2004 Chess Olympics

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The 36th Chess Olympiad 2004 took place from 14 to 30 October 2004 in Calvià (Spain).

Overview of open group

At the 36th Chess Olympiad 2004 in Calvia in the Balearic Islands, 129 teams (including Spain B and Spain C) played in the open group, including for the first time a team from Nepal. The tournament venue was Gran Casino de Mallorca. Below is the final score as a complete progress table.

Chairman of the Organising Committee: Antonio Rami from Spain (photo right)
Tournament Director: Marcelino Sión (Spain)
Chief referee: Ignatius Leong (Singapore)
Participants: 763 (230 Grand Masters, 153 International Masters and 82 FIDE Masters)
Reflecting time: 90 minutes for the entire game, plus 30 seconds of time credit per train

Results

Open group teams

See below the final status as a complete progress table.

In the first three places came the teams from Ukraine (391⁄2 board points), from Russia (361⁄2) and Armenia (361⁄2).

Olympic champion Ukraine played with Vasily Ivanchuk (91⁄2 points from 13 games), Ruslan Ponomariov (4 from 8), Andriy Voloktin (81⁄2 from 12), Oleksandr Moyisseyenko (5 from 8), Pavel Elyanov (6 from 8) and Sergei Alexandrovich Karyakin (61⁄2 from 7, gold medal).

The German men took 16th place and played with Alexander Graf (6 from 10), Rustem Dautov (41⁄2 from 10), Christopher Lutz (71⁄2 from 12), Jan Gustafsson (6 from 10), Leonid Kritz (51⁄2 from 9) and Klaus Bischoff (21⁄2 from 5).

Individual medals open group

Board 1
Gold: Ermenkov, Evgeny (PLE) 101⁄2 from 12
Silver: Rodríguez Vila, Andrés (URU) 8 from 10
Bronze: Adams, Michael (ENG) 10 from 13

Board 2
Gold: Tissir, Mohamed (MAR) 71⁄2 from 9
Silver: Nguyễn Anh Dũng (VIE) 81⁄2 from 11
Bronze: Hatanbaatar, Baza (MGL) 9 from 12

Board 3
Gold: Vaganian, Rafael (ARM) 91⁄2 from 12
Silver: Georgiev, Vladimir (MKD) 9 from 12
Bronze: González García, José (MEX) 71⁄2 from 10

Board 4
Gold: Jobava, Baadur (GEO) 81⁄2 from 10
Silver: Kaidanov, Gregory (USA) 8 out of 10
Bronze: Guseinov, Gadir (AZE) 8 from 10

Reserve 1
Gold: Sakalauskas, Vaidas (LTU) 6 from 7
Silver: Temirbayev, Serikbai (KAZ) 51⁄2 from 7
Bronze: Degraeve, Jean-Marc (FRA) 7 from 9

Reserve 2
Gold: Karjakin, Sergei (UKR) 61⁄2 from 7
Silver: Chahrani, Ibrahim (LBA) 61⁄2 from 7
Bronze: Bermúdez Adams, William (PUR) 61⁄2 from 8

Women's teams

In the women’s race, China (31 points) won ahead of the US (28) and Russia (27.5).

China competed with Xie Jun (7 points from 10 games, silver medal), Xu Yuhua (61⁄2 from 10), Zhao Xue (10 from 12, gold medal) and Huang Qian (71⁄2 from 10).

The German women took 17th place and played with Ketino Kachiani-Gersinska (51⁄2 from 12), Elisabeth Pähtz (7 from 10), Jessica Nill (51⁄2 from 10) and Tina Mietzner (6 from 10).

Individual medals for women

Board 1
Gold: Čmilytė, Viktorija (LTU) 81⁄2 from 11
Silver: Polgar, Susan (USA) 101⁄2 from 14
Bronze: Berend, Elvira (LUX) 9 from 12

Board 2
Gold: Vajda, Szidónia (HUN) 9 from 12
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