Examples of using "Torneios" in a sentence and their english translations:
What is the reason for separating male and female chess championships?
Knowing the history of big games and big tournaments makes us more interested in understanding the fascinating game of chess.
Rating is the measure of a chess player's strength, calculated using mathematical formulas that take into account the player's performance in official tournaments.
Chess is one of the most popular games in the world, being played by millions of people in amateur and professional tournaments, clubs, schools, over the internet or even by correspondence.
In modern professional tennis, winning a big tournament is considered a greater achievement than winning several smaller tournaments of the same combined value. Hence, top players typically concentrate on bigger tournaments and only play a few smaller ones in between. Consequently, top players play and win fewer matches than before. Since Ivan Lendl won 106 out of 115 matches he played in 1982, nobody won more than 90 matches in a single season, except Roger Federer, who went 92-5 in 2006.
Due to the lack of government support for sport, says Rafael Leitão, the professional chess player in Brazil has no financial stability at all. So, if you want to take chess seriously, you need to travel all the time to Europe and the United States to play in the big tournaments.