| Buenos Aires (Konex) (1979) |
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The event was sponsored by Luis Ovsejevich and his Konex-Canon Company (since 1980: Konex Foundation*). It was also known as the 2nd Konex Tournament. It was organized six months after the Buenos Aires olympiad in October-November 1978 and the following Buenos Aires (Clarin) (1978) tournament. Later in the year it was followed by Buenos Aires (Clarin) (1979). The Soviets boycotted# the tournament because Korchnoi was invited. Playing time was 5-10 pm with five games a week. Saturdays and Sundays were free days or days for adjourned games. Play was governed by a limit of 40 moves in two and a half hours and 16 moves per hour thereafter. Due to other obligations, Korchnoi played his last two games in advance, on 21 and 27 July. When the game Miles vs Ljubojevic, 1979 in Round 12 ended in a draw, the tournament had two joint winners before Round 13 started. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, 12-30 July 1979 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 Pts
=1 Ljubojevic * ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 10½
=1 Korchnoi ½ * ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 10½
3 Browne ½ ½ * 0 ½ ½ 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 9
=4 Liberzon 0 ½ 1 * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 7½
=4 Miles ½ 0 ½ ½ * ½ 1 0 ½ 1 1 1 1 0 7½
=6 Najdorf 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ * 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 7
=6 Rubinetti ½ 0 1 ½ 0 0 * ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 7
=6 Quinteros ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ * 0 0 ½ 1 1 1 7
=6 Diez del Corral 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 * ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 6
10 Emma 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ * ½ ½ ½ 1 5½
11 Trois 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ 1 1 5
=12 Szmetan 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ * ½ 0 3
=12 Schweber 0 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ * ½ 3
14 Bernat 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 ½ * 2½
Tournament Director: Dr. Renato Sanguinetti.Tournament book: Buenos Aires 1979. Sämtliche Partien des Konex-Canon-Grossmeisterturniers im Juli 1979 by Albert Becker (Schwarz-Weiss Verlag, Bamberg 1982, 79 pp.). There were daily reports by Najdorf, Quinteros and Oscar Panno in the newspaper Clarín, of which the first nine rounds are online at https://web.archive.org/web/2020112... Original collection: Game Collection: Buenos Aires (Konex) 1979 by User: Tabanus. *Wikipedia article: Konex Foundation. #Information from User: Fusilli, who also provided the Najdorf blogspot link.
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Mar-23-19
 | | Fusilli: Trivial, completely meaningless question: Of the 14 participants in this tournament, 10 have passed away. The other four are Ljubojevic, Quinteros, Trois, and Bernat. Is a survival rate of 4/14 for a tournament that took place 40 years ago low, high, or normal? |
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Mar-23-19
| | Fusilli: By comparison, the opposite is true of the participants in Buenos Aires (Clarin) (1978), played in the same city, only one year earlier. Of those 14, only four are gone (Smyslov, Najdorf, Browne and Szmetan). OK, now I'll turn my attention to the 75 useful things I have to do... where's my list...? |
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| Mar-23-19 | | Momentum Man: Hi <Fusili> I had never heard of this tournament until just now. I saw it on the home page, right side. There were some true legends playing! |
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Mar-23-19
| | Fusilli: <Momentum Man> Yeah, I grew up in Buenos Aires. It was big deal. There were a few world-class tournaments in the 1978-1982 period, especially the Clarin masters. See: Buenos Aires (Clarin) (1978)
Buenos Aires (Clarin) (1979)
Buenos Aires (Clarin) (1980)
Mar del Plata (1982) Najdorf had great influence at the time and he made all of these happen, with the support of Clarin newspaper. Then his influence waned or Clarin decided not to spend that much money. Unfortunately, those were the years of the Soviet boycott on Korchnoi. Notice that there were no Soviet players in this tournament, and there were Soviets but no Korchnoi in the other ones. Najdorf tried, unsuccessfully, to bring them together, but the Soviets didn't budge, and in the end, it was better for publicity and business to bring the Soviets, including the world champion twice (notice that Karpov won neither of the two tournaments listed, even though he was at his peak). |
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| Mar-26-19 | | Momentum Man: Very interesting! Thanks for the links as well as for sharing your reminiscences |
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