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Edit prize winning play Vargas Llosa, a novel about chess Capablanca (20/10/2010)

Today it has become Novel Award "Vargas Llosa," funded by Caja Mediterráneo and published by the University of Murcia, the Cuban writer Antonio Álvarez Gil for his play "Lost in Buenos Aires", which recreates the days of 1927 that passed José Raúl Capablanca in the port city defending world chess title.

The author clarified that this is not a novel about chess, although there are scenes in this game, told in a language comprehensible to ordinary readers, but rather a book about the figure and the personality that defined the "overwhelming" - the Cuban Capablanca, a legend in the Caribbean country.

Capablanca, said Stockholm-based writer, pass the name of Cuba throughout the world, revolutionizing the way chess with a great play based on intuition and hardly any preparation.

Álvarez Gil said that was documented for the novel, read a sentence in a magazine that summarizes well the dimension of the character: "Capablanca was not known by chess, but chess was known by Capablanca."

This legend will hurt the long run, said the novelist, then went to Buenos Aires to defend the title against the Russian-born French Alexander Alekhine and suffered a defeat in the first game that left him, and incidentally the whole chess world in a state of shock.

The drama of the champion is how he escapes the title against an opponent who always felt inferior is what he narrates this novel, which is immersed in the bohemian Buenos Aires and tango-filled nights and singers, actresses and love.

Antonio Álvarez Gil said that although some facts about, all that counts is a fable and recreation about two and a half months stay in Argentina's capital Capablanca.

The only apparently true, he concluded, is that the night of Buenos Aires contributed greatly to its final defeat.

The President of the Territorial Council of the CAM Murcia, Angel Martinez, said at the presentation ceremony, held at the headquarters of the Caja Murcia, this prize, worth 12,000 euros, is the most emblematic of all literary savings grants this institution and one of the most prestigious in Spanish.

The rector of the University of Murcia, José Antonio Cobacho, emphasized the importance of an award that meets fourteen editions, to which 127 paintings were submitted.

All speeches emphasized the fact that the delivery comes a week after the Nobel award to Mario Vargas Llosa.

Source: Universidad de Murcia. Fotos: Luis Urbina

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