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Chess tournament, the Glossary

A chess tournament is a series of chess games played competitively to determine a winning individual or team.^[1]

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Adolf Albin

Adolf Albin (14 September 1848 – 22 March 1920) was a Romanian chess player.

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Adolf Anderssen

Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen (6 July 1818 – 13 March 1879)"Anderssen, Adolf" in The New Encyclopædia Britannica.

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Algebraic notation (chess)

Algebraic notation is the standard method for recording and describing the moves in a game of chess.

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Alisa Mikhailovna Galliamova (Алиса Михайловна Галлямова, Алисә Михаил кызы Галләмова; born 18 January 1972 in Kazan) is a Russian chess player who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM).

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Amos Burn

Amos Burn (31 December 1848 – 25 November 1925) was an English chess player, one of the world's leading players at the end of the 19th century, and a chess writer.

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Anna-Maria Botsari

Anna-Maria Botsari (Greek: Άννα-Μαρία Μπότσαρη; born 5 October 1972) is a Greek chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM).

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Arbiter (chess)

In chess tournaments, an arbiter is an official who oversees matches and ensures that the rules of chess are followed.

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Australian Chess Federation

The Australian Chess Federation (ACF) is dedicated to promoting the game of chess in Australia, and is a member of FIDE, the World Chess Federation.

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Aynur Sofiyeva

Aynur Mammadiyya qizi Sofiyeva (url-status; born 19 July 1970) is an Azerbaijani politician and former chess player.

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Beatriz Marinello

Beatriz Mansilla Marinello (born May 14, 1964) is a Chilean-American chess player and chess official.

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Beniamino Vergani

Beniamino Vergani (Montebelluna, 2 June 1863 – 15 July 1927) was an Italian chess master.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.

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Blind Chess Olympiad

The Blind Chess Olympiad is an international chess competition for the blind in which teams from all over the world compete against each other.

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Bobby Fischer

Robert James Fischer (March 9, 1943January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion.

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Candidates Tournament

The Candidates Tournament (or in some periods Candidates Matches) is a chess tournament organized by FIDE, chess's international governing body, since 1950, as the final contest to determine the challenger for the World Chess Championship.

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Carl August Walbrodt

Carl August Walbrodt (November 28, 1871, Amsterdam – October 3, 1902, Berlin) was a German chess master.

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Carl Schlechter

Carl Schlechter (2 March 1874 – 27 December 1918) was a leading Austro-Hungarian chess master and theoretician at the turn of the 20th century.

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Chess

Chess is a board game for two players.

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Chess clock

A chess clock is a device that comprises two adjacent clocks with buttons to stop one clock while starting the other, so that the two clocks never run simultaneously.

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Chess engine

In computer chess, a chess engine is a computer program that analyzes chess or chess variant positions, and generates a move or list of moves that it regards as strongest.

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Chess Olympiad

The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete.

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Chess rating system

A chess rating system is a system used in chess to estimate the strength of a player, based on their performance versus other players.

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Chess World Cup

The FIDE World Cup is a major chess event organized by FIDE, the international governing body.

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ChessBase

ChessBase is a German company that develops and sells chess software, maintains a chess news site, and operates an internet chess server for online chess.

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Chessgames.com

Chessgames.com is an Internet chess community with over 224,000 members.

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Claudia Amura

Claudia Noemí Amura (born 26 August 1970) is an Argentinian chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster.

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Computer chess

Computer chess includes both hardware (dedicated computers) and software capable of playing chess.

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Computer program

A computer program is a sequence or set of instructions in a programming language for a computer to execute.

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Constanze Jahn

Constanze Jahn (born 12 January 1963) is a German chess Woman International Master (WIM) (1991).

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Cristina Adela Foișor

Cristina Adela Foișor (Bădulescu; 7 June 1967 – 22 January 2017).

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Curt von Bardeleben

Curt Carl Alfred von Bardeleben (4 March 1861 – 31 January 1924) was a German chess master, journalist, and member of the German nobility.

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Daniela Nuțu-Gajić

Daniela Nuțu-Gajić (born Daniela Silvia Nuțu; 8 June 1957) is a Romanian Australian chess Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and chess trainer.

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Dawid Janowski

Dawid Markelowicz Janowski (25 May 1868 – 15 January 1927; often spelled David) was a Polish chess player.

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Double-elimination tournament

A double-elimination tournament is a type of elimination tournament competition in which a participant ceases to be eligible to win the tournament's championship upon having lost two games or matches.

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Draw (chess)

In chess, there are a number of ways that a game can end in a draw, neither player winning.

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Draw by agreement

A game of chess can end in a draw by agreement.

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Elo rating system

The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in zero-sum games such as chess or esports.

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Emanuel Lasker

Emanuel Lasker (December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher.

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Emanuel Schiffers

Emanuel (Emmanuel) Stepanovich Schiffers (Эммануил Степанович Шифферс; –) was a Russian chess player and chess writer.

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Fast chess

Fast chess, also known as speed chess, is a type of chess in which each player is given less time to consider their moves than classical chess time controls allow.

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FIDE

The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs), is an international organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national chess federations and acts as the governing body of international chess competition.

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FIDE titles

FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs) for outstanding performance.

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First-move advantage in chess

In chess, there is a consensus among players and theorists that the player who makes the first move (White) has an inherent advantage, albeit not one large enough to win with perfect play.

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Georg Marco

Georg Marco (29 November 1863 – 29 August 1923) was an Austrian chess player.

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Gordana Marković

Gordana Marković (née Jovanović; born 4 January 1951), also known as Gordana Marković-Jovanović, (Гордана Марковић-Јовановић) is a Serbian chess player who holds the title of Woman International Master (WIM, 1979).

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Grandmaster (chess)

Grandmaster (GM) is a title awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE.

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Great Exhibition

The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, also known as the Great Exhibition or the Crystal Palace Exhibition (in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held), was an international exhibition that took place in Hyde Park, London, from 1 May to 15 October 1851.

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Harry Nelson Pillsbury

Harry Nelson Pillsbury (December 5, 1872 – June 17, 1906) was a leading American chess player.

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Hastings 1895 chess tournament

The Hastings 1895 chess tournament was a round-robin tournament of chess conducted at the Brassey Institute in Hastings, England from 5 August to 2 September 1895.

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Henry Bird (chess player)

Henry Edward Bird (14 July 1829 – 11 April 1908) was an English chess player, author and accountant.

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Human–computer chess matches

This article documents the progress of significant human–computer chess matches.

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Ildikó Mádl

Ildikó Mádl (born 5 November 1969 in Tapolca) is a Hungarian chess player who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM).

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Internet chess server

An Internet chess server (ICS) is an external server that provides the facility to play, discuss, and view the board game of chess over the Internet.

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Irina Chelushkina

Irina Cheluskina (Irina Čoluškina; born 1 February 1961 in Kherson) is a Ukrainian and Serbian chess player and a Woman Grandmaster.

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Irina Levitina

Irina Solomonovna Levitina (born June 8, 1954) is a former Soviet and current American chess and bridge player.

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Isidor Gunsberg

Isidor Arthur Gunsberg (also spelled Günzberg,; 1 November 1854 – 2 May 1930) was a Hungarian chess player, best known for narrowly losing the 1891 World Chess Championship match to Wilhelm Steinitz.

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Jacques Mieses

Jacques Mieses (born Jacob Mieses; 27 February 1865 – 23 February 1954) was a German-born British chess player.

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James Mason (chess player)

James Mason (19 November 1849 – 12 January 1905) was a British-American chess player, journalist and writer who became one of the world's best half-dozen players in the 1880s.

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Jeff Sonas

Jeff Sonas is a statistical chess analyst who invented the Chessmetrics system for rating chess players, which is intended as an improvement on the Elo rating system.

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Johanna Paasikangas-Tella

Johanna Paasikangas-Tella (Paasikangas, born 28 March 1974) is a Finnish chess player who holds the title of Woman International Master (WIM).

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Joseph Henry Blackburne

Joseph Henry Blackburne (10 December 1841 – 1 September 1924) was a British chess player.

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Julia Demina

Julia Demina (born February 3, 1969) is a Russian chess player.

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Kaissa

Kaissa (Каисса) was a chess program developed in the Soviet Union in the 1960s.

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Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant

Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant (née Arakhamia; born) is a Georgian (former Soviet Union)-born Scottish Chess Grandmaster.

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Ketino Kachiani

Ketino Kachiani or Ketino Kachiani-Gersinska (born 11 September 1971 in Mestia, Georgia) is a Georgian chess player with the titles of Woman Grandmaster (1990) and International Master (1997).

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Khương Thị Hồng Nhung

Khương Thị Hồng Nhung (born 2 January 1972) is a Vietnamese chess player who holds the title of Woman International Master.She was the first Vietnamese female chess player to progress internationally to the Interzonal level.

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Las Vegas

Las Vegas, often known as Sin City or simply Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the seat of Clark County.

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List of chess players

This list of chess players includes people who are primarily known as chess players and have an article on the English Wikipedia.

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List of mini chess tournaments

This article lists some of the famous small chess tournaments in history. Chess tournament and list of mini chess tournaments are chess competitions.

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List of strong chess tournaments

This article depicts many of the strongest chess tournaments in history. Chess tournament and List of strong chess tournaments are chess competitions.

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London 1851 chess tournament

London 1851 was the first international chess tournament.

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Lovina Sylvia Chidi

Lovina Sylvia Chidi (born 1971) is a German-born chess player.

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Mac Hack

Mac Hack is a computer chess program written by Richard D. Greenblatt.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 552,000 at the 2021 census.

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Margarita Voyska

Margarita Voyska (Маргарита Войска; born April 3, 1963, Sofia) is a Bulgarian chess player.

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Marta Litinskaya-Shul

Marta Ivanivna Litynska (Марта Іванівна Літинська; Марта Ивановна Литинская, Marta Ivanovna Litinskaya; born 25 March 1949 in Lviv) is a Ukrainian chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM).

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Mikhail Chigorin

Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin (also Tchigorin; Михаи́л Ива́нович Чиго́рин; –) was a Russian chess player.

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Mirjana Marić

Mirjana Marić (Мирјана Марић; born January 10, 1970) is an American-born Serbian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM).

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Mobile phone

A mobile phone or cell phone is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area, as opposed to a fixed-location phone (landline phone).

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Nana Ioseliani

Nana Ioseliani (ნანა იოსელიანი; born 12 February 1962) is a Georgian chess player.

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Nataša Bojković

Nataša Bojković (born 3 September 1971) is a Serbian chess player, an International Master (IM) and a Woman Grandmaster (WGM).

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Niina Koskela

Niina Koskela (born 8 August 1971), married from 2004 to 2009 as Niina Sammalvuo, is a Finnish chess player.

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Nona Gaprindashvili

Nona Gaprindashvili (ნონა გაფრინდაშვილი; born 3 May 1941) is a Georgian chess Grandmaster.

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North American Computer Chess Championship

The North American Computer Chess Championship was a computer chess championship held from 1970 to 1994.

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Olympic Games

The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.

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Paderborn

Paderborn (Westphalian: Patterbuorn, also Paterboärn) is a city in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, capital of the Paderborn district.

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Peng Zhaoqin

Peng Zhaoqin (born 8 May 1968 in Guangzhou, Guangdong) is a Chinese-born Dutch chess player.

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Prize money

Prize money refers in particular to naval prize money, usually arising in naval warfare, but also in other circumstances.

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Qin Kanying

Qin Kanying (born 2 February 1974) is a Chinese chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster.

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Richard Teichmann

Richard Teichmann (24 December 1868 – 15 June 1925) was a German chess master and a chess composer.

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Round-robin tournament

A round-robin tournament or all-play-all tournament is a competition format in which each contestant meets every other participant, usually in turn.

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Rules of chess

The rules of chess (also known as the laws of chess) govern the play of the game of chess.

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Samuel Tinsley

Samuel Tinsley (13 January 1847 – 26 February 1903) was an English chess player and writer.

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Sanja Vuksanović

Sanja Vuksanović (Сања Вуксановић; born 3 April 1967) is a Serbian chess player.

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Scheveningen

Scheveningen is one of the eight districts of The Hague, Netherlands, as well as a subdistrict (wijk) of that city.

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Sheila Jackson (chess player)

Sheila A. Jackson (born 11 November 1957) is an English chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 1988).

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Siegbert Tarrasch

Siegbert Tarrasch (5 March 1862 – 17 February 1934) was a German chess player, considered to have been among the strongest players and most influential theoreticians of the late 19th and early 20th century.

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Single-elimination tournament

A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden-death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament.

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Sinquefield Cup

The Sinquefield Cup is an annual, closed chess tournament in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, honoring Rex Sinquefield and his wife Jeanne, the founders of the Saint Louis Chess Club.

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Smoking

Smoking is a practice in which a substance is combusted and the resulting smoke is typically inhaled to be tasted and absorbed into the bloodstream of a person.

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Sonneborn–Berger score

The Sonneborn–Berger score (or the Neustadtl score or rarely Neustadtl Sonneborn–Berger score) is a scoring system often used to break ties in chess tournaments.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and most populous city of the Kingdom of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in the Nordic countries.

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Subotica

Subotica (Суботица,; Szabadka, Суботица, Subotița) is a city and the administrative center of the North Bačka District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia.

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Suzana Maksimović

Suzana Maksimović (Сузана Максимовић; born 5 January 1962) is a Serbian and Yugoslav chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster.

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Svetlana Matveeva

Svetlana Vladislavovna Matveeva (Светлана Владиславовна Матвеева; born 4 July 1969) is a Russian chess player holding the titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster.

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Swiss-system tournament

A Swiss-system tournament is a non-eliminating tournament format that features a fixed number of rounds of competition, but considerably fewer than for a round-robin tournament; thus each competitor (team or individual) does not play all the other competitors.

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Tata Steel Chess Tournament

The Tata Steel Chess Tournament is an annual chess tournament held in January in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands.

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Tünde Csonkics

Tünde Csonkics (born 20 September 1958) is a Hungarian chess player who received the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 1990.

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The Crystal Palace

The Crystal Palace was a cast iron and plate glass structure, originally built in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Tie-breaking in Swiss-system tournaments

Swiss system tournaments, a type of group tournament common in chess and other board games, use various criteria to break ties between players who have the same total number of points after the last round.

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Time control

A time control is a mechanism in the tournament play of almost all two-player board games so that each round of the match can finish in a timely way and the tournament can proceed.

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Top Chess Engine Championship

Top Chess Engine Championship, formerly known as Thoresen Chess Engines Competition (TCEC or nTCEC), is a computer chess tournament that has been run since 2010.

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Trophy

A trophy is a tangible, durable reminder of a specific achievement, serving as recognition or evidence of merit.

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United States Chess Federation

The United States Chess Federation (also known as US Chess or USCF) is the governing body for chess competition in the United States and represents the U.S. in The World Chess Federation (FIDE).

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Vesna Caselotti

Vesna Caselotti, née Mišanović, (born 27 November 1964 in Sarajevo) is a Bosnian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster.

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Vienna

Vienna (Wien; Austro-Bavarian) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria.

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Vienna 1882 chess tournament

The second international Vienna 1882 chess tournament was one of the longest and strongest chess tournaments ever played.

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Visual impairment

Visual or vision impairment (VI or VIP) is the partial or total inability of visual perception.

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Wang Pin

Wang Pin (born December 11, 1974) is a Chinese chess player.

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White and Black in chess

In chess, the player who moves first is called White and the player who moves second is called Black.

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Wilhelm Steinitz

William Steinitz (born Wilhelm Steinitz; May 14, 1836 – August 12, 1900) was a Bohemian-Austrian and, later, American chess player.

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William H. K. Pollock

William Henry Krause Pollock (21 February 1859 – 5 October 1896) was an English chess master, and a surgeon.

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Women's World Chess Championship

The Women's World Chess Championship is a chess match played to determine the Women's World Chess Champion.

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World Chess Championship

The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess.

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World Computer Chess Championship

World Computer Chess Championship (WCCC) is an event held periodically since 1974 where computer chess engines compete against each other.

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World Computer Speed Chess Championship

World Computer Speed Chess Championship is an annual event organized by the International Computer Games Association where computer chess engines compete against each other at blitz chess time controls.

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World Junior Chess Championship

The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 chess tournament (players must have been under 20 years old on 1 January in the year of competition) organized by the World Chess Federation (FIDE).

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World Open chess tournament

The World Open chess tournament is an annual open chess tournament usually held in Philadelphia.

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Zsuzsa Verőci

Zsuzsa Verőci (born February 19, 1949) is a Hungarian chess Woman International Master (1969) and Woman Grandmaster (1978).

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Zurich Chess Challenge

The Zurich Chess Challenge (ZCC) is one of the major recurring international chess tournaments, combining rapid chess with classical or blitz chess.

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1924 Summer Olympics

The 1924 Summer Olympics (Jeux olympiques d'été de 1924), officially the Games of the VIII Olympiad (Jeux de la VIIIe olympiade) and officially branded as Paris 1924, were an international multi-sport event held in Paris, France.

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1st Chess Olympiad

The 1st Chess Olympiad, organized by the FIDE and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between 18 and 30 July, 1927 at the Westminster Central Hall, London, United Kingdom.

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1st unofficial Chess Olympiad

The 1st Team Chess Tournament was held together with the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, 12–20 July 1924, at the Hotel Majestic.

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29th Chess Olympiad

The 29th Chess Olympiad (29., 29. Šahovska olimpijada), organized by FIDE and comprising an open and a women's tournament, as well as several other events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between November 16 and December 4, 1990, in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia (present-day Serbia).

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References

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