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What is a Zonal tournaments in chess?

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Zonal tournaments is a tournament term: tournaments organized by FIDE, the first qualifying cycle of the World Chess Championship. Each zonal tournament features top players of a certain geographical zone. Up until 1993 the winners went on to Interzonal tournaments. This affects how games are organized, scored, paired, or decided.

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