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.

I understood that through chess I could express myself and chess became my natural language. Boris Spassky
1995
I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess. Others give only 2 percent! Robert Fischer
We must finish once and for all with the neutrality of chess. We must condemn once and for all the formula “chess for the sake of chess”, like the formula “art for art’s sake”. We must organize shock brigades of chess-players, and begin immediate realization of a Five-Year Plan for chess. Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko
In one game it is too difficult to play both for win and draw simultaneously. Mihail Tal
1969
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

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