(see all-time tournament summary)
Due to late start of the Olympiad the last round was cancelled.
and official mascot (right):
| 33rd Chess Olympiad (women): Elista 1998 |
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| 33rd Chess Olympiad (women) (see all-time tournament summary) |
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| Date: | 26th September - 13th October 1998 |
| City: | Elista, Russia (autonomous Republic of Kalmykia) |
| Venue: | The Chess Palace |
| Chairman of Executive Council: | Mr. Igor Shalkhakov (RUS) |
| Chief Arbiter: | IA Geurt Gijssen (NED) |
| Teams participating: | 72 (incl. Russia "B" and "C") |
| Players participating: | 282 (incl. 1 GM, 1 IM, 48 WGMs, 63 WIMs and 25 WFMs) |
| Games played: | 1404 |
| Competition format: | Three board thirteen round Swiss. Due to late start of the Olympiad the last round was cancelled. |
| Final order decided by: | 1. Game points; 2. Buchholz; 3. Match points |
| Time control: | 40 moves in 100 minutes, then 20 moves in 50 minutes, then 10 minutes for the rest of the game + 30 second increment added after each move. |
| Official logo (left) and official mascot (right): |
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| Website: | http://www.fide.com/elista98/olympiad.htm (cached) |
| Downloadable game file: | 98olw.zip |
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| no. | name | flag | code | ELOp |
| 1. | WGM Wang Lei |  |
CHN | 2618 |
| 2. | WGM Stepovaya-Dianchenko, Tatiana |  |
RUS | 2595 |
| 3. | GM Chiburdanidze, Maia |  |
GEO | 2585 |
| no. | name | flag | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | WIM Ovezova, Mekhri |  |
TKM | 10½ | 13 | 80.8 |
| 2. | GM Chiburdanidze, Maia | |
GEO | 9½ | 12 | 79.2 |
| 3. | IM Marić, Alisa |  |
YUG | 9 | 12 | 75.0 |
| 3. | WGM Peng, Zhaoqin |  |
NED | 9 | 12 | 75.0 |
| no. | name | flag | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Al-Rufei, Eman Hassane |  |
IRQ | 8 | 9 | 88.9 |
| 2. | WIM Kosteniuk, Alexandra | |
RUS3 | 10 | 13 | 76.9 |
| 3. | WIM Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina | |
RUS | 9 | 12 | 75.0 |
| 3. | WIM Koskela, Niina |  |
FIN | 9 | 12 | 75.0 |
| 3. | WGM Hunt, Harriet |  |
ENG | 9 | 12 | 75.0 |
| no. | name | flag | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | WGM Shumiakina, Tatiana | |
RUS | 6½ | 8 | 81.3 |
| 2. | WGM Cosma, Elena-Luminiţa |  |
ROM | 7 | 9 | 77.8 |
| 3. | WFM Sergeeva, Tatyana |  |
KAZ | 8½ | 11 | 77.3 |
| no. | name | flag | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | WGM Stepovaya-Dianchenko, Tatiana | |
RUS | 8 | 9 | 88.9 |
| 1. | WGM Wang Lei | |
CHN | 8 | 9 | 88.9 |
| 3. | Hussain, Alya |  |
UAE | 7 | 8 | 87.5 |