Record-Breaking Chess Olympiad 2008!

12-25 November at the International Congress Center, Dresden Germany

US Teams

Team Men Team Women
Board Name Title Elo Board Name Title Elo
1 Kamsky, Gata g 2729 1 Krush, Irina m 2452
2 Nakamura, Hikaru g 2704 2 Zatonskih, Anna m 2440
3 Onischuk, Alexander g 2644 3 Goletiani, Rusudan wg 2359
4 Shulman, Yuri g 2616 4 Rohonyan, Katerina wg 2334
Reserve Akobian, Varuzhan g 2606 4 Abrahamyan, Tatev wf 2286
Captain Donaldson, John W m 2411 Captain Kaidanov, Gregory g 2605
  US Olympic Men's Chess Team: Gata Kamsky, Hikaru Nakamura, Alexander Onischuk, Yury Shulman, Varuzhan Akobian   US Olympic Women's Chess Team: Irina Krush, Anna Zatonskih, Rusudan Goletiani, Katerina Rohonyan, Tatev Abrahamyan

Dresden Olympiad logo

On the official website you can check:

Some "olympic" numbers:

  • 152 countries registered
  • more than 1500 players
  • the highest team average 2750 is the highest team average ELO in history!

The recent participants of the World Championship Kramnik and Anand will be playing among > 1500 other players. It comes with very little surprise that the team with the highest average team rating (averaged from the ratings of all team members) is Russia. Currently there are only 8 players in the world with the rating > 2750 and only two of them are Russians

 

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