It took long months of arduous work and there is still a lot to do but today we are proud to announce that OlimpBase v2 is finally available! There is a brand new, much more user-friendly layout which should make browsing through 2GB of our archives intuitive and self-explanatory. There are plenty of new materials and a lot of new data, never seen on the Web before.

As our field of interest has grown the name of the site was altered. We are now database of all international team chess events and not only the Olympiads - still the latter remain one of our major fields of interest.

Most important additions include (see also What's new section):
- Men's Olympiad data were thoroughly revised and corrected,
- added brief coverage of some Women's Olympiad (there will be more soon),
- added much more complete coverage of the Asian Team Championship (including complete set of games from 1991 never published before),
- result summaries was added for European Club Cup and cities events (also coverage for recent ECC events was added),
- detailed history of world youth championship was added, including Student Olympiads (recommended!), World U26 Teams and Junior Teams,
- a lot of interesting youth events were described in details,
- short summaries of most important friendly tournaments were added, including Clare Benedicts, Balkaniads and Mitropa cup,
- much of old, forgotten stuff was brought back to the daylight, like Triennial Cup, Telechess Olympiads, NATO Championship and Allied Armies Championship on the contrary, EU team championship and more,
- a lot of attention was bestowed to handicapped chess, especially Blind Olympiads,
- there is also huge file with hundreds of results of friendly matches as well as national team championship list (under construction),
- and much more...

There are tons of interesting materials over here, most of them are not available anywhere else. This should secure long hours of enjoyment to every chess history lover. We hope you will appreciate and enjoy our efforts. It is expected that it will take 2 to 3 years to process the missing data. More can be achieved with help of old volumes of chess magazines - most of them are not available to us those days.

Please report to us errors encountered while browsing the files.

by P E Bennett @ 26 May 2006 02:07 am

Do you have a complete record of the games played in the first Asian Championship Auckland New Zealand 1978 I think that this was the 1st time a team from China played outside its own borders. I might also add that this site is very very good. Regards P E Bennett

by Webmaster @ 26 May 2006 05:21 pm

New Zealand hosted second Asian Teams in 1977. Detailed game results are *not* available.