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| 40th Chess Olympiad: Istanbul 2012 |
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| 40th Chess Olympiad (see all-time tournament summary) |
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| Date: | 28th August - 9th September 2012 |
| City: | Istanbul, Turkey |
| Venue: | Istanbul Expo Center |
| Tournament Director: | Mr. Ali Nihat Yazıcı (TUR) |
| Chief Arbiter: | IA Panagiotis Nikolopoulos (GRE) |
| Teams participating: | 157 (incl. Congo did not arrive; Turkey fielded three teams) |
| Players participating: | 779 (incl. 239 GMs, 127 IMs, 96 FMs and 50 CMs) |
| Games played: | 3424 (47 games were forfeited) |
| Competition format: | Four board eleven round Swiss. |
| Final order decided by: | 1. Match points; 2. Deducted Berger; 3. Game points; 4. Deducted sum of match 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 |
| Official logo: | |
| Website: | http://www.chessolympiadistanbul.com |
| Other websites: | Official results |
| Downloadable game file: | 12olm.zip |
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N/A |
| no. | name | flag | code | ELOp |
| 1. | GM Aronian, Levon |  |
ARM | 2849 |
| 2. | GM Wojtaszek, Radosław |  |
POL | 2844 |
| 3. | GM Radjabov, Teimour |  |
AZE | 2813 |
| no. | name | flag | code | ELOp |
| 1. | GM Navara, David |  |
CZE | 2869 |
| 2. | GM Filippov, Anton |  |
UZB | 2820 |
| 3. | GM Kamsky, Gata |  |
USA | 2796 |
| no. | name | flag | code | ELOp |
| 1. | GM Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | |
AZE | 2880 |
| 2. | GM Akopian, Vladimir | |
ARM | 2803 |
| 3. | GM Karjakin, Sergei |  |
RUS | 2784 |
| no. | name | flag | code | ELOp |
| 1. | GM Tkachiev, Vladislav |  |
FRA | 2750 |
| 2. | GM Gupta, Abhijeet |  |
IND | 2746 |
| 3. | GM Fridman, Daniel |  |
GER | 2722 |
| no. | name | flag | code | ELOp |
| 1. | GM Yakovenko, Dmitry | |
RUS | 2783 |
| 2. | GM Macieja, Bartłomiej | |
POL | 2712 |
| 3. | GM Shanava, Konstantine |  |
GEO | 2679 |
| no. | country | ∑ MP | ∑ dSB | ∑ pts | ∑ dSMP |
| 1. | Russia | 38 | 838.5 | 61½ | 312 |
| 2. | China | 36 | 806.5 | 61 | 311 |
| 3. | Ukraine | 36 | 771.5 | 60 | 301 |
| 4. | Armenia | 35 | 710.0 | 55½ | 295 |
| 5. | United States | 32 | 687.0 | 59½ | 275 |
| 6. | Romania | 32 | 623.5 | 57½ | 257 |
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This trophy is awarded to the country with best combined score |
| cat. | seed range | country | MP | dSB |
| A | 1-31* | China | 17 | 390.5 |
| B | 32-62 | Sweden | 15 | 303.5 |
| C | 63-93 | IBCA | 13 | 249.0 |
| D | 94-124 | Puerto Rico | 12 | 200.0 |
| E | 125-156 | Nigeria | 10 | 175.5 |
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Category prizes are awarded in separate categories |