Once the wall was completed, a zigzag path of 96 miles followed (177.79 kilometers), of which only 27 miles (50 km) divided Eastern Berlin from the west, the rest of the barriers was separating Western Berlin from the rural areas of Eastern Germany. Image Courtesy of commons.
A chess tournament is a series of chess games played competitively to determine a winning individual or team. Since the first international chess tournament in London, 1851, chess tournaments have become the standard form of chess competition among serious players.
This competition remains unique in the State. No other major chess event in California has competition according to age alone. The tradition in the United States is for scholastic youth tournaments where the players compete by school grades. Most of the rest of the worlds use age as the criteria for competition.