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.OlimpBase :: Chess Olympiad Paris 1924: informationStanisław Gawlikowski Olimpiady szachowe 1924 - 1974 Wyd. Sport i Turystyka, Warszawa 1978 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.
Edith Holloway played on the British team, making her the first woman to play in an unofficial chess Olympiad, 26 years before the first woman played in an official chess Olympiad.Did you know that the first time a woman participated in a #ChessOlympiad was in 1950?, FIDE, Facebook, 11 July, 2022
Results The final results were as follows:
Amateur World Championship
{| class="wikitable sortable" ! # !! Player !! Points !! Buch |- | 1 || || 5.5 || |- | 2 || || 5.0 || |- | 3 || || 4.5 || |- | 4 || || 4 || 16.75 |- | 5 || || 4 || 15.75 |- | 6 || || 4 || 14.75 |- | 7 || || 3.5 || |- | 8 || || 3 || |- | 9 || || 2.5 ||
Consolation Cup
{| class="wikitable sortable" ! # !! Player !! Σ Points !! Qual. !! Final |- | 1 || || 9.5 || 3 || 6.5 |- | 2 || || 9 || 4 || 5 |- | 3 || || 8.5 || 3.5 || 5 |- | 4 || || 8 || 2 || 6 |- | || || 8 || 3 || 5 |- | || || 8 || 3.5 || 4.5 |- | || || 8 || 3.5 || 4.5 |- | 8 || || 7.5 || 1.5 || 6 |- | || || 7.5 || 2 || 5.5 |- | || || 7.5 || 2.5 || 5 |- | || || 7.5 || 2.5 || 5 |- | || || 7.5 || 3 || 4.5 |- | || || 7.5 || 3.5 || 4 |- | 14–45 || etc. || || ||
Individual medals
{| class="wikitable sortable" ! # !! Player !! Achievement |- | style="background:gold;"|1 || || Championship Final Winner |- | style="background:silver;"|2 || || Championship Final 2nd place |- | style="background:silver;"| || || Championship Final 3rd place |- | style="background:#cc9966;"|3 || || Championship Final Participant |- | style="background:#cc9966;"| || || Championship Final Participant |- | style="background:#cc9966;"| || || Championship Final Participant |- | style="background:#cc9966;"| || || Championship Final Participant |- | style="background:#cc9966;"| || || Championship Final Participant |- | style="background:#cc9966;"| || || Championship Final Participant |- | style="background:#cc9966;"| || || Consolation Cup Winner
Team classification
{| class="wikitable sortable" ! # !! Team !! Points !! Players |- | style="background:gold;"|1 || || 31 || Hromádka 9½, Schulz 9, Vaněk 6½, Skalička 6 |- | style="background:silver;"|2 || || 30 || Vajda 8, Sterk 7½, Steiner E. 7½, Havasi 7 |- | style="background:#cc9966;"|3 || || 29 || Voellmy 8½, Zimmermann 7½, Johner H. 6½, Naegeli 6½ |- | 4 || || 27.5 || Apšenieks 10, Matisons 9½, Bētiņš 8 |- | || || 27.5 || Grau 8, Reca 7½, Palau 7, Fernández Coria 5 |- | 6 || || 26.5 || Cenni 7½, Rosselli del Turco 7, Romih 6½, Miliani 5½ |- | 7 || || 25.5 || Renaud 8, Lazard F. 6½, Duchamp 6, Gibaud 5 |- | || || 25.5 || Daniuszewski 7½, Piltz 6, Kohn 6, Kleczyński 6 |- | 9 || || 24 || Colle 8½, Koltanowski 8, Lancel 5, Jonet 2½ |- | 10 || || 19 || Golmayo Torriente 7, Marin y Llovet 6, Rey Ardid 6 |- | 11 || || 18.5 || Euwe 8, Oskam 6, Rueb 4½ |- | 12 || || 18 || Davidescu 7, Gudju 6, Loewenton 5 |- | 13 || || 15 || Tschepurnoff 9, Malmberg 6 |- | 14 || || 12.5 || Handasyde 6, Wreford-Brown 3½ Holloway 3 |- | 15 || || 5.5 || O'Hanlon 5½ |- | 16 || || 5 || Smith 5 |- | 17 || Russia || 4.5 || Potemkine 3, Kahn 1½ |- | 18 || Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes || 2.5 || Rozić 2½
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).
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