolia in Chess Olympiads (1964–1974). He won the individual gold medal on second board (+11 −1 =5) at Tel Aviv 1964 and silver on second board (+12 −3 =3) at Siegen 1970.
According to Chessmetrics. Ujtumen's highest rating was achieved in January 1971 at 2565 which placed him 117th in the world. His normal rating was in the low to mid 2400s.
Here is his nice third round win over IM Renato Natanja (born 1940) who was Philippine Champi on in 1965. He also played on the Philippine Olympiad teams of 1960, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1970 and 1974.
[Event "Palma de Mallorca Interzonal"]
[Site ""]
[Date "1970.11.11"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Tudev Ujtumen"]
[Black "Renato Naranja"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B06"]
[Annotator "Stockfish 18"]
[PlyCount "59"]
[EventDate "1970.11.09"]
{B06: Modern Defense} 1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. c3 d6 4. Be3 b6 {Black usually plays 4.Nf6 after which both sides have a plethora op options.} 5. f3 {This off looking, but not bad, move is often played against 4...Nf6.} c5 6. Bc4 (6. dxc5 {is better/ Black has no really satisfactory reply.} dxc5 (6... bxc5 7. Qd5) 7. Bb5+ Nd7 8. Qd5 Rb8 9. Bf4 {winning the exchange.}) 6... e6 {Eliminating the possibility of Qd5} 7. Ne2 Ne7 8. Na3 a6 9. Qd2 O-O 10. Bd3 (10. Bh6 {athis routine move eliminating the dark squared B does not accomplish much. After} d5 11. Bb3 dxe4 12. fxe4 Bb7 13. Bxg7 Kxg7 14. h4 h6 {Black's defense of his K is adequate, so white must turn his attention to the center with} 15. d5 Nd7 (15... exd5 16. exd5 Nf5 17. O-O-O Re8 18. Rdf1 {White is more active, but black's defense should prove adequate.}) 16. Nc4 Nf6 {A dynamic position that offers equal chances.}) 10... Nbc6 11. Rd1 cxd4 12. cxd4 b5 13. Nc2 Bb7 14. O-O Qd7 15. Bh6 Rac8 16. h4 {Over the past few moves white has managed to reach a position that has some real attacking potential.} Nd8 {Black has no time for such slow maneuvering...he must undertake strong countermeasures.} (16... Bxh6 17. Qxh6 Kh8 18. h5 Ng8 19. Qd2 Nf6 20. hxg6 fxg6 21. Ne3 e5) 17. h5 f6 18. hxg6 hxg6 $16 19. Bxg7 Kxg7 20. Ne3 Rh8 {Black has managed to reduce white's advantage to a minimum, but with all of black's pieces sitting on the back two ranks it's clear that danger is lurking.} 21. Ng4 e5 22. Bc2 Qc7 23. Bb3 Qb6 24. Rf2 Rc6 $2 {This runs into serious difficulties. His best option was to try a conter against the center.} (24... Ndc6 {]} 25. Qe3 f5 26. dxe5 Qxe3 27. Nxe3 dxe5 28. exf5 Rcd8 (28... gxf5 29. Rd7 {wins}) 29. fxg6 Rxd1+ 30. Bxd1 Nxg6 31. Ng3 Rd8 {with a fighting chance at survival.}) 25. f4 {[%mdl 32] Black's K is about to get gutted.} exd4 26. Nxd4 Rc5 27. e5 dxe5 28. fxe5 Nec6 29. exf6+ Kf8 30. Ne6+ {Black resigned. stockfish's evaluation of Ujtumen's play...very precise. Actually, Naranja's play was not horrible...(0.60).} (30. Ne6+ Nxe6 31. Qd6+ {is mate in 2}) 1-0
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