Best Individual Results in The Open Section
The best individual results in order of overall percentage are:
# | Player | Country | Olymp. | Games | Won | Drawn | Lost | % | Medals |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Petrosian, TigranTigran Petrosian | Soviet Union |
|
129 | 78 | 50 | 1 | 81.4 | 6 - 0 - 0 |
2 | Tal, MikhailMikhail Tal | Soviet Union |
|
101 | 65 | 34 | 2 | 81.2 | 5 - 2 - 0 |
3 | Karpov, AnatolyAnatoly Karpov | Soviet Union |
|
68 | 43 | 23 | 2 | 80.1 | 3 - 2 - 0 |
4 | Kashdan, IsaacIsaac Kashdan | USA |
|
79 | 52 | 22 | 5 | 79.7 | 2 - 1 - 2 |
5 | Smyslov, VassilyVassily Smyslov | Soviet Union |
|
113 | 69 | 42 | 2 | 79.6 | 4 - 2 - 2 |
6 | Bronstein, DavidDavid Bronstein | Soviet Union |
|
49 | 30 | 18 | 1 | 79.6 | 3 - 1 - 0 |
7 | Kasparov, GarryGarry Kasparov | Soviet Union (1) |
|
82 | 50 | 29 | 3 | 78.7 | 7 - 2 - 2 |
8 | Alekhine, AlexanderAlexander Alekhine | France |
|
72 | 43 | 27 | 2 | 78.5 | 2 - 2 - 0 |
9 | Matulović, MilanMilan Matulović | Yugoslavia |
|
78 | 46 | 28 | 4 | 76.9 | 1 - 2 - 0 |
10 | Keres, PaulPaul Keres | Soviet Union (2) |
|
141 | 85 | 44 | 12 | 75.9 | 5 - 1 - 1 |
11 | Geller, EfimEfim Geller | Soviet Union |
|
76 | 46 | 23 | 7 | 75.6 | 3 - 3 - 0 |
12 | Tarjan, JamesJames Tarjan | USA |
|
51 | 32 | 13 | 6 | 75.5 | 2 - 1 - 0 |
13 | Fischer, BobbyBobby Fischer | USA |
|
65 | 40 | 18 | 7 | 75.4 | 0 - 2 - 1 |
14 | Botvinnik, MikhailMikhail Botvinnik | Soviet Union |
|
73 | 39 | 31 | 3 | 74.7 | 2 - 1 - 2 |
15 | Flohr, SaloSalo Flohr | Czechoslovakia |
|
82 | 46 | 28 | 8 | 73.2 | 2 - 1 - 1 |
NOTES:
- Only players participating to at least four Olympiads are considered in this table.
- Medals indicated are only individual ones (not team), in the order gold - silver - bronze.
- (1) Kasparov played his first four olympiads for the Soviet Union, the rest for Russia. Four gold medals are for best-rating performance (first introduced at Thessaloniki 1984) and three for best score on first board.
- (2) Keres played his first three Olympiads for Estonia, the rest for the Soviet Union.
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