Movimientos en blanco y negro
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The exhibition covers the history of chess in Argentina, along with its transformations and cultural drifts. Exhibited among other valuables is a work by León Ferrari, pieces of ivory that belonged to Juan Manuel de Rosas, the match table for the 1927 world title between Capablanca and Alekhine, an original match played by Marcel Duchamp against the Argentine Fernández Coria, original drawings by Quino, Fontanarrosa, Sabat and others. Also on display are manuscripts of Chess Philosophy by Ezequiel Martínez Estrada and books by Jorge Luis Borges, Rodolfo Walsh, Abelardo Castillo and many other authors who included chess in their literary works, both in prose and in poetry.
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Juan Sebastián Morgado
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Julián Chomski
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Gustavo Águila
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Sergio Negri
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