Team lines-up of the 1966 Chess Olympics

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The tables call the list of teams at the 1966 Chess Olympiad in Havana. The 52 participating teams initially played in seven preliminary round groups. From these preliminary rounds, two teams each came to the final tournaments A to C. The remaining teams reached the D final. Each team included four regular and a maximum of two substitutes. In the tables, the final placement is mentioned for each team, next to it is the achieved final tournament. The team balances are listed separately for the preliminary and final rounds, but the individual balances of the players in the sum of both tournament phases. For the placement of the teams, the board points were priority.

Crews

1. Soviet Union

2. USA

3. Hungary

4. Yugoslavia

5. Argentina

6. Czechoslovakia

7. Bulgaria

8. Romania

9. GDR

10. Denmark

11. Iceland

12. Spain

13. Norway

14. Cuba

15. Netherlands

The second substitute player G. Kapsenberg was not used during the Olympics.

16. Poland

17. Austria

The second substitute player George Schubirz was not used during the Olympics.

18. Switzerland

19 Israel

20. Finland

21. England

22. Colombia

The second substitute player Camilo Restrepo was not used during the Olympics.

23. Canada

24. Sweden

The second substitute player Lars Backström was not used during the Olympics.

25. Belgium

26. France

27. Indonesia

28. Scotland

29 Italy

30. Mongolia

31. Philippines

The two reported substitutes Rodolfo Viajar and Milagros Campomanes were not used.

32. Greece

33. Uruguay

The two reported substitutes Norberto Elemberg and Alberto Vachini were not used.

34. Tunisia

35. Turkey

36. Venezuela

37. Portugal

38. Chile

39. Ecuador

40. Ireland

41. Puerto Rico

42. Luxembourg

43. South Africa

44. Mexico

45. Bolivia

Replacement player Navarro came to his only bet without a fight because Lebanon left the fourth board unoccupied.

46. Monaco

The second substitute player Marcel Jezequelou was not used during the tournament.

47. Morocco

Replacement player Bennouna came to his only bet without a fight because Lebanon left the fourth board unoccupied.

48. Nicaragua

Montalván lost two games and came to the fightless victory by the unoccupied board of the Lebanese.

49. Panama

The two points for Rivera came from unfighted victories in the two-time encounter with Lebanon. In the last two rounds, Panama itself left the fourth board free.

50. Lebanon

Lebanon was only present to me three players and gave the fourth board each without a fight, with Charles Salameh in particular being set up. The two registered substitutes Audi Daoud and Jean Allam were also not used.

51 . Cyprus

52. Hong Kong

The player reported on the third board Efim Krouk was not used.

Sources
1966 Chess Olympics at Olimpbase. o