Swiss-system tournament

Swiss-system tournaments are not what they used to be.

He scored 6 points in the seven-round Swiss-system tournament of 29 participants.

Each player qualified for the final meeting by winning a preliminary Swiss-system tournament of 32 players.

Anand scored 10-3 in the 52-player Swiss-system tournament where entries were limited to those under 20 years of age.

Each scored 9-4 in the 13-round Swiss-System tournament of 64 world championship aspirants.

Swiss-system tournaments were looked down upon as unfit for serious chess in the old Soviet Union.

A Swiss-system tournament is a commonly used type of tournament with several rounds of competition.

A compressed schedule that lets layers save on hotel and meal expenses has become an option available recently in some Swiss-system tournaments.

In a Swiss-system tournament with an odd number of players, one gets a bye each round, but not all players will get a bye.

The event, which finished on Jan. 31, combined a series of knockout matches with a Swiss-system tournament for those who were knocked out.

The current format is a six-round fixed-roster team Swiss-system tournament scored by team (not individual) points.

The former Soviet grandmaster won eight games and drew four to compile a 102 score that put him ahead of 536 players in the 12-round Swiss-system tournament.

He tied with two other grandmasters at 7-2 in the international open Swiss-system tournament, but beat them out in tiebreak points to take the $2,400 first prize.

A half-point separation becomes a vast difference in Swiss-system tournament prizes, where clusters of grandmasters can be closely bunched in the last round.

Swiss-system tournament - A tournament format designed to handle a relatively large number of players playing a small number of rounds in a relatively short time.

The format consists of two overlapping competitions, one a string of elimination minimatches, the other a Swiss-system tournament comprising the players who were knocked out of the first.

Another problem - for Western European and American players alike - is the horde of well-trained and talented Soviet players who descend on all the better Swiss-system tournaments.

If you want to win one of the big Swiss-system tournaments, you have to press like crazy to win games because the field is sure to be stocked with grandmasters hungry for prize money.

Pascal Charbonneau, a 19-year-old international master, became the new Canadian champion by winning the 36-player invitational Swiss-system tournament on April 1 in Richmond, British Columbia, near Vancouver.

The impresario was the world champion, Gary Kasparov, who assembled a team of 16 referees, headed by Bozidar Kazic of Yugoslavia, to monitor the 63 boards of the 127-player Swiss-System tournament.

Its team of Vasily Ivanchuk, Boris Gelfand, Aleksandr Belyavsky, Artur Yusupov, Leonid Yudasin and Evgeny Bareyev achieved the gold medal game score of 39-17 in the 14-round Swiss-system tournament.

After a chess machine called Chess Machine won with a score of 6-1 in the seven-round Swiss-system tournament, the manufacturer, TASC BV, of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, has put it on sale for $750.

The Second Stage of the Russian Cup, a 129-entrant Swiss-system Tournament in Moscow in late February, was dedicated this year as a memorial to Yefim Geller, a frequent candidate for the world championship who died in November.

In the 13-round Swiss-system tournament for players under 20 years of age, Lautier scored 9-4, which was equaled by the Soviet luminaries Vassily Ivanchuk, Boris Gelfand and G. Serper, but the French youngster beat them out on tie-break points.

The 65th running of the New England Open championship at the Holiday Inn in Boxborough, Mass., Sept. 3 to 5, was won by the grandmaster Alexander Ivanov of Newton, Mass., who scored five points in the six-round Swiss-system tournament.