<This worked good for you, but I suspect that it would have been worked for Salov in the mentioned Indian tournament.>>>

This is the italian opening: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 and every following move a subvariation (4.d3, 4.c3, 4.Nc3 or the Evans Gambit). You can look it up, i.e. in Alexej Suetin's opening book.

It's a common mistake. In fact in Italy we distinguish between the "Italian Game" (Partita Italiana) and Giuoco Piano (Quiet Game), the main difference is the fourth move. Giuoco Piano is so called because the white reffuses to immediately attack the center with 4.c3 followed by d4.

Next. both 1970 and 1986, during the soccer football world championships in Mexico, the english delegation did take with it their own water supplies, in order to avoid the mexican water. I am mexican and I have lived in Mexico City the overwhelming greatest part of my life, and all of my european friends, without exception, who visited us (my wife is swiss) did get stomach problems, even then, when we cooked at home. My brother-in-law later told us, that he spent all the returning flight to Switzerland sitting on the plain's toilet. We did once travel to the beach in Oaxaca (south Mexico; quite hot and humid), and my wife's swiss friends did fall very ill, because precisely of the heat, the humidity, the food and the water. In every occasion my foreign friends blamed the mexican water, food, altitude and pollution (in Mexico City). I have never considered it as an offense against Mexico. Two years ago I visited my elderly sister, who lives in Ukraine. We went to the dacha of her parents-in-law, where I decided to drink a glas of milk. It was a disaster for me.

Salov played very weak in that match.

As some say: "A woman's tongue is a sword which never rusts."

(I don't have the russian letters on my keyboard)