Parr played relatively little tournament chess, preferring instead to write books about the subject.

For those who have never played tournament chess before, there is a bottom group for Unrateds.

He wants to return to tournament chess, but has no illusions about his prospects.

It provides the main rating system for tournament chess in the United States.

He played very little formal tournament chess in his life, except for a brief period in the mid-1930s, when he was already 55 years old.

After the 1911 Championship, Atkins retired completely from tournament chess for the next 11 years.

So far as I know, he never returned to tournament chess.

But he gave up tournament chess to become the world's leading correspondence player, winning that world championship, and to build a chess-playing computer.

After a return to serious tournament chess in 2008, IM norms and top finishes followed quickly.

Rudenko began playing tournament chess in 1925 after a move to Moscow.