37th Chess Olympiad (women): Turin 2006

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Basic data

37th Chess Olympiad (women)
Date: 20th May - 4th June 2006
City: Turin, Italy
Venue: The Oval hall
Chairman of Organizing Committee: Mr. Paolo Fresco (ITA)
General Manager: Mr. Michele Cordara (ITA)
Head Referree: IA Geurt Gijssen (NED)
Teams participating: 103 (including Italy "B")
Somalia and Sierra Leone did not arrive.
Afghanistan, Ruanda and Uganda were seeded but did not arrive either.
Players participating: 417 (including 4 GMs, 34 IMs, 54 WGMs, 2 FMs, 74 WIMs, 59 WFMs and 3 WCMs)
Game system: Three board thirteen round Swiss.
Tie-breaks: 1. Game points; 2. Buchholz; 3. Match points;
4. Berger; 5. Median Buchholz
Clock routine: all moves in 90 minutes + 30 sec. increment per move
Official logo: Peonin
WWW home page: http://www.chessolympiad-torino2006.org/
Downloadable game file: 06olw.zip

Tournament review

To be added soon.

Individual medals

Best Rating Performance
no. name code ELOp
1. WGM Zhukova, Natalia UKR 2647
2. WGM Zhao Xue CHN 2617
3. IM Kosintseva, Tatiana RUS 2598

1st Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. WIM Zsiltzova-Lisenko, Lubov IBC 9 10 90.0
2. WIM H. Mohammed, Eman IRQ 7 8 87.5
3. WIM Sanchez, Sarai VEN 9 11 81.8

2nd Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Steil-Antoni, Fiona LUX 10 12 83.3
2. IM Lahno, Katerina UKR 8 10 80.0
3. IM Kosintseva, Tatiana RUS 9½ 12 79.2

3rd Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. WFM Saleh, Nora Mohd UAE 7 8 87.5
2. IM Yanovska-Gaponenko, Inna UKR 7 9 77.8
3. IM Javakhishvili, Lela GEO 8½ 11 77.3

Reserve Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. WIM Berlin, Tatiana BLR 7 8 87.5
2. WFM Hou Yifan CHN 11 13 84.6
3. Mawadda, Rahal LBA 6½ 8 81.3

Best game prizes

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Interesting games


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Trivia

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