| 33rd Chess Olympiad (women): Elista 1998 |
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| 33rd Chess Olympiad (women) | |
| Date: | 26th September - 13th October 1998 |
| City: | Elista, Russia (autonomous Republic of Kalmykia) |
| Venue: | The Chess Palace |
| Chairman of Executive Council: | Mr. Igor Shalkhakov (RUS) |
| Chief Arbiter: | Mr. Geurt Gijssen (NED) |
| Teams participating: | 72 (including Russia "B" and "C") |
| Players participating: | 282 (including 1 GM, 1 IM, 48 WGMs, 63 WIMs and 25 WFMs) |
| Games to be played: | 1404 |
| Games actually played: | 1404 |
| Game system: | 13 round Swiss (due to late start of the Olympiad the last round was cancelled) |
| Tie-breaks: | 1. Game points; 2. Buchholz; 3. Match points |
| Clock routine: | 100 minutes for 40 moves, then 50 minutes for 20 moves then 10 minutes for the rest of the game. Extra 30 seconds added after each move. |
| Official logo (left) and official mascot (right): |
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| WWW home page: | http://www.fide.com/elista98/olympiad.htm (cached only) |
| Other WWW sites of interest: |
Ukraine at the Olympiad [partly in Russian] Elista impressions by E. Omuku Irish teams at the Elista Olympiad Scottish concise report from the Olympiad Geurt Gijssen's remarks on the Olympiad Olympic blog by Carol Jarecki Olympiad results at Ruschess.com Statistical coverage by Heinz Herzog New Zealand at the Olympiad TWIC reports: 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * results |
| Downloadable game file: | 98olw.zip |
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To be added soon. |
| no. | name | code | ELOp |
| 1. | WGM Wang Lei | CHN | 2618 |
| 2. | WGM Stepovaia-Dianchenko, Tatiana | RUS | 2611 |
| 3. | GM Chiburdanidze, Maia | GEO | 2598 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | WIM Ovezova, Mekhri | TKM | 10½ | 13 | 80.8 |
| 2. | GM Chiburdanidze, Maia | GEO | 9½ | 12 | 79.2 |
| 3. | WGM Peng Zhaoqin | NED | 9 | 12 | 75.0 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Al-Rufei, Eman Hassane | IRQ | 8 | 9 | 88.9 |
| 2. | WIM Kosteniuk, Alexandra | RUS3 | 10 | 13 | 76.9 |
| 3. | WIM Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina | RUS | 9 | 12 | 75.0 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | WGM Shumiakina, Tatiana | RUS | 6½ | 8 | 81.3 |
| 2. | WGM Cosma, Elena | ROM | 7 | 9 | 77.8 |
| 3. | WFM Sergeeva, Tatyana | KAZ | 8½ | 11 | 77.3 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | WGM Wang Lei | CHN | 8 | 9 | 88.9 |
| 2. | WGM Stepovaia-Dianchenko, Tatiana | RUS | 8 | 9 | 88.9 |
| 3. | Hussain, Alya | UAE | 7 | 8 | 87.5 |
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