Neo-Dada

María Carolina Luján – Antonio Fernández Rodríguez
1st Open Marcel Duchamp Cup; Montevideo, February 9, 2017
French Defence C00

“Mine is not a boycott”, María Carolina Luján told Clarín. “Some say I have something against Islam, but it is not so absolutely. I just want to have the freedom to choose”. She disagrees, for instance, with Nazí Paikidze, who saw the veil as a symbol of oppression. On the contrary, she hopes that her position “express a message”: that the respect for the other can be the supreme norm for everyone. And so, while the Knockout Women’s World Chess Championship Tournament started today in Tehran, Iran (with almost all top seeds on top), here is Luján searching for luck in the “Neo-Dada” 1st Open Marcel Duchamp Cup in Uruguay. 1. e4 e6 2. Qe2. With Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin on her side, who will ever stop to remember her name? 2. ... c5 3. f4 Nc6 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. g3 d5 6. e5 Nd7 7. Bg2 g6 8. 0-0 Bg7 9. d3 0-0 10. c3!? A new idea. Not too encouraging was 10. c4 Nb6 11. Be3 ½ : ½ Klenburg – Campos Moreno, La Vella 2003. 10. ... f6 11. exf6 Nxf6 12. Na3 a6 13. Nc2 Bd7 14. Be3 Qe7 15. Ne5 Qd6 16. Bf2 Rae8 17. Ne1 d4 18. c4 b5 19. N1f3 bxc4 20. dxc4 Rb8 21. Rfe1 Rfe8 22. Rab1 Nb4? It looks like a tempo lost. 23. a3 Nc6 24. Qc2 Rb6

25. Ng5 Nh5? Fatally forgetting about the d5-square. 26. Nxd7 Qxd7 27. Nxe6 Qd6. Not 27. ... Rxe6?? 28. Rxe6 Qxe6 29. Bd5 skewering Black’s Queen and King. 28. Bd5 Kh8 29. Ng5 Rxe1+. Or 29. ... Rf8 30. Re6 Qd7 31. Nxh7! with total destruction. 30. Rxe1 Qb8 31. Nf7+ Kg8 32. Nd8+ Kf8 33. Nxc6 Rxb2 34. Nxb8 Rxc2 35. Nd7 mate.

María Carolina Luján
Photo: Carolina Luján (@imcarolinalujan)