5th Women's Chess Olympiad: Skopje 1972

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Basic data

5th Women's Chess Olympiad
(see all-time tournament summary)
Date: 18th September - 13th October 1972
City: Skopje, Yugoslavia (today's FYR Macedonia)
Venue: Pavilion Halls
Head of Organizing Committee: Mr. Dragoljub Stavrev (YUG)
Tournament Director: Mr. Jordan Ivanovski (YUG)
Supervising Referee: Mr. Max Euwe (NED)
Chief Arbiter: IA Vera Tikhomirova (URS)
Teams participating: 23
Players participating: 69 (incl. 1 IM and 22 WIMs)
Games played: 264
Competition format: Two stage two board round robin.
Final order decided by: 1. Game points; 2. Match points; 3. Direct match; 4. Berger
Time control: 40 moves in 2 hours 30 minutes, then 1 hour for each next 16 moves
Downloadable game file: 72olw.zip (ca. 30% games are missing!)


Tournament review

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Individual medals

1st Board
no. name flag code fin. pts gms %
1. IM Gaprindashvili, Nona Soviet Union URS A 8 81.3
2. WIM Cardoso, Ruth Brazil BRA B 7 9 77.8
3. WIM Ivánka, Mária Hungary HUN A 10 75.0

2nd Board
no. name flag code fin. pts gms %
1. WIM Kushnir, Alla Soviet Union URS A 7 8 87.5
2. Ereńska-Radzewska, Hanna Poland POL B 9 83.3
3. WIM Nicolau, Alexandra Romania ROM A 7 9 77.8

Reserve Board
no. name flag code fin. pts gms %
1. WIM Konarkowska-Sokolov, Henrijeta Yugoslavia YUG B 9 72.2
2. Bohmgren, Ulla Sweden SWE B 8 56.3
2. Van der Giessen, Ada Netherlands NED B 8 56.3


Interesting games


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Trivia



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