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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]
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. Today, the most recognized chess tournaments for individual competition ...
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. Competitors meet one-on-one in each round and are paired using a set of rules ...
Tie-breaking in Swiss-system tournaments. 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 ...
The rules of chess (also known as the laws of chess) govern the play of the game of chess. Chess is a two-player abstract strategy board game. Each player controls sixteen pieces of six types on a chessboard. Each type of piece moves in a distinct way. The object of the game is to checkmate the opponent's king; checkmate occurs when a king is ...
The Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge was an 8-player over-the-board classical Fischer random chess tournament that took place at Gut Weißenhaus in Wangels, Germany from February 9–16, 2024. It was the first major Fischer random chess tournament that used classical chess time controls. [1]
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Castling is the only move in chess in which two pieces are moved at once. [3] Castling with the king's rook is called kingside castling, and castling with the queen's rook is called queenside castling. In both algebraic and descriptive notations, castling kingside is written as 0-0 and castling queenside as 0-0-0.