| 5th Women's Chess Olympiad: Skopje 1972 |
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| 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: | ![]() |
| Downloadable game file: | 72olw.zip (only ca. 70 games are in there!) |
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To be added soon. |
| no. | name | code | fin. | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | WIM Gaprindashvili, Nona | URS | A | 6½ | 8 | 81.3 |
| 2. | WIM Ivánka, Mária | HUN | A | 7½ | 10 | 75.0 |
| 3. | WIM Radzikowska, Krystyna | POL | B | 6½ | 9 | 72.2 |
| no. | name | code | fin. | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | WIM Kushnir, Alla | URS | A | 7 | 8 | 87.5 |
| 2. | Ereńska-Radzewska, Hanna | POL | B | 7½ | 9 | 83.3 |
| 3. | Gal, Lidia | ISR | C | 4 | 5 | 80.0 |
| no. | name | code | fin. | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Tan, Jane | SIN | C | 5 | 5 | 100.0 |
| 2. | Levitina, Irina | URS | A | 5½ | 6 | 91.7 |
| 3. | WIM Konarkowska-Sokolov, Henrijeta | YUG | B | 4½ | 7 | 64.3 |