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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.

As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively. Mark Dvoretsky
There is no room for gallantry in chess. Irving Chernev
One of the most important things in chess is pattern recognition: the ability to recognise typical themes and images on the board, characteristics of a position and their consequences. Magnus Carlsen
2010
You only task in the opening is to reach a playable middle game. Lajos Portisch
If the 12th game (from the match Carlsen-Karjakin)… were a restaurant dish, I would send it back to the chef. Nigel Short 2016

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