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24th Chess Olympiad

Index 24th Chess Olympiad

The 24th Chess Olympiad, organized by FIDE and comprising an open and a women's tournament, as well as several other events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between November 20 and December 6, 1980, in Valletta, Malta. [1]

40 relations: Agnieszka Brustman, Anatoly Karpov, Bermuda, Bill Hook, Bojan Kurajica, Borislav Ivkov, Bruno Parma, Buchholz system, Chess, Chess Olympiad, Daniela Nuțu-Gajić, Efim Geller, FIDE, Garry Kasparov, Grażyna Szmacińska, Gyula Sax, Hanna Ereńska-Barlo, István Csom, Iván Faragó, József Pintér, Lajos Portisch, Lev Polugaevsky, Libya, Ljubomir Ljubojević, Małgorzata Wiese-Jóźwiak, Maia Chiburdanidze, Malta, Mária Ivánka, Mária Porubszky-Angyalosine, Mikhail Tal, Nana Alexandria, Nana Ioseliani, Nona Gaprindashvili, Predrag Nikolić, Swiss-system tournament, Tünde Csonkics, Valletta, Yuri Balashov, Zoltán Ribli, Zsuzsa Verőci.

Agnieszka Brustman

Agnieszka Brustman (born 31 July 1962 in Warsaw) is a Polish chess master.

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Anatoly Karpov

Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (Анато́лий Евге́ньевич Ка́рпов; born May 23, 1951) is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion.

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Bermuda

Bermuda is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean.

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Bill Hook

Bill (or William) Hook (May 28, 1925 – May 10, 2010), born in New Rochelle, New York, was a Chess master and the Captain of the British Virgin Islands chess team.

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Bojan Kurajica

Bojan Kurajica (born 15 November 1947 in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia) is a Bosnian chess grandmaster (GM).

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Borislav Ivkov

Borislav Ivkov (born November 12, 1933 in Belgrade) is a Serbian chess Grandmaster.

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Bruno Parma

Bruno Parma (born December 30, 1941) is a Slovene chess player and Grandmaster.

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Buchholz system

The Buchholz system (also spelled Buchholtz) is a ranking or scoring system in chess developed by Bruno Buchholz (died ca. 1958) in 1932, for Swiss system tournaments.

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Chess

Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid.

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Chess Olympiad

The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete.

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Daniela Nuțu-Gajić

Daniela Nuțu-Gajić (born Daniela Silvia Nuțu on 8 June 1957 in Timișoara, Romania) is a Romanian-Australian chess Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and chess trainer.

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Efim Geller

Efim Petrovich Geller (Ефим Петрович Геллер, Юхим Петрович Геллер; 8 March 1925 – 17 November 1998) was a Soviet chess player and world-class grandmaster at his peak.

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FIDE

The Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national chess federations around the world and acts as the governing body of international chess competition.

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Garry Kasparov

Garry Kimovich Kasparov (Га́рри Ки́мович Каспа́ров,; Armenian: Գարրի Կիմովիչ Կասպարով; born Garik Kimovich Weinstein, 13 April 1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former world chess champion, writer, and political activist, who many consider to be the greatest chess player of all time.

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Grażyna Szmacińska

Grażyna Szmacińska (born 29 January 1953) is a Polish chess player who six times won the Polish Women's Chess Championship.

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Gyula Sax

Gyula Sax (18 June 1951 – 25 January 2014) was a Hungarian chess grandmaster and International Arbiter (1995).

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Hanna Ereńska-Barlo

Hanna Ereńska (Ereńska-Radzewska), now Hanna Ereńska-Barlo (born 12 November 1946 in Poznań) is a Polish chess Woman Grandmaster.

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István Csom

István Csom (born June 2, 1940, Sátoraljaújhely, Hungary) is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster and International Arbiter.

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Iván Faragó

Iván Faragó (born 1 April 1946) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster.

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József Pintér

József Pintér (born 9 November 1953 in Budapest) is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster and chess writer.

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Lajos Portisch

Lajos Portisch (born 4 April 1937) is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster, whose positional style earned him the nickname, the "Hungarian Botvinnik".

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Lev Polugaevsky

Lev Abramovich Polugaevsky (Лев Абрамович Полугаевский; 20 November 1934 – 30 August 1995) was an International Grandmaster of chess and frequent contender for the World Championship, although he never achieved that title.

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Libya

Libya (ليبيا), officially the State of Libya (دولة ليبيا), is a sovereign state in the Maghreb region of North Africa, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south and Algeria and Tunisia to the west.

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Ljubomir Ljubojević

Ljubomir Ljubojević is a Serbian chess grandmaster.

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Małgorzata Wiese-Jóźwiak

Małgorzata Wiese-Jóźwiak (born 16 March 1961), née Wiese, is a Polish chess player who won the Polish Women's Chess Championship in 1985.

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Maia Chiburdanidze

Maia Chiburdanidze (მაია ჩიბურდანიძე; born 17 January 1961) is a Georgian chess grandmaster, and the seventh Women's World Chess Champion, the youngest one until 2010, when this record was broken by Hou Yifan.

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Malta

Malta, officially known as the Republic of Malta (Repubblika ta' Malta), is a Southern European island country consisting of an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Mária Ivánka

Mária Ivánka (Budapest, 23 February 1950) Hungarian chess Woman Grandmaster.

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Mária Porubszky-Angyalosine

Mária Porubszky-Angyalosine (born 5 November 1945) is a Hungarian chess player who holds the title of Woman International Master (WIM, 1971).

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Mikhail Tal

Mikhail Nekhemyevich Tal (Mihails Tāls; Михаил Нехемьевич Таль, Mikhail Nekhem'evich Tal,; sometimes transliterated Mihails Tals or Mihail Tal; 9 November 1936 – 28 June 1992) was a Soviet Latvian chess Grandmaster and the eighth World Chess Champion (from 1960 to 1961).

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Nana Alexandria

Nana Alexandria (ნანა გიორგის ასული ალექსანდრია, Nana Giorgis asuli Aleksandria; born 13 October 1949) is a Georgian chess Woman Grandmaster (1976) and International Arbiter (1995).

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Nana Ioseliani

Nana Mikhailovna Ioseliani (ნანა იოსელიანი; born 12 February 1962) is a Georgian chess player.

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Nona Gaprindashvili

Nona Gaprindashvili (ნონა გაფრინდაშვილი; born 3 May 1941) is a Georgian chess player, the sixth women's world chess champion (1962–1978), and first female Grandmaster.

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Predrag Nikolić

Predrag Nikolić (born 11 September 1960 in Bosanski Šamac) is a Bosnian chess grandmaster.

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Swiss-system tournament

A Swiss-system tournament is a non-eliminating tournament format which features a set number of rounds of competition, but considerably fewer than in a round-robin tournament.

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Tünde Csonkics

Tünde Csonkics (born 20 September 1958) is a Hungarian chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 1990).

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Valletta

Valletta is the capital city of Malta, colloquially known as "Il-Belt" (lit. "The City") in Maltese.

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Yuri Balashov

Yuri Sergeyevich Balashov (Юрий Серге́евич Балашов; born 12 March 1949 in Shadrinsk) is a Russian chess grandmaster.

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Zoltán Ribli

Zoltán Ribli (born September 6, 1951 in Mohács) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster and International Arbiter (1995).

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Zsuzsa Verőci

Zsuzsa Verőci (born February 19, 1949) is a Hungarian chess Woman International Master (1969) and Woman Grandmaster (1978).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24th_Chess_Olympiad

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