32nd Chess Olympiad

The 32nd Chess Olympiad 1996 was held from 2 October 1996 in Yerevan (Armenia ) on 15 September.

  • 3.1 Complete progress table

Overview open group

In the 32th Chess Olympiad in 1996 in Yerevan, 114 teams ( including Armenia Armenia B and C) were playing in the open group. The tournament was the sport and concert complex.

  • Chairman of the Organizing Committee: Vanik Zakarian (Armenia )
  • Main Referee: Alesha Khachatrian (Armenia )
  • Participants: 665 (171 Grandmaster, International Master 162 and 57 FIDE Master )
  • Time control: 40 moves in two hours, then one hour for each additional 20 trains

Results

Teams open group

See below for the Final as a Complete progress table.

In the first three places, the teams came from Russia ( 38.5 board points), Ukraine (35) and from the United States (34).

The Olympic champion Russia played with the players Garry Kasparov (7 points from 9 games ), Vladimir Kramnik ( 4 ½ out of 9), Alexei Dreev (5 of 8 ), Peter Svidler ( 8 ½ out of 11, bronze), Evgeny Bareev ( 7 ½ out of 10, silver) and Sergei Rublevsky (6 of 9).

The German men came in 10th place and played with Artur Yusupov ( 8 ½ out of 13 ), Robert Hübner ( 6 ½ out of 10), Rustem Dautov (5 of 10 ), Eric Lobron ( 4 ½ out of 9 ), Jörg Hickl (4 of 7) and Christopher Lutz ( 4 ½ out of 7).

The Austrian men came at No. 48 and played with Nicholas Stanec ( 8 ½ out of 14 ), Georg Danner ( 6 ½ out of 11 ), Reinhard Lendwai ( 4 ½ out of 11 ), Michael Schlosser ( 3 of 9 ), Harald Casa Grande ( 6 of 11) and Leo Kwatschewsky on the sixth board, but this was not used.

Individual Medals open group

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Teams of women

In the women won Georgia (30 board points), followed by China ( 28.5 ) and Russia ( 28.5 ). Georgia joined with Maia Chiburdanidze ( 8 ½ points from 12 games), Nana Ioseliani (10 of 13, silver), Ketevan Arakhamia - Grant ( 8 out of 10, Gold) and Nino Gurieli ( 3 ½ out of 7).

The German women were ranked number 15 and played with Ketino Kachiani - Gersinska ( 6 ½ out of 13), Jordanka Micic ( 3 ½ out of 7 ), Marina Olbrich (7 of 12 ) and Bettina Trabert ( 6 ½ out of 10).

Individual Medals women

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Full the open group

  • Determination of placement (Rg = rank ): sum of the board points (BP ), rating ( Wtg ) to Bucholz system, sum of team- points (MP).

The Chess Olympiad is a team tournament. 14 rounds were played according to the Swiss System in Yerevan. In the Swiss system each evaluation teams are equal among themselves drawn. Each team (Team ) was per team fight use four players. The team competition four single points (board points) will be awarded, which are given in the following table of the 14 laps under the code of the opponent team. The code is a short code for the teams. The result of a team match, the team points (win = 2, draw = 1, loss = 0). In addition, the numbers of recovered, indecisive and lost battles are listed ( = -).

Complete progress table

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