3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad

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The 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad was held by German Chess Federation (Grossdeutscher Schachbund) as a counterpart of the Summer Olympic Games in Berlin with reference to 1924 and 1928 events.^[1] The Schach-Olympia 1936 took place in Munich between August 17 and September 1, 1936. In that extra-Olympiad (non-FIDE) 208 participants, representing 21 countries, played 1680 games. The Munich unofficial Olympiad was the biggest team competition ever held.^[2]

The final results were as follows:

Contents 1 Final 2 Team medals 3 Individual medals 4 References 5 See also

[edit] Final

#	Country	Points
1	Hungary	110.5
2	Poland	108
3	Germany	106.5
4	Yugoslavia	104.5
5	Czechoslovakia	104
6	Latvia	96.5
7	Austria	95
8	Sweden	94
9	Denmark	91.5
10	Estonia	90
11	Lithuania	77.5
12	Finland	75
13	Netherlands	71.5
14	Romania	68
15	Norway	64.5
16	Brazil	63
17	Switzerland	61.5
18	Italy	59
19	Iceland	57.5
20	France	43.5
21	Bulgaria	38.5

[edit] Team medals

#	Country	Players
1	Hungary	Géza Maróczy, Lajos Steiner, Endre Steiner, Kornél Havasi, László Szabó, Gedeon Barcza, Árpád Vajda, Ernő Gereben, János Balogh, Imre Kóródy Keresztély
2	Poland	Paulin Frydman, Mieczysław Najdorf, Teodor Regedziński, Kazimierz Makarczyk, Henryk Friedman, Leon Kremer, Henryk Pogorieły, Antoni Wojciechowski, Franciszek Sulik, Jerzy Jagielski
3	Germany	Kurt Richter, Carl Ahues, Ludwig Engels, Carl Carls, Ludwig Rellstab, Fritz Sämisch, Ludwig Rödl, Herbert Heinicke, Wilhelm Ernst, Paul Michel

[edit] Individual medals

Individual gold medals won the following players:

#	Board	Player	Country	Points	%
1	1	Paul Keres	Estonia	15.5/20	77.5
	2	Mieczysław Najdorf	Poland	16/20	80.0
	3	Bjørn Nielsen	Denmark	11.5/15	76.7
	4	Karel Hromádka	Czechoslovakia	14/20	70.0
	5	László Szabó	Hungary	16.5/19	86.8
	6	Borislav Kostić	Yugoslavia	16/19	84.2
	7	Ludwig Rödl	Germany	11/16	68.8
	8	Wolfgang Weil	Austria	12.5/17	73.5
	1 reserve	František Zíta	Czechoslovakia	7.5/11	68.2
	2 reserve	Ozren Nedeljković	Yugoslavia	8/10	80.0

[edit] References

[edit] See also

1st unofficial Chess Olympiad (Paris 1924)
2nd unofficial Chess Olympiad (Budapest 1926)

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