24th Chess Olympiad

The 24th Chess Olympiad in 1980 was a chess - team tournament, which was held from 20 November to 6 December 1980 in Valletta, Malta. It was the 24th Olympiad of the men and the 9th Chess Olympiad of women.

  • 2.1 Ranking
  • 2.2 Medals of women
  • 2.3 Results of the German

Final of the men's teams

The Olympics took a very exciting course. Favorited was the Soviet Union, with world champion Anatoly Karpov on top board, the former world champion Mikhail Tal and the later world champion Garry Kasparov, who made ​​his debut at the Chess Olympiad. Nevertheless, the team was able to catch only after the 12 points to the erstwhile leader board points after Hungary. The last two rounds did not alter the tie as both teams each won by the same score. Therefore, the tournament victory depended on the last lap of the outcome of the match Greece vs Scotland. Greece had to win at least 3:1, so that the Soviet Union would have better fine classification. After changeful course of the match ended even 3.5:1.5 in favor of the Greeks, who were in the analysis of slopes games help from Kasparov.

Ranking

A total of 81 teams

Medals of men

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Reserve Board 1

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Results of the German

For Germany Helmut Pfleger played (5 points from 11 games ), Hans -Joachim Hecht ( 9 from 13 ), Otto Borik (5 of 10 ), Eric Lobron (5 of 10 ), Manfred Hermann ( 3 of 6 ) and Uwe Kunsztowicz ( 3 of 6 ).

The team and individual results of the German see OlimpBase.

Final of the women's teams

Ranking

A total of 42 teams

Medals of women

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Reserve board

Results of the German

Germany played with Gisela fish thick ( 7.5 points from 14 games ), Barbara dog (9.0 out of 13, Bronze ), Anni Laakmann (5.5 out of 9) and Isabel dog (2.0 out of 6).

The team and individual results of the German see OlimpBase.

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