2nd unofficial Chess Olympiad

The Chess Olympiad 1926 was founded in 1924 by the World Chess Federation FIDE organized regularly at its congress in Budapest small team tournament, which took place in July 1926. It was first played by chess Olympic rules. So four players were allowed per team and all the teams had in the round-robin tournament against each other.

Based on the heat wave during the tournament was jokingly in the chess world of the " Turkish - tournament" spoken. The German team wound up a last place. For the German Chess Federation, the tournament was, however, associated with a sports policy success. A little later allowed the respected as a war cause Germany to join the FIDE and thus already participating in the first official Chess Olympiad 1927.

The German team were the player Bruno Moritz, Wilhelm Schönmann, Gustav Otto Machate and elm. This did not belong to the top group of German chess master. In their 12 games at the Olympics arrive, only four draws, no victory.

The teams from Austria and Czechoslovakia called off before the tournament starts.

At the same convention the first masterpiece of the FIDE tournament was held with 16 participants. Ernst Grünfeld and Mario Monticelli, who had also stored against each other, were each measuring 9.5 points forward with green field reached the first place through better Berger-Tie. In the ladies competition won Edith Holloway. The Open was won by Hungary Sandor Zinner.