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  2. Association of Chess Professionals - Wikipedia

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    ACP Tour – the permanent up-to-date calculation of the player's performance throughout the year, with the winners receiving wild cards to the most prestigious tournaments worldwide; The ACP Board is an international team of [chess] professionals united by the main aims of the organization: to protect the rights of all the actors in the chess ...

  3. Rules of chess - Wikipedia

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    As chess clubs arose and tournaments became common, there was a need to formalize the rules. In 1749 Philidor (1726–1795) wrote a set of rules that were widely used, as well as rules by later writers such as the 1828 rules by Jacob Sarratt (1772–1819) and rules by George Walker (1803–1879). In the 19th century, many major clubs published ...

  4. Chess tournament - Wikipedia

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    The 35th Chess Olympiad, a chess tournament for teams. A chess tournament is a series of chess games played competitively to determine a winning individual or team. Since the first international chess tournament in London, 1851, chess tournaments have become the standard form of chess competition among multiple serious players.

  5. Chessboard - Wikipedia

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    In contemporary chess, a digital board is a chess board connected to a computer that is capable of transmitting the moves to the computer itself: the information about the moves can be used to play a game against a chess engine, or simply to record the moves sequence of a game in automatic.

  6. Tie-breaking in Swiss-system tournaments - Wikipedia

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    Swiss system tournaments, a type of group tournament common in chess and other board games, and in card games such as bridge, use various criteria to break ties between players who have the same total number of points after the last round. This is needed when prizes are indivisible, such as titles, trophies, or qualification for another tournament.

  7. Scheveningen system - Wikipedia

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    Final standings of Kings vs. Queens 2011, tournament under Scheveningen system. The Scheveningen system (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈsxeːvənɪŋə(n)] ⓘ) is a method of organizing a chess match between two teams. Each player on one team plays each player on the other team. [1]

  8. List of chess variants - Wikipedia

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    Replacement chess (or Bhagavathi Chess, Canadian Chess, Madhouse Chess, or Repeating Chess): Captured pieces are not removed from the board but relocated by the captor to any vacant square. [ 66 ] Rifle chess (or Shooting chess , Sniper chess ): When capturing, the capturing piece remains unmoved on its original square, instead of occupying the ...

  9. Outline of chess - Wikipedia

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    He held the official FIDE world title from 1985 until 1993, when a dispute with FIDE led him to set up a rival organization, the Professional Chess Association. Viswanathan Anand (born 11 December 1969) – Indian chess Grandmaster. Anand has won the World Chess Championship five times (2000, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012), and was undisputed World ...

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