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Turin Olympiad Starts Today |
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Sunday, 21 May 2006 00:00 |
 The Turin Olympiad starts today with a record 146 teams in the open division and 108 teams in the Women`s Olympiad. Watch games live at the official site. If you do not see the games, download Java 2 Runtime Environment. Pairings can be seen at the Swiss Manager site for the Open Olympiad and Women`s Olympiad. In photo, FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and Italian Chess Federation President Gianpietro Pagnoncelli declare the Olympiad open. More.
FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov made the ceremonial first move with GM Alexander Grischuk at the top board in the match Russia vs. Kazakhstan.
The Turin Olympiad starts today with a record 146 teams in the open division and 108 teams in the Women`s Olympiad. Watch games live at the official site. If you do not see the games, download Java 2 Runtime Environment. Pairings can be seen at the Swiss Manager site for the Open Olympiad and Women`s Olympiad. In photo, FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and Italian Chess Federation President Gianpietro Pagnoncelli declare the Olympiad open.
Hint when watching games: 7-digit Game codes 1234567 are arranged as Sex (1) round (23) match(456) and board (7). You can watch four games at a time for one match of boards 1 to 4 or enter the game code directly.
Biggest is the word to describe the Turin Olympiad with the record participation, biggest hall, biggest Olympic Village where all the teams are together in the spirit of Gens Una Sumus. |
