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Year | Event/Locale | Opening |
| 1. A Ahed vs F Braga |
| 0-1 | 33 | 1978 | Buenos Aires Olympiad | B00 Uncommon King's Pawn Opening |
| 2. A A Tawengi vs L Day |
| 0-1 | 44 | 1978 | Buenos Aires Olympiad | B06 Robatsch |
| 3. D Verduga vs Dzindzichashvili |
| 0-1 | 38 | 1978 | Buenos Aires Olympiad | B42 Sicilian, Kan |
| 4. R Mateo vs Nunn |
| 0-1 | 39 | 1978 | Buenos Aires Olympiad | B53 Sicilian |
| 5. J Cooper vs Petrosian |
  | 0-1 | 49 | 1978 | Buenos Aires Olympiad | E30 Nimzo-Indian, Leningrad |
| 6. G Kirsch vs G Tringov |
| 0-1 | 29 | 1978 | Buenos Aires Olympiad | A42 Modern Defense, Averbakh System |
| 7. Tan Bian Huat vs W Schmidt |
| 0-1 | 38 | 1978 | Buenos Aires Olympiad | D87 Grunfeld, Exchange |
| 8. O Sarapu vs Huebner |
| 0-1 | 62 | 1978 | Buenos Aires Olympiad | A07 King's Indian Attack |
| 9. Petursson vs W Liu |
| 0-1 | 26 | 1978 | Buenos Aires Olympiad | B39 Sicilian, Accelerated Fianchetto, Breyer Variation |
| 10. D Levy vs Ribli |
| 0-1 | 36 | 1978 | Buenos Aires Olympiad | B23 Sicilian, Closed |
| 11. T Upton vs L Vadasz |
| 0-1 | 41 | 1978 | Buenos Aires Olympiad | B09 Pirc, Austrian Attack |
| 12. N Tabbane vs A Matanovic |
| 0-1 | 59 | 1978 | Buenos Aires Olympiad | C69 Ruy Lopez, Exchange, Gligoric Variation |
| 13. A Bogda vs Lombardy |
| 0-1 | 50 | 1978 | Buenos Aires Olympiad | B56 Sicilian |
| 14. V Small vs H Hecht |
| 0-1 | 42 | 1978 | Buenos Aires Olympiad | B05 Alekhine's Defense, Modern |
| 15. M Dienavorian vs H Ree |
| 0-1 | 43 | 1978 | Buenos Aires Olympiad | A48 King's Indian |
| 16. A Delgado Malagon vs W Hartston |
| 0-1 | 25 | 1978 | Buenos Aires Olympiad | B46 Sicilian, Taimanov Variation |
| 17. J Bademian Orchanian vs K Langeweg |
| 0-1 | 34 | 1978 | Buenos Aires Olympiad | B44 Sicilian |
| 18. C Salvador vs Y Bleiman |
| 0-1 | 38 | 1978 | Buenos Aires Olympiad | A07 King's Indian Attack |
| 19. N Stull vs I Radulov |
| 0-1 | 41 | 1978 | Buenos Aires Olympiad | A34 English, Symmetrical |
| 20. G Garcia Gonzalez vs O Rodriguez Vargas |
| 0-1 | 40 | 1978 | Buenos Aires Olympiad | A33 English, Symmetrical |
| 21. J L Pelaez Contti vs J L Vilela |
| 0-1 | 38 | 1978 | Buenos Aires Olympiad | A07 King's Indian Attack |
| 22. R Mollekens vs A Huss |
| 0-1 | 30 | 1978 | Buenos Aires Olympiad | C02 French, Advance |
| 23. G Sigurjonsson vs J Qi |
| 0-1 | 30 | 1978 | Buenos Aires Olympiad | C16 French, Winawer |
| 24. D Chen vs H Olafsson |
| 0-1 | 29 | 1978 | Buenos Aires Olympiad | E93 King's Indian, Petrosian System |
| 25. M Moraza vs Gheorghiu |
| 0-1 | 34 | 1978 | Buenos Aires Olympiad | B42 Sicilian, Kan |
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Jan-10-25
 | | perfidious: Video of numerous players here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f97... |
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Jan-10-25
 | | moronovich: Great link <perfidious> Thanks ! And omg, how they smoked back then ;) |
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Jan-10-25
| | perfidious: <moronovich>, indeed they did. Ever get to play anyone in that clip? I got to sit opposite a few. |
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Jan-10-25
| | moronovich: Have shaked hands with a couple of them, Portisch, Kavalek, Spassky and have been sitting next to Sosonko at an open, But the highlight was spending a lot of time with the late Tony Miles were we also discussed a lot of chess and analyzed the Owens Defence for more than an hour. Had also a little pleasant chat with Spassky. All good memories. Oh, and almost forget Jan Hein Donner who succeeded to be his own true grumpy self ;) |
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| Jan-10-25 | | Retireborn: God, they all look so young! And too many of them, Huebner, Korchnoi, Petrosian, Polu, Browne, Miles, Sax, Lombardy are no longer with us. I'd forgotten that Korchnoi played in this olympiad. I think it took a few more years for him to actually acquire Swiss nationality, but evidently FIDE weren't too fussy about that. |
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Jan-10-25
| | moronovich: Sorry <perfidious>, forgot to ask : who have you met over the board ? |
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Jan-11-25
| | perfidious: <moronovich>, those must have been terrific experiences with Miles and Spassky, the latter of whom I met once as well, but I had no chance to talk with him. Before I answer your question, with regard to <Retireborn>'s post, I wish to mention something en passant on Gulko, who was battling Bleiman. In early 1991, I was in Penn Station, New York, trying to fight my way through a typical Friday afternoon crowd, when I spotted Gulko and said hi to him. He looked astonished. Hard to believe how, aged 31 at Buenos Aires, Gulko appeared so much older then. Saw Gulko again the next year, when we played in the Quebec Open blitz tourney. Never got to face him, as two losses to Hergott and =1-1 vs Francois Leveillee put paid to getting a shot at the very strongest players. As to those in that video whom I met at the board, they were: Dzindzi, Browne, Lombardy and Hebert. |
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| Jan-11-25 | | stone free or die: Korchnoi obtained political asylum in Switzerland in Sept 1979. https://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/... It looks like Sept 25. |
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| Jan-11-25 | | Petrosianic: <Korchnoi obtained political asylum in Switzerland in Sept 1979.> Asylum from the Netherlands!? Because that had been his country since 1976. |
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| Jan-11-25 | | stone free or die: <Petrosianic> you could read the Swiss newspaper articles. I didnt', because they're not in English - so I mostly went with the headlines, which even at my level of French comprehension I could understand. As <Retireborn> noted, Korchnoi was playing for Switzerland in the 1978 Olympiads, before he even got asylum (or citizenship) according to his memory and my research. I believe a grant of asylum generally means the country is offering safe harbor, perhaps even permanent citizenship. Did the Netherlands grant him asylum as well? |
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Jan-11-25
 | | beatgiant: If I understand right, Netherlands granted Korchnoi only temporary visitor status when he arrived there and did not ever offer asylum. |
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Jan-11-25
 | | Fusilli: <stone> <I believe a grant of asylum generally means the country is offering safe harbor, perhaps even permanent citizenship.> Only the former. I doubt any country offers citizenship right away to someone granted asylum, though asylum may be the first step in a process that eventually leads to citizenship years down the road. |
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Jan-11-25
| | moronovich: Hi <perfidious> ! I have had a couple of simular experiences as you have had with Gulko. Something sadening about it, I would say. And I nice bunch you have met over the board which I suppose bring interesting memories to you !? |
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Jan-11-25
 | | Open Defence: <moronovich: And omg, how they smoked back then ;)> Even here in India most chessplayers until about the 90s smoked heavily and even at the board. It was only until the mid 90s when a lot more youngsters were playing that smoking was prohibited on the premises and then the local laws were updated as well |
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Jan-11-25
| | perfidious: Smoking at the board was quite common here through the 1970s, then by the late 1980s was never seen. <moronovich>, my first encounter with Browne--from a simul he gave when I was roughly 1100 strength--is here. I played 6.Bg5 vs his Najdorf and came up with what the DB here lists as a TN, though I am afraid not a very testing line. My other games vs that lot were mostly rather more competitive, though I was an experienced master by the time I met any of them again. |
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| Jan-11-25 | | stone free or die: <Fusilli> you are correct of course, as citizenship isn't guaranteed even if asylum is granted. Actually, permanent residence isn't guaranteed either (referred to as <LPR = Lawful Permanent Residence>). Here in the US, though, there is a clear pathway to citizenship available if political asylum is granted: <LAWFUL PERMANENT RESIDENCE AND CITIZENSHIP One year after being granted asylum, asylees are eligible to have their LPR applications adjudicated, as are their qualifying family members who meet the eligibility criteria. If LPR status is approved, the asylee’s “resident since” date is rolled back to one year prior to the LPR approval date. Asylees who have become LPRs may apply for naturalization five years after their “resident since” date. ...
One year after being admitted to the United States, asylees may apply for LPR status, but are not required to do so. Of the nearly 109,000 adults granted affirmative asylum from 2014 to 2021, 88 percent have gained LPR status. ...
Similar to refugees, asylees have some of the highest naturalization rates of all immigrants. Of the nearly 82,000 adults who obtained LPR status from 2000 to 2017 based on a prior grant of asylum (affirmative or defensive) 56 percent naturalized within a six-year window.> https://ohss.dhs.gov/sites/default/... |
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Jan-11-25
| | Fusilli: <moronovich: Have shaked hands with a couple of them, Portisch, Kavalek, Spassky and have been sitting next to Sosonko at an open> Which one is Sosonko, in the video?
<Retireborn: God, they all look so young! And too many of them, Huebner, Korchnoi, Petrosian, Polu, Browne, Miles, Sax, Lombardy are no longer with us> Oscar Panno, seen in the video chatting with an unusually beaming Korchnoi (he was one of his seconds at Baguio), is around, the fourth oldest living GM (after Nikolac, Kraidman, F. Olafsson). |
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| Jan-11-25 | | stone free or die: <Fusilli> Here's Sosonko: https://youtu.be/f97oPONpcoI?t=420 |
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| Jan-11-25 | | Retireborn: <Fusili> At 7:02 you can see Sosonko playing Polu, his name card is visible too. |
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Jan-11-25
| | Fusilli: <stone> <Retireborn> Oh, right, thanks. I must have gotten distracted the first time I watched the video. |
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Jan-11-25
| | Fusilli: <Retireborn: God, they all look so young!> And yet they were old by today's standards. Chess engines have accelerated chess skill development exponentially. That and the sheer increase in players and available strong teachers. |
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Jan-11-25
| | perfidious: <Fusilli: <Retireborn: God, they all look so young!> And yet they were old by today's standards. Chess engines have accelerated chess skill development exponentially....> In 2001, I played Radjabov online when he had just got his GM title, aged fourteen, which would have been an extraordinary feat in the 1970s or 1980s. |
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Jan-11-25
| | moronovich: Hi <open defence> and <perfidious> Thanks for your response.
I used to smoke and drink coffee back in the days, while playing. A big delight, but may be not the best, resultwise ;) And I see that USA was quicker to speed down the use of nikotine, than India. |
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| Jan-11-25 | | stone free or die: Just to keep it current, here's <perf>'s link to tournament video again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f97...
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Miles had the following to say about the venue:
<“We arrived to learn that the chief organizer had just been ‘kidnapped’. It later transpired that this was the one and only sensible thing he had arranged during the whole tournament. The choice of venue was inspired. The playing hall was a badly ventilated corridor inside the River Plate football stadium (matches once clashed!). The stadium also happened to be near the airport, on the main flight path, and immediately opposite a shooting club (matches often clashed!).”> https://www.thechessschach.com/2022... |
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