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
In one game it is too difficult to play both for win and draw simultaneously.
Mihail Tal 1969
Vasiukov hadn’t won a single game against me for 59 years and then suddenly won. I can’t call it shame. Shame or no shame, it’s a pity that he won…
Viktor Korchnoi 2012
Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.
Savielly Tartakower
My chess method is without formulas, without orthodox thinking. I always explain that chess is an art and that there are no definite judgments.
Lev Polugaevsky 1990 NIC
The game of chess is turning out to be much richer than we knew-you can’t reduce it to the simple rules
Vishy Anand 2017
