Meaning of classical chess | Babel Free

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Chess played at a slow time control, with games taking up to several hours (the most common format at professional tournaments).

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“All good things must come⟳ to an end⟳, and so it was that Magnus Carlsen's record-breaking streak without defeat⟳ in classical chess was halted by Jan-Krzysztof Duda on Saturday.”

“The problem is not that computers have⟳ replaced people, but that they have⟳ curtailed their space for adventure, especially in "classical" chess played under long time limits at championship level. Players always arrived for tournaments well prepared, but they now use⟳ software as well as human analysis to predict⟳ lines long past the opening.”

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