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Chess Olympiad
The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament
Chess Olympiad
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 use of the name "Chess Olympiad" for FIDE's team championship is of historical origin and implies no connection with the Olympic Games.

Birth of the Olympiad

The first Olympiad was unofficial. For the 1924 Olympics an attempt was made to include chess in the Olympic Games but this failed because of
problems with distinguishing between amateur and professional players.[1] While the 1924 Summer Olympics was taking place in Paris, the 1st
unofficial Chess Olympiad also took place in Paris. FIDE was formed on Sunday, July 20, 1924, the closing day of the 1st unofficial Chess
Olympiad.[2] FIDE organised the first Official Olympiad in 1927 which took place in London.[1] The Olympiads were occasionally held annually 35th Chess Olympiad in Bled in
and at irregular intervals until World War II; since 1950 they have been held regularly every two years.[1] October 2002

Growth of Chess Olympiads Status Active

Genre Sports Event
Frequency Biennial
Location(s) Various
Inaugurated 1924
Organised by FIDE
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There were 16 participating nations in the 1st Chess By the 41st Olympiad, 2014, there were 172
Olympiad, 1927. participating nations.

Drug testing
As a sporting federation recognized by the IOC, and particularly as a signatory to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)
conventions,[3] FIDE adheres to their rules, including a requirement for doping tests,[4][5] which they are obligated to take at the
events such as the Olympiad. The tests were first introduced in 2002 under significant controversy,[6] with the widespread belief
that it was impossible to dope in chess. Research carried out by the Dutch chess federation failed to find a single performance-
enhancing substance for chess.[7] According to Dr Helmut Pfleger, who has been conducting experiments in the field for around
twenty years, "Both mentally stimulating and mentally calming medication have too many negative side effects".[7] Players such as
Artur Yusupov,[8] Jan Timman[9] and Robert Hübner[10] either refused to play for their national team or to participate in events
such as the Chess Olympiad where drug tests were administered. All 802 tests administered at the 2002 Olympiad came back
negative.[11] However, in the 36th Chess Olympiad in 2004, two players refused to provide urine samples and had their scores
cancelled.[12][13] Four years later, Vassily Ivanchuk was not penalized for skipping a drug test at the 38th Chess Olympiad in 2008,
with a procedural error being indicated instead.[14] Bobby Fischer's score card from his round 3 game
against Miguel Najdorf in the 1970 Chess Olympiad
In 2010, a FIDE official commented that due to the work of the FIDE Medical Commission, the tests were now considered
routine.[15] In November 2015, FIDE president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov announced they are working with WADA to define and identify
doping in chess.[16]

Competition
Each FIDE-recognized chess association can enter a team into the Olympiad.[1] Each team is made of up to five players, four regular players and one reserve (prior to the tournament in
Dresden 2008 there were two reserves[17]).[1]

Initially each team played all other teams but as the event grew over the years this became impossible.[1] At first team seeding took place before the competition,[1] with teams playing in
preliminary groups and then finals. Later certain drawbacks were recognized with seeding and in 1976 a Swiss tournament system was adopted.[1] Starting from 2008, the first criterion
for determining ranking has been match points instead of board points. Teams score 2 points for a match win, 1 point for a drawn match and 0 points for a match loss.

The trophy for the winning team in the open section is the Hamilton-Russell Cup,[1] which was offered by the English magnate Frederick Hamilton-Russell as a prize for the 1st Olympiad
(London 1927). The cup is kept by the winning team until the next event, when it is consigned to the next winner.

There is a separate women's competition. Since 1976 it has been held at the same time and venue as the open event, with the two competitions comprising the Chess Olympiad. The
trophy for the winning women's team is known as the Vera Menchik Cup in honor of the first Women's World Chess Champion.

Results

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41st

7th 39th
10th
1st11th 3rd 31st 12th
21st
5th19th
14th 6th
2nd 25th4th
18th 13th 35th29th 33rd
43rd
37th 9th 15th
40th
36th 20th 28th 42nd
26th34th 32nd
24th 16th 22nd

27th
17th

44th 30th

8th 23rd

Host cities of chess olympiad

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Year Event Host Gold Silver Bronze

1st unofficial
Chess Olympiad
Czechoslovakia 31 Hungary 30 Switzerland 29
1924 The Chess Paris, France
Karel Hromádka, Jan Schulz, Karel Vaněk, Karel Skalička Árpád Vajda, Károly Sterk, Endre Steiner, Kornél Havasi Erwin Voellmy, Otto Zimmermann, Hans Johner, Oskar Naegeli
Olympiad
(individual)
2nd unofficial
Chess Olympiad
Hungary 9 Romania 5
The Team Budapest, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes 8
1926 Endre Steiner, Árpád Vajda, Károly Sterk, György Négyesy, Elek János Balogh, Miklós Bródy, Alexandru Tyroler, Iosif
Tournament Hungary Boris Kostić, Lajos Asztalos, Stevan Ćirić, Imre György
Bakonyi, Sándor Zinner Mendelssohn, Zeno Proca
(part of FIDE
summit)

Hungary 40 Denmark 38½ England 36½

1st Chess London,
1927 Géza Maróczy, Géza Nagy, Árpád Vajda, Kornél Havasi, Endre Orla Hermann Krause, Holger Norman-Hansen, Erik Henry Atkins, Fred Yates, George Thomas, Reginald Michell,
Olympiad United Kingdom
Steiner Andersen, Karl Ruben Edmund Spencer

United States 39½ Poland 37

2nd Chess The Hague, Hungary 44
1928 Isaac Kashdan, Herman Steiner, Samuel Factor, Erling Kazimierz Makarczyk, Paulin Frydman, Teodor Regedziński,
Olympiad Netherlands Géza Nagy, Endre Steiner, Árpád Vajda, Kornél Havasi
Tholfsen, Milton Hanauer Mieczysław Chwojnik, Abram Blass

Poland 48½ Hungary 47 Germany 44½

3rd Chess Hamburg,
1930 Akiba Rubinstein, Savielly Tartakower, Dawid Przepiórka, Kazimierz Géza Maróczy, Sándor Takács, Árpád Vajda, Kornél Carl Ahues, Friedrich Sämisch, Carl Carls, Kurt Richter, Heinrich
Olympiad Germany Makarczyk, Paulin Frydman Havasi, Endre Steiner Wagner

United States 48 Poland 47 Czechoslovakia 46½

4th Chess Prague,
1931 Isaac Kashdan, Frank Marshall, Arthur Dake, Israel Horowitz, Akiba Rubinstein, Savielly Tartakower, Dawid Przepiórka, Salo Flohr, Karl Gilg, Josef Rejfíř, Karel Opočenský, Karel
Olympiad Czechoslovakia Herman Steiner Kazimierz Makarczyk, Paulin Frydman Skalička

United States 39 Czechoslovakia 37½

5th Chess Folkestone, Sweden 34
1933 Isaac Kashdan, Frank Marshall, Reuben Fine, Arthur Dake, Albert Salo Flohr, Karel Treybal, Josef Rejfíř, Karel Opočenský,
Olympiad United Kingdom Gideon Ståhlberg, Gösta Stoltz, Erik Lundin, Karl Berndtsson
Simonson Karel Skalička

United States 54 Sweden 52½ Poland 52

6th Chess Warsaw,
1935 Reuben Fine, Frank Marshall, Abraham Kupchik, Arthur Dake, Gideon Ståhlberg, Gösta Stoltz, Erik Lundin, Gösta Savielly Tartakower, Paulin Frydman, Mieczysław Najdorf, Henryk
Olympiad Poland Israel Horowitz Danielsson, Ernst Larsson Friedman, Kazimierz Makarczyk

3rd unofficial Poland 108

Hungary 110½ Germany 106½
Chess Olympiad Paulin Frydman, Mieczysław Najdorf, Teodor
Munich, Géza Maróczy, Lajos Steiner, Endre Steiner, Kornél Havasi, László Kurt Richter, Carl Ahues, Ludwig Engels, Carl Carls, Ludwig
1936 non-FIDE Regedziński, Kazimierz Makarczyk, Henryk Friedman,
unofficial Chess Germany Szabó, Gedeon Barcza, Árpád Vajda, Ernő Gereben, János Rellstab, Friedrich Sämisch, Ludwig Rödl, Herbert Heinicke,
Leon Kremer, Henryk Pogorieły, Antoni Wojciechowski,
Balogh, Imre Korody Wilhelm Ernst, Paul Michel
Olympiad Franciszek Sulik, Jerzy Jagielski

United States 54½ Hungary 48½ Poland 47

7th Chess Stockholm,
1937 Samuel Reshevsky, Reuben Fine, Isaac Kashdan, Frank Marshall, Andor Lilienthal, László Szabó, Endre Steiner, Kornél Savielly Tartakower, Mieczysław Najdorf, Paulin Frydman, Izaak
Olympiad Sweden Israel Horowitz Havasi, Árpád Vajda Appel, Teodor Regedziński

Germany 36 Poland 35½ Estonia 33½

8th Chess Buenos Aires,
1939 Erich Eliskases, Paul Michel, Ludwig Engels, Albert Becker, Savielly Tartakower, Mieczysław Najdorf, Paulin Paul Keres, Ilmar Raud, Paul Schmidt, Gunnar Friedemann,
Olympiad Argentina
Heinrich Reinhardt Frydman, Teodor Regedziński, Franciszek Sulik Johannes Türn

Yugoslavia 45½ Argentina 43½ West Germany 40½

9th Chess Dubrovnik,
1950 Svetozar Gligorić, Vasja Pirc, Petar Trifunović, Braslav Rabar, Milan Miguel Najdorf, Julio Bolbochán, Carlos Guimard, Héctor Wolfgang Unzicker, Lothar Schmid, Gerhard Pfeiffer, Ludwig
Olympiad Yugoslavia
Vidmar Jr., Stojan Puc Rossetto, Hermann Pilnik Rellstab, Hans-Hilmar Staudte

Soviet Union 21 Argentina 19½ Yugoslavia 19

10th Chess Helsinki,
1952 Paul Keres, Vasily Smyslov, David Bronstein, Efim Geller, Isaac Miguel Najdorf, Julio Bolbochán, Erich Eliskases, Svetozar Gligorić, Braslav Rabar, Petar Trifunović, Vasja Pirc,
Olympiad Finland Boleslavsky, Alexander Kotov Hermann Pilnik, Héctor Rossetto Andrija Fuderer, Borislav Milić

Soviet Union 34 Argentina 27 Yugoslavia 26½

11th Chess Amsterdam,
1954 Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, David Bronstein, Paul Keres, Miguel Najdorf, Julio Bolbochán, Oscar Panno, Carlos Vasja Pirc, Svetozar Gligorić, Petar Trifunović, Braslav Rabar,
Olympiad Netherlands Efim Geller, Alexander Kotov Guimard, Héctor Rossetto, Hermann Pilnik Andrija Fuderer, Aleksandar Matanović

Soviet Union 31 Yugoslavia 26½ Hungary 26½

12th Chess Moscow,
1956 Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, Paul Keres, David Bronstein, Svetozar Gligorić, Aleksandar Matanović, Borislav Ivkov, László Szabó, Gedeon Barcza, Pál Benkő, György Szilágyi,
Olympiad Soviet Union
Mark Taimanov, Efim Geller Nikola Karaklajić, Borislav Milić, Božidar Đurašević Miklós Bély, Lajos Portisch

Soviet Union 34½ Yugoslavia 29 Argentina 25½

13th Chess Munich, West
1958 Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, Paul Keres, David Bronstein, Svetozar Gligorić, Aleksandar Matanović, Borislav Ivkov, Hermann Pilnik, Oscar Panno, Erich Eliskases, Rodolfo Redolfi,
Olympiad Germany Mikhail Tal, Tigran Petrosian Petar Trifunović, Božidar Đurašević, Andrija Fuderer Raúl Sanguineti, Jaime Emma

Soviet Union 34 United States 29 Yugoslavia 27

14th Chess Leipzig, East
1960 Mikhail Tal, Mikhail Botvinnik, Paul Keres, Viktor Korchnoi, Vasily Bobby Fischer, William Lombardy, Robert Byrne, Arthur Svetozar Gligorić, Aleksandar Matanović, Borislav Ivkov, Mario
Olympiad Germany Smyslov, Tigran Petrosian Bisguier, Nicolas Rossolimo, Raymond Weinstein Bertok, Mato Damjanović, Milan Vukčević

Soviet Union 31½ Yugoslavia 28 Argentina 26

15th Chess Varna,
1962 Mikhail Botvinnik, Tigran Petrosian, Boris Spassky, Paul Keres, Svetozar Gligorić, Petar Trifunović, Aleksandar Miguel Najdorf, Julio Bolbochán, Oscar Panno, Raúl Sanguineti,
Olympiad Bulgaria Efim Geller, Mikhail Tal Matanović, Borislav Ivkov, Bruno Parma, Dragoljub Minić Héctor Rossetto, Alberto Foguelman

Soviet Union 36½ Yugoslavia 32 West Germany 30½

16th Chess
1964 Tel Aviv, Israel Tigran Petrosian, Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, Paul Keres, Svetozar Gligorić, Borislav Ivkov, Aleksandar Matanović, Wolfgang Unzicker, Klaus Darga, Lothar Schmid, Helmut Pfleger,
Olympiad
Leonid Stein, Boris Spassky Bruno Parma, Mijo Udovčić, Milan Matulović Dieter Mohrlok, Wolfram Bialas

Soviet Union 39½ United States 34½ Hungary 33½

17th Chess
1966 Havana, Cuba Tigran Petrosian, Boris Spassky, Mikhail Tal, Leonid Stein, Viktor Bobby Fischer, Robert Byrne, Pal Benko, Larry Evans, Lajos Portisch, László Szabó, István Bilek, Levente Lengyel,
Olympiad
Korchnoi, Lev Polugaevsky William Addison, Nicolas Rossolimo Győző Forintos, László Bárczay

Soviet Union 39½ Yugoslavia 31 Bulgaria 30

18th Chess Lugano,
1968 Tigran Petrosian, Boris Spassky, Viktor Korchnoi, Efim Geller, Lev Svetozar Gligorić, Borislav Ivkov, Aleksandar Matanović, Milko Bobotsov, Georgi Tringov, Nikola Padevsky, Atanas
Olympiad Switzerland Polugaevsky, Vasily Smyslov Milan Matulović, Bruno Parma, Dragoljub Čirić Kolarov, Ivan Radulov, Peicho Peev

Soviet Union 27½ Hungary 26½ Yugoslavia 26

19th Chess Siegen, West
1970 Boris Spassky, Tigran Petrosian, Viktor Korchnoi, Lev Polugaevsky, Lajos Portisch, Levente Lengyel, István Bilek, Győző Svetozar Gligorić, Borislav Ivkov, Milan Matulović, Aleksandar
Olympiad Germany Vasily Smyslov, Efim Geller Forintos, István Csom, Zoltán Ribli Matanović, Bruno Parma, Dragoljub Minić

Soviet Union 42 Hungary 40½ Yugoslavia 38

20th Chess Skopje,
1972 Tigran Petrosian, Viktor Korchnoi, Vasily Smyslov, Mikhail Tal, Lajos Portisch, István Bilek, Győző Forintos, Zoltán Ribli, Svetozar Gligorić, Borislav Ivkov, Ljubomir Ljubojević, Aleksandar
Olympiad Yugoslavia
Anatoly Karpov, Vladimir Savon István Csom, Gyula Sax Matanović, Milan Matulović, Josip Rukavina

Soviet Union 46 Yugoslavia 37½ United States 36½

21st Chess
1974 Nice, France Anatoly Karpov, Viktor Korchnoi, Boris Spassky, Tigran Petrosian, Svetozar Gligorić, Ljubomir Ljubojević, Borislav Ivkov, Lubomir Kavalek, Robert Byrne, Walter Browne, Samuel
Olympiad
Mikhail Tal, Gennady Kuzmin Albin Planinc, Dragoljub Velimirović, Bruno Parma Reshevsky, William Lombardy, James Tarjan

United States 37 Netherlands 36½ England 35½

22nd Chess
1976 Haifa, Israel Robert Byrne, Lubomir Kavalek, Larry Evans, James Tarjan, Jan Timman, Gennadi Sosonko, Jan Hein Donner, Hans Tony Miles, Raymond Keene, William Hartston, Michael Stean,
Olympiad *
William Lombardy, Kim Commons Ree, Gert Ligterink, Franciscus Kuijpers Jonathan Mestel, John Nunn

El Salvador 38½ Pakistan 34½

Against Chess Tunisia 36
1976 Tripoli, Libya Antonio Grimaldi, René Grimaldi, Salvador Infante, Roberto Zahiruddin Farooqui, Rahat Ali, Nazir Ahmad, Shahzad Mirza,
Olympiad Slim Bouaziz, Ridha Belkadi, Ahmed Drira, Sbia
Camacho, Boris Pineda, Manuel Velásquez Gholam Mohiuddin, Shaikh Mazhar Hussain

Hungary 37 Soviet Union 36 United States 35

23rd Chess Buenos Aires,
1978 Lajos Portisch, Zoltán Ribli, Gyula Sax, András Adorján, István Boris Spassky, Tigran Petrosian, Lev Polugaevsky, Boris Lubomir Kavalek, Walter Browne, Anatoly Lein, Robert Byrne,
Olympiad Argentina Csom, László Vadász Gulko, Oleg Romanishin, Rafael Vaganian James Tarjan, William Lombardy

Soviet Union 39 Hungary 39 Yugoslavia 35

24th Chess
1980 Valletta, Malta Anatoly Karpov, Lev Polugaevsky, Mikhail Tal, Efim Geller, Yuri Lajos Portisch, Zoltán Ribli, Gyula Sax, István Csom, Ljubomir Ljubojević, Borislav Ivkov, Bruno Parma, Bojan Kurajica,
Olympiad
Balashov, Garry Kasparov Iván Faragó, József Pintér Slavoljub Marjanović, Predrag Nikolić

Soviet Union 42½ Czechoslovakia 36 United States 35½

25th Chess Lucerne,
1982 Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Lev Polugaevsky, Alexander Vlastimil Hort, Jan Smejkal, Ľubomír Ftáčnik, Vlastimil Walter Browne, Yasser Seirawan, Lev Alburt, Lubomir Kavalek,
Olympiad Switzerland Beliavsky, Mikhail Tal, Artur Yusupov Jansa, Ján Plachetka, Jan Ambrož James Tarjan, Larry Christiansen

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Soviet Union 41 England 37 United States 35

26th Chess Thessaloniki,
1984 Alexander Beliavsky, Lev Polugaevsky, Rafael Vaganian, Vladimir Tony Miles, John Nunn, Jon Speelman, Murray Chandler, Roman Dzindzichashvili, Lubomir Kavalek, Larry Christiansen,
Olympiad Greece Tukmakov, Artur Yusupov, Andrei Sokolov Jonathan Mestel, Nigel Short Walter Browne, Lev Alburt, Nick de Firmian

Soviet Union 40 England 39½ United States 38½

27th Chess Dubai, United
1986 Garry Kasparov, Anatoly Karpov, Andrei Sokolov, Artur Yusupov, Tony Miles, John Nunn, Nigel Short, Murray Chandler, Yasser Seirawan, Larry Christiansen, Lubomir Kavalek, John
Olympiad Arab Emirates
Rafael Vaganian, Vitaly Tseshkovsky Jon Speelman, Glenn Flear Fedorowicz, Nick de Firmian, Maxim Dlugy

Soviet Union 40½ England 34½ Netherlands 34½

28th Chess Thessaloniki,
1988 Garry Kasparov, Anatoly Karpov, Artur Yusupov, Alexander Nigel Short, Jon Speelman, John Nunn, Murray John van der Wiel, Gennadi Sosonko, Paul van der Sterren,
Olympiad Greece Beliavsky, Jaan Ehlvest, Vassily Ivanchuk Chandler, Jonathan Mestel, William Watson Jeroen Piket, Marinus Kuijf, Rudy Douven

Soviet Union 39 United States 35½ England 35½

29th Chess Novi Sad,
1990 Vassily Ivanchuk, Boris Gelfand, Alexander Beliavsky, Artur Yasser Seirawan, Boris Gulko, Larry Christiansen, Joel Nigel Short, Jon Speelman, John Nunn, Michael Adams, Murray
Olympiad Yugoslavia
Yusupov, Leonid Yudasin, Evgeny Bareev Benjamin, John Fedorowicz, Nick de Firmian Chandler, Julian Hodgson

Russia 39 Uzbekistan 35 Armenia 34½

30th Chess Manila,
1992 Garry Kasparov, Alexander Khalifman, Sergey Dolmatov, Alexey Valery Loginov, Grigory Serper, Alexander Nenashev, Rafael Vaganian, Vladimir Akopian, Smbat Lputian, Artashes
Olympiad Philippines
Dreev, Vladimir Kramnik, Alexey Vyzmanavin Sergey Zagrebelny, Mihail Saltaev, Saidali Iuldachev Minasian, Arshak Petrosian, Ashot Anastasian

Russia 37½ Bosnia and Herzegovina 35 Russia "B" 34½

31st Chess Moscow,
1994 Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik, Evgeny Bareev, Alexey Dreev, Predrag Nikolić, Ivan Sokolov, Bojan Kurajica, Emir Alexander Morozevich, Vadim Zvjaginsev, Mikhail Ulibin, Sergei
Olympiad Russia
Sergei Tiviakov, Peter Svidler Dizdarević, Nebojša Nikolić, Rade Milovanović Rublevsky, Konstantin Sakaev, Vasily Yemelin

Russia 38½ Ukraine 35 United States 34

32nd Chess Yerevan,
1996 Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik, Alexey Dreev, Peter Svidler, Vasyl Ivanchuk, Vladimir Malaniuk, Oleg Romanishin, Boris Gulko, Alex Yermolinsky, Nick de Firmian, Gregory
Olympiad Armenia
Evgeny Bareev, Sergei Rublevsky Igor Novikov, Alexander Onischuk, Stanislav Savchenko Kaidanov, Joel Benjamin, Larry Christiansen

Russia 35½ United States 34½ Ukraine 32½

33rd Chess
1998 Elista, Russia Peter Svidler, Sergei Rublevsky, Evgeny Bareev, Alexander Alex Yermolinsky, Alexander Shabalov, Yasser Seirawan, Vasyl Ivanchuk, Alexander Onischuk, Oleg Romanishin, Vladimir
Olympiad
Morozevich, Vadim Zvjaginsev, Konstantin Sakaev Boris Gulko, Nick de Firmian, Gregory Kaidanov Malaniuk, Stanislav Savchenko, Ruslan Ponomariov

Russia 38 Germany 37 Ukraine 35½

34th Chess Istanbul,
2000 Alexander Khalifman, Alexander Morozevich, Peter Svidler, Sergei Artur Yusupov, Robert Hübner, Rustem Dautov, Vasyl Ivanchuk, Ruslan Ponomariov, Vladimir Baklan, Vereslav
Olympiad Turkey
Rublevsky, Konstantin Sakaev, Alexander Grischuk Christopher Lutz, Klaus Bischoff, Thomas Luther Eingorn, Oleg Romanishin, Vadim Malakhatko

Russia 38½ Hungary 37½ Armenia 35

35th Chess
2002 Bled, Slovenia Garry Kasparov, Alexander Grischuk, Alexander Khalifman, Péter Lékó, Judit Polgár, Zoltán Almási, Zoltán Gyimesi, Vladimir Akopian, Smbat Lputian, Karen Asrian, Gabriel
Olympiad
Alexander Morozevich, Peter Svidler, Sergei Rublevsky Róbert Ruck, Péter Ács Sargissian, Artashes Minasian, Ashot Anastasian

Russia 36½
Ukraine 39½ Armenia 36½
36th Chess Alexander Morozevich, Peter Svidler, Alexander
2004 Calvià, Spain Vasyl Ivanchuk, Ruslan Ponomariov, Andrei Volokitin, Alexander Vladimir Akopian, Levon Aronian, Rafael Vaganian, Smbat
Olympiad Grischuk, Alexey Dreev, Alexander Khalifman, Vadim
Moiseenko, Pavel Eljanov, Sergey Karjakin Lputian, Gabriel Sargissian, Artashes Minasian
Zvjaginsev

Armenia 36 China 34 United States 33

37th Chess
2006 Turin, Italy Levon Aronian, Vladimir Akopian, Karen Asrian, Smbat Lputian, Bu Xiangzhi, Zhang Zhong, Zhang Pengxiang, Wang Gata Kamsky, Alexander Onischuk, Hikaru Nakamura, Ildar
Olympiad
Gabriel Sargissian, Artashes Minasian Yue, Ni Hua, Zhao Jun Ibragimov, Gregory Kaidanov, Varuzhan Akobian

Armenia 19 Israel 18 United States 17

38th Chess Dresden,
2008 Levon Aronian, Vladimir Akopian, Gabriel Sargissian, Tigran L. Boris Gelfand, Michael Roiz, Boris Avrukh, Evgeny Gata Kamsky, Hikaru Nakamura, Alexander Onischuk, Yury
Olympiad Germany Petrosian, Artashes Minasian Postny, Maxim Rodshtein Shulman, Varuzhan Akobian

Ukraine 19 Russia 18 Israel 17

39th Chess Khanty-
2010 Vasyl Ivanchuk, Ruslan Ponomariov, Pavel Eljanov, Zahar Vladimir Kramnik, Alexander Grischuk, Peter Svidler, Boris Gelfand, Emil Sutovsky, Ilya Smirin, Maxim Rodshtein,
Olympiad Mansiysk, Russia
Efimenko, Alexander Moiseenko Sergey Karjakin, Vladimir Malakhov Victor Mikhalevski

Armenia 19 Russia 19 Ukraine 18

40th Chess Istanbul,
2012 Levon Aronian, Sergei Movsesian, Vladimir Akopian, Gabriel Vladimir Kramnik, Alexander Grischuk, Sergey Karjakin, Vasyl Ivanchuk, Ruslan Ponomariov, Andrei Volokitin, Pavel
Olympiad Turkey Sargissian, Tigran L. Petrosian Evgeny Tomashevsky, Dmitry Jakovenko Eljanov, Alexander Moiseenko

Hungary 17 India 17
41st Chess Tromsø, China 19
2014 Péter Lékó, Csaba Balogh, Zoltán Almási, Richárd Parimarjan Negi, Panayappan Sethuraman, Krishnan Sasikiran,
Olympiad Norway Wang Yue, Ding Liren, Yu Yangyi, Ni Hua, Wei Yi Rapport, Judit Polgár Adhiban Baskaran, Musunuri Rohit Lalit Babu

United States 20 Ukraine 20 Russia 18

42nd Chess Baku,
2016 Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Wesley So, Sam Shankland, Pavel Eljanov, Ruslan Ponomariov, Yuriy Kryvoruchko, Sergey Karjakin, Vladimir Kramnik, Evgeny Tomashevsky, Ian
Olympiad Azerbaijan
Ray Robson Anton Korobov, Andrei Volokitin Nepomniachtchi, Alexander Grischuk

United States 18 Russia 18

43rd Chess Batumi, China 18
2018 Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, Hikaru Nakamura, Sam Sergey Karjakin, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Dmitry Jakovenko,
Olympiad Georgia Ding Liren, Yu Yangyi, Wei Yi, Bu Xiangzhi, Li Chao Shankland, Ray Robson Vladimir Kramnik, Nikita Vitiugov

India ‡
Vidit Gujrathi, Pentala Harikrishna, Koneru Humpy, Harika Poland
Dronavalli, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, Divya Deshmukh, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Radosław Wojtaszek, Monika Soćko, Karina
Viswanathan Anand, Nihal Sarin, Vantika Agrawal, Aravindh Cyfka, Igor Janik, Alicja Śliwicka, Grzegorz Gajewski, Szymon
Online Chess Chithambaram, Bhakti Kulkarni, Rameshbabu Vaishali Gumularz, Mateusz Bartel, Iweta Rajlich, Jolanta Zawadzka
2020 (Virtual) -
Olympiad † Russia United States
Ian Nepomniachtchi, Vladislav Artemiev, Kateryna Lagno, Wesley So, Sam Shankland, Anna Zatonskih, Tatev
Alexandra Kosteniuk, Alexey Sarana, Polina Shuvalova, Daniil Abrahamyan, Jeffery Xiong, Annie Wang, Carissa Yip, Ray
Dubov, Aleksandra Goryachkina, Andrey Esipenko, Alexander Robson
Grischuk, Valentina Gunina, Margarita Potapova

China
Ding Liren, Yu Yangyi, Hou Yifan, Ju Wenjun, Wang Shixu B,
Russia Ning Kaiyu, Xu Zhihang, Wei Yi, Lei Tingjie, Bu Xiangzhi, Zhu
United States
Daniil Dubov, Vladislav Artemiev, Aleksandra Goryachkina, Jiner, Huang Qian
Online Chess Jeffery Xiong, Ray Robson, Irina Krush, Nazí Paikidze,
2021 China (Virtual) Alexandra Kosteniuk, Andrey Esipenko, Polina Shuvalova, India
Olympiad † Awonder Liang, Thalia Cervantes Landeiro, Dariusz
Kateryna Lagno, Leya Garifullina, Valentina Gunina, Alexander Świercz, Anna Zatonskih Viswanathan Anand, Pentala Harikrishna, Koneru Humpy, Harika
Grischuk, Vladimir Fedoseev, Volodar Murzin Dronavalli, Nihal Sarin, Rameshbabu Vaishali, Vidit Gujrathi,
Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, Adhiban Baskaran, Tania
Sachdev, Bhakti Kulkarni, Savitha Shri B

44th Chess Uzbekistan 19 Armenia 19 India 2 18

2022 Chennai, India Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Nodirbek Yakubboev, Javokhir Sindarov, Gabriel Sargissian, Hrant Melkumyan, Samvel Ter- Dommaraju Gukesh, Nihal Sarin, Rameshbabu
Olympiad § Jahongir Vakhidov, Shamsiddin Vokhidov Sahakyan, Manuel Petrosyan, Robert Hovhannisyan Praggnanandhaa, Adhiban Baskaran, Raunak Sadhwani

45th Chess Budapest,

2024
Olympiad Hungary

46th Chess Tashkent,

2026
Olympiad Uzbekistan[18]

* In 1976, the Soviet Union, other Communist countries and Arabic countries did not compete for political reasons.
† FIDE organized the online olympiads in 2020 and 2021 following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
‡ Russia and India were subsequently declared joint winners after several Indian team members experienced connectivity issues due to a global outage of Cloudflare servers in 2020
Online Chess Olympiad.
§ The 2022 event was originally planned to be held in Minsk, Belarus, but it was rescheduled to Moscow, which originally was host of the 2020 Olympiad, which was canceled due to
the COVID-19 pandemic. However, due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, FIDE made a statement in February 2022 that the tournament will not take place in Russia and will be
shifted to Chennai, India.

Gaprindashvili Trophy
The trophy, named after the former women's World Champion Nona Gaprindashvili (1961–1978) and it was created by FIDE in 1997. The Trophy is awarded to the nation that has the
highest total number of match points in the open and women's divisions combined.

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Year Nation
1998
2000
Russia
2002
2004

2006 China

2008 Ukraine

2010
Russia
2012

2014 China

2016 Ukraine

2018 China

2022 India

Total team ranking

The table contains the Open teams ranked by the medals won at the Chess Olympiad (not including the online or unofficial events), ranked by the
number of first-place medals, ties broken by second-place medals, etc.

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total

1 Soviet Union 18 1 0 19
2 United States 6 6 8 20

3 Russia 6 3 3 12

4 Hungary 3 7 2 12

5 Armenia 3 1 3 7

6 Ukraine 2 2 3 7

7 China 2 1 0 3

8 Yugoslavia 1 6 6 13

9 Poland 1 2 3 6 Symbol of the 6th Chess Olympiad

in Warsaw 1935 by Jerzy Steifer
10 Germany 1 1 1 3

11 Uzbekistan 1 1 0 2

12 England 0 3 3 6

13 Argentina 0 3 2 5

14 Czechoslovakia 0 2 1 3

Israel 0 1 1 2

15 Netherlands 0 1 1 2

Sweden 0 1 1 2

Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 1 0 1

18
Denmark 0 1 0 1

India 0 0 2 2
20
West Germany 0 0 2 2

Bulgaria 0 0 1 1
22
Estonia 0 0 1 1

Totals (23 entries) 44 44 44 132

Most successful players

Boldface denotes active chess players and highest medal count among all players (including these who not included in these tables) per type.

Multiple team champions

Rank Player Country From To Gold Silver Bronze Total

1 Tigran Petrosian Soviet Union 1958 1978 9 1 – 10
2 Vasily Smyslov Soviet Union 1952 1972 9 – – 9
Soviet Union
Garry Kasparov 1980 2002 8 – – 8
3 Russia

Mikhail Tal Soviet Union 1958 1982 8 – – 8

Estonia
5 Paul Keres 1939 1964 7 – 1 8
Soviet Union

6 Efim Geller Soviet Union 1952 1980 7 – – 7

Lev Polugaevsky Soviet Union 1966 1984 6 1 – 7
7
Boris Spassky Soviet Union 1962 1978 6 1 – 7

Mikhail Botvinnik Soviet Union 1954 1964 6 – – 6

9 Anatoly Karpov Soviet Union 1972 1988 6 – – 6

Viktor Korchnoi Soviet Union 1960 1974 6 – – 6

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Multiple team medalists

The table shows players who have won at least 7 team medals in total at the Chess Olympiads.

Rank Player Country From To Gold Silver Bronze Total

1 Svetozar Gligorić Yugoslavia 1950 1974 1 6 5 12
2 Tigran Petrosian Soviet Union 1958 1978 9 1 – 10

3 Borislav Ivkov Yugoslavia 1956 1980 – 6 4 10

4 Vasily Smyslov Soviet Union 1952 1972 9 – – 9

5 Aleksandar Matanović Yugoslavia 1954 1972 – 5 4 9

Soviet Union
Garry Kasparov 1980 2002 8 – – 8
6 Russia

Mikhail Tal Soviet Union 1958 1982 8 – – 8

Estonia
8 Paul Keres 1939 1964 7 – 1 8
Soviet Union

Soviet Union
9 Vassily (Vasyl) Ivanchuk 1988 2012 4 1 3 8
Ukraine

10 Efim Geller Soviet Union 1952 1980 7 – – 7

Lev Polugaevsky Soviet Union 1966 1984 6 1 – 7

11
Boris Spassky Soviet Union 1962 1978 6 1 – 7

13 Vladimir Kramnik Russia 1992 2018 3 2 2 7

Poland
14 Mieczysław (Miguel) Najdorf 1935 1962 – 4 3 7
Argentina

Best individual results in the open section

The best individual results in order of overall percentage are:

Individual Number of Number of

Rank Player Country Ol. Gms. + = – % Team medals
medals ind. medals team medals
1 Mikhail Tal Soviet Union 8 101 65 34 2 81.2 5–2–0 7 8–0–0 8
2 Anatoly Karpov Soviet Union 6 68 43 23 2 80.1 3–0–0 3 6–0–0 6

3 Tigran Petrosian Soviet Union 10 129 78 50 1 79.8 6–0–0 6 9–1–0 10

4 Isaac Kashdan United States 5 79 52 22 5 79.7 2–1–2 5 3–1–0 4

5 Vasily Smyslov Soviet Union 9 113 69 42 2 79.6 4–2–2 8 9–0–0 9

6 David Bronstein Soviet Union 4 49 30 18 1 79.6 3–1–0 4 4–0–0 4
Soviet Union (4)
7 Garry Kasparov 8 82 50 29 3 78.7 3–1–2 6 8–0–0 8
Russia (4)

8 Alexander Alekhine France 5 72 43 27 2 78.5 2–2–0 4 0–0–0 0

9 Milan Matulović Yugoslavia 6 78 46 28 4 76.9 1–2–0 3 0–2–2 4

Estonia (3)
10 Paul Keres 10 141 85 44 12 75.9 5–1–1 7 7–0–1 8
Soviet Union (7)

11 Efim Geller Soviet Union 7 76 46 23 7 75.7 3–3–0 6 7–0–0 7

12= Israel Horowitz United States 4 51 29 19 3 75.5 2–0–0 2 3–0–0 3

12= James Tarjan United States 5 51 32 13 6 75.5 2–0–1 3 1–0–3 4

14 Bobby Fischer United States 4 65 40 18 7 75.4 0–2–1 3 0–2–0 2

15 Ian Nepomniachtchi Russia 4 38 20 17 1 75.0 0–2–2 4 0–0–2 2

16 Mikhail Botvinnik Soviet Union 6 73 39 31 3 74.7 2–1–2 5 6–0–0 6

17 Amon Simutowe Zambia 4 37 23 9 5 74.3 0–1–0 1 0–0–0 0

18 Sam Shankland United States 4 35 20 12 3 74.3 1–0–0 1 1–1–0 2

19 Ding Liren China 4 38 19 18 1 73.7 1–0–1 2 2–0–0 2

20 Salo Flohr Czechoslovakia 5 82 46 28 8 73.2 2–1–1 4 0–1–1 2

Notes

▪ Only players participating in at least four Olympiads are included in this table.
▪ Medals indicated in the order gold - silver - bronze. The statistics of individual medals includes only medals which are awarding to the top three individual
players on each board. The medals for overall performance rating (awarded in 1984–2006) are not included into this statistics, but are listed separately
below the table.
▪ Anatoly Karpov won another individual silver medal for overall performance rating. In total he won 3 gold and 1 silver individual medals.
▪ Garry Kasparov played his first four Olympiads for the Soviet Union, the rest for Russia. He won another four individual gold medals and one individual
silver medal for overall performance rating. In total he won 7 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze individual medals.
▪ Paul Keres played his first three Olympiads for Estonia, the rest for the Soviet Union. Fischer and Tal at the 1960
Olympiad

See also
▪ Women's Chess Olympiad ▪ Russia (USSR) vs Rest of the World
Chess portal
▪ World Team Chess Championship ▪ European Chess Club Cup
▪ European Team Chess Championship ▪ World Mind Sports Games
▪ World Chess Championship ▪ Mind Sports Organisation
▪ Women's World Chess Championship ▪ Correspondence Chess Olympiad

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External links
▪ FIDE Handbook: Chess Olympiads (http://www.fide.com/component/handbook/?id=23&view=category)
▪ OlimpBase: Chess Olympiads (http://www.olimpbase.org)
▪ Student Chess Olympiad - World Student Team Chess Championship (https://web.archive.org/web/20200923141037/http://www.olimpbase.org/index.html?https%3A%2F%2Fptop.only.wip.la%3A443%2Fhttp%2Fwww.oli
mpbase.org%2Fyouth%2Fstud_history.html)

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