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Tie break system (also known as Solkoff system) using the total score of opponents in Swiss tournaments for individual and team events with several variations counting all opponents or without the extreme high and/or low scores.

Chess is a game by its form, an art by its content and a science by the difficulty of gaining mastery in it. Chess can convey as much happiness as a good book or work of music can. However, it is necessary to learn to play well and only afterwards will one experience real delight. Tigran Petrosian
Of chess it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not chess. Irving Chernev
” The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.” Alexander Alekhine
In addition to talent, Magnus has the health of a racehorse and a powerful nervous system. Vladimir Kramnik
2015
Tactics is what you do when there is something to do; strategy is what you do when there is nothing to do. Savielly Tartakower

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