HARKNESS SCORE

Tie-breaking system applicable to Swiss tournaments. The scores of the opponents of each of the tied players are summed, first leaving out the highest and lowest scores. In tournaments with a large number of rounds, two or more of the highest and lowest scores may be deleted. Also called the Median Score.

Petrosian-Spassky? To think I could have watched an excellent football match instead! Mikhail Tal
1966
Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders. Savielly Tartakower
Chess politic is not my dream, but I will be happy when we start to change things and organize a better chess life in the world. Anatoly Karpov
2010
I still think people can learn at any age – I’m actually sure about that. It’s just that the ceiling is lower for how far you want to go. Magnus Carlsen
2016
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

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