8th Women's Chess Olympiad: Buenos Aires 1978

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Basic data

8th Women's Chess Olympiad
(see all-time tournament summary)
Date: 25th October - 12th November 1978
City: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Venue: River Plate
Head of Organizing Committee: Mr. Rodolfo Zanlungo (ARG)
General Director: Mr. Héctor Decio Rossetto (ARG)
Chief Arbiter: IA Paul Klein (ECU)
Teams participating: 32
Players participating: 125 (incl. 7 WGMs and 22 WIMs)
Games played: 672 (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; 3. Berger
Time control: 40 moves in 2 hours 30 minutes, then 1 hour for each next 16 moves
Official logo: Buenos Aires 1978
Downloadable game file: 00.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. IM Chiburdanidze, Maia URS A 9 11 81.8
2. Garwell, Jane WLS D 9½ 12 79.2
3. WIM Borisova, Borislava SWE B 8½ 11 77.3

2nd Board
no. name code fin. pts gms %
1. GM Gaprindashvili, Nona URS A 9½ 11 86.4
2. WIM Baumstark, Gertrude ROM B 10 13 76.9
2. WGM Ivánka, Mária HUN A 10 13 76.9

3rd Board
no. name code fin. pts gms %
1. WGM Alexandria, Nana URS A 8 10 80.0
2. Hund, Barbara GER A 9½ 12 79.2
3. Jurczyńska, Anna POL A 7½ 10 75.0

1st Reserve Board
no. name code fin. pts gms %
1. WGM Akhmilovskaya, Elena URS A 10 10 100.0
2. Cramling, Pia SWE B 9 11 81.8
3. Watkins, Helen Clare WLS D 6 8 75.0
3. Teasley, Dolly USA B 7½ 10 75.0

Interesting games


Shortest decisive game.
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Longest game.
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Trivia

Trivium 1: ...


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