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Team match
A contest between two teams across several boards, with individual game results combined into an overall team result.
Fixed board order
Level: IntermediateA stable team list assigning each player a board position for the duration of a competition.
Swiss team pairing system
A system that applies Swiss pairing principles to whole teams round by round according to their score.
Scheveningen system
A group format in which every member of one group plays every member of the opposing group.
Hutton System
A large team-event system in which every team meets every other team, while each player covers only part of the schedule.