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World Chess Championship was just held at Mexico City. From the other end
of Latin America, in the 1920's the Argentine adventurer who wrote the
book about his hike(no motorized help whatsoever) from near Buenos Aires
to New York took just over two years not one(two competitors died en route and others dropped out). It was popular in North America too then to have cross-continent road and running races both(50 miles a day L.A. to N.Y. over couple of months). Che Guevara and Miguel Najdorf were both avid chess players from Argentina. What other recent chess connection to Buenos Aires? Of course Fischer Random Chess, the ingenious locale chosen by Bobby Fischer to announce in June 1996 his version of randomized initial positions actually invented by the 1820's. He still propounds it to stress talent over memorization. GM Najdorf died in 1997, the other of the two leading western hemisphere Grandmasters since Capablanca. Someone may know whether Najdorf attended any of the Argentine ceremonies starting FRChess(Chess960).