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Student Olympiads

An unsolved issue is a question of board prizes. We have assumed only board winners are noted (no silver and bronze medals) and that there were no separate competitions in case more than one final group was scheduled. Šajtar's book do not give clear indication about this. In come cases probably prizes were awarded separately for final A and final B. Also, there is no rule for minimum number of games necessary to be eligible to get the prize.

Other issues commonly missing: beauty prizes (available only in some cases), time limits (2.5h/40 moves was a standard those years but this hasn't been confirmed), players' first names (Šajtar didn't mark first names in his book or at most noted initials. Many obscure players particularly from late 1950s have their first names missing.)


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Oslo 1954

  • Only French version of Šajtar's book is available, we are looking for English version.
  • About 160 games are missing.
  • Missing details: time-table, venue, organizers, time control...

Lyon 1955

  • Sigurðsson, Guðjón (ISL) is spelled as Sirgukalsson in Šajtar's book. Which is correct?
  • Is Mora (ESP) Mora, Pedro?
  • Round 12 FRA-ISL, French line-up is not confirmed.
  • Missing details: time-table, organizers, time control...

Uppsala 1956

  • About 270 games are missing.
  • Missing details: time-table, organizers, time control...

Reykjavik 1957

  • Round 3 CSR-FIN, pairings from MegaBase are different from Šajtars: board 2 Blatný-Kajaste, board 3 Maršálek-Aaltio. Which is correct?
  • Round 7 HUN-BUL, pairings from MegaBase are different from Šajtars: board 4 Haág-Bogdanov. Which is correct?
  • Round 7 ROM-FIN, pairings from MegaBase are different from Šajtars: board 2 Botez-Aaltio, board 3 Sammalisto-Joiţa. Which is correct?
  • Šajtar's overall statistics provide following scores of Finnish players: Aaltio 2/10, Sammalisto 1/8, opposite to sums counted from round-by-round data. Which is correct?
  • Šajtar's overall statistics provide following scores of Romanian players: Drimer 7/12, Ghitescu 6/11, opposite to sums counted from round-by-round data. Which is correct?
  • Missing details: time-table, venue, organizers, time control...

Varna 1958

  • More than 20 games are missing.
  • Missing details: time-table, venue, organizers, time control...

Budapest 1959

  • Novák, Zbyněk (CSR) might also be Nowak, Ervin, what is correct?
  • More than 310 games are missing.
  • Missing details: time-table, venue, some organizers...

Leningrad 1960

  • Apparently Šajtar retyped names from Russian bulletin written in Cyryllic alphabet. Some games are terribly misspelled though I cannot retrieve proper forms, e.g. Van Dvej (BEL) (converted to Van Duij), Bankevi (HUN) - ???
  • Missing details: time-table, organizers, time control...

Helsinki 1961

  • Söderborg, Berndt (SWE) is also spelled as Söderborg, J. O. in some sources, what is correct?
  • Csiszár, Albert (HUN) is also spelled as Csiszár, I. in some sources, what is correct?
  • Nagy (HUN) is his first name Ervin?
  • Missing details: chairman of organizing committee, time control...

Mariánské Lázne 1962

  • Adamski, Jan (POL) may be Adamski, Andrzej too.
  • Kovács (HUN), was his first name László?
  • Pedersen (DEN), was his first name Svend?
  • More than 400 games are missing.
  • Missing details: venue, time-table, time control...

Budva 1963

  • It is not certain whether moves from Broström(SWE)-Burt(SCO) are from group 4, round 3 or from final B, round 9 game.
  • Šajtar provides different result of the following game: Álvarez(CUB)-Van Wijngaarden(NED) (he gives 1-0 while the final table says it was 0-1, no moves are available).
  • More than 410 games are missing.
  • Missing details: time control, trivia etc...

Cracow 1964

  • No Šajtar's book available, thus missing details: venue, organizers...
  • Stefanov, Iosif (BUL) may be Stefanov, Jordan too.
  • Missing details: time control...

Sinaia 1965

  • Only French version of Šajtar's book is available, we are looking for English version.
  • Verstraeten, Roland (BEL) is also spelled as Verstraeten, Jan in some sources, what is correct?
  • Kovács (HUN), was his first name Zoltán?
  • Šajtar's statistics attribute 9 games to both Tunisian players names Bouaziz, opposite to what derivates from round-by-round count. Which is correct?
  • Missing details: time-table, time control...

Örebro 1966

  • Stefanov (BUL), was his first name Iosif?
  • Missing details: time-table, venue, time control...

Harrachov 1967

  • McCurdy, Gerald (IRL) is also spelled as McCurdy, F. in some sources, what is correct?
  • About 100 games are missing.
  • Missing details: time-table, time control...

Ybbs 1968

  • Andersson, Kurt (SWE) is also spelled as Andersson, Ulf in some sources, what is correct?
  • Missing details: venue, time control...

Dresden 1969

  • Ivanov, Spiridon (BUL) is also spelled as Ivanov, Nicolai in some sources, what is correct?
  • Schmidt, Michael (GDR) is also spelled as Schmidt, Gerhardt in some sources, what is correct?
  • Missing details: time control...

Haifa 1970

  • No Šajtar's book available, thus missing details: venue, organizers, time control...
  • Part of games from round 10 and all the games from round 11 are missing.
  • Time-table seems to be dubious.

Mayagüez 1971

  • About 330 games are missing.
  • Qual. group 1, round 3, ECU-URS, board 4: Vintimilla-Razuvaev is also cited as Schwab-Razuvaev in some sources.
  • Missing details: venue, time-table, time control...

Graz 1972

  • Rosenberg, Matthew (SCO) also spelled as Rosenberg, Michael in some sources, which is correct?
  • Kirov, Nino (BUL) also spelled as Kirilov, Nino in some sources, which is correct?
  • 65 games are missing
  • Missing details: time control...

Teesside 1974

  • Missing details: time control...

Caracas 1976

  • Guerra, José Luís (VEN) also spelled as Guerra, Jorge in some sources, which is correct?
  • Halldórsson, Bragi (ISL) also spelled as Halldórsson Björn in some sources, which is correct?
  • Pérez, Arturo (ECU) also spelled as Pérez, Andrés in some sources, which is correct?
  • Wheeler, Robert (JAM) also spelled as Wheeler, Raymond in some sources, which is correct?
  • Missing details: venue, time-table...

Mexico City 1977

  • Games need to be retyped from the bulletin! OlimpBase received complete set of bulletins from the event, but unfortunately very few games are covered by MegaBase. This is why in order to be available at olimpbase.org games have to be rewritten *by hand* from the bulletin (the quality of the print is very poor, impossible to OCR). I have no time to complete this task which is not essential since pure results are available. If you have some idle time and you with to contribute than this is a job for you! Please be careful, this is hardcore task! Some games are virtually impossible to read, other ones are very, very hard. The bulletin is available as PDF
  • About 450 games are missing.
  • Final B, round 9 CAN-COL, Silva-Baragar or Silva-Taylor?
  • Team Costa Rica, there are two Fernández's. Which of them player in rounds 2&3 of Final B is not clear. Šajtar's book attributes an extra game to Vaglio Muñoz (board #3) instead of R.Fernández (board #4) in its final listings, opposite to round-by-round results.
  • Missing details: time control...