| 32nd Chess Olympiad (women): Yerevan 1996 |
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| 32nd Chess Olympiad (women) | |
| Date: | 15th September - 2nd October 1996 |
| City: | Yerevan, Armenia |
| Venue: | Sports and Concert Complex |
| Chairman of Organizing Committee: | Mr. Vanik Zakarian (ARM) |
| Chief Arbiter: | Mr. Alesha Khachatrian (ARM) |
| Teams participating: | 74 (including Armenia "B") |
| Players participating: | 294 (including 2 GMs, 7 IMs, 33 WGMs, 68 WIMs and 25 WFMs) |
| Games to be played: | 1551 |
| Games actually played: | 1550 (LIB forfeited one game) |
| Game system: | 14 round Swiss |
| Tie-breaks: | 1. Game points; 2. Buchholz; 3. Match points |
| Clock routine: | 40 moves in 2 hours, then 20 moves in 1 hour |
| Official logo: | ![]() |
| WWW page: | http://chess96.com (DNS not active anymore) |
| Other WWW sites of interest: |
Official page cached (slower but more functional) Norwegians in Yerevan (in Norwegian) John Donaldson on Olympic issues Germans at the Olympiad (in German) Heather Lang's report |
| Downloadable game file: | 96olw.zip |
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| no. | name | code | ELOp |
| 1. | WGM Zhu Chen | CHN | 2561 |
| 2. | IM Ioseliani, Nana | GEO | 2539 |
| 3. | IM Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan | GEO | 2530 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | WFM Ovezova, Mehri | TKM | 10½ | 14 | 75.0 |
| 2. | WIM Fierro Baquero, Martha Lorena | ECU | 9½ | 13 | 73.1 |
| 3. | IM Polgar, Zsofia | HUN | 10 | 14 | 71.4 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | WGM Zhu Chen | CHN | 10 | 13 | 76.9 |
| 2. | IM Ioseliani, Nana | GEO | 10 | 13 | 76.9 |
| 3. | Diaz, Maria-Alejandra | AHO | 10½ | 14 | 75.0 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | IM Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan | GEO | 8 | 10 | 80.0 |
| 2. | Reprun, Nadejda | UZB | 9 | 12 | 75.0 |
| 3. | WIM Sedina, Elena | UKR | 9½ | 13 | 73.1 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | WIM Zielinska, Marta | POL | 6 | 7 | 85.7 |
| 2. | WFM Pitam, Ela | ISR | 9½ | 12 | 79.2 |
| 3. | Pascua, Rachel | PHI | 6½ | 9 | 72.2 |
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