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Official logo of the Olympiad. The 21st Chess Olympiad (French: La 21 e Olympiade d'échecs), organized by FIDE and comprising an open [1] team tournament, as well as several other events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between June 6 and June 30, 1974, in Nice, France.
The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament and selects the host nation. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic , FIDE held an Online Chess Olympiad in 2020 and 2021 , with a rapid time control that affected players' online ratings.
Torre did this by winning the silver medal in the 21st Chess Olympiad in Nice, France. He is considered the strongest chess player the Philippines produced during the 1980s and 1990s, and played for the Philippines on board 1 in seventeen Chess Olympiads .
Kuzmin competed in the Soviet Chess Championship eleven times between 1965 and 1991. His best results occurred in 1972 in Baku (3rd= behind Mikhail Tal and Vladimir Tukmakov) and 1973 in Moscow (2nd= behind Boris Spassky). The Baku final was also a qualifier for the 1973 Leningrad Interzonal, in which he placed seventh of eighteen players.
Average ratings calculated by chess-results.com based on September 2024 FIDE ratings. ^‡ The Sonneborn-Berger score is a tie-breaking criterion used to rank teams with equal match points. All board prizes were given out according to performance ratings for players who played at least eight games at the tournament.
In 2024, at fourth board in the 45th Chess Olympiad (women) in Budapest (+6, =2, -2) and won team silver medal. [7] Nurman played for Kazakhstan in the World Women's Team Chess Championships: In 2023, at fourth board in the 9th Women's World Team Chess Championship in Bydgoszcz (+1, =2, -1) and won team silver medal. [8]
At age 14, and one of the youngest contestants, [2] Karsten won the 2022 African Junior Chess Championship, finishing unbeaten on 6.5/9. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] This earned him the title of International Master. As a result of this win, he qualified for the 2022 World Junior Chess Championship where he finished on 4.5/11.
Sevillano was a two-time participant in the Chess Olympiad for the Philippines: . At the 30th Chess Olympiad (1992) in Manila, Philippines where he manned the First Reserve Board as an IM (2345 ELO) and played impressively scoring 7.0/9 (+6 =2 -1) for a 77.8% winning rate and a high 2501 TPR and placed 6th overall among First Reserve Board players.