GREAT SOVIET UNION CHESS OLYMPIADs HISTORY "unrealized and forgotten"

GREAT SOVIET UNION CHESS OLYMPIADs HISTORY "unrealized and forgotten" 

Of 33 Olympiads from 1952 till 2022 Chess Olympiad at Chennai. Soviet Union won 28. USA 02. China 02. Hungary 01. India 01 (Joint winner with Russia ; year 2020) **

From 1952 - 2020, other than Soviet Union (Russia), the only winners from rest of the world were India (2020),China (2014,2018),USA (1976,2016) and Hungary (1978)

Source information

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PREVIOUS CHESS OLYMPIAD WINNERS

Year            Event                           Winner
1952 10th Chess Olympiad  Soviet Union 21 pts
1954 11th Chess Olympiad  Soviet Union 34 pts
1956 12th Chess Olympiad  Soviet Union 31 pts
1958 13th Chess Olympiad  Soviet Union 34 1/2 pts
1960 14th Chess Olympiad  Soviet Union 34 pts
1962 15th Chess Olympiad  Soviet Union 31 1/2 pts
1964 16th Chess Olympiad  Soviet Union 36 1/2 pts
1966 17th Chess Olympiad  Soviet Union 39 1/2 pts
1968 18th Chess Olympiad  Soviet Union 30 1/2 pts
1970 19th Chess Olympiad  Soviet Union 27 1/2 pts
1972 20th Chess Olympiad  Soviet Union 42 pts
1974 21st Chess Olympiad  Soviet Union 46 pts
1976 22nd Chess Olympiad  USA  ******
(Soviet Union, communist countries and Arab countries did not participate in 1976)
1978 23rd Chess Olympiad  Hungary 37 pts ********* Soviet Union 36 pts
1980 24th Chess Olympiad  Soviet Union 39 pts
1982 25th Chess Olympiad  Soviet Union 42 1/2 pts
1984 26th Chess Olympiad  Soviet Union 41 pts
1986 27th Chess Olympiad  Soviet Union 40 pts
1988 28th Chess Olympiad  Soviet Union 40 1/2 pts
1990 29th Chess Olympiad  Soviet Union 39 pts
1992 30th Chess Olympiad  Russia 39 pts
1994 31st Chess Olympiad  Russia 37 1/2 pts
1996 32nd Chess Olympiad  Russia 38 1/2 pts
1998 33rd Chess Olympiad  Russia 35 1/2 pts
2000 34th Chess Olympiad  Russia 38
2002 35th Chess Olympiad  Russia 38 1/2 pts
2004 36th Chess Olympiad  Ukraine (Former Soviet Union) 39 1/2
2006 37th Chess Olympiad  Armenia (Former Soviet Union) 36
2008 38th Chess Olympiad  Armenia (Former Soviet Union) 19 pts
2010 39th Chess Olympiad  Ukraine (Former Soviet Union) 19 pts
2012 40th Chess Olympiad  Armenia (Former Soviet Union) 19 pts
2014 41st Chess Olympiad  China 19 pts  ************
2016 42nd Chess Olympiad  USA 20 ******* Ukraine 20 (Former Soviet Union) Russia 18
2018 43rd Chess Olympiad  China 18 pts ******* USA 18 pts Russia 18 pts
2020 Corona virus outbreak. Online tournament. Global outage of Indian cloudflare servers. India becomes joint winner with Russia
2021 Online tournament. Russia winner.
2022. 44th Chess Olympiad in process at India. Russians and Chinese absent.

44th Chess Olympiad. Winner. Uzbekistan (Former Soviet Union) 19 pts, Armenia (Former Soviet Union) 19 pts, 

India 2 18 pts, Moldova (Former Soviet Union) 17 pts.         

****** winner other than Soviet Union (Russia)

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Of 32 Olympiads from 1952 till 2021. Soviet Union won 27. USA 02. China 02. Hungary 01. India 01 (Joint winner with Russia ; year 2020). After the chennai chess olympiad results, it was edited and updated as Soviet Union won 28.

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