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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.
The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations compete in an Olympic-style event. [1] [2] The first unofficial edition, labelled as the "Chess Olympic Games", was held in Paris in 1924, and coincided with the Summer Olympic Games that took place in the city in the same year. [3]
[4] [5] Individual gold medals were also won by Thai Dai Van Nguyen of the Czech Republic with 7½ out of 10 and a rating performance of 2783, Arjun Erigaisi of India who had the highest individual score in the tournament of 10 out of 11 with a rating performance of 2968, Shamsiddin Vokhidov of Uzbekistan who scored 8 out of 10 with a rating ...
The individual ratings were solely based on number of points scored. No board order was applied and only top three individual results were awarded with a prize. [2] Gold medal won Akiba Rubinstein (Poland), scoring 15/17 (88.2%); Silver medal won Salo Flohr (Czechoslovakia), scoring 14.5/17 (85.3%);
Rabar played in three Chess Olympiads. In August/September 1950, he won two gold medals: individual at fourth board (+8 –0 =2), and team, along with Gligorić, Pirc, Petar Trifunović, Milan Vidmar jr, and Stojan Puc, at the 9th Chess Olympiad in Dubrovnik. In August 1952, he played at second board at the 10th Chess Olympiad in Helsinki (+5 ...
India won the gold medal in the Women's event, which was their first overall win at the Chess Olympiads. [3] Kazakhstan won the silver and the United States took the bronze medals. [ 4 ] Dana Kochavi , playing as a reserve for Israel, had the highest rating performance of 2676 by achieving a perfect score of 8 out of 8 possible points. [ 5 ]
His total of 17 Olympiad medals won, including team and individual medals, is an all-time Olympiad record, according to olimpbase.org. At Helsinki 1952, he played second board, and won the individual gold medal with 10½/13. At Amsterdam 1954, he was again on second
[2] Uzbekistan won the gold medal in the Open event, which was their first overall medal in the Chess Olympiads. English player David Howell had the highest score for an individual player in the Open event, [3] scoring 7½ out of a possible 8 points with a performance rating of 2898. [4]