Although she was in the top 20, this had the effect of her being invited less frequently to the strongest tournaments.

Wade was generally no more than a middle-ranking player in strong international tournaments.

He won many strong international tournaments during his career.

At the time, the average Elo rating of the field made it the strongest tournament in history.

It was established in 2002 and quickly grew to be the strongest open tournament.

His final strong tournament was Tbilisi 1965, where at age 56 he made a respectable 8/17.

A strong tournament by Douglas would do nothing but enhance his stock.

He followed this with two strong 5-2 winning tournaments.

For the next few years, he played in increasingly stronger tournaments, some of them outside Russia.

The average Elo of the field was 2757, making it the third strongest tournament in chess history at the time.