Credits

CreditsTremendous growth of the size and the quality of the OlimpBase data would never be possible without constant support coming from the chess fans from all over the world. They are people who contributed their time and efforts for free, just to make what you see now available freely for everyone, forever. Below is the glory list, the smallest reward for their efforts (I am sorry, but because of a disk crash in December 2004 I lost many names that fully deserved to be put right down). Starring in alphabetical order:

  • The ChessBase team - for making their game database freely available to the public.
  • FM Armando Acevedo (Mexico) - for many useful details regarding Latin American players.
  • FM Gendengyn Altan-och (Mongolia) - for lectures on Mongolian spelling and naming system.
  • Himanshu Akhila Amarawickrama (Sri Lanka) - for correction of Sri Lankan names.
  • Giovanni Armillotta (Italy) - for creative remarks on Albanian chess history.
  • Zoltan Bakk (Hungary) - for translation from Hungarian.
  • Lars Balzer (Germany) - for extracting lot of old and valuable games from the databases.
  • José Miguel Barrueco Martín (Spain) - for Student and Youth Team Championship bulletins.
  • Andrzej Bartelski (my brother) - for all kinds of moral and technical support.
  • Paul Bennett (New Zealand) - for bulletin from 1977 Asian Team Championship.
  • Thomas Binder (Germany) - for many minor corrections.
  • John Blackstone (USA) - for many old games unavailabe at the Web before and more.
  • FM Geoffrey D. Borg (Malta) - for extensive Malta 1980 and Folkestone 1933 support.
  • Pierre Bourget (Canada) - for Canadian team data, Nice 1974 support and more.
  • Christos Boussios (Greece) - for complete data from 1988 Olympiad.
  • Rajko Bukvić (Serbia) - for Yugoslav Team Championship data.
  • Dr. Nigel Chudleigh (Bermuda) - for help on Bermuda chess players.
  • Geert Clijsen (Netherlands) - some Clare Benedict tables.
  • Mark Commiskey (USA) - for sending me tons of scans to fill most of Olympic gaps.
  • Mirsad Crnić (Yugoslavia) - for full Dubrovnik 1950 coverage and other Yugoslav games.
  • Mark Crowther (UK) - for making his huge archives available to me.
  • Roberto Del Noce (Italy) - for detailed data on 1964 Olympiad
  • Claudiu Dobre (Romania) - for thorough research on European Club Cup.
  • Detlef Döll Germany) - for excellent info on Hamburg 1930 and Munich 1936.
  • Carlos E. A. Drake (Argentina) - for help on 1978 Olympiad and more.
  • IM Jorge Egger (Chile) - for help on 1990 and 1992 Olympiads.
  • Calle Erlandsson (Sweden) - for his expert remarks on past events.
  • Alberto Fabris (Italy) - for his support on past Olympiads.
  • Kevin Flaherty (Ireland) - for his titanic efforts on completing full Nice 1974 pairings.
  • FM Richard Forster (Switzerland) - for help on Swiss record at the European Team Championship and more.
  • Giuseppe Gabelli (Italy) - for his useful statistical remarks.
  • Simon Giehl (Germany) - for remarks on 1972 Olympiad.
  • Jack Goossens (Holland) - for The Hague 1928 and Amsterdam 1954 full coverage.
  • GM Efstratios Grivas (Greece) - for Balkaniad data.
  • Susan Grumer (USA) - for chess photos and inspiring ideas.
  • Fred Hamperl (Guernsey) - for clarification on Guernsey data.
  • Tomáš Hecht (Slovakia) - for numerous minor corrections.
  • Shane Hudson (New Zealand) - for Scid, an excellent game file processing utility without which OlimpBase would take much time, if ever, to appear.
  • Przemysław Jahr (Poland) - for minor corrections.
  • Jan Kalendovsky (Czech Republic) - for his help on Czech events and Student Olympiads.
  • Michael Keating (USA) - for his excellent JavaScript based chess games viewer.
  • Gagik Khanamiryan (Armenia) - for help on 1996 Olympiad and Armenian chess in general.
  • Dennis Leong (USA) - for Lugano 1968 games and other data.
  • Pascal Losekoot (Netherlands) - for sending me valuable article on Emmen Olympiad.
  • GM Bartłomiej Macieja (Poland) - for help on human resources management.
  • David McAlister (Northern Ireland) - for Glorney/Faber cup and friendly matches corrections.
  • Alan McGowan (Scotland) - for help on Scottish players.
  • Paul McKeown (New Zealand) - for corrections on players from New Zealand.
  • FM Juan Minaya (Colombia) - for help on Medellin 1974 Olympiad.
  • Ovidiu Mirescu (Romania) - for translation of Romanian names.
  • GM Karel Mokry (Czech Republic) - for help on Czech players.
  • Sven Mühlenhaus (Germany) - for ELOs and titles from 1985 World Team Championship.
  • IM Renato Naranja (Philippines) - for minor corrections.
  • Adaucto da Nóbrega (Brazil) - for profound research on many Olympic games and useful corrections.
  • René Olthof (Netherlands) - for some Olympiad corrections.
  • IM Mark Orr (Ireland) - for help on many Olympiads and Irish chess in general.
  • Massimiliano Orsi (Italy) - for extra games from 1989 Euro and more.
  • Alexy A. Popovsky (Russia) - for Moscow 1956 games.
  • Toni Preziuso (Switzerland) - for couple of games from pre-War Olympiads.
  • Krzysztof Puszczewicz (Poland) - for many accurate corrections.
  • Anwar Qureshi (Pakistan) - for major help on 1986 Olympiad.
  • Carlos Hugo Sáenz (Argentina) - for his monumental work on correction of many names.
  • Christian Sánchez (Argentina) - for correction on 1937 Olympiads and some spelling.
  • Jose Sanchez Lorio (Nicaragua) - for correction of Nicaraguan names.
  • John Saunders (England) - for complete Folkestone 1933 coverage and help on European Team Championship preliminaries.
  • Gerhard Schemm (Germany) - for past results of European Club Cup.
  • Dr. Gerhard Schmidt (Germany) - for info on European Senior Team Championship.
  • Michael Schmölzing (Germany) - for providing downloadable game files from the Olympiads.
  • Claudio Sericano (Italy) - for major help on European Team Championship.
  • Mario Serracino-Inglott (Malta) - for his essay on 1980 Olympiad and many photos from the event.
  • Héctor Silva Nazzari (Uruguay) - for many extra games and other corrections.
  • Rainer Smeykal (Germany) - for many minor corrections.
  • Chrysafis Stamoudis (Poland/Greece) - for complete Greek team rosters and useful translations.
  • Paweł Suwarski (Poland) - for some national team championship results.
  • Michał Szanduła (Poland) - for programming support.
  • Martín Trejo Chávez (Mexico) - for data on some Panamerican tournaments.
  • Santiago Velasco (Puerto Rico) - for help on Puertorican players.
  • Nicolaas Verhlust (Belgium) - for data on tournaments with participation of Belgium.
  • Duncan Vella (Malta) - for correction of Maltese data.
  • Roger Watson (United Kingdom) - for games from Teeside Student Olympiads.
  • Luxman Wijesuriya (Sri Lanka) - for help on names from Sri Lanka.
  • GM Luc Winants (Belgium) - for Belgium team rosters and spelling correction.
  • Leszek Wydrowski (Poland) - for games from Women's Olympiad Lublin 1969.
  • Oscar Alfredo Zaiko (Argentina) - for making complete results for 1939, 1970 and 1972 available to the public.
  • Tullio Zannoni (Argentina) - for Dubrovnik 1950 details.
  • Zdenek Závodný (Czech Republic) - for Prague 1931 full data and some minor corrections.
  • and many, many more...

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