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Buenos Aires (1960) This tournament to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the May Revolution took place in the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Medicine. (1) The best of East and West shared first place, while Argentinian masters Guimard and Rossetto gained the GM title. (2) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 Pts =1 Korchnoi * ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 0 13 =1 Reshevsky ½ * ½ 0 1 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 13 3 Szabó ½ ½ * 1 0 1 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 12 =4 Evans ½ 1 0 * 0 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 11 =4 Guimard 0 0 1 1 * 0 1 ½ 0 1 1 1 0 ½ 1 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 11 =4 Rossetto 1 0 0 0 1 * ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1 0 1 ½ 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 11 =4 Taimanov ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ * 1 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 11 =8 Olafsson 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 * ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 1 10½ =8 Unzicker ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ 1 0 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 10½ 10 Gligoric 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ 0 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 10 =11 Benkö 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 1 0 ½ ½ * 1 1 0 ½ ½ 1 1 1 0 9 =11 Uhlmann ½ ½ 1 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 0 * 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 1 9 =13 Fischer ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 0 * ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 8½ =13 Pachman 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 0 1 0 ½ * 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 8½ =13 Wexler 0 0 0 1 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ ½ 1 0 * 0 1 ½ ½ 1 8½ =13 Ivkov 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 * ½ ½ ½ ½ 8½ 17 Eliskases ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ * 1 0 ½ 8 18 Bazán 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 * 0 1 6 =19 Foguelman 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 * 0 5½ =19 Wade 1 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 1 * 5½ (1) http://www.fmed.uba.ar/aulamagna/au... (2) Alex Crisovan and Walter Kühnle (eds), Tournament Bulletin (Schweizer Schachdienst, Zürich 1960), p. 2. Original collection: Game Collection: Buenos Aires 1960, by User: sneaky pete.  page 1 of 8; games 1-25 of 190  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Eliskases vs R G Wade   ½-½ 37 1960 Buenos Aires A04 Reti Opening 2. Fischer vs Foguelman ½-½ 58 1960 Buenos Aires B18 Caro-Kann, Classical 3. Ivkov vs Benko   ½-½ 15 1960 Buenos Aires A37 English, Symmetrical 4. Taimanov vs Korchnoi ½-½ 44 1960 Buenos Aires E53 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 5. Pachman vs Gligoric 0-1 33 1960 Buenos Aires E89 King's Indian, Samisch, Orthodox Main line 6. Szabo vs H Rossetto   1-0 41 1960 Buenos Aires B00 Uncommon King's Pawn Opening 7. Uhlmann vs C Guimard   0-1 60 1960 Buenos Aires A94 Dutch, Stonewall with Ba3 8. Unzicker vs F Olafsson   ½-½ 13 1960 Buenos Aires B47 Sicilian, Taimanov (Bastrikov) Variation 9. Reshevsky vs Evans 0-1 38 1960 Buenos Aires A36 English 10. B Wexler vs O Bazan   ½-½ 20 1960 Buenos Aires A23 English, Bremen System, Keres Variation 11. Benko vs Eliskases 1-0 83 1960 Buenos Aires E99 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov 12. Szabo vs Fischer ½-½ 24 1960 Buenos Aires A16 English 13. Foguelman vs Ivkov   ½-½ 19 1960 Buenos Aires B43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3 14. Korchnoi vs Reshevsky ½-½ 51 1960 Buenos Aires E60 King's Indian Defense 15. C Guimard vs Taimanov   1-0 30 1960 Buenos Aires A48 King's Indian 16. O Bazan vs Uhlmann   1-0 41 1960 Buenos Aires C16 French, Winawer 17. Gligoric vs B Wexler   1-0 30 1960 Buenos Aires D87 Grunfeld, Exchange 18. Evans vs Unzicker   ½-½ 32 1960 Buenos Aires E46 Nimzo-Indian 19. R G Wade vs Pachman   0-1 60 1960 Buenos Aires B22 Sicilian, Alapin 20. H Rossetto vs F Olafsson   0-1 56 1960 Buenos Aires B92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation 21. Fischer vs H Rossetto 1-0 44 1960 Buenos Aires B33 Sicilian 22. Eliskases vs Foguelman   0-1 50 1960 Buenos Aires D49 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, Meran 23. Ivkov vs Szabo   ½-½ 31 1960 Buenos Aires D35 Queen's Gambit Declined 24. Unzicker vs Korchnoi   ½-½ 47 1960 Buenos Aires B47 Sicilian, Taimanov (Bastrikov) Variation 25. Pachman vs Benko 1-0 41 1960 Buenos Aires E95 King's Indian, Orthodox, 7...Nbd7, 8.Re1  page 1 of 8; games 1-25 of 190    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)   Dec-14-12    wordfunph: tournament toppings :) <Samuel Reshevsky was quoted by Mark Taimanov, "I would settle for 19th if Fischer placed 20th."> Dec-14-12    Fusilli: Korchnoi ended up first (shared) and Wade last (also shared), but the victory of the latter over the former has made it to every single chess lesson on king & pawn endings ever since: Wade vs Korchnoi, 1960 Jul-03-14    zydeco: This tournament could have functioned as a Western (non-Soviet) championship. All the stars played, apart from Larsen (anybody know if he wasn't invited or chose not to play?), who in any case hadn't really come into his own at this point. A major disappointment for Fischer, Gligoric, and Olafsson, who would have been the pre-tournament favorites. Oddly, Argentine chess is badly underrepresented. I'm guessing that the tournament committee simply nominated the top six finishers of the Argentine championship, but the result was that the tournament was played without Najdorf, Panno, Pilnik, Sanguinetti. Jul-03-14    perfidious: <zydeco> Larsen was fairly active in 1960, so the organisers likely looked elsewhere. Not sure why Korchnoi would not have been a favourite, coming off his first win of the Soviet title, though. Jul-03-14    zydeco: I meant among the non-Soviets. Tournaments from this period all seem to have two storylines; there's the tournament itself, with a certain number of Western stars, and then there's the Soviet delegation (usually two grandmasters) under tremendous pressure to win the tournament.....and if they don't win, it's a disgrace for them. Mar-23-15    Pirandus: Argentina without Najdorf? Intolerable decision. Jul-26-15    Pirandus: who is eliskases? Jul-26-15    Nosnibor: Bent Larsen in his book "Larsen`s Selected Games 1948-1969" states in his game with Eliskases that until 1939 he was the Austrian candidate for the World Championship ! Nov-07-16    Tabanus: http://www.fmed.uba.ar/aulamagna/au... link is broken. Mar-29-20    perfidious: <Pirandus: who is eliskases?> By 1960, he had lost a step, but in the mid-late 1930s he was a strong grandmaster. May-02-20    FSR: The worst tournament of Fischer's career. The story is that Evans bought the services of a local señorita, who introduced young Fischer to the pleasures of the flesh. Fischer apparently had a good time in bed, but a miserable time on the chessboard. As I recall, this is related in Silman's tome on Benko. Fischer later reportedly said that chess is better than sex. Fun fact: the anagram of "chess" is "sechs" (which is also the German word for six). Oddly, that is not the only story involving Fischer, Benko, and sex. According to Silman's aforementioned magnum opus on Benko, Benko thought it was unfair of Fischer to put Fischer vs Benko, 1963 in My 60 Memorable Games, since Benko played it in a sexually frustrated and sleep-deprived state, having spent the previous night with a woman who repeatedly rebuffed his advances. Mar-16-21    kingscrusher: Wiki indicates as of 16th March https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby... "Fischer experienced the only failure in his competitive career[173] at the Buenos Aires Tournament (1960), finishing with 8½/19 (+3−5=11), far behind winners Viktor Korchnoi and Samuel Reshevsky with 13/19.[174] According to Larry Evans, Fischer's first sexual experience was with a girl to whom Evans introduced him during the tournament.[175][176] Pal Benko said that Fischer did horribly in the tournament "because he got caught up in women and sex. Afterwards, Fischer said he'd never mix women and chess together, and kept the promise."[177] Fischer concluded 1960 by winning a small tournament in Reykjavík with 4½/5,[178] and defeating Klaus Darga in an exhibition game in West Berlin.[179]" NOTE: Create an account today to post replies and access other powerful features which are available only to registered users. Becoming a member is free, anonymous, and takes less than 1 minute! If you already have a username, then simply login login under your username now to join the discussion. 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