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The 34th Chess Olympiad, organized by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs and comprising an open^[1] and women's tournament, took place between October 28 and November 12, 2000, in Istanbul, Turkey.

Chess competition

Both tournament sections were officiated by international arbiter Geurt Gijssen (NED). Teams were paired across the 14 rounds of competition according to the Swiss system; the open division was played over four boards per round, while the women's was played over three. The time control for each game permitted each player 100 minutes to make the first 40 of his or her moves, then additional 50 minutes to make the next 20 moves, then 10 minutes to finish the game, with an additional 30 seconds devolving on each player after each move, beginning with the first.

Open tournament

The open division was contested by 126 teams representing 124 nations and territories; Turkey, as hosts, fielded two teams, while the International Braille Chess Association provided one squad.

Team results

The teams finishing first through third overall receive medals, as do those finishing in the top three amongst teams organized by seed; overall medal winners are not eligible to receive group prizes.

Top ten overall finishers

Place of finish[2]	Team	Players[3][4]	Seed[5]	Average July 2000 FIDE rating[6]	Matches won	Matches drawn	Matches lost	Total score[7]
First	Russia	Alexander Khalifman, Alexander Morozevich, Peter Svidler, Sergei Rublevsky, Konstantin Sakaev, Alexander Grischuk	1	2685	8	4	2	38.0
Second	Germany	Artur Yusupov, Robert Hübner, Rustem Dautov, Christopher Lutz, Klaus Bischoff, Thomas Luther	12	2604	10	2	2	37.0
Third	Ukraine	Vasyl Ivanchuk, Ruslan Ponomariov, Vladimir Baklan, Viacheslav Eingorn, Oleg Romanishin, Vadim Malakhatko	6	2638	8	5	1	35.5
Fourth	Hungary	Peter Leko, Zoltán Almási, Judit Polgar, Lajos Portisch, Gyula Sax, IM[8] Robert Ruck	3	2661	8	5	1	35.5
Fifth	Israel	Boris Gelfand, Ilia Smirin, Boris Avrukh, Lev Psakhis, Emil Sutovsky, Alexander Huzman	4	2652	7	6	1	34.5
Sixth	Georgia	Zurab Azmaiparashvili, Giorgi Giorgadze, Zurab Sturua, Giorgi Kacheishvili, Tamaz Gelashvili, IM Baadur Jobava	13	2602	7	4	3	34.0
Seventh	England	Michael Adams, Nigel Short, Julian Hodgson, Jonathan Speelman, Anthony Miles, John Emms	2	2672	7	6	1	33.0
Eighth	India	Krishnan Sasikiran, Abhijit Kunte, IM Pentala Harikrishna, Dibyendu Barua, IM Devaki Prasad, NT[9] Surya Ganguly	31	2538	7	4	3	33.0
Ninth	People's Republic of China	Ye Jiangchuan, Xu Jun, Peng Xiaomin, Wu Wenjin, IM Liang Chong, FM[10] Ni Hua	5	2651	7	5	2	33.0
Tenth	Switzerland	Viktor Korchnoi, Vadim Milov, Joseph Gallagher, IM Yannick Pelletier, IM Florian Jenni, IM Werner Hug	23	2562	7	2	5	33.0

Women's tournament

The women's division was contested by 86 teams representing 84 nations and territories; Turkey, as hosts, fielded two teams, while the International Braille Chess Association provided one squad.

Team results

The teams finishing first through third overall receive medals, as do those finishing in the top three amongst teams organized by seed; overall medal winners are not eligible to receive group prizes.

Top ten overall finishers

Place of finish[11]	Team	Players[12][13]	Seed [14]	Average July 2000 FIDE rating[15]	Matches won	Matches drawn	Matches lost	Total score[16]
First	People's Republic of China	GM[17] Xie Jun, WGM [18] Zhu Chen, WIM[19] Xu Yuhua, WGM Wang Lei	1	2537	10	4	0	32.0
Second	Georgia	GM Maia Chiburdanidze, IM [8] Nana Ioseliani, WGM Nino Khurtsidze, IM Nino Gurieli	2	2480	11	2	1	31.0
Third	Russia	IM Alisa Galliamova, WGM Ekaterina Kovalevskaya, WGM Svetlana Matveeva, WGM Tatiana Dianchenko	3	2480	8	4	2	28.5
Fourth	Ukraine	WGM Natalia Zhukova, WGM Anna Zatonskih, WGM Tatjana Vasilevich, IM Elena Sedina	4	2442	7	5	2	27.0
Fifth	Yugoslavia	IM Alisa Maric, WGM Natasa Bojkovic, WGM Svetlana Prudnikova, WGM Irina Chelushkina	5	2430	8	1	5	26.0
Sixth	Netherlands	IM Zhao Qin Peng, WIM Erika Sziva, Tea Bosboom-Lanchava, Linda Jap Tjoen San	13	2329	6	5	3	25.5
Seventh	Hungary	IM Ildiko Madl, WIM Nikoletta Lakos, WIM Monika Grabics, WIM Anita Gara	8	2369	6	5	3	25.0
Eighth	Germany	IM Ketino Kachiani-Gersinska, WIM Elisabeth Paehtz, WIM Anke Koglin, WIM Bettina Trabert	10	2364	7	5	2	25.0
Ninth	England	WGM Harriet Hunt, IM Susan Lalic, WIM Jovanka Houska, WFM[20] Heather Richards	12	2349	8	1	5	25.0
Tenth	Armenia	WGM Elina Danielian, WGM Lilit Mkrtchian, WIM Goar Hlgatian, Nelly Aginian	19	2303	8	2	4	24.5

Overall title

The Nona Gaprindashvili Trophy is awarded to the entity the average place of finish of which in the open and women's division is the best (where two or more teams are tied, they are ordered by single-best finish in either division and then by total points scored); with an average finish of two, the Russia won the 2000 trophy.

Top ten finishers

Team	Open division placing	Women's division placing	Average placing
Russia	1	3	2.0
Ukraine	3	4	3.5
Georgia	6	2	4.0
People's Republic of China	9	1	5.0
Germany	2	8	5.0
Hungary	4	7	5.5
England	7	9	8.0
India	8	13	10.5
Israel	5	20	12.5
Armenia	17	10	13.5

Notes

1. ^ Although commonly referred to as the men's division, this section is open to both male and female players.
2. ^ Where teams share the same total score, they are ordered by Buchholz tiebreak scores, calculated by summing the final scores of each opponent played by a given team. It was on the basis of a superior sum of opponents' scores, 457.5 to 455.5, that Ukraine claimed third place over Hungary.
3. ^ Players are ordered by board, from first to last, in the same fashion in which they principally played; the fifth and sixth players of each team may have played on higher boards during the Olympiad but played fewer games than the players who primarily occupied the positions.
4. ^ All players are Grandmasters except where a note to the contrary is present.
5. ^ Teams were initially seeded into the Olympiad on the basis of the average Elo rating of the top four players expected to compose each team; for example, the highest-seeded team, Russia, entered the tournament with an average FIDE rating of 2685, while the lowest-seeded team, Djibouti, fielded no players with international ratings (and was therefore assessed an average rating of 1500).
6. ^ The ratings averaged are those of the top four players expected to compose each team.
7. ^ In as much as the tournament consisted of 14 rounds, with four games played by each team per round, the maximum number of points one team could accumulate was 56.0.
8. ^ ^{a b} IM denotes International Master.
9. ^ NT denotes No FIDE title.
10. ^ FM denotes FIDE Master.
11. ^ Where teams share the same total overall score, they are ordered by Buchholz tiebreak scores, calculated by adding up the final scores of each opponent played by a given team. Hungary, for example, was placed ahead of the Germany because Hungary's opponents finished the tournament having scored 342.0 points, however those of the Germany scored 333.5.
12. ^ Players are ordered by board, from first to last, in the same fashion in which they principally played; the fourth player on each team will have played on a higher board during the Olympiad but will have played fewer games than the players who primarily occupied the positions.
13. ^ Titles for all FIDE-titled players are provided.
14. ^ Teams were initially seeded into the Olympiad on the basis of the average Elo rating of their expected players; for example, the highest-seeded team, People's Republic of China, entered the tournament with an average FIDE rating of 2537, while the lowest-seeded team, Zambia, fielded no players with international ratings (and was therefore assessed an average rating of 2000).
15. ^ The ratings averaged are those of the top three players expected to compose each team.
16. ^ In as much as the tournament consisted of 14 rounds, with three games played by each team per round, the maximum number of points one team could accumulate was 42.
17. ^ GM denotes Grandmaster.
18. ^ WGM denotes Woman Grandmaster.
19. ^ WIM denotes Woman International Master.
20. ^ WFM denotes Woman FIDE Master.