7th Women's Chess Olympiad: Haifa 1976

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Basic data

7th Women's Chess Olympiad
(see all-time tournament summary)
Date: 26th October - 10th November 1976
City: Haifa, Israel
Venue: Dan Carmel hotel
Chairman of Organizing Committee: Mr. Israel Eshel (ISR)
Chief Arbiter: N/A
Teams participating: 23
Players participating: 90 (incl. 1 WGMs and 6 WIMs)
Number of titled players broke down drastically due to absence of the communist bloc nations.
Games played: 396 (1 game was forfeited)
Competition format: Two stage three board round robin. Top two of each of four preliminary groups were promoted to the championship final
Final order decided by: 1. Game points; 2. Match points
Time control: 40 moves in 2 hours 30 minutes, then 1 hour for each next 16 moves
Official logo: HAIFA 1976
Downloadable game file: 76olw.zip
Special thanks to Carlos E. A. Drake for all kind of help on the topic.

Tournament review

To be added soon.

Individual medals

Not confirmed!

1st Board
no. name code fin. pts gms %
1. WGM Kushnir, Alla ISR A 7½ 8 93.8
2. WIM Hartston, Jana ENG A 9 11 81.8
3. Vujosevic, Smilja CAN B 6½ 10 65.0

2nd Board
no. name code fin. pts gms %
1. Shterenberg, Nava CAN B 9 10 90.0
2. García Vicente, Nieves ESP A 9½ 11 86.4
3. Veprek, Vanda SUI C 7½ 10 75.0
3. Kristol, Luba ISR A 7½ 10 75.0

3rd Board
no. name code fin. pts gms %
1. Maeda, Hyroko JPN C 6½ 8 81.3
2. Cazón, Matilde ARG B 7 10 70.0
3. Wettstein, Carla SUI C 6½ 10 65.0

1st Reserve Board
no. name code fin. pts gms %
1. Nudelman, Lea ISR A 6½ 7 92.9
2. Van der Giessen, Ada NED A 6½ 9 72.2
3. Orton, Ruth USA A 5 8 62.5

Interesting games


Shortest decisive game.
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Longest game.
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Trivia

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