Correspondence Chess Olympiad

The Correspondence Chess Olympiad is a correspondence chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete. International Correspondence Chess Federation organises the tournament.

Olympiads and top results in the open section

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1st Correspondence Chess Olympiad (1949–52)[1]	Hungary	Czechoslovakia	Sweden
2nd Correspondence Chess Olympiad (1952–55)[2]	Tie between  Czechoslovakia &  Sweden		West Germany
3rd Correspondence Chess Olympiad (1958–61)[3]	Soviet Union	Hungary	Yugoslavia
4th Correspondence Chess Olympiad (1962–64)[4]	Soviet Union	East Germany	Sweden
5th Correspondence Chess Olympiad (1965–68)[5]	Czechoslovakia	Soviet Union	West Germany
6th Correspondence Chess Olympiad (1968–72)[6]	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	East Germany
7th Correspondence Chess Olympiad (1972–76)[7]	Soviet Union	Bulgaria	Great Britain
8th Correspondence Chess Olympiad (1977–82)[8]	Soviet Union	Hungary	Great Britain
9th Correspondence Chess Olympiad (1982–87)[9]	Great Britain	West Germany	Soviet Union
10th Correspondence Chess Olympiad (1987–95)[10][11]	Soviet Union	England	East Germany
11th Correspondence Chess Olympiad (1992–99)[12][13]	Czech Republic	Germany	Canada
12th Correspondence Chess Olympiad (1998–2004)[14][15]	Germany	Lithuania	Latvia
13th Correspondence Chess Olympiad (2004–09)[16]	Germany	Czech Republic	Poland
14th Correspondence Chess Olympiad (2002–06)[17]	Germany	Lithuania	United States of America
15th Correspondence Chess Olympiad (2006–09)[18]	Norway	Germany	Netherlands
16th Correspondence Chess Olympiad (2010–??)[19]	Czech Republic	Germany	France
17th Correspondence Chess Olympiad (2009–12)[20]	Germany	Spain	Italy
18th Correspondence Chess Olympiad (2012–16)[21]	Germany	Slovenia	Spain

See also

• Chess Olympiad
• ICCF national member federations—Short articles about the federations
• ICCF numeric notation
• World Correspondence Chess Championship
• International Correspondence Chess Federation

References