BURSTEIN System

Pairing system developed by the Israeli International Arbiter Almog Burstein in 1993 and in use in all chess Olympiad since Moscow 1994. The idea of the system is to equalize the strengths of the opponents of each participant by pairing those with high Buchholtz score with those with low Buchholtz score.

Ten years ago I said that 2010 would be the end, chess would be exhausted. But it is not true, chess will not die so quickly. Vishy Anand
2008
Carlsen is a combination of Karpov and Fischer style. Garry Kasparov
2017
Parapsychology? That’s a bunch of bananas. Korchnoi believes in that. He is still playing his game with the ghost of Geza Maroczy. Nathan Divinsky
2004
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
I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of Chess Siegbert Tarrasch

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