28th Chess Olympiad (women): Thessaloniki 1988

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Information

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Basic data

28th Chess Olympiad (women)
(see all-time tournament summary)
Date: 12th - 30th November 1988
City: Thessaloniki, Greece
Venue: The Thessaloniki International Fair
Chairman of Organizing Committee: Mr. D. Sarris (GRE)
Chief Arbiter: IA Svetozar Gligorić (YUG)
Teams participating: 56 (incl. Greece "B")
Players participating: 221 (incl. 1 GM, 19 WGMs, 43 WIMs and 12 WFMs)
Games played: 1176
Competition format: Four board fourteen round Swiss.
Final order decided by: 1. Game points; 2. Buchholz; 3. Match points
Time control: 40 moves in 2 hours, then 1 hour for each next 20 moves
Downloadable game file: 88olw.zip
Special thanks to Christos Boussios for the data.


Tournament review

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Individual medals

Best Rating Performance
no. name flag code ELOp
1. WFM Polgár, Judit Hungary HUN 2694
2. WGM Akhmilovskaya, Elena Soviet Union URS 2659
3. WGM Cramling, Pia Sweden SWE 2564

1st Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. WGM Cramling, Pia Sweden SWE 12½ 14 89.3
2. WGM Lematschko, Tatjana Switzerland SUI 12 79.2
3. WGM Polgár, Zsuzsa Hungary HUN 10½ 14 75.0

2nd Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. WFM Polgár, Judit Hungary HUN 12½ 13 96.2
2. WGM Akhmilovskaya, Elena Soviet Union URS 9 94.4
3. O'Siochrú, Máiréad Ireland IRL 11 77.3

3rd Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. Peng Zhaoqin China CHN 10½ 14 75.0
1. Horvath, Maria Austria AUT 9 12 75.0
3. Etokowo, Ime Nigeria NGR 13 73.1

1st Reserve Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. Begum, Yesmin Bangladesh BAN 8 81.3
2. WGM Litinskaya, Marta Soviet Union URS 12 79.2
3. Bašagić, Vesna Yugoslavia YUG 7 9 77.8


Interesting games


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