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What is a bye in chess?
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Bye is a tournament term: a tournament round in which a player does not have a game, usually because there are an odd number of players. A bye is normally scored as a win (1 point), although in some tournaments a player is permitted to choose to take a bye (usually in the first or last round) and score it as a draw (½ point). This affects how games are organized, scored, paired, or decided.
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