The Olympiad ends with a bang

Picture Gallery

A group of participants of the Olympiad who are all under 16 years old. Notable absentees in this group: Magnus Carlsen (13), Sergey Karjakin (14), and Kateryna Lahno (14).

The US team with Alexander Shabalov, Gregory Kaidanov and Alexander Onischuk

The Russians: Alexey Dreev, Peter Svidler, Alexander Morozevich

Blind chess players dictate their moves to an assistant

Alisa Maric, board one for Serbia Montenegro, with her captain Susan Maximovich

Natalia Zhukova, whom we at first did not recognise, with her new hairstyle

Anastasia Sorokina, who plays for Australia

Almira Skripchenko, looking good – and telling us what she thinks about our camera

Curly top Jovanka Houska, WGM playing for England

Viktorija Cmilyte, top board for Lithuania

Top scorer and best performance (2622) at the Olympiad: Susan Polgar

Ruslan Ponomariov visits the commentary room, which is not exactly packed

In the VIP area Ruslan finds a friend he can really relate to

FIDE vice president Ummer Koya about to win on time against the bronze statue

... and gets a taste of the finest Spanish sherry

Iraq vs Libanon in the ladies' section

WIM Anna Muzychuk on board one for Slovenia – she has just turned 14

A laser disco party evening for the players

14-year-old Katryna Lahno takes the floor

... and is challenged by a wild and energetic colleague: Sergey Karjakin (14)

Links

• The 36th Chess Olympiad home page
• All ChessBase reports so far
• Games from rounds 1–8 zipped PGN:
  Men's section 1-8 – Women's section 1-8
• Games from rounds 9–14 zipped PGN (as soon as available):
  Men's section 9-14 – Women's section 9-14
• All games round by round from the official site