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Team lines-up of the 1980 Chess Olympics

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The tables name the lineup of teams at the 1980 Chess Olympics in Valletta. 82 teams took part in the Olympics, which hosted a tournament in the Swiss system over 14 rounds. Among them was a B-team of the host country to secure an even number of participants. This played out of competition and received no placement assigned. The classification was primarily based on Brettpunkte, then the Buchholz classification and finally on team points. Each team included four regular and a maximum of two substitutes.

Uncontested competitions
In three cases, competitions without regular hosting were scored:
Romania arrived late. The team was set for the first round against Malta's B-team and the game scored 2-2, without making a name assignment of the boards.
The teams of Monaco and Uganda left before the start of the last round. The jury treated these cases differently:
Uganda's opponent Angola received two team points, but also only two board points. A named assignment of the games of this competition did not take place.
The match Jordan - Monaco, on the other hand, was scored 4-0, with the four regular players of both teams being assigned a fightless victory or a fightless defeat.

Crews

1. Soviet Union

2. Hungary

3. Yugoslavia

4. USA

5. Czechoslovakia

6. England

7. Poland

8. Israel

9. Canada

10. Netherlands

11. Romania

The fightless draw in the first round against Malta B is included in the team balance sheet, not in the individual balance sheets.

12. Sweden

13. Cuba

14. Argentina

15. Philippines

16. Denmark

The second substitute player Eigil Pedersen was not used during the tournament.

17. France

18. Wales

The second substitute player John Thornton was not used in the tournament.

19 Bulgaria

20. Finland

21. Austria

The second substitute player Karl Wagner was not used during the tournament.

22. Italy

23. Iceland

24. Norway

25. Germany

26. Spain

27. Greece

28. Venezuela

29 Brazil

30. Syria

The Wahid Kassem reported in the first replacement position was not used during the tournament.

31. Switzerland

32. Colombia

33. Albania

34. Australia

35. India

The second substitute player Ravi Gopal Hegde was not used.

36. Chile

37. Mexico

38. China

The second substitute player Li Shongjian was not used during the tournament.

39. Portugal

The second substitute player Peixoto was not used during the tournament.

40. Belgium

41. Ireland

42. Thailand

43. Pakistan

44. Dominican Republic

The second substitute player Ángel Álvarez Leger was not used during the tournament.

45. Indonesia

46. Mongolia

The substitute player Erdene Khash was not used in the tournament.

47. Paraguay

The substitute player Victorio Riego Prieto did not come during the tournament