I just recently found some very interesting Chess Olympiad statistics:
|
# |
Player |
Country |
Olymp. |
Games |
Won |
Drawn |
Lost |
% |
Medals |
|
1 |
Mikhail Tal |
|
8 |
101 |
65 |
34 |
2 |
81.2 |
5 – 2 – 0 |
|
2 |
Anatoly Karpov |
|
6 |
68 |
43 |
23 |
2 |
80.1 |
3 – 2 – 0 |
|
3 |
Tigran Petrosian |
|
10 |
129 |
78 |
50 |
1 |
79.8 |
6 – 0 – 0 |
|
4 |
Isaac Kashdan |
|
5 |
79 |
52 |
22 |
5 |
79.7 |
2 – 1 – 1 |
|
5 |
Vassily Smyslov |
|
9 |
113 |
69 |
42 |
2 |
79.6 |
4 – 2 – 2 |
|
6 |
David Bronstein |
|
4 |
49 |
30 |
18 |
1 |
79.6 |
3 – 1 – 0 |
|
7 |
Garry Kasparov |
|
8 |
82 |
50 |
29 |
3 |
78.7 |
7 – 2 – 2 |
|
8 |
Alexander Alekhine |
|
5 |
72 |
43 |
27 |
2 |
78.5 |
2 – 2 – 0 |
|
9 |
Milan Matulovic |
|
6 |
78 |
46 |
28 |
4 |
76.9 |
1 – 2 – 0 |
|
10 |
Paul Keres |
|
10 |
141 |
85 |
44 |
12 |
75.9 |
5 – 1 – 1 |
|
11 |
Efim Geller |
|
7 |
76 |
46 |
23 |
7 |
75.6 |
3 – 3 – 0 |
|
12 |
James Tarjan |
|
5 |
51 |
32 |
13 |
6 |
75.5 |
2 – 1 – 0 |
|
13 |
Bobby Fischer |
|
4 |
65 |
40 |
18 |
7 |
75.4 |
2 – 1 – 0 |
|
14 |
Mikhail Botvinnik |
|
6 |
73 |
39 |
31 |
3 |
74.7 |
2 – 1 – 2 |
|
15 |
Salo Flohr |
|
7 |
82 |
46 |
28 |
8 |
73.2 |
2 – 1 – 1 |
Were you lost at any moment in any of these games?
Yes, I was in danger a few times. But luckily, I managed to save them.
Best wishes,
Susan Polgar
Wow, thats amazing!
I doubt it was luck. Rather your superior chess skill and mastery.
What do you think about Chess Olympiads in general? Should they be played more often? They sound so good by name and attract all the world to meet in one place.
Stunning!!!
Ciao
Luigi
wow! soviet unions are doing it great!
Dear Susan,Can you please display the datas of Boris Spassky,as I could not find his name in your list.(Amongst the Russian World Champions,Post 60’s)
I’m just glad that Susan Polgar has NOT played in her last Olympiad yet!
I have found in a university library in Ankara,Turkey about the history of Chess Olympics but it was quite an old one -probably until Thessaloniki 1988-. Apparently, I was so amused to find it there so I don’t remember any other details except for Tal’s being the best record. A pack of useful stats for trivia questions:))
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Wow! nice results i want printouts!!! hehe-yeah they been doing well but they know whats up now! Yo Susan r they tryin to play IN-DA-HOOD-CHESS!!! hehe I know um silly!
All men’s statistics are here:
http://www.olimpbase.org/statistics/all_id10.html
All women’s statistics are here:
http://www.olimpbase.org/statisticsw/all_id01.html
You are one bad woman Susan, with all those wins.
Wow, Petrosian lost just once out of 129 games played, what a great performance… 6 individual gold medals, awesome.
With a lot of great Soviet GMs during their time, Tal and Petrosian probably played the lower boards in many Olympiads. (Botvinnik must have been Board 1 throughout the 50s.) So their impressive % results must be viewed from this perspective. They probably played lots of weaks IMs in their boards.
All the interesting Olympiad trivia on this site:
http://www.olimpbase.org/articles/trivia.html
Was funny story about Petrosian only lost at Olympiad. Clock was unusual design, and flag fell earlier than Petrosian thought it would. Needless to say he was most upset, and when told he was photographed at that monment , he stated if he had known, he would have smashed the clock and they could have take a photo of that !
Petrosian record of only 1 lost in so many games and Olympiads must stand out
Here is GM. Spassky’s Performance, (URS,FRA) 10 Olympiads 135 games played 54 Won 79 Drawn 2 Lost 69.3% score 3 Gold , 2 Bronze.
“With a lot of great Soviet GMs during their time, Tal and Petrosian probably played the lower boards in many Olympiads.”
Why don’t you check first, before talking such a bull?
http://www.olimpbase.org/players/ikkqkgyh.html
There you can see that Petrosian mostly played on board 1 (4 times) or board 2 (3 times).
“There you can see that Petrosian mostly played on board 1 (4 times) or board 2 (3 times).”
So out of 10 Olympiads, Petrosian played top board only 4 times. I was exacly right, he played lower boards “in many Olympiads”. Where’s the bull there, you moron. You’re so stupid that you contradicted your own argument.
There are four boards at olympiad. Board 1 and 2 are upper boards, boards 3 and 4 are lower boards. Now I’ll let you do the math on how many olympiads Petrosian played on lower boards and how many he played on upper boards.
i absolutely love mikhail tal, his games are such beautiful! next come anderssen and judit