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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]
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%);
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]
A 2006 stamp of Moldova featuring the logo of the 37th Chess Olympiad A 2007 stamp of Armenia dedicated to the 37th Chess Olympiad. The 37th Chess Olympiad (Italian: Le 37° Olimpiadi degli scacchi), organized by FIDE and comprising an open [1] and a women's tournament, as well as several other events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between May 20 and June 4, 2006, in Turin ...
The table contains teams ranked by total number of medals won at the Chess Olympiad (not including the online or unofficial events) in the Open event (since 1927) and Women's event (since 1957), ranked by the number of first-place medals, ties broken by second-place medals, etc.
The winning American team is awarded the Hamilton-Russell Cup. Award from the 1935 Chess Olympiad. The 6th Chess Olympiad (Polish: 6. Olimpiada szachowa), organized by the FIDE and comprising an open [1] and (unofficial) women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between August 16 and August 31, 1935, in Warsaw, Poland.
The 26th Chess Olympiad (Greek: Η 26η Σκακιστική Ολυμπιάδα, I 26i Skakistikí Olympiáda), organized by FIDE and comprising an open [1] and a women's tournament, as well as several other events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between November 18 and December 5, 1984, in Thessaloniki, Greece.