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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.

As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively. Mark Dvoretsky
” (about Lasker) For me, this personality, notwithstanding his fundamentally optimistic attitude, had a tragic note. The enormous mental resilience, without which no chess player can exist, was so much taken up by chess that he could never free his mind of this game, even when he was occupied by philosophical and humanitarian questions.” Albert Einstein
First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game Siegbert Tarrasch
In the 70s Karpov was a darling of the Politburo or the political elite. So Kramnik is now. Just like the old days. But at least Karpov, unlike him, played in and won qualifying matches. Veselin Topalov
Chess is my hobby. I have been playing chess since five years old. I like to play chess, to help chess, sponsoring chess, and attract my business friends to chess in order to develop and popularize chess. Everybody has a hobby. My hobby is chess, boxing and Buddhism. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
2010

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