Britain trills | For a tournament of chess …

The British Chancery has described as "unacceptable" and "clandestine" a chess contest organized by Argentina at the end of March in Malvinas. The fact has had a big impact in the British press, to the point that the prestigious newspaper The weather took the topic with a significant development under the title "Argentina's new money game", after knowing that the local chess federation (ECF) and the Legislative Assembly of the islands had officially protested to the International Chess Federation (FIDE) "by diplomatic provocation".

The FADA (Argentine Federation of Argentina) organized in Malvinas the Cup "Islas del Sur" organized by the federation itself and the Martelli Chess Circle, both chaired by Mario Petrucci, who attended the event. The winner was Daniel Ujhelly and the second was Marcelo Debernardi. But the controversy began when the FADA wanted to validate this tournament in the international ranking (ELO), which provoked the angry reaction of the local chess federation. In addition, the same British press questioned the fact that, in the promotion of the tournament, the name of Argentine port was used to define the place where it had been developed, in place of Port Stanley.

"I have already spoken to this issue at the Argentine Foreign Ministry and it is normal that his authorities did not publish it, as no incident deserves it," concluded Petrucci, the highest national official. failures.

It should be noted that during the fight, two veterans of the war, Colonel José Jiménez Corbalán, Colonel of the Argentine Army, and Lieutenant Royal Navy, Marc Villiers Towsend, had already faced in the battle of Harriet Monte, with the triumph of the first by 2.5 to 1.5, after four games.