Open					Women
Place	Team	M Pts	SOB*	G Pts	Place	Team	M Pts	SOB*	G Pts
1	China	18	372.5	28½	1	China	18	407.0	30.5
2	USA	18	360.6	29	2	Ukraine	18	395.5	30.0
3	Russia	18	354.5	29	3	Georgia 1	17	375.0	28.0
4	Poland	17	390.0	28	4	Russia	16	379.5	30.5
5	England	17	340.0	27½	5	Hungary	16	372.0	29.5
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
82	Ireland	11	227.0	24.0	29	England	14	279.0	26.5
94	Scotland	11	192.5	23½	73	Scotland	11	208.0	23.5
100	Wales	11	163.5	19.5	75	Wales	11	197.5	23.5
141	Jersey	9	117.0	19.0	83	Ireland	11	143.0	19.5
144	Guernsey	9	113.5	17.5
161	Papua NG	7	122.o	20½

* Olympiad Sonneborn-Berger tie-break, without lowest result (Khanty-Mansiysk)

Round by round results are below. Those seeking broader information should try http://chess-results.com/tnr368909.aspx?lan=1&art=0&flag=30. Live play appeared on Chess24. Though, this seemed not to be coping too well with the load at busy times.

Rd	Date	England			Papua New Guinea			England Women
1	24th	England	3-1	Angola	Belgium	4-0	Papua NG	Jamaica	0‑4	England
2	25th	England	3½‑½	Belgium	Papua NG	1½‑2½	Liechtenstein	England	3-1	Scotland
3	26th	Brazil	1½‑2½	England	Ghana	3-1	Papua NG	England	1-3	Azerbaijan
4	27th	Azerbaijan	3½‑½	England	Papua NG	4-0	Timor Leste	El Salvador	0-4	England
5	28th	England	3-2	Italy	Mauritius	2½-1½	Papua NG	England	2-2	Philippines
6	30th	England	2-2	France	Papua NG	1½‑2½	Aruba	Argentina	2½-1½	England
7	1st	Argentina	1½-2½	England	Palau	0-4	Papua NG	Turkey	2-2	England
8	2nd	Israel	1½-2½	England	Papua NG	1-3	Haiti	England	2½-1½	Greece
9	3rd	England	3-1	Norway	Mauritania	3½‑½	Papua NG	Colombia	3-1	England
10	4th	Russia	2½-1½	England	Papua NG	3½‑½	US Virgin I’s	England	3-1	Jordan
11	5th	England	3½-½	Kazakhstan	Saudi Arabia	2-2	Papua NG	England	2½-1½	Italy
		Start Ranking 9			Start Ranking 172			Start Ranking 25
After 11 Rds		Final ranking 5			Final ranking 161			Final ranking 29
		Michael Adams		6 out of 10	Stuart Fancy		6½ out of 10	Jovanka Houska		7½ out of 9
		David W L Howell		7½ out of 10	Shaun Press		4 out of 10	Dagne Ciuksyte		5½ out of 9
		Luke J McShane		5½ out of 10	Helmut Marko		2½ out of 8	Louise Head		2½ out of 8
		Gawain C B Jones		6½ out of 10	Rupert Jones		3½ out of 8	Akshaya Kalaiyalahan		6½ out of 10
		Nicholas Pert		2 out of 4	Tom McCoy		4 out of 8	Sue Maroroa		4½ out of 8

Whilst many chess-players outside Yorkshire were following the exploits of the England teams and other “home-country” teams, Yorkshire players were also following the fortunes of the Papua New Guinea team, which featured Rupert Jones amongst others. The point which may be lost on some is that Rupert William Jones was born in Papua New Guinea, the son of a missionary there.

Following the Olympiad shows the extent of chess-playing globally. Competing teams represent numerous places known to few without an interest in philately.

Rupert’s incongruous-sounding “FM” title arose from him scoring over two-thirds after being roped in at the last minute to play for Papua New Guinea in the 2004 Majorca Olympiad.

There were 185 teams in the Open (male or female). and 151 in the Women’s event, though these totals include Open and Women’s teams from Pakistan, who appear not to have shown up. The England and Papua New Guinea team pools were as follows, each with a Yorkshire-resident member, all in fact with the surname Jones, if only by marriage:

England		England Women		Papua New Guinea
Michael Adams	2706	Jovanka Houska	2406	Stuart Fancy	1950
David W L Howell	2687	Dagne Ciuksyte	2308	Shaun Press	1935
Luke J McShane	2669	Louise Head	2161	Helmut Marko	1902
Gawain C B Jones	2666	Akshaya Kalaiyalahan	2138	Rupert Jones	1823
Nicholas Pert	2544	Sue Maroroa (Jones)	2080	Tom McCoy	0

Scotland. Wales. Ireland and Guernsey all seemed to lack “Yorkshire” representation, but aging former Leeds University students (from c. 1972-74) might take interest in the Jersey team, which includes him who they knew as “Woj” (pronounced “wodge”), that is to say the former LU player Paul Michal Wojciechowski.