With the remarkable increase in the number of tournaments and weekend congresses over the last decade, the understanding of the Laws of Chess, and the way they work in practice, is of paramount importance to all chess players. To date, organisers and participants have had no authority to which they could refer but this gap has now been gilled bu Bozidar Kazic, the Chief Arbiter of FIDE, with contributions from Dragutin Djaja, Arpad Elo and Martin Morrison. The book also inclusdes a detailed explanation of the FIDE Rating System and the method bu which International Titles are awarded and all controllers will benefit from the thorough coverage afforded to the various forms of the Swiss System and other tournament systems.