1st unofficial Chess Olympiad

The first Team Chess Tournament had been held by coinciding the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, 12–20 July 1924, at Hotel Majestic. The core of the organizing committee were the Frenchmen Pierre Vincent and Alexander Alekhine. Fifty-four players representing 18 countries arrived to Paris. They were decided to be split into nine preliminary groups of six, a winner of each qualifying into the Championship Final while the rest joined eight-round Swiss consolation tournament. The winner of the individual tournament earned the title of the Amateur World Champion. Mrs. Edith Holloway for Great Britain was the first woman to have appeared at the Olympiads.^[1]^[2]

Results

The final results were as follows:

Amateur World Championship

#	Player	Points	Buch
1	Hermanis Matisons (Latvia)	5.5
2	Fricis Apšenieks (Latvia)	5.0
3	Edgard Colle (Belgium)	4.5
4	Árpád Vajda (Hungary)	4	16.75
5	Machgielis Euwe (Netherlands)	4	15.75
6	Anatol Tschepurnoff (Finland)	4	14.75
7	Luis Argentino Palau (Argentina)	3.5
8	Manuel Golmayo de la Torriente (Spain)	3
9	Kornél Havasi (Hungary)	2.5

Consolation Cup

#	Player	Σ Points	Qual.	Final
1	Karel Hromádka (Czechoslovakia)	9.5	3	6.5
2	Jan Schulz (Czechoslovakia)	9	4	5
3	Erwin Voellmy (Switzerland)	8.5	3.5	5
4	Kārlis Bētiņš (Latvia)	8	2	6
	Georges Renaud (France)	8	3	5
	Roberto Grau (Argentina)	8	3.5	4.5
	George Koltanowski (Belgium)	8	3.5	4.5
8	Giovanni Cenni (Italy)	7.5	1.5	6
	Endre Steiner (Hungary)	7.5	2	5.5
	Otto Zimmermann (Switzerland)	7.5	2.5	5
	Dawid Daniuszewski (Poland)	7.5	2.5	5
	Károly Sterk (Hungary)	7.5	3	4.5
	Damián Reca (Argentina)	7.5	3.5	4
14-45	etc.

Individual medals

#	Player	Achievement
1	Hermanis Matisons (Latvia)	Championship Final Winner
2	Fricis Apšenieks (Latvia)	Championship Final 2nd place
	Edgard Colle (Belgium)	Championship Final 3rd place
3	Árpád Vajda (Hungary)	Championship Final Participant
	Machgielis Euwe (Netherlands)	Championship Final Participant
	Anatol Tschepurnoff (Finland)	Championship Final Participant
	Luis Argentino Palau (Argentina)	Championship Final Participant
	Manuel Golmayo de la Torriente (Spain)	Championship Final Participant
	Kornél Havasi (Hungary)	Championship Final Participant
	Karel Hromádka (Czechoslovakia)	Consolation Cup Winner

Team Classification

#	Team	Points	Players
1	Czechoslovakia	31	Hromádka 9½, Schulz 9, Vaněk 6½, Skalička 6
2	Hungary	30	Vajda 8, Sterk 7½, Steiner E. 7½, Havasi 7
3	Switzerland	29	Voellmy 8½, Zimmermann 7½, Johner H. 6½, Naegeli 6½
4	Latvia	27.5	Apšenieks 10, Matisons 9½, Bētiņš 8
	Argentina	27.5	Grau 8, Reca 7½, Palau 7, Fernández Coria 5
6	Italy	26.5	Cenni 7½, Rosselli del Turco 7, Romih 6½, Miliani 5½
7	France	25.5	Renaud 8, Lazard F. 6½, Duchamp 6, Gibaud 5
	Poland	25.5	Daniuszewski 7½, Piltz 6, Kohn 6, Kleczyński 6
9	Belgium	24	Colle 8½, Koltanowski 8, Lancel 5, Jonet 2½
10	Spain	19	Golmayo Torriente 7, Marin y Llovet 6, Rey Ardid 6
11	Netherlands	18.5	Euwe 8, Oskam 6, Rueb 4½
12	Romania	18	Davidescu 7, Gudju 6, Loewenton 5
13	Finland	15	Tschepurnoff 9, Malmberg 6
14	United Kingdom	12.5	Handasyde 6, Wreford 3½ Holloway 3
15	Irish Free State	5.5	O'Hanlon 5½
16	Canada	5	Smith 5
17	Russia¹	4.5	Potemkine 3, Kahn 1½
18	Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes	2.5	Rozić 2½

¹ Potemkine and Kahn were émigrés living in Paris and represented "Russia", not the Soviet Union.

FIDE

On 20 July, the last day of the games, 15 delegates from all over the World signed the proclamation act of the International Chess Federation (originally known as Fédération Internationale des Échecs in French) and elected Dr. Alexander Rueb of the Netherlands the first FIDE president.

Latin motto Gens una sumus ("we are one family") became official and well-recognized watchword of the chess unity. Below is the historic list of 15 founders of FIDE: Abonyi (Hungary), Grau (Argentina), Gudju (Romania), Marusi (Italy), Nicolet (Switzerland), Ovadija (Yugoslavia), Penalver y Zamora (Spain), Rawlins (Great Britain), Rueb (Netherlands), Skalička (Czechoslovakia), Smith (Canada), Towbin (Poland), Tschepurnoff (Finland), Vincent (France), Weltjens (Belgium).

References

↑ OlimpBase :: Chess Olympiad Paris 1924: information
↑ Stanisław Gawlikowski Olimpiady szachowe 1924 - 1974 Wyd. Sport i Turystyka, Warszawa 1978

Chess Olympiad / Women's Chess Olympiad

Official	London 1927 The Hague 1928 Hamburg 1930 Prague 1931 Folkestone 1933 Warsaw 1935 Stockholm 1937 Buenos Aires 1939 Dubrovnik 1950 Helsinki 1952 Amsterdam 1954 Moscow 1956 Munich 1958 Leipzig 1960 Varna 1962 Tel Aviv 1964 Havana 1966 Lugano 1968 Siegen 1970 Skopje 1972 Nice 1974 Haifa 1976 Buenos Aires 1978 Valletta 1980 Lucerne 1982 Thessaloniki 1984 Dubai 1986 Thessaloniki 1988 Novi Sad 1990 Manila 1992 Moscow 1994 Yerevan 1996 Elista 1998 Istanbul 2000 Bled 2002 Calvià 2004 Turin 2006 Dresden 2008 Khanty-Mansiysk 2010 Istanbul 2012 Tromsø 2014 Baku 2016 open women controversies Batumi 2018

Unofficial	Paris 1924 Budapest 1926 Munich 1936 Tripoli 1976

Women's	Emmen 1957 Split 1963 Oberhausen 1966 Lublin 1969 Skopje 1972 Medellín 1974

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