6th Women's Chess Olympiad

The 6th Women's Chess Olympiad, organized by FIDE, took place on 15 September to 7 October 1974 in Medellín, Colombia.

Nona Gaprindashvili

Nana Alexandria

Irina Levitina

The winning Soviet Union team

Twenty-five nations took part in the women's Olympiad. From five preliminary groups the teams were split into three finals.

The Soviet Union won.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Preliminaries

• Group 1: 1. Soviet Union, 2. Canada, 3. Austria, 4. Colombia, 5. Puerto Rico.
• Group 2: 1. Romania, 2. Netherlands, 3. United States, 4. Japan, 5. Panama.
• Group 3: 1. Hungary, 2. England, 3. Israel, 4. Brazil, 5. Monaco.
• Group 4: 1. Yugoslavia, 2. Bulgaria, 3. Spain, 4. Finland, 5. Mexico.
• Group 5: 1. Czechoslovakia, 2. West Germany, 3. Sweden, 4. Ireland, 5. Iraq.

Finals

Final A

#	Country	Players	Average rating	Points	MP	Playoff score
1	Soviet Union	Nona Gaprindashvili, Nana Alexandria, Irina Levitina	2380	13½	14	3
2	Romania	Elisabeta Polihroniade, Gertrude Baumstark, Margareta Teodorescu	2233	13½	14	1
3	Bulgaria	Tatjana Lematschko, Antonina Georgieva, Venka Asenova	2233	13	14

#	Country	Average rating	Points	MP
4	Hungary	2300	13	13
5	Netherlands	2115	9½
6	Czechoslovakia	2195	9
7	Yugoslavia	2203	7½
8	England	2068	4	3
9	West Germany	2103	4	3
10	Canada	2033	3

Final B

#	Country	Average rating	Points	MP
11	Spain	1938	13½	16
12	Israel	2105	13½	16
13	Brazil	2008	11
14	United States	2048	10½
15	Sweden	2025	9½
16	Austria	1965	8½
17	Colombia	–	8
18	Finland	1880	6
19	Japan	1825	5
20	Ireland	1830	4½

Final C

#	Country	Points	MP
21	Mexico	7½
22	Puerto Rico	7
23	Iraq	5	5
24	Colombia "B"	5	5
25	Monaco	4
26	Panama	1½

Individual medals

• Board 1: Nona Gaprindashvili 10 / 12 = 83.3%
• Board 2: Nana Alexandria 6½ / 8 = 81.3%
• Reserve: Irina Levitina 8 / 10 = 80.0%

References

1. Carruth, Gorton (17 September 1993). The encyclopedia of world facts and dates. HarperCollins Publishers – via Internet Archive. medellin 1976 chess women.
2. Chess Competitions, 1971–2010: An Annotated International Bibliography. McFarland. 21 January 2016. ISBN 9781476623658 – via Google Books.
3. Felice, Gino Di (11 September 2014). Chess Results, 1975–1977: A Comprehensive Record with 872 Tournament Crosstables and 147 Match Scores, with Sources. McFarland. ISBN 9781476618920 – via Google Books.
4. Felice, Gino Di (18 August 2010). Chess Periodicals: An Annotated International Bibliography, 1836–2008. McFarland. ISBN 9780786457397 – via Google Books.
5. Chess Competitions, 1971–2010: An Annotated International Bibliography. McFarland. 21 January 2016. ISBN 9781476623658 – via Google Books.
6. "Yugoslav Survey". Jugoslavija Publishing House. 17 September 1991 – via Google Books.
7. "The British Chess Magazine". Trubner & Company. 17 September 1977 – via Google Books.

External links

• Women's Chess Olympiad: Medellín 1974 OlimpBase