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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.

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
The main thing is that you’ve got to keep on studying however old you are. You can’t just rely on your capital, so you have to try and keep up, and that is a difficult task. Nigel Short
2016
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
As chess players, Kasparov and Karpov have exhausted themselves, the people began to forget them and they are trying to attract attention with their inadequate statements. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
2010
I am fighting for the future of chess, for the integrity of the game I love. Only when it’s clean it can grow. Garry Kasparov
2014

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