MARRRR DELLL PLATTAAAAAAAA!

Why lead the absurdly hysterical, expatriated, nomadic existence I do if you're going to let a measly 400k bus-ride stop you partaking in a tournament etched firmly into the history of chess? The Mar Del Plata international has been won by:  Fischer, Spassky, Najdorf, Keres, Larsen, Polugaevsky, Smyslov, Panno, Timman and a bunch of other heroes I probably should know but don't. 

9	1956	Julio Bolbochán (Argentina)  Miguel Najdorf (Argentina)
20	1957	Paul Keres (Soviet Union)
21	1958	Bent Larsen (Denmark)
22	1959	Luděk Pachman (Czechoslovakia)  Miguel Najdorf (Argentina)
23	1960	Boris Spassky (Soviet Union)  Robert Fischer (United States)
24	1961	Miguel Najdorf (Argentina)
25	1962	Lev Polugaevsky (Soviet Union)
26	1965	Miguel Najdorf (Argentina)
27	1966	Vasily Smyslov (Soviet Union)
28	1969	Oscar Panno (Argentina)  Miguel Najdorf (Argentina)
29	1971	Lev Polugaevsky (Soviet Union)
30	1976	Raúl Sanguinetti (Argentina)  Victor Brond (Argentina)
31	1982	Jan Timman (Netherlands)
32	1989	Marcelo Tempone (Argentina)
33	1990	Marino Alejandro Cid (Argentina)
34	1997	Fernando Braga (Italy)
35	2001	Juan Facundo Pierrot (Argentina)  Ruben Felgaer (Argentina)

The city's name means "Sea of Silver" (if my Spanish is any good) and you can see why: 

The mass-migration of the summer months should be over by April and hopefully I'll be able to find a cheap place to rent for a while and avoid Surfers-Paradise esque scenes. 

I haven't seriously studied chess for a while now, just basked in the joys of playing, and I don't plan a lot of theoretical study for this tournament either. That's not what this is about. It's about massively talking up a spiritual pilgrimage to a place Miguel Najdorf's ghost clearly resides or at least visits once a year, and lighting the halls with some Tal-esque sacrifices. Yeah... it's a month of Tal study coming up and then some fitting play for the occasion- see you in 24 days Najdorf!!!