5th Women's Chess Olympiad: Skopje 1972

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Information

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Basic data

5th Women's Chess Olympiad
Date: 18th September - 13th October 1972
City: Skopje, Yugoslavia (today's Macedonia)
Venue: Pavilion Halls
Head of Organizing Committee: Mr. Dragoljub Stavrev (YUG)
Tournament Director: Mr. Jordan Ivanovski (YUG)
Supervising Referee: Mr. Max Euwe (NED)
Head Referee: IA Vera Tikhomirova (URS)
Teams participating: 23
Players participating: 69
Games played: 264
Game system: Two stage two board round robin.
Tie-breaks: 1. Game points; 2. Match points
Clock routine: 2.5h for first 40 moves, then 1h for each next 16 moves
Official logo: SKOPJE 1972
Downloadable game file: 72olw.zip (only ca. 70 games are in there!)


Tournament review

To be added soon.



Individual medals

1st Board
no. name code fin. pts gms %
1. WIM Gaprindashvili, Nona URS A 8 81.3
2. WIM Ivánka, Mária HUN A 10 75.0
3. WIM Radzikowska, Krystyna POL B 9 72.2

2nd Board
no. name code fin. pts gms %
1. WIM Kushnir, Alla URS A 7 8 87.5
2. Ereńska-Radzewska, Hanna POL B 9 83.3
3. Gal, Lidia ISR C 4 5 80.0

1st Reserve Board
no. name code fin. pts gms %
1. Tan, Jane SIN C 5 5 100.0
2. Levitina, Irina URS A 6 91.7
3. WIM Konarkowska-Sokolov, Henrijeta YUG B 7 64.3


Best game prizes

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Interesting games


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Trivia

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