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1st unofficial Chess Olympiad

International chess tournament

The 1st Team Chess Tournament was held together with the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, 12–20 July 1924, at the Hotel Majestic. Fifty-four players representing 18 countries were split into nine preliminary groups of six. The winner of each round qualified for the Championship while the rest joined an eight-round Swiss consolation tournament. The event was organized by the French Chess Federation (FFE) after they unsuccessfully campaigned to include chess as an Olympic sport in the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Results

The final results were as follows:

Amateur World Championship

:{| class="wikitable sortable" ! # !! Player !! Points !! Buch |- | 1 || Hermanis Matisons || 5.5 || |- | 2 || Fricis Apšenieks || 5.0 || |- | 3 || Edgard Colle || 4.5 || |- | 4 || Árpád Vajda || 4 || 16.75 |- | 5 || Machgielis Euwe || 4 || 15.75 |- | 6 || Anatol Tschepurnoff || 4 || 14.75 |- | 7 || Luis Argentino Palau || 3.5 || |- | 8 || Manuel Golmayo de la Torriente || 3 || |- | 9 || Kornél Havasi || 2.5 || |}

Consolation Cup

:{| class="wikitable sortable" ! # !! Player !! Σ Points !! Qual. !! Final |- | 1 || Karel Hromádka || 9.5 || 3 || 6.5 |- | 2 || Jan Schulz || 9 || 4 || 5 |- | 3 || Erwin Voellmy || 8.5 || 3.5 || 5 |- | 4 || Kārlis Bētiņš || 8 || 2 || 6 |- | || Georges Renaud || 8 || 3 || 5 |- | || Roberto Grau || 8 || 3.5 || 4.5 |- | || George Koltanowski || 8 || 3.5 || 4.5 |- | 8 || Giovanni Cenni || 7.5 || 1.5 || 6 |- | || Endre Steiner || 7.5 || 2 || 5.5 |- | || Otto Zimmermann || 7.5 || 2.5 || 5 |- | || Dawid Daniuszewski || 7.5 || 2.5 || 5 |- | || Károly Sterk || 7.5 || 3 || 4.5 |- | || Damián Reca || 7.5 || 3.5 || 4 |- | 14–45 || etc. || || || |}

Individual medals

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Team classification

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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 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).

Notes

References

[http://www.olimpbase.org/1924x/1924in.html OlimpBase :: Chess Olympiad Paris 1924: information]
Stanisław Gawlikowski ''Olimpiady szachowe 1924 - 1974'' Wyd. Sport i Turystyka, Warszawa 1978
"The 1st Chess Olympiad and creation of the FI(D)E - The first steps (1/4) - kwabc.org (en)".

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