1980 Chess Olympiad

Valletta, Malta at the time of the 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 .

Venue (shown during a later renovation)

Final score of the men's teams

USSR - Men's Olympic champions ( Efim Geller , Anatoly Karpov ) and FIDE President Friðrik Ólafsson on the left , 1980 Chess Olympiad

USSR - Men's Olympic Champion (Soviet Union - USA, boards 3 and 4: Yuri Balaschow - James Tarjan , Garri Kasparow - Leonid Shamkowitsch ), 1980 Chess Olympiad

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

See also : Complete progress table

#	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

German men ( Hans-Joachim Hecht , Helmut Pfleger ), 1980 Chess Olympiad

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

See also : Women's Complete Progress Chart

USSR - Women's Olympic champions ( Maia Chiburdanidze , Nona Gaprindashvili , Nana Iosseliani ), 1980 Chess Olympiad

#	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

German women ( Gisela Fischdick , Barbara Hund , Isabel Hund ), Chess Olympiad 1980

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

→ Main article : Team line-ups for the 1980 Chess Olympiad

→ Main article : Team line-ups for the 1980 Women's Chess Olympiad

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 24th Chess Olympiad: La Valletta 1980 on OlimpBase (English)
2. ↑ 9th Women's Chess Olympiad: La Valletta 1980 on OlimpBase (English)
3. ↑ 24th Chess Olympiad: La Valletta 1980 - Tournament review (English)
4. ^ Garry Kasparov: Kasparov on Kasparov , Volume 1, London 2011, p. 246
5. ↑ 24th Chess Olympiad: La Valletta 1980 West Germany (GER)
6. ↑ 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

Commons : Chess Olympiad 1980  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Chess Olympiad 1980 on olimpbase (english)
• 1980 Women's Chess Olympiad on olimpbase.org

Match Spain - China: García Vicente, Nieves - Liu Shilan; Ferrer Lucas, Pepita - Wu Mingqian; Cuevas Rodríguez, María Luisa - To Yangfeng. Chess Olympiad 1980 (2 photos integrated)

Malta 1980, picture gallery

Corry Vreeken , Netherlands - Hungary

Germany - France

Germany - Iceland

Spain - FRG (pike, groom)

Efim Geller

Eric Lobron

Garry Kasparov

Malta Island 1980

Lajos Portisch

Leonid Shamkowitsch

Lev Alburt

Yugoslavia - Netherlands, Ljubojević (left)

Luba Kristol

Nana Iosseliani

USSR - England

Otto Borik

Israel - USA, Rachel Crotto

Polihroniade , Romania - Poland

Spain - China

Tereza Stadler

Olafsson , Iceland - USSR 1 + 2

USSR - USA ( Anatoly Karpov , Tal, Seirawan)

USSR - USA (middle: Kasparov)

Zsuzsa Veroci

Souvenir Chess Olympiad 1980

Palm trees on Valletta beach 1980

Narrow street in Valletta 1980

Milinka Merlini, France - Japan

Game room (formerly a military hospital) in Valletta

Valletta at the time of the 1980 Chess Olympiad