Questions about watching actual chess tournaments

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Bibi_chess_Gp wrote:

Sorry for my bad Eng 🥲🥲

I've recently gotten into chess, and I have some favorite chess players! But I've never actually seen the game, instead I've watched it online. I don't know how I can enter stadium to watch chess player's games. I really don't have any information.

So I wanna ask, how can I get informations about tournaments that I can enters to watch games? Also, Is it rude to ask for an autograph? Would they get upset when I asked for an autograph?

It would be so nice if you guys give me some helpful information!!

Except for world championships, tournaments are not usually set up for spectators. Chess requires great concentration and so interrupting the players during the games would not be allowed. When world championships or other events are set up to allow spectators, tickets are advertized before-hand.

But if you can find a tournament near where you live, there's normally no reason you can't visit it. You can quietly watch.

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Bibi_chess_Gp wrote:

Sorry for my bad Eng 🥲🥲

I don't know how I can enter stadium to watch chess player's games.

A little perspective.

I see you are from South Korea.

Good.

Soccer is like Chinese Chess. The goalies are the Kings.

American Football is like Chess. Reaching the end zone is like a pawn . . . reaching the end zone.

American Football is the magnification of Chess.

Soccer is the magnification of Chinese Chess.

The opposite of magnification, I don't know what is is called. Microsocpic.

Chess players in a stadium would look like microscopic ants.

To be continued.

PS. You already seen chess in a stadium. It's called soccer, American Football, etc.

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A "tournament" is just an extension of a game.

You've seen Bloodsport. A "tournament" is just one fight after another.

Go to a real chess club. Play a game there, real time controls, over 60 minutes per game (mine chess club was 90 minutes for 40 moves + 60 minutes).

Then you know what a "tournament" looks like.