3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad
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The 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad was held by German Chess Federation (Grossdeutscher Schachbund) as a counterpart of the Summer Olympic Games in Berlin with reference to 1924 and 1928 events.[1] The Schach-Olympia 1936 took place in Munich between August 17 and September 1, 1936. In that extra-Olympiad (non-FIDE) 208 participants, representing 21 countries, played 1680 games. The Munich unofficial Olympiad was the biggest team competition ever held.[2]
The final results were as follows:
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[edit] Final
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# Country Points 1 Hungary 110.5 2 Poland 108 3 Germany 106.5 4 Yugoslavia 104.5 5 Czechoslovakia 104 6 Latvia 96.5 7 Austria 95 8 Sweden 94 9 Denmark 91.5 10 Estonia 90 11 Lithuania 77.5 12 Finland 75 13 Netherlands 71.5 14 Romania 68 15 Norway 64.5 16 Brazil 63 17 Switzerland 61.5 18 Italy 59 19 Iceland 57.5 20 France 43.5 21 Bulgaria 38.5
[edit] Team medals
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# Country Players 1 Hungary Géza Maróczy, Lajos Steiner, Endre Steiner, Kornél Havasi, László Szabó, Gedeon Barcza, Árpád Vajda, Ernő Gereben, János Balogh, Imre Kóródy Keresztély 2
PolandPaulin Frydman, Mieczysław Najdorf, Teodor Regedziński, Kazimierz Makarczyk, Henryk Friedman, Leon Kremer, Henryk Pogorieły,
Antoni Wojciechowski, Franciszek Sulik, Jerzy Jagielski3 Germany Kurt Richter, Carl Ahues, Ludwig Engels, Carl Carls, Ludwig Rellstab,
Fritz Sämisch, Ludwig Rödl, Herbert Heinicke, Wilhelm Ernst,
Paul Michel
[edit] Individual medals
Individual gold medals won the following players:
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# Board Player Country Points % 1 1 Paul Keres Estonia 15.5/20 77.5 2 Mieczysław Najdorf Poland 16/20 80.0 3 Bjørn Nielsen Denmark 11.5/15 76.7 4 Karel Hromádka Czechoslovakia 14/20 70.0 5 László Szabó Hungary 16.5/19 86.8 6 Borislav Kostić Yugoslavia 16/19 84.2 7 Ludwig Rödl Germany 11/16 68.8 8 Wolfgang Weil Austria 12.5/17 73.5 1 reserve František Zíta Czechoslovakia 7.5/11 68.2 2 reserve Ozren Nedeljković Yugoslavia 8/10 80.0
[edit] References
- ^ OlimpBase :: Chess Olympiad, Munich 1936, information
- ^ Stanisław Gawlikowski: Olimpiady szachowe 1924-1974, Wyd. Sport i Turystyka, Warszawa 1978
[edit] See also
1st unofficial Chess Olympiad (Paris 1924)
2nd unofficial Chess Olympiad (Budapest 1926)
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