34th Chess Olympiad
th chess olympiad turkish satranç olimpiyatı organized fédération internationale de échecs comprising open womens tournament took place october november istanbul turkey team open event womens event tournament section officiated international arbiter geurt gijssen netherlands team paired across round competition according swiss system open division played four board per round whilst womens played three event draw tiebreak decided first buchholz system secondly match point time control game permitted player minute make first move additional minute make next move minute finish game additional second devolving player move beginning first addition overall medal winner team divided seeding group top finisher group receiving special prize open division contested team representing nation turkey host fielded two team whilst international braille chess association provided one squad nicaragua mauritania djibouti signed never arrived russia without strongest player three k classical world champion garry kasparov challenger vladimir kramnik midst championship match exchampion anatoly karpov still odds national federation captained new fide champion khalifman however russia still favourite team win fifth consecutive title although single point germany took silver medal ukraine clinched bronze beating hungary tiebreak pretournament medal favourite england whose average rating mere point russia finished disappointing seventh performance rating alexander morozevich board utut adianto ½ board ruslan ponomariov ½ board dragoljub jacimović board ashot anastasian st reserve taleb moussa nd reserve alexei barsov ½ womens division contested team representing nation turkey host fielded two team whilst international braille chess association entered one squad defending champion china huge favourite rating retained title led reigning world champion xie jun two future champion team zhu chen xu yuhua georgia russia took silver bronze medal respectively performance rating zhu chen board viktorija čmilytė ½ board zhu chen board nino khurtsidze reserve zahira elghabi ½ nona gaprindashvili trophy awarded nation best average rank open womens division two team tied ordered best single finish either division total number point scored trophy named former womens world champion – created fide th chess olympiad istanbul olimpbase