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Olympiad team selection controversies of other nations!
Olympiad team selection controversies of other nations!
Olympiad team selection controversies are not unique to Canadian chess.
When the USSR was preparing to compete its first Olympiad, Helsinki 1952, World Champion GM Mikhail Botvinnik was left off the team! He was none too pleased about that.
The Soviets still won, by only a narrow margin in the finals, over a super-strong Argentinian team which had been bolstered by several GM-strength European emigres, including GMs Najdorf and Eliskases.
The 1952 winning Soviets had (from top to bottom boards) GMs Keres, Smyslov, Bronstein, Geller, Boleslavsky and Kotov. A pretty fair squad, to say the least!
Botvinnik was selected for the teams from 1954 to 1964 inclusive, with the Soviets winning team gold each time.
Re: Olympiad team selection controversies of other nations!
The USA has had several Olympiad selection controversies, many of which are well known.
But I am going to start with the first one, which is not so well known. Norman Whittaker, born 1890, died 1975, was a strong American master from 1910 into the 1940s, with some impressive results. He felt he should have been selected to the 1928 Olympiad team, and he had a case, based on comparing his results to two of the players selected. Whittaker, however, was also famous for his criminal activities, and this may have been a reason for his non-selection. Wikipedia has a good summary of his life (I have contributed to that article). While Whittaker got nowhere with his complaint, and was not selected for later teams either, the outcome was that better selection processes were put in place for future American teams, and they won gold for four straight Olympiads in the 1930s.
Re: Olympiad team selection controversies of other nations!
The next big American team selection controversy involved two of the greatest figures in chess history.
GM Samuel Reshevsky refused to play in 1960 unless he was placed on board one. But GM Bobby Fischer had just won three straight US Championships, and had finished sixth in the 1959 Candidates tournament at age 16. Fischer played in 1960, 1962, and 1966, on board one, while Reshevsky stayed home. The two played a controversial match in 1961 that was equal after eleven games, when Fischer refused to continue after a scheduling dispute got ugly. It was not until 1970 that Fischer and Reshevsky were on the same US team, with Fischer on board one.
Re: Olympiad team selection controversies of other nations!
One more U.S. team selection controversy occurred when GM Gata Kamsky and his father Rustem appeared on the American chess scene in the late 1980s.
Gata Kamsky, born in 1974, who had emigrated with his father from the USSR in 1989, may have been the strongest 15-year-old since GM Bobby Fischer at the same age. By mid-1990, Kamsky's FIDE rating had hit 2660, after a blizzard of successes during his first year in the United States.
Gata's father became a problem, with his boisterous activism on his son's behalf, and sometimes outrageous accusations. His behaviour threatened to demolish the chemistry and camaraderie which a successful team needs at an Olympiad.
Still, there was no denying Gata's chess strength, as he won the 1991 U.S. Championship. On which board should he play for the U.S. at the 1992 Manila Olympiad?
(To be continued.)
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