Argentine Chess Begins March 21

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New York Times, New York, New York, Sunday, January 07, 1962 - Page 187

Argentine Chess Begins March 21
Fischer and Masters From 7 Other Nations Invited
The Chess Federation of Argentina will stage its twenty-fifth masters tournament at Mar del Plata, Argentina.
Eight countries, including the United States, will be represented. Play will start on March 21 and last until April 13.
Invitations have been sent to Mikhail Botvinnik and Mikhail Tal of the Soviet Union; Bobby Fischer, United States; Ludek
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Pachman, Czechoslovakia; Laszlo Szabo, Hungary; Jonathan Penrose, England; J.H. Donner, the Netherlands; Wolfgang Unzicker, West Germany, and Miguel Najdorf, Oscar Panno, Carlos E. Guimard, Hector Rossetto, Herman Pilnik, Eric Eliskases, Julio Bolbochan and Raul Sanguinetti of Argentina.
A Latin-American tournament will include Bernardo Wexler, P. Michel, Carlos Biekecki, S. Schwebert, Dr. R. Cruz, M. Luckis and R. Garcia in addition to the national champions of the Latin-American countries affiliated with the International Chess Federation.
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The following games from the premier tournament at Hastings, England, include those played by Botvinnik against Leonard W. Barden of England, Manuel Aaron of India and Robert G. Wade of New Zealand.
The victories scored by Arthur B. Bisguier of New York over Svetzar Gligoric of Yugoslavia and Karl Robatsch of Austria also are listed.