32nd Chess Olympiad (women): Yerevan 1996

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Basic data


32nd Chess Olympiad (women)
(see all-time tournament summary)
Date: 15th September - 2nd October 1996
City: Yerevan, Armenia
Venue: Sports and Concert Complex
Chairman of Organizing Committee: Mr. Vanik Zakarian (ARM)
Chief Arbiter: IA Alesha Khachatrian (ARM)
Teams participating: 74 (incl. Armenia "B")
Players participating: 294 (incl. 2 GMs, 7 IMs, 33 WGMs, 68 WIMs and 25 WFMs)
Games played: 1551 (one game was forfeited)
Competition format: Three 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
Official logo: YEREVAN 1996
Website: Official Olympiad Website (cached)
Downloadable game file: 96olw.zip


Tournament review

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Individual medals

Best Rating Performance
no. name flag code ELOp
1. WGM Zhu Chen CHN 2561
2. IM Ioseliani, Nana GEO 2539
3. IM Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan GEO 2530

1st Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. WFM Ovezova, Mekhri TKM 10½ 14 75.0
2. WIM Fierro Baquero, Martha ECU 13 73.1
3. IM Polgár, Zsófia HUN 10 14 71.4

2nd Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. WGM Zhu Chen CHN 10 13 76.9
2. IM Ioseliani, Nana GEO 10 13 76.9
3. Diaz, Maria-Alejandra AHO 10½ 14 75.0

3rd Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. IM Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan GEO 8 10 80.0
2. Reprun, Nadezhda UZB 9 12 75.0
3. WIM Sedina, Elena UKR 13 73.1

1st Reserve Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. WIM Zielińska, Marta POL 6 7 85.7
2. WFM Pitam, Ella ISR 12 79.2
3. Pascua, Rachel PHI 9 72.2


Interesting games


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