1988 Chess Olympiad

Silver coin, 500 drachmas, 28th Chess Olympiad

The 28th Chess Olympiad in 1988 was a team chess tournament that was held in Thessaloniki ( Greece ) from November 12th to 30th, 1988, like four years earlier . Germany was represented by three teams: In addition to a West German team in the women's tournament, one team each from the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany played in the open tournament .

The venue for the 1988 Chess Olympiad

The only debutant was Liechtenstein.

Final result of the open tournament

Ranking list

Honoring the Olympic champion Soviet Union, Chess Olympiad 1988 in Thessaloniki

Speelman, Nunn, Chandler, Mestel, Watson, Short, Chess Olympiad 1988 in Thessaloniki

#	team	Points
1	Soviet Union Soviet Union	40.5
2	England England	34.5
3	Netherlands Netherlands	34.5
4th	United States United States	34.0
5	Hungary 1957 Hungary	34.0
6th	Yugoslavia Socialist Federal Republic Yugoslavia	33.5
7th	Philippines 1986 Philippines	33.0
8th	China People's Republic People's Republic of China	33.0
9	Cuba Cuba	33.0
10	Argentina Argentina	33.0
11	Israel Israel	33.0
12	Sweden Sweden	32.5
13	Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia	32.5
14th	Italy Italy	32.5
15th	Iceland Iceland	32.0
16	Denmark Denmark	32.0
17th	Germany Democratic Republic 1949 German Democratic Republic	32.0
18th	Germany Federal Republic BR Germany	32.0

A total of 107 teams

Medals

Board 1

Gold: Kasparov, Garry

Silver: Portisch, Lajos

Bronze: Atalık, Suat

Board 2

Gold: Karpov, Anatoly

Silver: Palacios, António

Bronze: Mirza, Shahzad; Senkiewicz, Mike

Board 3

Gold: Reyes Nájera, Carlos Antonio

Silver: Nunn, John Denis Martin

Bronze: Tapaszto, Laszlo; Marin, Mihail; Hernández, Gustavo Sevillano

Board 4

Gold: Chaivichit, Suchart

Silver: Gueye, Gorgui

Bronze: Battikhi, Husein; Weemaes, Ronald

Reserve board 1

Gold: Arlandi, Ennio

Silver: Vásquez, Eduardo

Bronze: Saleh, Najib Mohamed; Cappello, R. AHO

Reserve board 2

Gold: Rahman, Tahmidur

Silver: Gómez Baillo, Jorge

Bronze: Perdikis, Costas

Results of the Soviet Union

Garri Kasparow (8.5 points out of 10 games), Anatoli Karpow (8 out of 10), Artur Jussupow (6 out of 10), Alexander Beliavsky (7 out of 10), Jaan Ehlvest (4.5 out of 7) played for the Olympic champion Soviet Union. and Vassily Ivanchuk (6.5 out of 9).

For the team and individual results of the Olympic champions see OlimpBase.

Results of the Germans

Vlastimil Hort, Thessaloniki 1988

Wolfgang Uhlmann (7 points out of 13 games), Uwe Bönsch (6 out of 11), Rainer Knaak (7 out of 12), Lothar Vogt (8.5 out of 12), Thomas Pähtz (1 out of 3) and Lutz Espig played for the GDR (2.5 out of 5). For the team and individual results of the East Germans see OlimpBase.

For the Federal Republic of Germany played Vlastimil Hort (8 points from 12 games), Eric Lobron (5 of 11), Stefan Kindermann (7.5 out of 11), Jörg Hickl (4 of 8), Klaus Bischoff (3 of 7) and Ralf Lau (4.5 out of 7). For the team and individual results of the West Germans see OlimpBase.

Final result of the women's tournament

Ranking list

The women's Olympic champion, the girls Zsofia, Ildiko, Judit and Zsuzsa from Hungary, Thessaloniki 1988

Pia Cramling , gold medal board 1

Judit and Sofia Polgár (Hungary), Chess Olympiad 1988

Vesna Bašagić (Yugoslavia), bronze medal on the reserve board

#	team	Points
1	Hungary 1957 Hungary	32.5
2	Soviet Union Soviet Union	32.0
3	Yugoslavia Socialist Federal Republic Yugoslavia	26.5
4th	China People's Republic People's Republic of China	27.0
5	Bulgaria 1971 Bulgaria	24.0
6th	Romania 1965 Romania	24.0
7th	Greece Greece	24.0
8th	Cuba Cuba	24.0
9	United States United States	23.5
10	Netherlands Netherlands	23.5
11	Poland Poland	23.0
12	England England	23.0
13	France France	23.0
14th	India India	23.0
15th	Germany Germany	22.5

A total of 56 teams

Medals

Board 1

Gold: Cramling, Pia

Silver: Lematschko, Tatjana

Bronze: Polgár, Zsuzsa

Board 2

Gold: Polgár, Judit

Silver: Akhmilovskaya, Elena

Bronze: O'Siochru, Mairéad

Board 3

Gold: Peng Zhaoqin

Silver: Horvath, Maria

Bronze: Etokowo, Emeh

Reserve board

Gold: Begum, Y. BAN

Silver: Litinskaya, Marta

Bronze: Bašagić, Vesna

Results of the Hungarians

Zsuzsa Polgár (10.5 points from 14 games, bronze medal), Judit Polgár (12.5 from 13, gold medal), Ildikó Mádl (5.5 from 8), Zsófia Polgár (4.5 from 7th place ) played for the women's Olympic champion ). For the team and individual results of the Hungarians see OlimpBase.

Results of the Germans

Germany played with Barbara Hund (5 points from 10 games), Gisela fish Dick (7.5 out of 14), Bettina Trabert (4 of 7) and Anja Dahlgrün (6 of 11). For the team and individual results of the Germans see OlimpBase.