| 37th Chess Olympiad: Turin 2006 |
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| 37th Chess Olympiad (see all-time tournament summary) |
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| Date: | 20th May - 4th June 2006 |
| City: | Turin, Italy |
| Venue: | The Oval hall |
| Chairman of Organizing Committee: | Mr. Paolo Fresco (ITA) |
| General Manager: | Mr. Michele Cordara (ITA) |
| Head Referree: | IA Geurt Gijssen (NED) |
| Teams participating: | 148 (incl. Italy "B" and "C") Somalia and Sierra Leone did not arrive |
| Players participating: | 873 (incl. 246 GMs, 163 IMs, 1 WGM, 104 FMs, 2 WIMs and 5 CMs) |
| Games played: | 3836 |
| Competition format: | Four board 13 round Swiss. |
| Final order decided by: | 1. Game points; 2. Buchholz; 3. Match points; 4. Berger; 5. Median Buchholz |
| Time control: | all moves in 90 minutes + 30 sec. increment per move |
| Official logo: |  |
| Tournament bulletin: | Issues 0-13 |
| Website: | http://www.chessolympiad-torino2006.org/ (cached) |
| Other websites: |
Official results The Closet Grandmaster blog: r1, r2, r3, r4, r5, r6, r7, r8, r9, r10, r11, AUS, PHI ChessVista photos: opening, r1, r2, r3, r4, r5, r6, r7, r8, r9, r10, r11, r12, r13 FIDE website: start, 1r, 2r, 3r, 4r, 5r, 6r, 7r, 8r, 9r, 10r, 13r ChessBase news Mig Greengard's daily blog TWIC reports The Chess Drum reports ECF reports Scotlands news Welsh news Irish news |
| Downloadable game file: | 06olm.zip |
| no. | name | flag | code | ELOp |
| 1. | GM Kramnik, Vladimir |  |
RUS | 2847 |
| 2. | GM Wang Yue |  |
CHN | 2837 |
| 3. | GM Bacrot, Etienne |  |
FRA | 2833 |
| no. | name | flag | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Gillani, Tunveer |  |
PAK | 7 | 8 | 87.5 |
| 2. | GM Ermenkov, Evgeny |  |
PLE | 8½ | 10 | 85.0 |
| 3. | GM Hamdouchi, Hichem |  |
MAR | 7½ | 10 | 75.0 |
| no. | name | flag | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | IM Oms Pallise, Josep |  |
AND | 9 | 11 | 81.8 |
| 2. | Dew, Brian |  |
HKG | 7 | 9 | 77.8 |
| 3. | IM Iturrizaga, Eduardo |  |
VEN | 8½ | 11 | 77.3 |
| no. | name | flag | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Larrea Llorea, Gustavo Manuel |  |
URU | 7 | 8 | 87.5 |
| 2. | GM Leitão, Rafael |  |
BRA | 8 | 10 | 80.0 |
| 3. | GM Illescas Córdoba, Miguel |  |
ESP | 7 | 9 | 77.8 |
| no. | name | flag | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | GM Wang Yue | |
CHN | 10 | 12 | 83.3 |
| 2. | GM Zelčić, Robert |  |
CRO | 9 | 12 | 75.0 |
| 3. | GM Avrukh, Boris |  |
ISR | 7½ | 10 | 75.0 |
| no. | name | flag | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | FM Al-Qudaimi, Bashir |  |
YEM | 7 | 7 | 100.0 |
| 2. | Amir, Karim | |
PAK | 7½ | 8 | 93.8 |
| 3. | Ali, Laith |  |
IRQ | 6½ | 7 | 92.9 |
| no. | name | flag | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Phiri, Richmond |  |
ZAM | 6½ | 7 | 94.3 |
| 2. | Pg Mohd Omar, Ak Hirawan |  |
BRU | 6½ | 7 | 92.9 |
| 3. | Haideri, Hamidullah |  |
AFG | 7½ | 9 | 83.3 |
| no. | country | pts Men |
pts Women |
Sum |
| 1. | China | 34 | 27½ | 61½ |
| 2. | Ukraine | 32 | 29½ | 61½ |
| 3. | Armenia | 36 | 24 | 60 |
| 4. | Russia | 32 | 28 | 60 |
| 5. | United States | 33 | 24½ | 57½ |
| 6. | Hungary | 32½ | 24½ | 57 |
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This trophy is awarded to the country with biggest sum of game points scored by men and women. |
| cat. | seed range | country | pts |
| A | 1-30* | Israel | 33 |
| B | 31-60 | Sweden | 30½ |
| C | 61-89 | Italy "B" | 28½ |
| D | 90-120 | Tajikistan | 28 |
| E | 121-147 | Japan | 25½ |
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Those are prizes given in separate categories for best teams within selected seeding numbers. Seeding numbers assigned to specific category may not be 100% accurate. *Medal winners do not apply. |
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