CROSSTABLE

A tabular representation of the results of a tournament. Results are shown by 1 for a win, ½ for a draw and 0 for a loss.

Carlsen is paying far less attention to opening theory than his rivals, he is happy to go down paths that may offer no advantage yet have the benefit of dragging opponents out of their “openings book”. Once beyond the reaches of computer-aided openings, Carlsen starts to turn the screw. Judith Polgar
FT, 2014
It’s always more difficult to hold the title than to get it. Vladimir Akopian
2012
Unfortunately this gentlemanlike behaviour among chessplayers is out of fashion. It’s my principle that you should respect your opponent as much as you respect yourself. Lajos Portisch
1990
Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for. Hans Ree
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

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