32nd Chess Olympiad (women): Yerevan 1996

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Basic data

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: YEREVAN 1996
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


Tournament review

To be added soon.



Individual medals

Best Rating Performance
no. name code ELOp
1. WGM Zhu Chen CHN 2561
2. IM Ioseliani, Nana GEO 2539
3. IM Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan GEO 2530

1st Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. WFM Ovezova, Mehri TKM 10½ 14 75.0
2. WIM Fierro Baquero, Martha Lorena ECU 13 73.1
3. IM Polgar, Zsofia HUN 10 14 71.4

2nd Board
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

3rd Board
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 13 73.1

1st Reserve Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. WIM Zielinska, Marta POL 6 7 85.7
2. WFM Pitam, Ela ISR 12 79.2
3. Pascua, Rachel PHI 9 72.2


Best game prizes

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Interesting games


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Trivia

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