[blind-chess] Chess Article #40 Chess Tournaments - Definitions and Types

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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 20:42:37 -1000 (HST)

Chess Article #40
Chess Tournaments - Definition and Types
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Chess tournaments are large competitions in which chess players
compete against each other for a prize or a desirable title. The
most important chess tournament is the World Chess Tournament that
crowns the best chess players in the world every year, officially
since 1886. Less crucial chess tourneys are held almost everyday in
various schools and chess clubs, online chess websites and even by
correspondence. Chess tournaments distinct between a closed or
invitational tournament, in which a player has to be invited or
qualified to participate, and an open tournament, where every chess
player can join pay the entry fee and participate. The most common
chess tournament types are Swiss, Round-Robin and Knockout
tournaments. Other chess tournaments systems include the new
Gladiator (where a draw results in the players exchanging colors
and playing under time limitations) and the veteran Scheveningen
system, designed for team tournaments.

Swiss Chess Tournament

In the Swiss system, named after the first Swiss chess tournament
in Zurich 1895, the opponents are paired by their level of
expertise, as expressed by their rating points. In Swiss
tournaments, the participants play through the entire event
regardless to their number of wins, losses and draws. So, if on the
first round the pairs, are assigned by their ratings, in the second
round, the first round winners compete against each other and the
losing players against the losing players, and so on. In case the
last round ends up with an even score to both players, one of the
several tie-breaker systems, that put an emphasis on the players'
efforts to achieve the rating points, comes in handy.

Round Robin Chess Tournament

The round-robin tournament format gives every participant the
opportunity to compete against every other participant the same
number of times. Typical to modest events, the last World Chess
Championship was held in the round-robin format, with each of the
eight players facing one another, as White and as Black
alternately.

Knockout Chess Tournament

The knockout chess tournament is a type of an elimination
tournament in which at the end of the first round the winning
players move on the second round while the losing players drop out
of the competition, and so on until the two leading players face
each other for the title. The 2007 World Chess Cup, championed by
American Gata Kamsk, is a recent example of a knockout tournament
in chess.
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