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
Kasparov is great as a chess player, but all his attempts to prove himself as an organizer – let’s say, is beyond the champion’s level.
Boris Gelfand 2016
In one game it is too difficult to play both for win and draw simultaneously.
Mihail Tal 1969
Ten years ago I said that 2010 would be the end, chess would be exhausted. But it is not true, chess will not die so quickly.
Vishy Anand 2008
Tactics is what you do when there is something to do; strategy is what you do when there is nothing to do.
Savielly Tartakower
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
Marcel Duchamp