17th Chess Olympiad

The 17th Chess Olympiad ( es, La 17^a Olimpíada de ajedrez), organized by FIDE and comprising an openAlthough commonly referred to as the ''men's division'', this section is open to both male and female players. team tournament, as well as several other events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between October 23 and November 20, 1966, in Havana, Cuba.

The Soviet team with 6 GMs, led by world champion Petrosian, lived up to expectations and won their eighth consecutive gold medals, with the United States and Hungary taking the silver and bronze, respectively.

When Hungary and Yugoslavia tied on both game and match points, and they had drawn 2–2 with each other, the rules dictated that the final ranking would be decided by using the Neustadtl score – but not which version of it. A so-called ''unweighted'' score was used, which placed Hungary ahead of Yugoslavia, giving them the bronze medals. Had the ''weighted'' variant been used instead, the result would have been the other way around.

Results

Preliminaries

A total of 52 teams entered the competition and were divided into seven preliminary groups of seven or eight teams each. The top two from each group advanced to Final A, the teams placed 3rd-4th to Final B, no. 5-6 to Final C, and the rest to Final D. All preliminary groups and finals were played as round-robin tournaments. The preliminary results were as follows:

Final

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Final «A»

Final «B»

Final «C»

Final «D»

Individual medals

* Board 1: Tigran Petrosian 11½ / 13 = 88.5%
* Board 2: Oscar Panno 14 / 18 = 77.8%
* Board 3: Mikhail Tal 12 / 13 = 92.3%
* Board 4: Christian Langeweg 12 / 15 = 80.0%
* 1st reserve: Viktor Korchnoi 10½ / 13 = 80.8%
* 2nd reserve: László Bárczay 11 / 12 = 91.7%

References

17th Chess Olympiad: Havana 1966
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