| 6th Blind Chess Olympiad: Noordwijkerhout 1980 |
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| 6th Blind Chess Olympiad (see all-time tournament summary) | |
| Date: | 12th - 26th August 1980 |
| City: | Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands |
| Venue: | Noordwijkerhout conference centre |
| Tournament Director: | N/A |
| Chief Arbiter: | N/A |
| Teams participating: | 23 |
| Players participating: | 110 (no titled players) |
| Games played: | 440 |
| Competition format: | Two stage four board round robin. The teams were split into four preliminary groups with top two teams from each group qualifying to the championship final. Results from preliminaries are carried forward. |
| Final order decided by: | 1. Game points; 2. Match points |
| Time control: | N/A |
| Downloadable game file: | 80olblind.zip |
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The top three places went to USSR Yugoslavia and East Germany. Since there was an odd number of teams, the Swiss System was not used on this occasion. The Tournament was broken down into two stages. In the first stage there were four groups of six, with one of them having a bye. After an all-play-all of five rounds, the top two of each group went into the top section of the finals. The middle two went into the middle group and the last two into the bottom section. Not only was the Tournament well organised, the Dutch must be congratulated on laying on numerous activities for the guides and players, such as Bingo, Tandem riding, excursions (including a trip to a smelting works) and a shopping spree. The food was plentiful and of a very high quality. / Taken from BCAI history site / |
| no. | name | flag | code | fin. | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Krylov, Sergei | |
URS | A | 8½ | 9 | 94.4 |
| 2. | Baretić, Dragoljub | |
YUG | A | 6½ | 8 | 81.3 |
| 3. | Florián, Jaromír | |
CSR | A | 8½ | 11 | 77.3 |
| no. | name | flag | code | fin. | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Rudensky, Nikolai | |
URS | A | 7 | 8 | 87.5 |
| 2. | Garner, Michael |  |
USA | A | 7 | 9 | 77.8 |
| 2. | Van Gelder, Jan |  |
NED | B | 7 | 9 | 77.8 |
| no. | name | flag | code | fin. | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Mitev, Stoyan |  |
BUL | B | 9½ | 11 | 86.4 |
| 2. | Dobierzin, Olaf |  |
GDR | A | 9 | 11 | 81.8 |
| 3. | Gimadeev, Anatoly | |
URS | A | 7 | 10 | 70.0 |
| no. | name | flag | code | fin. | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Strokov, Anatoly | |
URS | A | 7 | 8 | 87.5 |
| 2. | Hammermayer, Franz |  |
AUT | B | 9 | 11 | 81.8 |
| 3. | Akman, Adi |  |
ISR | B | 8 | 10 | 80.0 |
| no. | name | flag | code | fin. | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Strizhnev, Petr | |
URS | A | 7½ | 9 | 83.3 |
| 2. | Jagdhuber, Hans |  |
GER | A | 6 | 8 | 75.0 |
| 3. | Cohn, Hans |  |
GBR | B | 3 | 5 | 60.0 |