ANew York Times, New York, New York, Thursday, October 11, 1956
Reshevsky Ties For Lead In Chess
Defeats Hearst in 37 Moves to Enter Deadlock at Top With Feuerstein at 3-1
Samuel Reshevsky tied Arthur Feuerstein for the lead at 3-1 at the end of last night's fourth round of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Trophy tournament at the Manhattan Chess Club.
Feuerstein, a 20-year-old City College student, played a thirty-one move draw with Bobby Fischer, 13, of Erasmus Hall High School. Reshevsky won in thirty-seven moves from Eliot Hearst in a fast finish.
Fischer cleverly extricated himself from a difficult position in a King's Indian defense in which the schoolboy played the black pieces.
Feuerstein's adjourned game from the third round with Arthur B. Bisguier, the United States champion, ended in a draw after forty-one moves without further play.
Vigorous tactics against Herbert Seidman, involving the sacrifice of a knight in a Sicilian defense, enabled Bisguier to move into second place with a score of 2½-1½. Thirty-three moves had been made when Herbert Seidman resigned.
Hearst, the president of the Intercollegiate Chess League, made a stout stand against Reshevsky on the black side of a Nimzo-Indian defense. Both, however, were short of time. In the last-minute rush to beat the clock, Reshevsky was the quicker thinker and worked out a winning combination in thirty-seven moves.
George Shainswit, playing the Sicilian defense, gained his first victory, scoring in thirty-three moves against Edmar Mednis, the intercollegiate champion.
An eventful game between Donald Byrne and Max Pavey, in which Pavey won the white queen in return for two rooks, was adjourned after forty-one moves, as was the encounter between Abe Turner and Sidney Bernstein.
