Or a chess congress, is a chess event with usually nine rounds (mostly needed for norms) where all players without restrictions of number and strength can enter.
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Quotes of the Day
I believe motivation is one of the most important things one has to have after playing for many years. Chess is a very complete, well thought-out game, which is why people have been playing it since ancient times.
Judith Polgar
Kasparov’s book are the best, as far as high level analyses are concerned.
Jan Timman 1991 NIC
What’s been bothering me is not that I haven’t won tournaments, but that I haven’t played very well.
Magnus Carlsen 2017
We will note the openings used by the participants of a nine-round match. The age of openings is considerably higher than the age of both rivals. Some opening positions could be analyzed by Steinitz when he was preparing to his match with Zukertort.
Mikhail Tal 1966 (Petrosian-Spassky match)
Maybe I had something of Capablanca. Why should I prepare when I have ideas?
Svetozar Gligoric 1989 NIC