A listing of who plays whom in a tournament. Pairing charts are posted before each round and also indicate which board number each player is to play on, and which color of the pieces they will have (white or black).
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Quotes of the Day
A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.
Rudolf Spielmann
He has weaknesses, as everyone does, but far fewer than those around him.
Veselin Topalov 2016
First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game
Siegbert Tarrasch
If the 12th game (from the match Carlsen-Karjakin)… were a restaurant dish, I would send it back to the chef.
Nigel Short 2016
Politics is a team game, here it is necessary to compromise, to take into account the views of other people. As for Garry, he is quite a contentious, totalitarian person. But in general, I’m sorry that Kasparov switched to a role that does not match the scale of his personality.
Vladimir Kramnik 2015