TEAM Nigeria comprising of 5 male players and 5 female players will feature at this years world chess Olympiads, hosted by NOWAY , tagged tromso 2014. billed to hold between 1st of August and 14th of August 2014. Nigeria is fully represented in both the OPen category and the Female category. you can follow the event on this thread , most especially Nigeria's performance at the event !!

MALE TEAM

103. NGR (RtgAvg:2221
Bo.
1 IM OLAPE Bunmi 2273 NGR
2 CM KIGIGHA Bomo 2211 NGR
3 CM BALOGUN Oluwafemi 2221 NGR
4 AKINSEYE Abiola 2179 NGR
5 FM AJIBOWO Olamide Patrick 2131 NGR

FEMALE TEAM
122. NGR RtgAvg:1215,
Bo.
1 WFM OLATUNJI Oluwatobiloba 1860 NGR
2 RABIU Olabisi 0 NGR
3 ENAREVBA Mandy 0 NGR
4 COKER Omolabake 0 NGR
5 ARAMUDE Sandra 0 NGR


Playing schedule
Round Date Time
1 2014/08/02 15:00
2 2014/08/03 14:00
3 2014/08/04 14:00
4 2014/08/05 14:00
5 2014/08/06 14:00
6 2014/08/08 14:00
7 2014/08/09 14:00
8 2014/08/10 14:00
9 2014/08/11 14:00
10 2014/08/12 14:00
11 2014/08/14 11:00

Team Nigeria chess players at the world chess Olympiads
Team Nigeria chess players at the world chess Olympiads


- Akinov Akinseye

The Nigerian teams left today. wish them all the best

drollster: The Nigerian teams left today. wish them all the best

Yes the Nigerian Contingent left for Norway today, tomorrow is the opening ceremony . i was with Abiola akinseye's younger brother for the most part of this evening. i hope the Nigerian team will at least do better than they did at Turkey in the last edition. though Nigeria will be promoted to a higher category.

Go Team Nigeria.

Too bad Dr Omoifo couldnt make it.

Team Nigeria!! Let's go there

jayriginal: Go Team Nigeria.

Too bad Dr Omoifo couldnt make it.

He played the trials with passion, he narrowly missed out two years ago and now was disqualified because he was registered under the United states chess federation . its quite painful but then there is a reason for everything.lets hope Ajibowo (his replacement) who is very experienced as far as representing Nigeria is concerned gives a good shot at "repping" well. GO TEAM NIGERIA !! CHESS THINGZ!!

I hereby register my support for team Nigeria at the World Chess Olympiads.
..Goodluck to our representatives.!

prof800: I hereby register my support for team Nigeria at the World Chess Olympiads.
..Goodluck to our representatives.!

Nice one bro.

The Chess Olympiad is the biggest chess event that exists, and is held every two years. It is the fourth largest sporting event in the world.It is open to all member federations of the World Chess Federation (FIDE), who can enter teams with four players, one reserve player, and a team captain.
The regulations state that the teams are paired against each other according to the Swiss pairing system, where the first tiebreak is match score. The time control will be 90 minutes for 40 moves and 30 minutes until the end of the game, with 30 seconds additional time per move, starting from move 1 -- per player. Draws under 30 moves are not allowed.






The open section of the tournament will be contested by a record number of 178 teams representing 174 nations. Norway, as host nation, will field two teams, whilst the International Braille Chess Association (IBCA), the International Physically Disabled Chess Association (IPCA), and the International Committee of Silent Chess (ICSC) each will provide one team.

Players that will participate at the Olympiad include the reigning World Champion and highest rated player in the world Magnus Carlsen, nine of the top ten players from the FIDE rating list published in July 2014, and four former World Champions. Former World Champion and challenger in the World Chess Championship 2014 Vishwanathan Anand is the only player from the top ten who will miss the Olympiad. The highest rated female chess player Judith Polgar will represent Hungary in the open section. However, not all the teams submitted their strongest line-ups for the Olympiad. China, who were expected to be one of the strongest teams in the tournament, will be represented by only two players rated above 2700. Russia are the strongest team in the open section with average rating of 2777 points, followed by Ukraine with 2722 and France led by Maxime Vachier-Lagrave with 2718 rating points. Other teams with average rating higher than 2700 rating points are Armenia with the World no. 2 Levon Aronian playing on the top board, the United States of America, and Hungary.[22]

TEAM NIGERIA/ NIGERIAN CHESS TEAM AT THE 41st WORLD CHESS OLYMPIADS arriving Norway !

ROUND ONE
NIGERIA Vs GEORGIA (Male)
NIGERIA Vs Mexico (Female)

The male players are facing a far higher rated team on paper and the Georgian team boasts of five Grand masters (all five players are GMs!!) i pray our men will be a ble to pull one upset two or perhaps 3 but the mission to win the match is a very difficult one.
The ladies are far better than what their rating says so we expect them to do well against the favored Mexican opposition.
For FULL team composition check http://www.akinov.com/2014/08/chess-olympiads-round-one-pairings-for.html

Tromsø 2014 starts with lavish opening ceremony
The 41st Chess Olympiad is officially open! Norway's Finance Minister Siv Jensen introduced the start of the games with a wink to national pride: "With Magnus Carlsen world chess champion it is only fitting that the Chess Olympiad is held in Norway and Tromsø." The opening ceremony was the first time that most of the chess players, coaches and officials taking part in the 2014 Olympiad had gathered together in the same venue, with a huge range of people from all around the world making the short trip to the event in Tromsø's Skarphallen. Here are just some of those who attended the ceremony:

#teamNigeria all d way!!

GO The Undertaker>>>>>> bury Jobava Baadur. Give him a bout of Ebola Virus and quarantine him on the chess board. Go team 9ja.

Round one game on. a very tough one. perhaps too tough

lecat: GO The Undertaker>>>>>> bury Jobava Baadur. Give him a bout of Ebola Virus and quarantine him on the chess board. Go team 9ja.

WORD!

Hope Bunmi Olape does well. And the team.

#TeamNigeria!

*crosses fingers and praying seriously*

We shall not come back defeated like the world cup! Yes, we can do it.

What's the update @chessguru.

chessguru: Round one game on. a very tough one. perhaps too tough

Kindly update, thanks.

ROUND ONE UPDATE (RESULTS)
GEORGIA 4 NIGERIA 0 (male)
NIGERIA 0.5 MEXICO[b] 3.5 (Female)




ROUND TWO PAIRINGS
Nigeria Vs Togo (Male)
Nigeria vs Qatar (Female)

ROUND TWO PAIRINGS
Nigeria Vs Togo (Male) Nigeria defeated Togo 4-0 won on all four boards !!
Nigeria vs Qatar (Female)

Wow!
4-0? Mehn guys are not smiling, we spelled Togo so on point!

What of other countries and their games?

Chessguru,I go mention your username tire I know it's hardwork but please ehn biko update. Thanks

ROUND THREE RESULTS
Nigeria 2.5 New Zealand 1.5 (male)
Nigeria 4 Nertherland atillies 0 (Female)






ROUND FOUR PAIRINGS
NIGERIA VS BRAZIL (Male)
NIGERIA VS BOLIVIA (Female)

Details is on http://www.akinov.com/2014/08/41st-chess-olympiads-round-four.html

chessguru: ROUND THREE RESULTS
Nigeria 2.5 New Zealand 1.5 (male)
Nigeria 4 Nertherland atillies 0 (Female)






ROUND FOUR PAIRINGS
NIGERIA VS BRAZIL (Male)
NIGERIA VS BOLIVIA (Female)

Details is on http://www.akinov.com/2014/08/41st-chess-olympiads-round-four.html

Nigeria 0 Brazil 4 (Male)
Nigeria 0.5 Bolivia 3.5 (female) Both teams lost their Fourth round game today.

Nigeria vs IPCA
Nigeria Vs Pakistan (female)
ROUND 5 Pairings




Note - pics was that of the last olympiads in instanbul

NIGERIA 3 GUYANA 1 round 6 result (male)
Nigeria 1.5 Uruguay 2.5 (Female.





Round 7
Nigeria vs Malaysia
Nigeria vs Ethiopia (Female)

GOOD & ENCOURAGING NEWS- Team Nigeria (Female) leads group in group medal chase with five rounds to go while their male counterpart are very much in the race to top Group D as they are just behind only on tie break. If they are encouraged and fired up enough. BOTH TEAMS are capable of Bringing double glory to Nigeria!1 TEAM NIGERIA.... so fly so gallant!! you can do it.
http://www.akinov.com/2014/08/gallant-nigeria-chess-team-leads-in.html

It was a great day for fans and followers of Nigerian chess as The Nigerian male team completely discombobulated the host nation third team (Norway 3) in round nine of the 41st world chess Olympiads in Tromso Noway, http://www.akinov.com/2014/08/nigeria-chess-team-dazzles-as-they-beat.html