34th Chess Olympiad (women): Istanbul 2000

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Basic data

34th Chess Olympiad (women)
(see all-time tournament summary)
Date: 28th October - 12th November 2000
City: Istanbul, Turkey
Venue: The Istanbul Convention & Exhibition Centre (Rumeli Fair)
President of Organizing Committee: Mr. Emrehan Halıcı (TUR)
Tournament Director: Mr. Sinan Erdem (TUR)
Chief Arbiter: IA Geurt Gijssen (NED)
Teams participating: 86 (incl. Turkey "B")
Players participating: 338 (incl. 2 GMs, 12 IMs, 44 WGMs, 1 FM, 65 WIMs and 39 WFMs)
Games played: 1806
Argentina came late and did not play in round 1.
Competition format: Three board fourteen round Swiss.
Final order decided by: 1. Game points; 2. Buchholz; 3. Match points
Time control: 40 moves in 100 minutes, 20 moves in 50 minutes, then 10 minutes for the rest of the game + 30 second increment added after each move.
Official logo: ISTANBUL 2000
Website: http://www.istanbulchessolympiad.com (cached only)
Downloadable game file: 00olw.zip


Tournament review

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Individual medals

Best Rating Performance
no. name flag code ELOp
1. WGM Zhu Chen CHN 2641
2. IM Galliamova, Alisa RUS 2617
3. WGM Khurtsidze, Nino GEO 2612

1st Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. WGM Čmilytė, Viktorija LTU 12 79.2
2. WIM Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman IND 11 14 78.6
3. GM Xie Jun CHN 11 77.3

2nd Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. WGM Zhu Chen CHN 9 11 81.8
2. WFM Al-Rufei, Eman Hassane IRQ 8 10 80.0
3. IM Ioseliani, Nana GEO 9 12 75.0

3rd Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. WGM Khurtsidze, Nino GEO 11 13 84.6
2. Lee Wing Yan, Winnie MAC 9 83.3
3. WFM Vásquez Ramírez, Rocio ECU 10 13 76.9

1st Reserve Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. El-Zahira, Ghaby MAR 7 92.9
2. WIM Moylan, Laura AUS 8 9 88.9
3. Mamedyarova, Zeinab AZE 7 8 87.5


Interesting games


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