OlimpBase
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OlimpBase, is a website
Website
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 dedicated to the Chess Olympiad
Chess Olympiad
The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete against each other. The event is organised by FIDE, which selects the host nation.-Birth of the Olympiad:The first Olympiad was unofficial...

s and other team chess events, created and run in Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 by Wojciech Bartelski
Wojciech Bartelski
Wojciech Bartelski is a Polish politician and creator of the website OlimpBase.He graduated in 2002 in economics from Warsaw University. He is a politician by profession, a right-wing member of Platforma Obywatelska...

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It is sub-titled The encyclopaedia of team chess, since it provides extensive and detailed data on all team chess events. It is a fully independent project financed from private funds and has no relation to FIDE or other third parties.

It contains more than 60,000 pages, making it probably the largest chess
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 website
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The site is divided into the following main sections:
  • Chess Olympiads
  • World and Continental Team Championships
  • Club and City Events
  • Youth Team Championships
  • Minor Team Events


OlimpBase was designed to provide the most complete online coverage of international chess team (either nations or club) events. This includes all kinds of official FIDE team events, as well as historical events that have once been abandoned, including the Student Olympiads, and others. Historical lists of national chess team champions of many countries are included.

The data are provided with an abundance of extra information on dates, venues, referees, regulations, reviews, individual prizes, most notable games and many more.

It contains, as of June 2009, a database
Database
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 on 12,436 chess players and 327 teams, which is constantly updated.

In 2004, it received the "Golden Web Award" for being one of the best sites on the web.
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