Dear OlimpBase readers!

It will be exactly 5 years tonight as OlimpBase was made available online for the very first time on March 21, 2004. The project commenced in September 2003 and by March 2004 only men's Olympiads prior to 1974 were handled. See one of archival thumbnails.

The five years, equivalent to 261 weeks and 1826 days saw the following on www.olimpbase.org:

• database of more than 11,000 players and 320 teams,
  
• detailed coverage of almost 500 team events on five continents, starting from 1900,
  
• almost 150,000 games available online 24/7, of which a few thousands never saw the sunlight before,
  
• almost a dozen of interesting articles written exclusively for www.olimpbase.org site by our readers,
  
• many daily reports from most important chess tournament in progress
  
• and still growing...

OlimpBase is 100% volunteer project available free of charge for everyone in accordance with the Bible motto "freely have you received, freely give". Hundreds of chess lovers, many of them smiling in reminiscence of their own archival records sent us unique, undiscovered games or pieces of information. OlimpBase is the first and the only source to provide with most detailed, content-verified and complete history of men's and women's olympiad, continental team championships and many, many more including youth and handicapped chess. No matter how much time have you spent burrowing OlimpBase directories, no doubt there are still tons of valuable, undiscovered materials waiting yet to be read.

Please stay with us and keep helping us to build the World's biggest online database of the history of team chess!

Gens una sumus!
Wojciech Bartelski
Head Webmaster

by pj @ 22 Mar 2009 02:18 pm

One of the most interesting chess projects in the world! Gens una sumus!

by Rob Vlaardingerbroek @ 22 Mar 2009 05:59 pm

Congratulations! <br /> <br />5 years already, time flies like crazy, fruit flies like bananas.... <br /> <br />1826 days passed and none was boring here. <br /> <br />Best, <br /> <br />Rob. <br /> <br />http://www.vlaardingerbroek.eu

by Yoav Dothan @ 28 Mar 2009 06:34 am

Wanted to say a big thank you for your wonderful site. I am an active wikipedia writer, and have attached thousands (really!) of links to your site from the many hundredths of chessplayers that I wrote about (mainly in Hebrew, but also some links from English). Keep going - your work is excellent! <br /> <br />Yoav dothan

by cp @ 12 Apr 2009 01:51 pm

Your site is such a joy to use. I rarely, if ever, depart without the information I came looking for. <br /> <br />Also, thanks for the trust you have put in Wikipedia to supplement your work. If only we could match your accuracy and comprehensiveness. <br /> <br />Keep up the good work - you are an inspiration and an indispensible asset to chess historians everywhere!