34th Chess Olympiad

34th Chess Olympiad
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The 34th Chess Olympiad, organized by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs and comprising an open [1] and women's tournament, took place between October 28 and November 12, 2000, in Istanbul, (Turkey).Contents [hide]
1 Chess competition
1.1 Open tournament
1.1.1 Team results
1.1.1.1 Top ten overall finishers
1.2 Women's tournament
1.2.1 Team results
1.2.1.1 Top ten overall finishers
1.3 Overall title
2 Notes


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Chess competition

Both tournament sections were officiated by international arbiter Geurt Gijssen (NED). 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. The time control for each game permitted each player 100 minutes to make the first 40 of his or her moves, then additional 50 minutes to make the next 20 moves, then 10 minutes to finish the game, with an additional 30 seconds devolving on each player after each move, beginning with the first.

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Open tournament

The open division was contested by 126 teams representing 124 nations and territories; Turkey, as hosts, fielded two teams, whilst the International Braille Chess Association provided one squad.

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Team results

The teams finishing first through third overall receive medals, as do those finishing in the top three amongst teams organized by seed; overall medal winners are not eligible to receive group prizes.

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Top ten overall finishersPlace of finish [2] Team Players [3] [4] Seed [5] Average July 2000 FIDE rating [6] Matches won Matches drawn Matches lost Total score [7]
First Russia Alexander Khalifman, Alexander Morozevich, Peter Svidler, Sergei Rublevsky, Konstantin Sakaev, Alexander Grischuk 1 2685 8 4 2 38.0
Second Germany Artur Yusupov, Robert Hubner, Rustem Dautov, Christopher Lutz, Klaus Bischoff, Thomas Luther 12 2604 10 2 2 37.0
Third Ukraine Vasyl Ivanchuk, Ruslan Ponomariov, Volodimir Baklan, Viacheslav Eingorn, Oleg Romanishin, Vadim Malakhatko 6 2638 8 5 1 35.5
Fourth Hungary Peter Leko, Zoltán Almási, Judit Polgar, Lajos Portisch, Gyula Sax, IM [8] Robert Ruck 3 2661 8 5 1 35.5
Fifth Israel Boris Gelfand, Ilia Smirin, Boris Avrukh, Lev Psakhis, Emil Sutovsky, Alexander Huzman 4 2652 7 6 1 34.5
Sixth Georgia Zurab Azmaiparashvili, Giorgi Giorgadze, Zurab Sturua, Giorgi Kacheishvili, Tamaz Gelashvili, IM Baadur Jobava 13 2602 7 4 3 34.0
Seventh England Michael Adams, Nigel Short, Julian Hodgson, Jonathan Speelman, Anthony Miles, John Emms 2 2672 7 6 1 33.0
Eighth India Krishnan Sasikiran, Abhijit Kunte, IM Pentala Harikrishna, Dibyendu Barua, IM Devaki Prasad, NT [9] Surya Ganguly 31 2538 7 4 3 33.0
Ninth People's Republic of China Ye Jiangchuan, Xu Jun, Peng Xiaomin, Wu Wenjin, IM Liang Chong, FM [10] Ni Hua 5 2651 7 5 2 33.0
Tenth Switzerland Viktor Korchnoi, Vadim Milov, Joseph Gallagher, IM Yannick Pelletier, IM Florian Jenni, IM Werner Hug 23 2562 7 2 5 33.0


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Women's tournament

The women's division was contested by 86 teams representing 84 nations and territories; Turkey, as hosts, fielded two teams, whilst the International Braille Chess Association provided one squad.

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Team results

The teams finishing first through third overall receive medals, as do those finishing in the top three amongst teams organized by seed; overall medal winners are not eligible to receive group prizes.

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Top ten overall finishersPlace of finish [11] Team Players [12] [13] Seed [14] Average July 2000 FIDE rating [15] Matches won Matches drawn Matches lost Total score [16]
First People's Republic of China GM [17] Xie Jun, WGM [18] Zhu Chen, WIM [19] Xu Yuhua, WGM Wang Lei 1 2537 10 4 0 32.0
Second Georgia GM Maia Chiburdanidze, IM [8] Nana Ioseliani, WGM Nino Khurtsidze, IM Nino Gurieli 2 2480 11 2 1 31.0
Third Russia IM Alisa Galliamova, WGM Ekaterina Kovalevskaya, WGM Svetlana Matveeva, WGM Tatiana Dianchenko 3 2480 8 4 2 28.5
Fourth Ukraine WGM Natalia Zhukova, WGM Anna Zatonskih, WGM Tatjana Vasilevich, IM Elena Sedina 4 2442 7 5 2 27.0
Fifth Yugoslavia IM Alisa Maric, WGM Natasa Bojkovic, WGM Svetlana Prudnikova, WGM Irina Chelushkina 5 2430 8 1 5 26.0
Sixth Netherlands IM Zhao Qin Peng, WIM Erika Sziva, Tea Bosboom-Lanchava, Linda Jap Tjoen San 13 2329 6 5 3 25.5
Seventh Hungary IM Ildiko Madl, WIM Nikoletta Lakos, WIM Monika Grabics, WIM Anita Gara 8 2369 6 5 3 25.0
Eighth Germany IM Ketino Kachiani-Gersinska, WIM Elisabeth Paehtz, WIM Anke Koglin, WIM Bettina Trabert 10 2364 7 5 2 25.0
Ninth England WGM Harriet Hunt, IM Susan Lalic, WIM Jovanka Houska, WFM [20] Heather Richards 12 2349 8 1 5 25.0
Tenth Armenia WGM Elina Danielian, WGM Lilit Mkrtchian, WIM Goar Hlgatian, Nelly Aginian 19 2303 8 2 4 24.5


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Overall title

The Nona Gaprindashvili Trophy is awarded to the entity the average place of finish of which in the open and women's division is the best (where two or more teams are tied, they are ordered by single-best finish in either division and then by total points scored); with an average finish of two, the Russia won the 2000 trophy.

Top ten finishersTeam Open division placing Women's division placing Average placing
Russia 1 3 2.0
Ukraine 3 4 3.5
Georgia 6 2 4.0
People's Republic of China 9 1 5.0
Germany 2 8 5.0
Hungary 4 7 5.5
England 7 9 8.0
India 8 13 10.5
Israel 5 20 12.5
Armenia 17 10 13.5


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Notes
^ Although commonly referred to as the men's division, this section is open to both male and female players.
^ Where teams share the same total score, they are ordered by Buchholz tiebreak scores, calculated by summing the final scores of each opponent played by a given team. It was on the basis of a superior sum of opponents' scores, 457.5 to 455.5, that Ukraine claimed third place over Hungary.
^ Players are ordered by board, from first to last, in the same fashion in which they principally played; the fifth and sixth players of each team may have played on higher boards during the Olympiad but played fewer games than the players who primarily occupied the positions.
^ All players are Grandmasters except where a note to the contrary is present.
^ Teams were initially seeded into the Olympiad on the basis of the average Elo rating of the top four players expected to compose each team; for example, the highest-seeded team, Russia, entered the tournament with an average FIDE rating of 2685, whilst the lowest-seeded team, Djibouti, fielded no players with international ratings (and was therefore assessed an average rating of 1500).
^ The ratings averaged are those of the top four players expected to compose each team.
^ In as much as the tournament consisted of 14 rounds, with four games played by each team per round, the maximum number of points one team could accumulate was 56.0.
^ a b IM denotes International Master.
^ NT denotes No FIDE title.
^ FM denotes FIDE Master.
^ Where teams share the same total score, they are ordered by Buchholz tiebreak scores, calculated by summing the final scores of each opponent played by a given team. Hungary, for example, was placed ahead of the Germany because Hungary's opponents finished the tournament having scored 342.0 points, whilst those of the Germany scored 333.5.
^ Players are ordered by board, from first to last, in the same fashion in which they principally played; the fourth player on each team will have played on a higher board during the Olympiad but will have played fewer games than the players who primarily occupied the positions.
^ Titles for all FIDE-titled players are provided.
^ Teams were initially seeded into the Olympiad on the basis of the average Elo rating of their expected players; for example, the highest-seeded team, People's Republic of China, entered the tournament with an average FIDE rating of 2537, whilst the lowest-seeded team, Zambia, fielded no players with international ratings (and was therefore assessed an average rating of 2000).
^ The ratings averaged are those of the top three players expected to compose each team.
^ In as much as the tournament consisted of 14 rounds, with three games played by each team per round, the maximum number of points one team could accumulate was 42.
^ GM denotes Grandmaster.
^ WGM denotes Woman Grandmaster.
^ WIM denotes Woman International Master.
^ WFM denotes Woman FIDE Master.[hide]
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