At first it was game played between two teams of two or more players then more recently with the Internet technology one players against an unlimited number of players like Kasparov who played and won the Rest of the World in 2000. One record at the time was a consultation game with 10 players played in September 1921 between Alekhine, Saemish, Steiner, Tartakower and Vadja against Abonyi, Bogoljubov, Grunfeld, Kostic and Steck. The first team with white pieces won the game in 32 moves.
(below: a consultation game played in 2003 between Anatoly Karpov with Black and Vishy Anand and X)
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Quotes of the Day
I think that ACP is a small clique, which gives power to more cliques.
Nigel Short 2016
Every chessmaster was once a beginner.
Irving Chernev
Now, at 51, in my life I have reach the stage between the middlegame and the endgame. But I don’t have the feeling that I am in the endgame already.
Boris Spassky 1988 NIC
In chess,honestly,nobody cares how beautiful you play,if Morphy would be 2710 today,he would not get a single invitation.
Teymur Rajabov 2017
Kasparov’s book are the best, as far as high level analyses are concerned.
Jan Timman 1991 NIC
