38th Chess Olympiad (women): Dresden 2008

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Basic data

38th Chess Olympiad (women)
(see all-time tournament summary)
Date: 13th - 25th November 2008
City: Dresden, Germany
Venue: International Congress Center
President of Organizing Committee: Mr. Winfried Lehmann (GER)
Tournament Director: Mr. Horst Metzing (GER)
Chief Arbiter: IA Ignatius Leong (SIN)
Teams participating: 111 (incl. three German teams)
Players participating: 548 (incl. 9 GMs, 41 IMs, 64 WGMs, 3 FMs, 85 WIMs, 81 WFMs and 8 WCMs)
Games played: 2420 (34 games were forfeited)
Competition format: Four board eleven round Swiss.
Final order decided by: 1. Match points; 2. Deducted Berger; 3. Deducted sum of match points; 4. Game points (see explanations)
Time control: 40 moves in 90 minutes, then 30 minutes for the rest of the game; 30 sec. increment from move 1
Website: http://www.38chessolympiad.com
Downloadable game file: 08olw.zip

Tournament review

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Individual medals

1st Board
no. name flag code ELOp
1. GM Chiburdanidze, Maia GEO 2715
2. IM Fierro Baquero, Martha ECU 2613
3. WGM Hou Yifan CHN 2563

2nd Board
no. name flag code ELOp
1. IM Zatonskih, Anna USA 2571
2. WGM Zhukova, Natalia UKR 2553
3. IM Mkrtchian, Lilit ARM 2549

3rd Board
no. name flag code ELOp
1. IM Kosintseva, Nadezhda RUS 2591
2. WGM Goletiani, Rusudan USA 2542
3. IM Mádl, Ildikó HUN 2464

4th Board
no. name flag code ELOp
1. WIM Majdan, Joanna POL 2621
2. WIM Linares Nápoles, Oleiny CUB 2530
3. IM Lomineishvili, Maia GEO 2432

Reserve Board
no. name flag code ELOp
1. WGM Zdebskaya, Natalia UKR 2528
2. WGM Gomes, Mary Ann IND 2437
3. WGM Moţoc, Alina ROM 2393

Interesting games


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Trivia

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