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
Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it’s okay to lose. I don’t. You have to be merciless.
Magnus Carlsen
it would have been a debacle if Karjakin had become the 17th World Champion.
Garry Kasparov 2016
Petrosian-Spassky? To think I could have watched an excellent football match instead!
Mikhail Tal 1966
When you see a good move, look for a better one
Emanuel Lasker
Chess is a scientific game and its literature ought to be placed on the basis of the strictest truthfulness, which is the foundation of all scientific research.
W. Steinitz