# 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad

The 1st Team Chess Tournament was held together with the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, 12–20 July 1924, at the Hotel Majestic. Fifty-four players representing 18 countries were split into nine preliminary groups of six. The winner of each round qualified for the Championship while the rest joined an eight-round Swiss consolation tournament.

## Results

The final results were as follows:

### Amateur World Championship

    #PlayerPointsBuch 1 Hermanis Matisons (LAT)5.5 2 Fricis Apšenieks (LAT)5.0 3 Edgard Colle (BEL)4.5 4 Árpád Vajda (HUN)416.75 5 Machgielis Euwe (NED)415.75 6 Anatol Tschepurnoff (FIN)414.75 7 Luis Argentino Palau (ARG)3.5 8 Manuel Golmayo de la Torriente (ESP)3 9 Kornél Havasi (HUN)2.5

### Consolation Cup

    #PlayerΣ PointsQual.Final 1 Karel Hromádka (TCH)9.536.5 2 Jan Schulz (TCH)945 3 Erwin Voellmy (SUI)8.53.55 4 Kārlis Bētiņš (LAT)826  Georges Renaud (FRA)835  Roberto Grau (ARG)83.54.5  George Koltanowski (BEL)83.54.5 8 Giovanni Cenni (ITA)7.51.56  Endre Steiner (HUN)7.525.5  Otto Zimmermann (SUI)7.52.55  Dawid Daniuszewski (POL)7.52.55  Károly Sterk (HUN)7.534.5  Damián Reca (ARG)7.53.54 14–45etc.

### Individual medals

    #PlayerAchievement 1 Hermanis Matisons (LAT)Championship Final Winner 2 Fricis Apšenieks (LAT)Championship Final 2nd place  Edgard Colle (BEL)Championship Final 3rd place 3 Árpád Vajda (HUN)Championship Final Participant  Machgielis Euwe (NED)Championship Final Participant  Anatol Tschepurnoff (FIN)Championship Final Participant  Luis Argentino Palau (ARG)Championship Final Participant  Manuel Golmayo de la Torriente (ESP)Championship Final Participant  Kornél Havasi (HUN)Championship Final Participant  Karel Hromádka (TCH)Consolation Cup Winner

### Team classification

    #TeamPointsPlayers 1 Czechoslovakia31Hromádka 9½, Schulz 9, Vaněk 6½, Skalička 6 2 Hungary30Vajda 8, Sterk 7½, Steiner E. 7½, Havasi 7 3 Switzerland29Voellmy 8½, Zimmermann 7½, Johner H. 6½, Naegeli 6½ 4 Latvia27.5Apšenieks 10, Matisons 9½, Bētiņš 8  Argentina27.5Grau 8, Reca 7½, Palau 7, Fernández Coria 5 6 Italy26.5Cenni 7½, Rosselli del Turco 7, Romih 6½, Miliani 5½ 7 France25.5Renaud 8, Lazard F. 6½, Duchamp 6, Gibaud 5  Poland25.5Daniuszewski 7½, Piltz 6, Kohn 6, Kleczyński 6 9 Belgium24Colle 8½, Koltanowski 8, Lancel 5, Jonet 2½ 10 Spain19Golmayo Torriente 7, Marin y Llovet 6, Rey Ardid 6 11 Netherlands18.5Euwe 8, Oskam 6, Rueb 4½ 12 Romania18Davidescu 7, Gudju 6, Loewenton 5 13 Finland15Tschepurnoff 9, Malmberg 6 14 Great Britain12.5Handasyde 6, Wreford-Brown 3½ Holloway 3 15 Irish Free State5.5O'Hanlon 5½ 16 Canada5Smith 5 17 Russia$^1$4.5Potemkine 3, Kahn 1½ 18 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes2.5Rozić 2½
$^1$ Potemkine and Kahn were émigrés living in Paris and represented "Russia", not the Soviet Union.

## FIDE

On 20 July, the last day of the games, 15 delegates from all over the World signed the proclamation act of the International Chess Federation (originally known as Fédération Internationale des Échecs in French) and elected Alexander Rueb of the Netherlands the first FIDE president.
Latin motto Gens una sumus ("we are one family") became official and well-recognized watchword of the chess unity. Below is the historic list of 15 founders of FIDE: Abonyi (Hungary), Grau (Argentina), Gudju (Romania), Marusi (Italy), Nicolet (Switzerland), Ovadija (Yugoslavia), Penalver y Zamora (Spain), Rawlins (Great Britain), Rueb (Netherlands), Skalička (Czechoslovakia), Smith (Canada), Towbin (Poland), Tschepurnoff (Finland), Vincent (France), Weltjens (Belgium).