Tournament Play

What is a tournament book in chess?

  • Competition
  • Format
  • Scores

Tournament book is a tournament term: a book recording the scores of all the games in a tournament, usually with analysis of the best or most important games and some background on the event and its participants. One well-known example is Bronstein's Zurich International Chess Tournament 1953. This affects how games are organized, scored, paired, or decided.

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