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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.

Fischer wanted to prove that all world championship games after his victory were prearranged. He did not convince me. Vishy Anand
2008
Whatever opinions people might have about Ilyumzhinov, I am sure that exactly those accusations by the US authorities are far-fetched. It looks more like a revenge for the 2014 FIDE elections which Kasparov lost to Ilyumzhinov by a wide margin. Vladimir Kramnik
2016
Chess should not become an obsession. Otherwise there’s a danger that you will slide off into a parallel world, that you lose your sense of reality, get lost in the infinite cosmos of the game. You become crazy. Magnus Carlsen
2010
When I play well, I don’t win! Maxime Vachier Lagrave
2017
Botvinnik and Tal are among the best; I also like Spassky, but I think Petrosian is better than all of them. His weakness is too many draws, even against players he could beat easily. Maybe he lacks self-confidence. Robert Fischer
1960

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