34th Chess Olympiad (women): Istanbul 2000

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Basic data

34th Chess Olympiad (women)
Date: 28th October - 12th November 2000
City: Istanbul, Turkey
Venue: The Istanbul Convention & Exhibition Centre (Rumeli Fair)
President of Organizing Committee: Mr. Emrehan Halici (TUR)
Chairman of Executive Committee: Mr. Sinan Erdem (TUR)
Chief Arbiter: Mr. Geurt Gijssen (NED)
Teams participating: 86 (including Turkey "B")
Players participating: 338 (including 2 GMs, 12 IMs, 44 WGMs, 1 FM, 65 WIMs and 39 WFMs)
Games to be played: 1806
Games actually played: 1803 (ARG came late and missed round #1)
Game system: 14 round Swiss
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: ISTANBUL 2000
WWW home page: http://www.istanbulchessolympiad.com (cached only)
Other WWW sites of interest: Team Barbados at the Olympiad
Indian diary for men's and wome's team
Ukraine's chess-sector
Alex Baburin's extensive diary
Sam Sloan's blog with lot of issues
Mark Orr's report on Irish teams
Scottish team at the Olympiad
Olympiad report [in Dutch]
Teleschach report [in German]
ChessMoves' reflections on Istanbul
MindZine daily reports
Performance ratings by Juha Kivijärvi
Downloadable game file: 00olw.zip


Tournament review

To be added soon.



Individual medals

Best Rating Performance
no. name code ELOp
1. WGM Zhu Chen CHN 2641
2. IM Galliamova, Alisa RUS 2617
3. WGM Khurtsidze, Nino GEO 2612

1st Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. WGM Cmilyte, Viktorija LTU 12 79.2
2. WIM Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman IND 11 14 78.6
3. GM Xie Jun CHN 11 77.3

2nd Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. WGM Zhu Chen CHN 9 11 81.8
2. WFM Al-Rufei, Eman Hassane IRQ 8 10 80.0
3. IM Ioseliani, Nana GEO 9 12 75.0

3rd Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. WGM Khurtsidze, Nino GEO 11 13 84.6
2. Lee Wing Yan, Winnie MAC 9 83.3
3. WFM Vasquez, Rocio ECU 10 13 76.9

1st Reserve Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Zahira, El MAR 7 92.8
2. WIM Moylan, Laura AUS 8 9 88.9
3. Mamedjarova, Zeinab AZE 7 8 87.5


Best game prizes

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Interesting games


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Trivia

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