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A term applied to a player who has no opponent in that round. In a swiss system they may be an odd player left over for whom there is no available partner. He will then receive a ‘bye’ or a full point credit.

I personally believe that Karpov should have been more generous with Kirsan Ilyumzhinov. Kirsan is the only president in the history of FIDE, and maybe in the history of all international federations, who has contributed dozens of million dollars for the sport he loves. By the way, some of these millions went directly to Anatoly’s pocket… George Makropoulos
2005
I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone’s hand off if he puts it in my mouth Wilhelm Steinitz
” Oh, those exclamation points! How they erode the innocent soul of the amateur, removing all hope of allowing him to examine another player’s ideas critically!” Tigran Petrosian
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
” Chess is a sport. A violent sport.” Marcel Duchamp

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