The ICCD World Deaf Team Championship – Chess Olympiad 2014 took place from 18th to 28th June, 2014, at the Congress Center of the Grand Hotel Adriatic in the Croatian pearl Opatija.
The Men Section was won by the Bulgarian team with members Nikolay Ninov, IM Veselin Georgiev, FM Dimitar Serafimov and IM Petar Orev. Bulgaria collected 14 points, leaving the runner-up a full point behind.
The team of Poland (Krzysztof Checiak, Jerzy Strzelecki, Mateusz Lapaj, Marcin Chojnowski, Piotr Walczak and Tomasz Miozga) remained second with 13 points.
Germany (IM Sergey Salov, WCM Annegret Mucha, Reza Mohammed Ghadimi, Dieter Jentsch and Michael Gruender) and Croatia (GM Zlatko Klaric, Goran Cechi, FM Bogdan Bozinovic, Toni Vujcic, Darko Svec, Emil Nikolic) split the third place on 12 points each, but Germany took the bronze on superior tie-break score.
Ukrainian women (WIM Tatiana Baklanova and Natalya Mironenko) proved to be the best with 13 points. Their major rivals, the team of Russia (WFM Natalia Kudriavtseva, WFM Yulia Turkeeva, WIM Olga Gerasimova and Ljubov Kireeva) got second with 12 points, while Kazakhstan (Nina Zhukovskaya, Almash Nuserova and Natalya Gorokhova) remained third.
Olaf Hoyer from Germany was the convincing winner of the Open Section. He finished with 7/9 points, a full point ahead of the nearest followers Mikhail Petrenko Mikhail (Russia), Gediminas Petrauskas (Lithuania), Lir Muratov (Russia) and Roman Pogoskin (Russia).
The Israeli legend GM Yehuda Gruenfeld is the fastest player in the tournament. He lifted the trophy in the Blitz Open, collecting 8/10 points. IM Collutiis Duilio (Italy) finished second, while FM Zivic Dragan (Serbia) took the bronze.
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Men championship final standings:
1. Bulgaria 14
2. Poland 13
3. Germany 12
4. Croatia 12
5. Ukraine 11
6. England 11
7. Russia 11
8. Hungary 10
9. Italy 10
10. Kazakhstan 10
11. Serbia 10
12. Israel 8
13. Belarus 8
14. Armenia 7
15. Switzerland 6
16. Slovakia 5
17. Azerbaijan 2
18. Scotland 1
Women Championship final standings:
1. Ukraine 13
2. Russia 12
3. Kazakhstan 8
4. Belarus 6
5. Italy 6
6. Croatia 6
7. Poland 4
8. Azerbaijan 1
Open standings (top finishers):
1 Hoyer Olaf GER 1891 7
2 Petrenko Mikhail RUS 1706 6
3 Petrauskas Gediminas LTU 1876 6
4 Muratov Lir RUS 2066 6
5 Pogoskin Roman RUS 2035 6
6 Marczukiewicz Jerzy POL 1953 5,5
7 Schmid Jaroslav CZE 2044 5,5
8 Lebedev Sergey Y. RUS 1861 5,5
9 Gromozdin Sergei RUS 1916 5
10 Solovey Vjacheslav RUS 1893 5
Bulgaria is best.