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What is a theme tournament in chess?

  • Competition
  • Format
  • Scores

Theme tournament is a tournament term: a chess tournament in which every game must begin with a particular opening specified by the organizers, for example the Budapest Gambit (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5). This affects how games are organized, scored, paired, or decided.

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