At first it was game played between two teams of two or more players then more recently with the Internet technology one players against an unlimited number of players like Kasparov who played and won the Rest of the World in 2000. One record at the time was a consultation game with 10 players played in September 1921 between Alekhine, Saemish, Steiner, Tartakower and Vadja against Abonyi, Bogoljubov, Grunfeld, Kostic and Steck. The first team with white pieces won the game in 32 moves.
(below: a consultation game played in 2003 between Anatoly Karpov with Black and Vishy Anand and X)
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Quotes of the Day
When Korchnoi was living in the USSR I called him ‘hero of socialist labour’; when he moved to the West I renamed him ‘hero of capitalist labour’!
Boris Spassky
If the FIDe elections were not decided by the votes of the delegates but by the world’s chess society as a whole, there would not even be a competition.
Anatoly Karpov NIC 2010
Some twenty years ago an English journalist complained that in sports, only chess and marbles were above suspicion. One wonders what has happened in the world of marbles.
Hans Ree
Some players lose ability to think independently and rely on computers completely.
Lajos Portisch 2012
.If we compare Carlsen with Anand or me or someone else, by ten criteria, he will be stronger in eight of them.
Veselin Topalov 2015
