Georgia’s Baadur Jobava stuns the big names to strike Olympiad gold Leonard Barden Friday 23 September 2016 16.33 EDT The coveted board one individual gold medal in the 170-nation Olympiad at Baku went to a surprise outsider. In an online...
Promising future for Women’s Chess in Vietnam
The Vietnamese female chess team finished seventh at the 2016 Chess Olympiad which concluded on Wednesday in Baku, Azerbaijan, making history as Vietnam’s best showing at the biennial event. The 42nd Chess Olympiad was held in Baku, the capital...
Multi-Tasking Success
To: Andrey Filatov FIDE Vice President, President of Russian Chess Federation Dear Mr. Filatov, I congratulate you on Russia winning the Bronze Medal in the Open Section in the recently completed Baku Olympiad. This is the first time that...
Filatov: I feel that only a gold medal could be considered a total success
The World Chess Olympiad in Baku concluded last week and Sport-Express published a big interview with RCF President Andrey Filatov. Russia’s men’s team won bronze medals. The women’s team, three-time Olympic champions, has ceded their title, having finished at...
History has been made!
On Chess: USA wins gold at Baku Chess Olympiad By JOHN DONALDSON • 4 HOURS AGO Rio was not the only city to host an Olympics in 2016. Baku, capital of the oil-rich nation of Azerbaijan, just hosted the...
“Uniting the Universe” in 2020
The last round of 42nd World Chess Olympiad in Baku and the final session of FIDE General Assembly took place on 13th September. The main topic of the discussion of delegates of member countries of FIDE was choosing the...
A bright future for Indian Chess
Olympiad: Promising show by India 20 September, 2016 15:49 IST Rakesh Rao | New Delhi In the last edition in 2014, India returned with a historic first bronze medal in the open section. This year, India fell short of...
Fair or unfair analysis of Indian team in Baku?
Chess Olympiad: Why the Indian men couldn’t win a medal despite leading till Round 6 Still, the young and relatively inexperienced squad performed well enough to suggest the future is bright. Binit Priyaranjan After 11 rounds at the 42nd...
A victory 79 years in the making!
Gold! 79 years in the making (in a non-boycotted Chess Olympiad 1937 – 2016)! 2016 team (Baku, Azerbaijan): Caruana, Nakamura, So, Shankland, Robson 1937 team (Stockholm, Sweden): Reshevsky, Fine, Kashdan, Marshall, Horowitz 1976 team (in boycotted Olympiad in Haifa,...
Media Tabloid, False Narrative, Pattern of Ridiculousness? Defending Team USA!
Photo by Maria E. Media Tabloid, False Narrative, Pattern of Ridiculousness? By Paul Truong A few days before the US won the historic Gold medal at the 2016 Baku Chess Olympiad, Susan Polgar wrote a piece about the...