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[[Mar del Plata]], Argentina, has a rich history of [[chess]] tournaments, including their international chess tournament and open tournament. 
There is also an annual city tournament, which had its first edition in 1946, and reached its 62nd edition in 2007.

The international tournament started off in 1928, but only in the period from [[Mar del Plata 1941 chess tournament|1941]] to 1970 was it a truly international tournament with considerable reputation. 
After 1970, only seven international tournaments have been played.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mdpajedrez.org.ar/arch800/magistrales.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=2009-01-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110429071240/http://www.mdpajedrez.org.ar/arch800/magistrales.htm |archive-date=2011-04-29 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The 1951, 1954, 1969 and 2001 editions were zonal tournaments.
There was also a zonal tournament for women in Mar del Plata, in 1969, won by the Brazilian [[Ruth Volgl Cardoso|Ruth Cardoso]]. [[Silvia Kot]] from Argentina placed second.

In 1967 the first edition of the open tournament was organized. In 1969 it became an annual event.

The '''Mar del Plata Variation''' of the [[King's Indian Defence]] (1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Nf3 0–0 6. Be2 e5 7. 0–0 Nc6 8. d5 Ne7) is named after a game played in 1953 at the 16th international tournament between [[Miguel Najdorf]]
and [[Svetozar Gligorić]].

==Mar del Plata International Chess Tournament==

:{| class="sortable wikitable"
! # !!Year !! Winner
|-
|	1	||	1928	||	{{flagathlete|[[Roberto Grau]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	2	||	1934	||	{{flagathlete|[[Aaron Schwartzman]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	3	||	1936	||	{{flagathlete|[[Isaías Pleci]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	4	||	1941	||	{{flagathlete|[[Gideon Ståhlberg]]|Sweden}}
|-
|	5	||	1942	||	{{flagathlete|[[Miguel Najdorf]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	6	||	1943	||	{{flagathlete|[[Miguel Najdorf]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	7	||	1944	||	{{flagathlete|[[Hermann Pilnik]]|Argentina}} <br> {{flagathlete|[[Miguel Najdorf]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	8	||	1945	||	{{flagathlete|[[Miguel Najdorf]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	9	||	1946	||	{{flagathlete|[[Miguel Najdorf]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	10	||	1947	||	{{flagathlete|[[Miguel Najdorf]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	11	||	1948	||	{{flagathlete|[[Erich Eliskases]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	12	||	1949	||	{{flagathlete|[[Héctor Rossetto]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	13	||	1950	||	{{flagathlete|[[Svetozar Gligorić]]|Yugoslavia}}
|-
|	14	||	1951	||	{{flagathlete|[[Julio Bolbochán]]|Argentina}} <br> {{flagathlete|[[Erich Eliskases]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	15	||	1952	||	{{flagathlete|[[Héctor Rossetto]]|Argentina}} <br> {{flagathlete|[[Julio Bolbochán]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	16	||	1953	||	{{flagathlete|[[Svetozar Gligorić]]|Yugoslavia}}
|-
|	17	||	1954	||	{{flagathlete|[[Oscar Panno]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	18	||	1955	||	{{flagathlete|[[Borislav Ivkov]]|Yugoslavia}}
|-
|	19	||	1956	||	{{flagathlete|[[Julio Bolbochán]]|Argentina}} <br> {{flagathlete|[[Miguel Najdorf]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	20	||	1957	||	{{flagathlete|[[Paul Keres]]|Soviet Union}}
|-
|	21	||	1958	||	{{flagathlete|[[Bent Larsen]]|Denmark}}
|-
|	22	||	1959	||	{{flagathlete|[[Luděk Pachman]]|Czechoslovakia}} <br> {{flagathlete|[[Miguel Najdorf]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	23	||	1960	||	{{flagathlete|[[Boris Spassky]]|Soviet Union}} <br> {{flagathlete|[[Bobby Fischer|Robert Fischer]]|United States}}
|-
|	24	||	1961	||	{{flagathlete|[[Miguel Najdorf]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	25	||	1962	||	{{flagathlete|[[Lev Polugaevsky]]|Soviet Union}}
|-
|	26	||	1964	||	{{flagathlete|[[Héctor Rossetto]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	27	||	1965	||	{{flagathlete|[[Miguel Najdorf]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	28	||	1966	||	{{flagathlete|[[Vasily Smyslov]]|Soviet Union}}
|-
|	29	||	1969	||	{{flagathlete|[[Oscar Panno]]|Argentina}} <br> {{flagathlete|[[Miguel Najdorf]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	30	||	1971	||	{{flagathlete|[[Lev Polugaevsky]]|Soviet Union}}
|-
|	31	||	1976	||	{{flagathlete|[[Raúl Sanguinetti]]|Argentina}} <br> {{flagathlete|[[Victor Brond]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	32	||	1982	||	{{flagathlete|[[Jan Timman]]|Netherlands}}
|-
|	33	||	1989	||	{{flagathlete|[[Marcelo Tempone]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	34	||	1990	||	{{flagathlete|[[Marino Alejandro Cid]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	35	||	1997	||	{{flagathlete|[[Fernando Braga]]|Italy}}
|-
|	36	||	2001	||	{{flagathlete|[[Juan Facundo Pierrot]]|Argentina}} <br> {{flagathlete|[[Rubén Felgaer]]|Argentina}}
|}

==Mar del Plata Open Chess Tournament==

:{| class="sortable wikitable"
! # !!Year !! Winner
|-
|	1	||	1967	||	{{flagathlete|[[Miguel Najdorf]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	2	||	1969	||	{{flagathlete|[[René Letelier]]|Chile}}
|-
|	3	||	1970	||	{{flagathlete|[[Lothar Schmid]]|Germany}}
|-
|	4	||	1971	||	{{flagathlete|[[Raúl Ocampo]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	5	||	1972	||	{{flagathlete|[[Jorge Rubinetti]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	6	||	1973	||	{{flagathlete|[[Lothar Schmid]]|Germany}}
|-
|	7	||	1974	||	{{flagathlete|[[Miguel Najdorf]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	8	||	1975	||	{{flagathlete|[[Jaime Emma]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	9	||	1976	||	{{flagathlete|[[Aldo Emilio Seidler]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	10	||	1977	||	{{flagathlete|[[Ricardo Poleschi]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	11	||	1978	||	{{flagathlete|[[Aldo Emilio Seidler]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	12	||	1979	||	{{flagathlete|[[Miguel Najdorf]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	13	||	1980	||	{{flagathlete|[[Carlos Lago]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	14	||	1983	||	{{flagathlete|[[Luis Marcos Bronstein]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	15	||	1984	||	{{flagathlete|[[Marcelo Tempone]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	16	||	1985	||	{{flagathlete|[[Jorge Rubinetti]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	17	||	1986	||	{{flagathlete|[[Oscar Panno]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	18	||	1987	||	{{flagathlete|[[Roberto Cifuentes]]|Chile}}
|-
|	19	||	1988	||	{{flagathlete|[[Oscar Panno]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	20	||	1989	||	{{flagathlete|[[Pablo Zarnicki]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	21	||	1990	||	{{flagathlete|[[Roberto Cifuentes]]|Chile}}
|-
|	22	||	1991	||	{{flagathlete|[[Marcelo Tempone]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	23	||	1992	||	{{flagathlete|[[Sergio Carlos Giardelli]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	24	||	1993	||	{{flagathlete|[[Bent Larsen]]|Denmark}} <br> {{flagathlete|[[Julio Granda]]|Peru}}
|-
|	25	||	1994	||	{{flagathlete|[[Oscar Panno]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	26	||	1995	||	{{flagathlete|[[Sergio Slipak]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	27	||	1996	||	{{flagathlete|[[Fabian Fiorito]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	28	||	1997	||	{{flagathlete|[[Fernando Braga]]|Italy}}
|-
|	29	||	1998	||	{{flagathlete|[[Alfredo Giaccio]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	30	||	1999	||	{{flagathlete|[[Sergio Slipak]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	31	||	2000	||	{{flagathlete|[[Martín Labollita]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	32	||	2001	||	{{flagathlete|[[Sergio Slipak]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	33	||	2002	||	{{flagathlete|[[Fabián Fiorito]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	34	||	2003	||	{{flagathlete|[[Suat Atalık]]|Bosnia and Herzegovina}}
|-
|	35	||	2004	||	{{flagathlete|[[Pablo Lafuente]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	36	||	2005	||	{{flagathlete|[[José F. Cubas]]|Paraguay}}
|-
|	37	||	2006	||	{{flagathlete|[[Diego Flores (chess player)|Diego Flores]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	38	||	2007	||	{{flagathlete|[[Andrés Rodríguez (chess player)|Andrés Rodríguez]]|Uruguay}}
|-
|	50	||	2019	||	{{flagathlete|[[Diego Flores (chess player)|Diego Flores]]|Argentina}}
|-
|	53	||	2024	||	{{flagathlete|[[Johan-Sebastian Christiansen]]|Norway}}
|}

==External links==
* Portal page of chess in Mar del Plata: [http://www.mdpajedrez.com.ar/arch800/HISTORIAL/ABIERTO-General-Pagina.htm]
* Winners of the international tournament of Mar del Plata: [https://web.archive.org/web/20080122164436/http://www.mdpajedrez.eet5.org.ar/arch800/magistrales.htm]
* Winners of the open tournament of Mar del Plata: [https://web.archive.org/web/20080121172309/http://www.mdpajedrez.eet5.org.ar/arch800/abierto_index.htm]
* Winners of the city tournament Mar del Plata: [https://web.archive.org/web/20080122164426/http://www.mdpajedrez.eet5.org.ar/arch800/cam_mar.htm]

==References==
{{reflist}}

*{{citation
| last=Crowther | first=Mark
| date=5 April 1999
| title=THE WEEK IN CHESS 230: XXX Mar del Plata Open
| url=https://theweekinchess.com/html/twic230.html#4
| publisher=London Chess Center}}
*{{citation
| last=Crowther | first=Mark
| date=24 April 2000
| title=THE WEEK IN CHESS 285: XXXI Mar del Plata Open
| url=https://theweekinchess.com/html/twic285.html#15
| publisher=London Chess Center}}
*{{citation
| last=Crowther | first=Mark
| date=16 April 2001
| title=THE WEEK IN CHESS 336: XXXII Mar del Plata Open
| url=https://theweekinchess.com/html/twic336.html#7
| publisher=London Chess Center}}
*{{citation
| last=Crowther | first=Mark
| date=1 April 2002
| title=THE WEEK IN CHESS 386: XXXIII Mar del Plata Open
| url=https://theweekinchess.com/html/twic386.html#14
| publisher=London Chess Center}}
*{{citation
| last=Crowther | first=Mark
| date=21 April 2003
| title=THE WEEK IN CHESS 441: XXXIV Mar del Plata Open
| url=https://theweekinchess.com/html/twic441.html#17
| publisher=London Chess Center}}
*{{citation
| last=Crowther | first=Mark
| date=17 April 2006
| title=THE WEEK IN CHESS 597: XXXVII Mar del Plata Open
| url=https://theweekinchess.com/html/twic597.html#9
| publisher=London Chess Center}}
*{{citation
| last=Crowther | first=Mark
| date=9 April 2007
| title=THE WEEK IN CHESS 648: XXXVIII Mar del Plata Open
| url=https://theweekinchess.com/html/twic648.html#14
| publisher=London Chess Center}}
* {{citation | editor-last=Golombek | editor-first=Harry | editor-link=Harry Golombek | year=1977 | title=Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess | publisher=Crown Publishing | isbn=0-517-53146-1 | contribution=Mar del Plata Tournaments}}
* {{citation | author=Svetozar Gligorić |author-link=Svetozar Gligorić | year=2003 | title=King's Indian Defence – Mar Del Plata Variation | publisher=Batsford  | isbn=978-0-7134-8767-1}}

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