The 66th edition of the Mexican Open took place on August 4-8 in Villahermosa, Tabasco. Seven concurrent tournaments were held, including an International Open and events reserved for women, seniors and amateurs. In the main event, top seed Jorge Cori from Peru was the clear winner. Sandro Mareco (Argentina) and Juan Carlos Obregón (Cuba) finished second and third respectively. | Photo: <a href="https://nacionalabierto.fenamacajedrez.com/">Official site</a>
15.Nd7 [After 15.0–0 Black feared a kingside attack.]
16.Bxe7 Nxe7 17.Qh3 Qf4 18.Nf3 [18.Re3!? h5!?]
18.Rc6 19.Re3 g6 20.Rae1 The queens are glancing at each other on the kingside.
20.h5 21.g3 Qf6 22.Qg2 .and are now retreating.
22.Nf5 23.Bxf5 gxf5 24.h4 Kd8 The black game is already a foretaste of No Castling Chess.
25.Ng5 Black will hardly get the knight away from that square after f7-f6, the e6-pawn would become incurably weak. In addition, Black has to guard his h5-pawn.
25.Kc8 26.Qf3 Kb8 Castling long ‘on foot’.
27.b3 Ka7
On this DVD GM Yannick Pelletier offers Black a repertoire against the London System that you can employ no matter which opening (Systems with d5, systems with g6, Queen s Indian, Queen s Gambit, Benoni, Benko, Dutch) you usually play against 1.d4 followed by 2.c4. Thematic games explain and illustrate the theory and ideas of the repertoire Pelletier proposes.
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International Russian Cup at the RSSU
There are only a few chess tournaments in the world that are famous for having been organized for a very long time without interruption. Hastings (1895) and the Moscow Tournament are probably the most famous. The Moscow City Chess Championship was first played in 1899. Among the winners we find the names of Alekhine, Smyslov, Botvinnik, Bronstein, Averbakh, Petrosian and, more recently, Morozevich. Over the years it has changed formats and names, but it still is an important yearly event played in Moscow.
This year’s edition, which took place from February 19 until March 1, did not include famous figures in the lineup. With so many opportunities bestowed upon the elite players, it is understandable that they bypass tournaments that live on ‘old glory’. Neither were there many foreign players as in previous years. The current Covid-19 crisis naturally contributed to the absence of foreigners, so this ye