Or a chess congress, is a chess event with usually nine rounds (mostly needed for norms) where all players without restrictions of number and strength can enter.
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Quotes of the Day
Tactics is what you do when there is something to do; strategy is what you do when there is nothing to do.
Savielly Tartakower
I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else!
Boris Spassky
I am fighting for the future of chess, for the integrity of the game I love. Only when it’s clean it can grow.
Garry Kasparov 2014
I think I am certainly more talented than many other people. But I don’t know what talent consists of.
Magnus Carlsen 2014
Peter Svidler clearly needs to be more ambitious and take more risk. 12 draws out of 14 games, I mean, come on, that’s not a Champion’s attitude there!
Anish Giri