Valletta Olympiad (1980)

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🏆 Valletta Olympiad (1980)

PARTICIPANTS (sorted by highest achieved rating; click on name to see player's games)
Efim Geller, Ruben Rodriguez, Daniel Abraham Yanofsky, Ortvin Sarapu, Garry Kasparov, Anatoly Karpov, Mikhail Tal, Jan Timman, Predrag Nikolic, Anthony Miles, Yasser Seirawan, Lajos Portisch, Ljubomir Ljubojevic, Jonathan Speelman, Ulf Andersson, Lev Polugaevsky, Johann Hjartarson, Nick de Firmian, Zoltan Ribli, John Nunn, Larry Christiansen, Ivan Farago, Eric Lobron, Lubomir Ftacnik, Jan Smejkal, Ivan Morovic Fernandez, Gyula Sax, Vlastimil Hort, Murray Chandler, Florin Gheorghiu, Gennadi Sosonko, Helgi Olafsson, Jozsef Pinter, John van der Wiel, Bojan Kurajica, Reynaldo Vera Gonzalez-Quevedo, Yuri S Balashov, Lev Alburt, Mihai Suba, Alonso Zapata, Fridrik Olafsson, Ian Rogers, Jesus Nogueiras, Eugenio Torre, Spyridon Skembris, Manuel Rivas Pastor, Jaime Sunye Neto, Jon Arnason, Miguel A Quinteros, Margeir Petursson, Vladimir M Liberzon, Yehuda Gruenfeld, Amador Rodriguez Cespedes, Istvan Csom, Andrew Jonathan Mestel, Leonid Shamkovich, Slavoljub Marjanovic, Michael Francis Stean, Gildardo Garcia, Roberto Cifuentes Parada, Bruno Parma, James Tarjan, Oystein Sande, Tom Wedberg, Vlastimil Jansa, Javier Benito Campos-Moreno, Borislav Ivkov, Hans Ree, Guillermo Garcia Gonzalez, Lars Karlsson, Juan Mario Gomez Esteban, Bachar Kouatly, Raymond Keene, Darryl K Johansen, Liang Jinrong, Juan Manuel Bellon Lopez, Krum Georgiev, Ramon Mateo, Ivan Radulov, Evgenij Ermenkov, Wlodzimierz Schmidt, Erling Mortensen, Roman Hernandez Onna, Edhi Handoko, Colin McNab, Helmut Pfleger, Harry Schussler, Qi Jingxuan, Jesus Diez del Corral, Werner Hug, Aleksander Sznapik, Beat Zueger, Sergio Carlos Giardelli, Jan Plachetka, Bela Toth, Geoffrey Borg, Aldo Haik, Liu Wenzhe, Gert Ligterink, Jiri Lechtynsky plus 234 more players.

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Game Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening
1. Alburt vs F Alvarez 1-0 44 1980 Valletta Olympiad E06 Catalan, Closed, 5.Nf3

2. Andersson vs Kouatly 1-0 26 1980 Valletta Olympiad A15 English

3. L Apol vs L Day ½-½ 44 1980 Valletta Olympiad B06 Robatsch

4. R Mateo vs de Firmian 0-1 42 1980 Valletta Olympiad A14 English

5. E Torre vs G Broomes 1-0 44 1980 Valletta Olympiad A60 Benoni Defense

6. A Dounia vs Geller ½-½ 22 1980 Valletta Olympiad C55 Two Knights Defense

7. R Belkadi vs Ivkov 0-1 40 1980 Valletta Olympiad C45 Scotch Game

8. Pinter vs C McNab 1-0 42 1980 Valletta Olympiad A41 Queen's Pawn Game (with ...d6)

9. Jansa vs A Doyle 1-0 38 1980 Valletta Olympiad C72 Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense, 5.O-O

10. Karpov vs J E Ostos 1-0 45 1980 Valletta Olympiad C05 French, Tarrasch

11. L Christiansen vs J Gonzales 1-0 36 1980 Valletta Olympiad A34 English, Symmetrical

12. M Ouechtati vs Marjanovic ½-½ 32 1980 Valletta Olympiad D30 Queen's Gambit Declined

13. A Bogda vs Murey 0-1 30 1980 Valletta Olympiad B97 Sicilian, Najdorf

14. Nunn vs E Gumrukcuoglu 1-0 39 1980 Valletta Olympiad C51 Evans Gambit

15. A Fernandez vs Polugaevsky ½-½ 63 1980 Valletta Olympiad B46 Sicilian, Taimanov Variation

16. C Pritchett vs Portisch 0-1 24 1980 Valletta Olympiad B92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation

17. G J de Vries vs I Rogers ½-½ 43 1980 Valletta Olympiad B32 Sicilian

18. R Meulders vs Sosonko ½-½ 36 1980 Valletta Olympiad E42 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 c5, 5.Ne2 (Rubinstein)

19. F Oney vs Speelman 0-1 38 1980 Valletta Olympiad A17 English

20. Tal vs A Palacios ½-½ 37 1980 Valletta Olympiad B31 Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation

21. Van der Wiel vs J Goormachtigh 0-1 34 1980 Valletta Olympiad B81 Sicilian, Scheveningen, Keres Attack

22. Yanofsky vs T Vilhelm 1-0 38 1980 Valletta Olympiad B07 Pirc

23. T Ristoja vs S Georges 1-0 11 1980 Valletta Olympiad C26 Vienna

24. D Dunne vs Smejkal 0-1 26 1980 Valletta Olympiad B43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3

25. Tringov vs M Saeed uz Zafar 1-0 26 1980 Valletta Olympiad C83 Ruy Lopez, Open

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