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Chess Rules Etiquette: The Rules That Can Cost You a Game
Chess rules etiquette catches most new tournament players off guard. An 8-year-old from my delegation lost a game at a…
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Chess Fair Play: Cheating, Detection and What Gets You Expelled
Chess fair play is under real strain. My son came second in a tournament that another young man had won…
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Chess Notation Explained: How to Read and Write Any Chess Game
Chess notation is written into every opening line, every annotated grandmaster game, every engine analysis you will ever see. In…
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How the Chess Clock Works: Increment, Delay, Rules and Penalties
Chess clock rules decide far more of a game than most players realise — the clock is the tool that…
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Chess Time Controls Explained
A time control defines how much thinking time each player has in a game. It is written as two numbers…
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Your First Chess Tournament
Your First Chess Tournament: The Insider Guide Tens of millions of people play chess online and in schools. Only a…
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Chess Tiebreaks Explained
You finish a chess tournament tied for first. Whether you finish first, second, third or fourth depends on a game…
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How Chess Tournaments Work
120 players enter a chess tournament. Within a week, there must be a winner — in a way that every…
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How the Swiss System Works in Chess
How the Swiss system works in chess comes down to three rules that run almost every open chess tournament in…