Our chess quizzes are mainly aimed at chess history enthusiasts. They are difficult, requiring deep knowledge of the history of international chess, and the choice of answers can be tricky. Our carefully selected quizzes first appeared in 2004, but the scripts were quickly compromised, so they remained inactive for many years. 
The chess World mourns the death of famous Dutch grandmaster Jan Timman, who passed away on Februay 18th, aged 75.
His biggest chess achievement was to reach semifinal of candidates tournament back in 1992, making him effectively No. 3 in the World. The candidates' final match took place in 1993 in Spain, and Jan Timman lost 7½-5½ to Nigel Short.
As Short and Kasparov were expelled from FIDE soon after, Timman's match vs Karpov was labelled as "FIDE World Championship match" and Timman lost 12½-8½ thus becoming "FIDE Vice-Champion".
Jan Timmann represented his native Holland 11 times at the Chess Olympiads, winning individual Gold medal in Haifa in 1976.
Here is Timman's immortal game, the one that he himself describes as his "best ever". Timman went on to win this extremely strong tournament edging out opposition by incredible 1½ point. See final table (source: Informant 33).
The good news is that olimpbase.org is back after months of struggle - hopefully now for good.
Please allow some time to fully recover all of its features.
Feb 17th. Broken DNS's were fixed. Domain is now fully secured by https (btw please update all the links)Feb 18th. Hosting is now back. Vulnerable scripts removed/rewritten. Dubious files removes/clearedFeb 19th. News scripted updated to CuteNews 2.2 (safer and more stable)Feb 20th. Elo section and news upgraded. work in progress...Feb 21st. Comments' section revamped. Now it's again possible to add/view comments. You're welcome to commen and leave your support!
Feb 22nd. Players' cards and all-time results now are back in operation! See example: Timman, Jan
Feb 24th. There is a brand new great tool. You may now easily and fast search for a player or a team.
Feb 26th. A good, old fashioned guestbook is back after 14 years! It'll be nice for all those who contributed to the growth of the base if you drop short appraisal note. Now 100% new, safe&secure, based on latest php and SQL version. GUESTBOOK
SFR Yugoslavia no longer exists, yet for decades they were one of the world's major chess nations. Needless to say, they won the 1950 Olympiad, took 2nd-4th on twelve consecutive Olympiads 1952-1974. Svetoza Gligorić in 1953 and 1959, as well as Borislav Ivkov in 1965 qualified for the Candidates.
With so many strong players, the Yugoslav championship quickly became one of the top European leagues. The championship was usually 10 board with format switch occurring every couple of years, but throughoutthe 1970s and 1980s, it was a 10-team league system with the bottom 2 being out and replaced by the second league winners.
As the European Club Cup was introduced in 1975, Yugoslav teams had no luck whatsoever, reaching quarterfinals at best. However, in 1999, Agrouniverzal Zemun took 2nd, years after the country's effective breakup.
Results of Yugoslav teams at the European Club Cup 1975-2003
After a series of political and military tensions between 1991 and 1992 Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia left the Federation. However, the state was officially dissolved only in 2003.
Apart from the state-wide league, there were championships of the republics: Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Montenegro, Macedonia and ASR Vojvodina.
There was no separate championship neither for women nor for men - a combined tournament had been played throughout the years.
Results of Yugoslav team chess championship 1927-2003
Sources:
perpetualcheck.com - database of all Yugoslav&Serbian chess tournaments and much more. By FM Vladica Andrejić, mathematics professor and World Antichess champion.
partizanopedia.rs - fantastic data driven fan site of Partizan Beograd. Basketball (1992 European Cup winners!), football, chess and more. By Miroslav Milijković.
Newspapers: Šahovski glasnik, Politika, Borba, Delo
Following numerous complaints and suggestions of our readers here it is - individual tournaments incorporated on to OlimpBase data!
A user-friendly and smart script allows adding results of individual tournaments in no time.
Due to limited resources we will not be able to create the most complete database - there are numerous commercial bases instead.
This is why we focus on championship tournaments, to provide most complete results and statistics from past years, where other databases failed.
Today we open access to the results of our two-year dilligent efforts: a unique and most complete database of most prestigious junior events:
History of World Junior U20 Championship (1951-2017): open | girls
History of European Junior U20 Championship (1963-2002): open | girls
Under construction a.o.:
Individual World Championship (including complete results of zonals)
Individual Continental Championship (Panamerican, Asian, African, European) - most complete!
National championships (USSR, Poland)
Major international tournaments (Linares, Tata Steel)
OlimpBase contributors interested in adding other series to our database (e.g. your local national championship) are kindly asked to contact us. It is easy and fast!
It was a remarkable finish to a remarkable event. Entering the final round of the FIDE World Team Championship, gold seemed a lock for the Chinese since the only way Russia could beat them was if they not only drew Poland, but Russia beat the US by 3.5-0.5. However, the Russians did even better as they swept the US 4-0. China, in danger of faltering, was saved by Li Chao who scored a powerful and crucial win. In the Women’s Russia beat Ukraine and took gold.
>> Final standings open <<
1. China 2. Russia 3. Poland
>> Final standings women<<
1. Russia 2. China 3. Georgia
All-time statistics: open | women
We will be back in September 2016.