| 5th Blind Chess Olympiad: Kuortane 1976 |
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| 5th Blind Chess Olympiad (see all-time tournament summary) | |
| Date: | 7th - 21st August 1976 |
| City: | Kuortane, Finland |
| Venue: | N/A |
| Tournament Director: | Eero Böök (FIN) |
| Arbiter: | Lembit Vahesaar (EST) |
| Teams participating: | 21 |
| Players participating: | 97 (no titled players) |
| Games played: | 440 |
| Competition format: | Four board eleven round Swiss. |
| Final order decided by: | 1. Game points; 2. Match points |
| Time control: | N/A |
| Related websites: | Blindeskakkens historie [DK] |
| Downloadable game file: | 76olblind.zip |
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The Soviet Union on Saturday narrowly won the 5th Chess Olympiad for the Blind, held at Kuortanen, Finland. 21 countries took part. The Soviet Union, World Champions since 1968, defeated Yugoslavia in their 4th round match of an 11 round Swiss Tournament, by the odd point of a 4-board match. In the penultimate round Russia faltered, giving away two points to the Czechs, while Yugoslavia moved to within half a point of them by defeating England four nil. Everything depended upon the last game, in which Russia defeated Austria after a 9-hour struggle. Russia and Yugoslavia finished with 34½ each, the former winning the Gold medal on the count of match points, 21-19. / Taken from BCAI history site / |
| no. | name | flag | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Rudensky, Nikolai | |
URS | 8½ | 10 | 85.0 |
| 2. | Baretić, Dragoljub | |
YUG | 9 | 11 | 81.8 |
| 3. | Zeitler, Hans | |
GER | 7½ | 11 | 68.2 |
| 3. | Florián, Jaromír | |
CSR | 7½ | 11 | 68.2 |
| no. | name | flag | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Gimadeev, Anatoly | |
URS | 9 | 11 | 81.8 |
| 2. | Čabarkapa, Milenko | |
YUG | 6 | 8 | 75.0 |
| 3. | Horrocks, Jack |  |
GBR | 6½ | 9 | 72.2 |
| no. | name | flag | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Strokov, Anatoly | |
URS | 10 | 11 | 90.9 |
| 2. | Dragun, Nikola | |
YUG | 8 | 10 | 80.0 |
| 3. | Fiter, Juan |  |
ESP | 8 | 11 | 72.7 |
| no. | name | flag | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Đukanović, Marko | |
YUG | 9 | 10 | 90.0 |
| 2. | Breitner, Kurt |  |
GDR | 6½ | 9 | 72.2 |
| 3. | Lăpădatu, Teodor |  |
ROM | 7 | 11 | 63.6 |
| no. | name | flag | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Jennen, Herman |  |
BEL | 8½ | 10 | 85.0 |
| 2. | Asbrand, Günter | |
GER | 5 | 7 | 71.4 |
| 3. | Plokhuchko, Nikolai | |
URS | 6 | 9 | 66.7 |