1980 Chess Olympiad
The 24th Chess Olympiad 1980 was a team chess tournament that was held from November 20 to December 6, 1980 in Valletta , Malta . It was the 24th Men's Olympiad and the 9th Women's Chess Olympiad. The venue was the Mediterranean Conference Center .
Final score of the men's teams
The Olympics took a very exciting course. The Soviet Union was favored, with world champion Anatoli Karpow at the top board, ex-world champion Michail Tal and later world champion Garry Kasparov, who made his debut at the Chess Olympiad. Nevertheless, the team was only able to catch up with the Hungarians, who had been leading by board points until then, after the 12th round. The last two rounds didn't change the tie as both teams won with the same result. The tournament victory therefore depended on the result of the competition between Greece and Scotland in the last round. Greece had to win at least 3-1 for the Soviet Union to have the better ranking. After an eventful course, the match even ended 3.5: 0.5 in favor of the Greeks, who received help from Kasparov in analyzing the hanging games .
Five African countries were represented for the first time at this Chess Olympiad: Angola, Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya and Uganda.
Ranking list
# team Points 1 Soviet Union 39 2 Hungary 39 3 Yugoslavia 35 4th United States 34 5 Czechoslovakia 33 6th England 32.5 7th Poland 32.5 8th Israel 32 9 Canada 32 10 Netherlands 31.5 21st Austria 30.5 25th BR Germany 30th 31 Switzerland 29.5 40 Belgium 28.5 54 Luxembourg 26.5
A total of 81 teams
Men's medals
Board 1
- Gold: Hook, William
- Silver: Kanani, Saifudin
- Bronze: Torre, Eugenio
Board 2
- Gold: Rantanen, Yrjö
- Silver: Seirawan, Yasser
- Bronze: Harris, Derek
Board 3
- Gold: Villarreal, José Félix
- Silver: Kuligowski, Adam
- Bronze: Khan, Mohamed Rafiq
Board 4
- Gold: Csom, István
- Silver: Geller, Efim ; Schüssler, Harry ; Langeweg, Christian ; Goormachtigh, Johan .
Reserve board 1
- Gold: Balashov, Yuri
- Silver: Tiller, Bjørn
- Bronze: Øst-Hansen, Jacob
Reserve board 2
- Gold: Nikolić, Predrag
- Silver: Borg, Andrew
- Bronze: Kasparov, Garri
Results of the Germans
Germany played with Helmut Pfleger (5 points from 11 games), Hans-Joachim Hecht (9 of 13) Otto Borik (5 of 10), Eric Lobron (5 of 10), Manfred Hermann (3 of 6) and Uwe Kunsztowicz ( 3 of 6).
For the team and individual results of the Germans see OlimpBase.
Final result of the women's teams
Ranking list
# team Points 1 Soviet Union 32.5 2 Hungary 32 3 Poland 26.5 4th Romania 26.0 5 BR Germany 24 6th People's Republic of China 24 7th Israel 23.5 8th Yugoslavia 23.5 9 Bulgaria 23 10 Brazil 23 31 Switzerland 20th 33 Austria 19.5 37 Belgium 19th
A total of 42 teams
Women's medals
Board 1
- Gold: Chiburdanidze, Maia
- Silver: Verőci-Petronic, Zsuzsa
- Bronze: Erenksa-Radzewska, Hanna
Board 2
- Gold: Gaprindashvili, Nona
- Silver: Ivánka, Mária
- Bronze: Dog, Barbara
Board 3
- Gold: Nutu, Daniela
- Silver: Porubszky-Angyalosine, Mária
- Bronze: Štadler, Tereza
Reserve board
- Gold: Iosseliani, Nana
- Silver: Brustman, Agnieszka
- Bronze: Nudelman, Lea
Results of the Germans
Germany played Gisela fish thick (7.5 points from 14 games), Barbara Hund (9.0 out of 13, Bronze), Anni Laakmann (5.5 out of 9) and Isabel Dog (2.0 out of 6).
For the team and individual results of the Germans see OlimpBase.
Team lineups
Individual evidence
- ↑ 24th Chess Olympiad: La Valletta 1980 on OlimpBase (English)
- ↑ 9th Women's Chess Olympiad: La Valletta 1980 on OlimpBase (English)
- ↑ 24th Chess Olympiad: La Valletta 1980 - Tournament review (English)
- ^ Garry Kasparov: Kasparov on Kasparov , Volume 1, London 2011, p. 246
- ↑ 24th Chess Olympiad: La Valletta 1980 West Germany (GER)
- ↑ 9th Women's Chess Olympiad: La Valletta 1980 West Germany (GER)
literature
- Barbara Hund: My way to success . Walter Rau Verlag, Düsseldorf 1983, pp. 77-83. ISBN 3-7919-0216-4
swell
- Theo Schuster : XXIV Chess Olympiad 1980 in Malta . Schach-Echo 1980, issue 23/24, title page.
Images and web links
- Chess Olympiad 1980 on olimpbase (english)
- 1980 Women's Chess Olympiad on olimpbase.org