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
Magnus is playing fantastic and I play like I always play, pretty badly
Anish Giri 2017
Unfortunately this gentlemanlike behaviour among chessplayers is out of fashion. It’s my principle that you should respect your opponent as much as you respect yourself.
Lajos Portisch 1990
When I see the Berlin defence, I am almost happy that I am not longer a top player!
Nigel Short 2016
First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game
Siegbert Tarrasch
” The essence of chess is thinking about what chess is.”
David Bronstein