A Swiss System pairing method starting with four groups instead of the usual two; it is designed to produce a clear winner in as few rounds as possible.
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Quotes of the Day
With the modern computer age, there are some new ideas, but the principles are basically the same… I try not to over-focus on preparation.
Magnus Carlsen 2012
There was a moment at the beginning when the machines were a positive, but lately we’ve being passing to the other extreme. Now it seems that a move isn’t good unless the machine says so.
Veselin Topalov 2016
.If we compare Carlsen with Anand or me or someone else, by ten criteria, he will be stronger in eight of them.
Veselin Topalov 2015
If the FIDe elections were not decided by the votes of the delegates but by the world’s chess society as a whole, there would not even be a competition.
Anatoly Karpov NIC 2010
It is true, in chess so far that men and women cannot be on the same level from an economic situation, but there can always be a more reasonable way to combine the financial part and the players’ situation.
Hou Yifan 2016