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A series of chess games between a number of player, who compete for a set of prizes. Chess tournaments are of different formats and categories, and they can be open or by invitation only
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Why was move-sealing introduced in adjournment?
As some background, in the pre-engine era time-controls were often slower and chess players could adjourn their games, taking a break till the next day and resuming from the same position.
In all turn …
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Is there a difference between +W -L =D and +W =D -L?
Is there a difference between a player's tournament or match result being reported in the format +W -L =D and in the format +W =D -L? …
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Why don't these statistics disprove white's supposed larger (practical?) advantage in chess960?
There are plenty of Chess960 tournaments (including the actual Chess9LX tournament for example) where they don't swap colors on a given SP against the same opponent. …
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Are there statistics on the results of armageddon games at the GM level?
Just wanted to augment the excellent answer above with some further examples:
Smirin vs Anand, 1994, 0-1
Mamedyarov vs Lputian, 2004, 1-0
Ye Jiangchuan vs Ni Hua, 2004, 1-0
G. Sargissian vs Tiviakov, …