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36th Chess Olympiad

January 01, 1970

The 36th Chess Olympiad (Spanish: La 36a Olimpíada de ajedrez; Catalan: La 36a Olimpíada d'escacs), organized by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) and comprising an open[note 1] and a women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between October 14 and October 31, 2004, in Calvià on the Spanish island of Mallorca. There were 129 teams in the open event and 87 in the women's event. In total, 1204 players were registered (some of whom did not play, though).

Official logo of the Olympiad

Both tournament sections were officiated by international arbiter Ignatius Leong (Singapore). Teams were paired across the 14 rounds of competition according to the Swiss system. The open division was played over four boards per round, whilst the women's was played over three. In the event of a draw, the tie-break was decided by 1. The Buchholz system; 2. Match points; 3. The Sonneborn-Berger system; and 4. The Median Buchholz system.

The time control for each game permitted each player 90 minutes for all their moves, with an additional 30 seconds increment for each player after each move, beginning with the first.

Open event edit

The open division was contested by 129 teams representing 125 nations. Spain, as hosts, fielded three teams, whilst the International Braille Chess Association (IBCA) and the International Physically Disabled Chess Association (IPCA) each provided one squad.

Led by first board Vasyl Ivanchuk, the seventh highest-rated player at the tournament, who recorded 9½ points over 13 rounds, and second reserve Sergey Karjakin who, aged just 14 years, won 6 of his 7 games (surrendering a draw only to American Gregory Kaidanov), Ukraine scored all four possible points in each of their first three matches before "only" defeating Russia 2½-1½ in the fourth round, eventually accumulating a nearly insurmountable three-point lead after the penultimate round. The Ukrainian team nevertheless scored three points against France and claimed their first title, three points ahead of Russia, who had entered the tournament as the top seed, having brought four of the tournament's nine highest-rated players, and as defending six-time champions.

Armenia, one of just four teams to draw a match with Ukraine, paced by second board Levon Aronian, who did not lose in 12 games, and third board Rafael Vaganian, who scored 8½ points in 11 games, lost 1½-2½ to Russia in the eighth round. Ultimately, on the strength of a 3½-½ final round defeat of Georgia, they tied Russia's 36½ points. Armenia were placed after Russia, though, on the Buchholz tie-breaker system employed by the Olympiad, and finished, as in the previous Olympiad, with the bronze medals. Hosts Spain, led by Alexei Shirov, just managed to squeeze into the top ten.

Notable absentees from the tournament were the no. 1 player in the world, Garry Kasparov, as well as classical World Champion Vladimir Kramnik and his challenger Peter Leko, who were just finishing their championship match (Kramnik retained his title with a 7–7 tie). FIDE Champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov was present, however, and led Uzbekistan to 14th place by going undefeated in his 8 games (+4-0=4).

Open event
# Country Players Average
rating		 Points Buchholz
1   Ukraine Ivanchuk, Ponomariov, Volokitin, Moiseenko, Eljanov, Karjakin 2680 39½
2   Russia Morozevich, Svidler, Grischuk, Dreev, Khalifman, Zvjaginsev 2718 36½ 460.0
3   Armenia Akopian, Aronian, Vaganian, Lputian, Sargissian, Minasian 2660 36½ 459.0
4   United States Onischuk, Shabalov, Goldin, Kaidanov, Novikov, Gulko 2623 35
5   Israel Gelfand, Sutovsky, Smirin, Avrukh, Huzman, Roiz 2670 34½
6   India Viswanathan Anand, Krishnan Sasikiran, Pendyala Harikrishna,
Surya Shekhar Ganguly, Abhijit Kunte, Chanda Sandipan		 2655 34
7   Cuba Domínguez, Bruzón, Delgado, Nogueiras, Arencibia, Quezada 2596 33½
8   Netherlands Van Wely, Sokolov, Tiviakov, Timman, Van den Doel, Nijboer 2641 33
9   Bulgaria Georgiev, Delchev, Cheparinov, Spasov, Chatalbashev, Radulski 2584 32½ 453.0
10   Spain Shirov, Vallejo Pons, Illescas Córdoba, Cifuentes Parada, Romero Holmes, Arizmendi Martínez 2643 32½ 439.5

1 Bermuda actually scored 22 and Papua New Guinea 23 points, but because some of their players refused to submit to doping tests, the points scored by those players were deducted from the final scores: 3½ points from Bermuda and 7½ from Papua New Guinea.

Group prizes edit

In addition to the overall medals, prizes were given out to the best teams in five different seeding groups—in other words, the teams who exceeded their seeding the most. Overall medal winners were not eligible for group prizes.

Group Prizes
Group Seeding
range		 Team Seed Overall
finish
A 1–25   United States 10 4
B 26–51    Switzerland 29 13
C 52–77   Ireland 54 43
D 78–103   Tajikistan 83 61
E 104–129   Japan 112 87

Individual medals edit

Women's event edit

The women's division was contested by 87 teams representing 84 nations. Spain, as hosts, fielded two teams, whilst the International Braille Chess Association (IBCA) and the International Physically Disabled Chess Association (IPCA) each provided one squad.

China, led by first board Xie Jun (ex-World Champion) and second board Xu Yuhua (future champion), entered the competition as top seed and defending triple champions and quickly took the lead, conceding just two draws in their first five matches. They then defeated the silver and bronze medallists from the previous Olympiad, Russia and Poland (each 2–1), in the sixth and eighth rounds, respectively. Eventually they carried a six-point lead into a tenth round match with second placed United States.

Susan Polgar (another ex-World Champion), who entered the tournament as the second highest-rated player and achieved the best performance rating of all, drew Xie Jun, while Irina Krush won her second board game against Xu Yuhua. A draw by Anna Zatonskih against Zhao Xue gave the Americans a 2–1 win over the Chinese team. In rounds eleven and twelve, China drew Hungary and lost to Georgia, whilst the US team defeated Slovakia and then scored a 2½-½ victory over Hungary, drawing within three points of China with two rounds remaining. China, though, defeated sixth-seed India and 12th-seed Slovakia in the final two rounds, scoring four points to preserve what was ultimately a three-point win and to clinch the Vera Menchik Trophy for a fourth consecutive time.

Second-seed Russia were led by Nadezhda Kosintseva, who won top honours on the first reserve board for scoring 10 points in 12 rounds. The Russians were only in eighth place after ten rounds but had advanced to fourth place entering the penultimate round, where they faced Georgia, who they trailed by half a point. Although first board Maya Chiburdanidze (ex-World Champion) and second board Nana Dzagnidze, who both scored 8½ points for their team over the event, drew their matches, third board Lela Javakhishvili lost to Kosintseva, giving the Russian team a half-point lead over Georgia; although Georgia defeated Ukraine 2½-½ in the final round, Russia managed to secure two points against France, equalling Georgia's total and winning the bronze medals on tie-breaks.

Newly crowned World Champion Antoaneta Stefanova disappointed as captain of the Bulgarian team, scoring only 5½ points in 11 games. Bulgaria eventually finished in 14th place.

# Country Players Average
rating		 Points Buchholz
1   China Xie Jun, Xu Yuhua, Zhao Xue, Huang Qian 2514 31
2   United States Polgar, Krush, Zatonskih, Shahade 2490 28
3   Russia Kosteniuk, T. Kosintseva, Kovalevskaya, N. Kosintseva 2491 27½ 346.0
4   Georgia Chiburdanidze, Dzagnidze, Javakhishvili, Lomineishvili 2470 27½ 339.0
5   France Skripchenko, Marie Sebag, Silvia Collas, Sophie Milliet 2417 25½
6   Hungary Mádl, Vajda, Gara, Lakos 2376 25 348.5
7   Slovakia Repkova, Pokorná, Hagarova, Borošová 2377 25 337.0
8   England Hunt, Houska, Richards, Buckley 2293 25 334.5
9   India Humpy Koneru, Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi, Dronavalli Harika, Nisha Mohota 2435 24½ 352.0
10   Poland Radziewicz, Soćko, Dworakowska, Zielinska 2428 24½ 340.0

Group prizes edit

In addition to the overall medals, prizes were given out to the best teams in five different seeding groups—in other words, the teams who exceeded their seeding the most. Overall medal winners were not eligible for group prizes.

Group Prizes
Group Seeding
range		 Team Seed Overall
finish
A 1–17   Georgia 4 4
B 18–34   England 27 8
C 35–51   Uzbekistan 37 32
D 52–69   Colombia 55 37
E 70–87   Kyrgyzstan 75 58

Individual medals edit

Overall title edit

The Nona Gaprindashvili Trophy is awarded to the nation that has the best average rank in the open and women's divisions. Where two or more teams are tied, they are ordered by best single finish in either division and then by total number of points scored.

The trophy, named after the former women's World Champion (1961–78), was created by FIDE in 1997.

# Team Open
division 		Women's
division 		Average
1   Russia 2 3 2½
2   United States 4 2 3
3   Armenia 3 11 7

Controversies edit

Azmaiparashvili incident edit

Prior to the closing ceremony of the Olympiad, FIDE vice president Zurab Azmaiparashvili attempted to ascend the stage in order to inform the presenter of the Nona Gaprindashvili Trophy that the latter ought more clearly to explain Gaprindashvili's contributions to the game of chess (Gaprindashvili had been World Champion for 17 years). Security officers, in conjunction with local police, did not permit Azmaiparashvili access to tournament organizers, and a struggle ensued after which Azmaiparashvili, having sustained several injuries, was arrested by the local law enforcement. He secured his release on bail for € 500 after having been held for 40 hours, and the charges against him were later dropped.

Azmaiparashvili and FIDE averred that Azmaiparashvili was detained and physically accosted despite he had properly and clearly [displayed] his VIP credentials,[1] whilst representatives of the Spanish chess federation ("Federación Española de Ajedrez") and tournament organizers blamed Azmaiparashvili for the incident, saying that he without any previous provocation, assaulted [an] agent with a head butt to [the] mouth.[2]

Drug testing edit

Having been formally recognized by the International Olympic Committee in 1999, in preparation for prospective inclusion in future iterations of the Olympic Games, FIDE implemented (in 2001) doping restrictions consistent with those adopted by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Two players, Shaun Press of Papua New Guinea and Bobby Miller of Bermuda, refused, for various reasons, to submit urine samples for analysis.[3][4] Both players appeared before the FIDE Doping Hearing panel, which decided to cancel the players' performances (Press had scored 7½ points in 14 games, while Miller had scored 3½ points in 9 games), reducing the final score of Papua New Guinea to 15½ (from 23) and that of Bermuda to 18½ (from 22).

Associated events edit

Concomitant to the tournaments were several chess-related events planned by the organizing committee of the Olympiad, some under the auspices of FIDE; the events were known collectively as the First Chess Festival Calvià 2004. Within the festival were held simultaneous exhibitions, game demonstrations and lectures by top Spanish players, and several secondary tournaments, including one for amateur players, a rapid chess event for players aged under 16, and one for senior players.

Chess classes were introduced into the primary and secondary schools, as well as senior centers, in and around Calvià in an effort to promote chess generally, and chess films were screened on the beaches of Calvià every weeknight during the Olympiad. Chess-oriented art was displayed at an International Chess Fair, with prizes for top works awarded by a jury.

Footnotes edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Although commonly referred to as the men's division, this section is open to both male and female players.

Sources edit

  1. ^ . FIDE. 2004-10-30. Archived from the original on 2004-12-04. Retrieved 2021-12-23.
  2. ^ . Chess Center. 2004-10-31. Archived from the original on 2004-12-07. Retrieved 2021-12-23.
  3. ^ Decision of the FIDE Doping Hearing Panel (Miller)
  4. ^ Decision of the FIDE Doping Hearing Panel (Press)

External links edit

  • 36th Chess Olympiad: Calvia 2004 OlimpBase
  • Olympiad open division detailed results
  • Olympiad women's division detailed results
  • This Week in Chess Olympiad round-by-round summaries 2005-01-07 at the Wayback Machine

January 01, 1970
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The 36th Chess Olympiad Spanish La 36a Olimpiada de ajedrez Catalan La 36a Olimpiada d escacs organized by the Federation Internationale des Echecs FIDE and comprising an open note 1 and a women s tournament as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess took place between October 14 and October 31 2004 in Calvia on the Spanish island of Mallorca There were 129 teams in the open event and 87 in the women s event In total 1204 players were registered some of whom did not play though Official logo of the Olympiad Both tournament sections were officiated by international arbiter Ignatius Leong Singapore Teams were paired across the 14 rounds of competition according to the Swiss system The open division was played over four boards per round whilst the women s was played over three In the event of a draw the tie break was decided by 1 The Buchholz system 2 Match points 3 The Sonneborn Berger system and 4 The Median Buchholz system The time control for each game permitted each player 90 minutes for all their moves with an additional 30 seconds increment for each player after each move beginning with the first Contents 1 Open event 1 1 Group prizes 1 2 Individual medals 2 Women s event 2 1 Group prizes 2 2 Individual medals 3 Overall title 4 Controversies 4 1 Azmaiparashvili incident 4 2 Drug testing 5 Associated events 6 Footnotes 6 1 Notes 6 2 Sources 7 External linksOpen event editThe open division was contested by 129 teams representing 125 nations Spain as hosts fielded three teams whilst the International Braille Chess Association IBCA and the International Physically Disabled Chess Association IPCA each provided one squad Led by first board Vasyl Ivanchuk the seventh highest rated player at the tournament who recorded 9 points over 13 rounds and second reserve Sergey Karjakin who aged just 14 years won 6 of his 7 games surrendering a draw only to American Gregory Kaidanov Ukraine scored all four possible points in each of their first three matches before only defeating Russia 2 1 in the fourth round eventually accumulating a nearly insurmountable three point lead after the penultimate round The Ukrainian team nevertheless scored three points against France and claimed their first title three points ahead of Russia who had entered the tournament as the top seed having brought four of the tournament s nine highest rated players and as defending six time champions Armenia one of just four teams to draw a match with Ukraine paced by second board Levon Aronian who did not lose in 12 games and third board Rafael Vaganian who scored 8 points in 11 games lost 1 2 to Russia in the eighth round Ultimately on the strength of a 3 final round defeat of Georgia they tied Russia s 36 points Armenia were placed after Russia though on the Buchholz tie breaker system employed by the Olympiad and finished as in the previous Olympiad with the bronze medals Hosts Spain led by Alexei Shirov just managed to squeeze into the top ten Notable absentees from the tournament were the no 1 player in the world Garry Kasparov as well as classical World Champion Vladimir Kramnik and his challenger Peter Leko who were just finishing their championship match Kramnik retained his title with a 7 7 tie FIDE Champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov was present however and led Uzbekistan to 14th place by going undefeated in his 8 games 4 0 4 Open event Country Players Averagerating Points Buchholz 1 nbsp Ukraine Ivanchuk Ponomariov Volokitin Moiseenko Eljanov Karjakin 2680 39 2 nbsp Russia Morozevich Svidler Grischuk Dreev Khalifman Zvjaginsev 2718 36 460 0 3 nbsp Armenia Akopian Aronian Vaganian Lputian Sargissian Minasian 2660 36 459 0 4 nbsp United States Onischuk Shabalov Goldin Kaidanov Novikov Gulko 2623 35 5 nbsp Israel Gelfand Sutovsky Smirin Avrukh Huzman Roiz 2670 34 6 nbsp India Viswanathan Anand Krishnan Sasikiran Pendyala Harikrishna Surya Shekhar Ganguly Abhijit Kunte Chanda Sandipan 2655 34 7 nbsp Cuba Dominguez Bruzon Delgado Nogueiras Arencibia Quezada 2596 33 8 nbsp Netherlands Van Wely Sokolov Tiviakov Timman Van den Doel Nijboer 2641 33 9 nbsp Bulgaria Georgiev Delchev Cheparinov Spasov Chatalbashev Radulski 2584 32 453 0 10 nbsp Spain Shirov Vallejo Pons Illescas Cordoba Cifuentes Parada Romero Holmes Arizmendi Martinez 2643 32 439 5 Country Averagerating Points Buchholz MP 11 nbsp Greece 2569 32 427 5 12 nbsp Poland 2624 32 445 5 13 nbsp Switzerland 2559 32 442 5 14 nbsp Uzbekistan 2550 32 440 5 15 nbsp Serbia and Montenegro 2568 32 435 0 16 nbsp Germany 2617 32 430 0 17 nbsp Slovenia 2575 32 427 5 18 nbsp Belarus 2609 32 424 0 19 nbsp Philippines 2502 32 422 5 20 nbsp Romania 2590 32 417 5 21 nbsp Georgia 2621 31 462 0 22 nbsp Azerbaijan 2615 31 450 5 23 nbsp France 2621 31 449 0 24 nbsp China 2612 31 438 5 25 nbsp Bosnia and Herzegovina 2532 31 428 0 26 nbsp Kazakhstan 2483 31 425 0 27 nbsp Lithuania 2542 31 420 0 28 nbsp Denmark 2563 31 419 5 29 nbsp Czech Republic 2589 31 445 0 30 nbsp England 2653 31 427 0 31 nbsp Hungary 2614 31 425 5 32 nbsp Estonia 2544 31 423 5 17 33 nbsp Latvia 2539 31 423 5 15 34 nbsp Argentina 2544 31 419 5 35 nbsp Australia 2488 31 418 5 36 nbsp Moldova 2589 30 432 5 37 nbsp Slovakia 2545 30 431 0 38 nbsp Canada 2494 30 426 0 39 nbsp Norway 2549 30 419 5 40 nbsp Chile 2486 30 407 5 41 nbsp Bangladesh 2485 30 396 5 42 nbsp North Macedonia 2521 30 419 0 43 nbsp Ireland 2454 30 403 0 44 nbsp Spain B 2494 29 424 0 45 nbsp Sweden 2569 29 422 0 46 nbsp Croatia 2562 29 415 5 47 nbsp Iceland 2496 29 413 5 48 nbsp Indonesia 2397 29 408 0 49 nbsp Finland 2456 29 406 5 50 nbsp Turkey 2365 29 404 0 51 nbsp Vietnam 2515 29 416 5 52 nbsp Scotland 2497 29 411 5 53 nbsp Iran 2460 29 405 0 54 nbsp Mexico 2473 29 403 0 55 nbsp South Africa 2387 29 395 0 16 56 nbsp Colombia 2427 29 395 0 13 57 IPCA 2348 29 394 5 58 nbsp Belgium 2444 28 406 5 59 nbsp Brazil 2481 28 406 0 60 nbsp Italy 2476 28 400 5 14 61 nbsp Tajikistan 2303 28 400 5 12 62 nbsp Austria 2444 28 396 5 63 nbsp Dominican Republic 2354 28 387 0 14 64 nbsp Ecuador 2431 28 387 0 13 65 nbsp Bolivia 2332 28 383 5 66 nbsp Peru 2410 28 355 0 67 nbsp Singapore 2437 28 403 5 68 nbsp Andorra 2400 28 393 0 69 nbsp Pakistan 2298 28 381 5 70 nbsp Malaysia 2241 28 370 0 71 nbsp Mongolia 2381 27 402 0 72 nbsp Portugal 2424 27 401 0 73 nbsp Kyrgyzstan 2341 27 397 0 74 nbsp Albania 2410 27 385 5 75 nbsp Faroe Islands 2281 27 377 0 76 nbsp Morocco 2342 27 356 0 77 nbsp Venezuela 2354 27 398 0 78 nbsp Paraguay 2305 27 390 0 79 nbsp Costa Rica 2399 27 386 0 80 nbsp Tunisia 2363 27 384 5 81 nbsp Spain C 2334 27 383 5 82 nbsp Luxembourg 2325 27 381 5 83 nbsp Iraq 2276 27 369 5 84 nbsp Uruguay 2370 26 397 5 85 nbsp New Zealand 2316 26 383 0 86 nbsp Nicaragua 2281 26 375 5 87 nbsp Guatemala 2252 26 372 0 88 nbsp Japan 2136 26 351 0 89 nbsp Wales 2289 26 382 5 90 nbsp Lebanon 2337 26 379 0 91 nbsp Sri Lanka 2188 26 368 5 92 nbsp Thailand 2264 26 367 5 93 nbsp Honduras 2226 26 365 0 94 nbsp Puerto Rico 2212 26 358 0 95 nbsp Botswana 2174 25 358 5 96 nbsp Kenya 1986 25 340 5 97 IBCA 2358 25 370 5 98 nbsp Barbados 2279 25 368 5 99 nbsp Libya 2260 25 358 5 100 nbsp Angola 2245 24 376 5 101 nbsp Hong Kong 2141 24 363 0 102 nbsp Palestine 2070 24 362 5 103 nbsp Jamaica 2184 24 355 5 104 nbsp Uganda 2187 24 350 0 105 nbsp Monaco 2137 24 347 0 106 nbsp Nepal 2179 24 301 0 107 nbsp Panama 1906 24 352 5 108 nbsp Namibia 2186 24 336 0 109 nbsp Cyprus 2202 23 360 5 110 nbsp Liechtenstein 2119 23 348 5 111 nbsp Mauritania 2207 23 341 0 112 nbsp San Marino 2122 23 301 0 113 nbsp Malta 2157 23 300 5 114 nbsp Macau 2127 23 299 0 115 nbsp Afghanistan 1866 23 248 0 116 nbsp Trinidad and Tobago 2137 23 357 5 117 nbsp Suriname 2201 23 344 5 118 nbsp British Virgin Islands 1904 23 314 5 119 nbsp Netherlands Antilles 2098 22 293 5 120 nbsp Nigeria 2152 22 276 5 121 nbsp Jersey 2170 21 313 5 122 nbsp Fiji 2003 21 282 5 123 nbsp Guernsey 1812 21 124 nbsp Aruba 1832 20 125 nbsp Bermuda 1824 18 1 126 nbsp Rwanda 1750 17 127 nbsp Papua New Guinea 1866 15 1 128 nbsp United States Virgin Islands 1600 13 129 nbsp Seychelles 1766 11 1 Bermuda actually scored 22 and Papua New Guinea 23 points but because some of their players refused to submit to doping tests the points scored by those players were deducted from the final scores 3 points from Bermuda and 7 from Papua New Guinea Group prizes edit In addition to the overall medals prizes were given out to the best teams in five different seeding groups in other words the teams who exceeded their seeding the most Overall medal winners were not eligible for group prizes Group Prizes Group Seedingrange Team Seed Overallfinish A 1 25 nbsp United States 10 4 B 26 51 nbsp Switzerland 29 13 C 52 77 nbsp Ireland 54 43 D 78 103 nbsp Tajikistan 83 61 E 104 129 nbsp Japan 112 87 Individual medals edit Performance rating nbsp Baadur Jobava 2842 Board 1 nbsp Evgenij Ermenkov 10 12 87 5 Board 2 nbsp Mohamed Tissir 7 9 83 3 Board 3 nbsp Rafael Vaganian 9 12 79 2 Board 4 nbsp Baadur Jobava 8 10 85 0 1st reserve nbsp Vaidas Sakalauskas 6 7 85 7 2nd reserve nbsp Sergey Karjakin and nbsp Ibrahim Chahrani 6 7 92 9 Women s event editThe women s division was contested by 87 teams representing 84 nations Spain as hosts fielded two teams whilst the International Braille Chess Association IBCA and the International Physically Disabled Chess Association IPCA each provided one squad China led by first board Xie Jun ex World Champion and second board Xu Yuhua future champion entered the competition as top seed and defending triple champions and quickly took the lead conceding just two draws in their first five matches They then defeated the silver and bronze medallists from the previous Olympiad Russia and Poland each 2 1 in the sixth and eighth rounds respectively Eventually they carried a six point lead into a tenth round match with second placed United States Susan Polgar another ex World Champion who entered the tournament as the second highest rated player and achieved the best performance rating of all drew Xie Jun while Irina Krush won her second board game against Xu Yuhua A draw by Anna Zatonskih against Zhao Xue gave the Americans a 2 1 win over the Chinese team In rounds eleven and twelve China drew Hungary and lost to Georgia whilst the US team defeated Slovakia and then scored a 2 victory over Hungary drawing within three points of China with two rounds remaining China though defeated sixth seed India and 12th seed Slovakia in the final two rounds scoring four points to preserve what was ultimately a three point win and to clinch the Vera Menchik Trophy for a fourth consecutive time Second seed Russia were led by Nadezhda Kosintseva who won top honours on the first reserve board for scoring 10 points in 12 rounds The Russians were only in eighth place after ten rounds but had advanced to fourth place entering the penultimate round where they faced Georgia who they trailed by half a point Although first board Maya Chiburdanidze ex World Champion and second board Nana Dzagnidze who both scored 8 points for their team over the event drew their matches third board Lela Javakhishvili lost to Kosintseva giving the Russian team a half point lead over Georgia although Georgia defeated Ukraine 2 in the final round Russia managed to secure two points against France equalling Georgia s total and winning the bronze medals on tie breaks Newly crowned World Champion Antoaneta Stefanova disappointed as captain of the Bulgarian team scoring only 5 points in 11 games Bulgaria eventually finished in 14th place Country Players Averagerating Points Buchholz 1 nbsp China Xie Jun Xu Yuhua Zhao Xue Huang Qian 2514 31 2 nbsp United States Polgar Krush Zatonskih Shahade 2490 28 3 nbsp Russia Kosteniuk T Kosintseva Kovalevskaya N Kosintseva 2491 27 346 0 4 nbsp Georgia Chiburdanidze Dzagnidze Javakhishvili Lomineishvili 2470 27 339 0 5 nbsp France Skripchenko Marie Sebag Silvia Collas Sophie Milliet 2417 25 6 nbsp Hungary Madl Vajda Gara Lakos 2376 25 348 5 7 nbsp Slovakia Repkova Pokorna Hagarova Borosova 2377 25 337 0 8 nbsp England Hunt Houska Richards Buckley 2293 25 334 5 9 nbsp India Humpy Koneru Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi Dronavalli Harika Nisha Mohota 2435 24 352 0 10 nbsp Poland Radziewicz Socko Dworakowska Zielinska 2428 24 340 0 Country Averagerating Points Buchholz MP 11 nbsp Armenia 2374 24 330 5 12 nbsp Netherlands 2372 24 317 5 13 nbsp Lithuania 2311 24 329 5 14 nbsp Bulgaria 2410 24 329 0 15 nbsp Sweden 2301 24 327 0 16 nbsp Serbia and Montenegro 2406 24 324 5 17 nbsp Germany 2365 24 323 5 18 nbsp Ukraine 2456 23 342 0 19 nbsp Slovenia 2288 23 325 5 20 nbsp Romania 2408 23 318 5 21 nbsp Vietnam 2308 23 317 0 22 nbsp Azerbaijan 2317 23 325 0 23 nbsp Latvia 2294 23 323 0 24 nbsp Cuba 2303 23 321 0 25 nbsp Israel 2247 23 320 5 26 nbsp Moldova 2296 23 313 5 27 nbsp Belarus 2278 23 308 0 28 nbsp Czech Republic 2308 22 313 5 29 nbsp Greece 2343 22 311 5 30 nbsp Argentina 2274 22 302 0 31 nbsp Switzerland 2250 22 298 0 32 nbsp Uzbekistan 2235 22 293 0 33 nbsp Kazakhstan 2317 22 315 5 34 nbsp Iran 2208 22 313 5 35 nbsp Mongolia 2263 22 313 0 36 nbsp Estonia 2229 22 290 0 37 nbsp Colombia 2115 21 303 0 38 nbsp Norway 2149 21 302 5 39 nbsp Croatia 2243 21 299 5 40 nbsp Malaysia 2084 21 299 0 41 nbsp Canada 2123 21 277 0 42 nbsp Finland 2144 21 299 0 43 nbsp Spain 2242 21 297 0 44 nbsp Spain B 2187 21 296 5 45 nbsp Bosnia and Herzegovina 2146 21 293 0 46 nbsp Italy 2213 21 292 0 47 nbsp Australia 2243 20 306 0 48 nbsp Philippines 1940 20 295 0 49 nbsp Portugal 2124 20 292 0 50 nbsp Venezuela 2147 20 288 5 51 nbsp Iceland 2148 20 288 0 52 nbsp Wales 1975 20 285 0 53 nbsp Turkey 2082 20 283 5 54 nbsp Brazil 2072 20 282 5 55 nbsp Austria 2122 20 292 0 56 nbsp North Macedonia 2002 20 288 5 57 nbsp Mexico 2134 20 281 5 58 nbsp Kyrgyzstan 1760 20 279 0 59 nbsp Indonesia 1775 20 277 5 60 nbsp Guatemala 1748 20 276 0 61 nbsp Peru 2138 20 274 5 62 nbsp Albania 1749 20 265 0 63 nbsp Ecuador 2224 19 295 0 64 nbsp Denmark 2133 19 289 0 65 nbsp Lebanon 1942 19 282 0 66 IPCA 2080 19 270 0 67 nbsp Iraq 1704 19 229 5 68 nbsp South Africa 1875 19 291 0 69 nbsp Bangladesh 2120 19 276 5 70 nbsp Tajikistan 1600 19 261 5 71 nbsp Bolivia 1763 19 259 0 72 nbsp Costa Rica 1764 19 226 5 73 nbsp Botswana 1884 19 220 5 74 nbsp Luxembourg 1981 18 292 5 75 IBCA 1875 18 257 0 76 nbsp Puerto Rico 1878 18 231 5 77 nbsp Dominican Republic 2023 18 275 5 78 nbsp New Zealand 1899 18 242 0 79 nbsp Sri Lanka 1600 18 233 0 80 nbsp Ireland 1891 17 81 nbsp Fiji 1600 16 82 nbsp Libya 1695 13 83 nbsp Japan 1716 12 84 nbsp Trinidad and Tobago 1600 12 209 0 85 nbsp Honduras 1600 12 206 5 86 nbsp Kenya 1600 11 87 nbsp United States Virgin Islands 1600 8 Group prizes edit In addition to the overall medals prizes were given out to the best teams in five different seeding groups in other words the teams who exceeded their seeding the most Overall medal winners were not eligible for group prizes Group Prizes Group Seedingrange Team Seed Overallfinish A 1 17 nbsp Georgia 4 4 B 18 34 nbsp England 27 8 C 35 51 nbsp Uzbekistan 37 32 D 52 69 nbsp Colombia 55 37 E 70 87 nbsp Kyrgyzstan 75 58 Individual medals edit Performance rating nbsp Susan Polgar 2622 Board 1 nbsp Viktorija Cmilyte 8 11 77 3 Board 2 nbsp Szidonia Vajda and nbsp Corina Peptan 9 12 75 0 Board 3 nbsp Zhao Xue and nbsp Irine Kharisma Sukandar 10 12 83 3 Reserve nbsp Nadezhda Kosintseva 10 12 83 3 Overall title editThe Nona Gaprindashvili Trophy is awarded to the nation that has the best average rank in the open and women s divisions Where two or more teams are tied they are ordered by best single finish in either division and then by total number of points scored The trophy named after the former women s World Champion 1961 78 was created by FIDE in 1997 Team Opendivision Women sdivision Average 1 nbsp Russia 2 3 2 2 nbsp United States 4 2 3 3 nbsp Armenia 3 11 7Controversies editAzmaiparashvili incident edit Prior to the closing ceremony of the Olympiad FIDE vice president Zurab Azmaiparashvili attempted to ascend the stage in order to inform the presenter of the Nona Gaprindashvili Trophy that the latter ought more clearly to explain Gaprindashvili s contributions to the game of chess Gaprindashvili had been World Champion for 17 years Security officers in conjunction with local police did not permit Azmaiparashvili access to tournament organizers and a struggle ensued after which Azmaiparashvili having sustained several injuries was arrested by the local law enforcement He secured his release on bail for 500 after having been held for 40 hours and the charges against him were later dropped Azmaiparashvili and FIDE averred that Azmaiparashvili was detained and physically accosted despite he had properly and clearly displayed his VIP credentials 1 whilst representatives of the Spanish chess federation Federacion Espanola de Ajedrez and tournament organizers blamed Azmaiparashvili for the incident saying that he without any previous provocation assaulted an agent with a head butt to the mouth 2 Drug testing edit Having been formally recognized by the International Olympic Committee in 1999 in preparation for prospective inclusion in future iterations of the Olympic Games FIDE implemented in 2001 doping restrictions consistent with those adopted by the World Anti Doping Agency WADA Two players Shaun Press of Papua New Guinea and Bobby Miller of Bermuda refused for various reasons to submit urine samples for analysis 3 4 Both players appeared before the FIDE Doping Hearing panel which decided to cancel the players performances Press had scored 7 points in 14 games while Miller had scored 3 points in 9 games reducing the final score of Papua New Guinea to 15 from 23 and that of Bermuda to 18 from 22 Associated events editConcomitant to the tournaments were several chess related events planned by the organizing committee of the Olympiad some under the auspices of FIDE the events were known collectively as the First Chess Festival Calvia 2004 Within the festival were held simultaneous exhibitions game demonstrations and lectures by top Spanish players and several secondary tournaments including one for amateur players a rapid chess event for players aged under 16 and one for senior players Chess classes were introduced into the primary and secondary schools as well as senior centers in and around Calvia in an effort to promote chess generally and chess films were screened on the beaches of Calvia every weeknight during the Olympiad Chess oriented art was displayed at an International Chess Fair with prizes for top works awarded by a jury Footnotes editNotes edit Although commonly referred to as the men s division this section is open to both male and female players Sources edit FIDE Vice President held in custody by Spanish Police after being heavily beaten up FIDE 2004 10 30 Archived from the original on 2004 12 04 Retrieved 2021 12 23 FIDE Olympiad Calvia ESP Press Release by organisers on the Azmaiparashvilli arrest Chess Center 2004 10 31 Archived from the original on 2004 12 07 Retrieved 2021 12 23 Decision of the FIDE Doping Hearing Panel Miller Decision of the FIDE Doping Hearing Panel Press External links edit36th Chess Olympiad Calvia 2004 OlimpBase Olympiad open division detailed results Olympiad women s division detailed results This Week in Chess Olympiad round by round summaries Archived 2005 01 07 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 36th Chess Olympiad amp oldid 1166471992, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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