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This format for a chess tournament was first used in London, 1851 and was more recently used for the World Championships between 1997 and 2004 and since 2005 for the World Cup. The players who lose their games in a round or who receive the lowest scores are progressively eliminated.

” Oh, those exclamation points! How they erode the innocent soul of the amateur, removing all hope of allowing him to examine another player’s ideas critically!” Tigran Petrosian
Fischer wanted to prove that all world championship games after his victory were prearranged. He did not convince me. Vishy Anand
2008
One of the most important things in chess is pattern recognition: the ability to recognise typical themes and images on the board, characteristics of a position and their consequences. Magnus Carlsen
2010
Fischer’s strength, among other things, was his ability to evolve the most efficient plan for the middlegame right after the opening. Boris Spassky
The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. Savielly Tartakower

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