Examples of using "матчей" in a sentence and their english translations:
Chess players with prodigious memories perform incredible feats, such as playing blindly, at the same time, a large number of matches.
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.
A draw is the most frequent result of closed matches, in which each player seeks, above all, to restrict the opponent's actions.
Not only has Roger Federer only been bagelled once since turning 18, but he has never been tiebreak-bagelled, either. For someone with over a thousand tour matches, that's certainly a record.
In 1951, at the Palace of Soviet Pioneers, British International Master Robert Wade played a simultaneous game with 30 local children up to 14 years old. After seven hours of play, MI Wade managed to make 10 draws, having lost the other 20 matches.
Deep Blue, a supercomputer created by IBM in the nineties to play chess at the highest level, was retired (destroyed?) after the second match, played in 1997, against Grandmaster Garry Kasparov. Much controversy still exists around these historical matches.
Ivo Karlovic holds the record for most consecutive service holds. During the 2009 grass season, he didn't lose serve once in eight matches, and it took Roger Federer, the greatest grasscourt player of modern times, to finally stop the streak at 129 holds in a row.