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{{Short description|2006 chess tournament in Turin, Italy}}
[[File:Stamp of Moldova 010.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|A 2006 stamp of [[Moldova]] featuring the logo of the 37th Chess Olympiad]]
[[File:AM006-07.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|A 2007 stamp of [[Armenia]] dedicated to the 37th Chess Olympiad]]
The '''37th [[Chess Olympiad]]''' ({{langx|it|Le 37° Olimpiadi degli scacchi}}), organized by [[FIDE]] and comprising an open<ref>Although commonly referred to as the ''men's division'', this section is open to both male and female players.</ref> and a women's tournament, as well as several other events designed to promote the game of [[chess]], took place between May 20 and June 4, 2006, in [[Turin]], [[Italy]]. There were 148 teams in the open event and 103 in the women's event. In total, 1307 players were registered.

Both tournament sections were officiated by [[International Arbiter|international arbiter]] [[Geurt Gijssen]] ([[Netherlands]]). Teams were paired across the 13 rounds of competition according to the [[Swiss system tournament|Swiss system]]. The open division was played over four boards per round, while the women's was played over three. In the event of a draw, the tie-break was decided by 1. The [[Buchholz system]]; 2. Match points; 3. The [[Sonneborn-Berger]] system; and 4. The [[Buchholz system|Median Buchholz]] system.

The [[time control]] for each game permitted each player 90 minutes for all their moves, with an additional 30 seconds increment for each player after each move, beginning with the first.

==Open event==
[[File:Chess Olympiad Torino 2006.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The tournament venue: The Oval Lingotto ]]
The open division was contested by 148 teams representing 143 nations. Italy, as hosts, fielded three teams. At the same time the ''[[International Braille Chess Association]]'' (IBCA), the ''International Physically Disabled Chess Association'' (IPCA), and the ''International Committee of Silent Chess'' (ICSC) each provided one squad. [[Somalia]] and [[Sierra Leone]] were signed up, but never arrived.

Led by first board [[Levon Aronian]], the second highest-rated player at the Olympiad, and first reserve [[Gabriel Sargissian]], who scored 10 points in 11 games, [[Armenia]] improved on their third-place performance at the [[36th Chess Olympiad|36th Olympiad]], claiming their first ever [[gold medal]]s by a full two points over the [[silver medal]]lists [[China]], whose fourth board [[Wang Yue (chess player)|Wang Yue]] went undefeated, winning eight games and drawing four. Armenia ended the tournament without having lost a match, winning 10 and drawing three, including in the final round against [[Hungary]], when four [[Draw (chess)|draw]]s were cursorily recorded. Aronian was the only Armenian player to lose a game during the tournament, falling in the fifth round to [[Vladimir Kramnik]] of [[Russia]].

Reigning classical World Champion Kramnik, playing internationally for the first time in six months, scored 6½ points in his nine games, recording the best rating performance of any player. His Russian team, though, did not perform as expected; fielding six of the tournament's 17 strongest players on  rating [http://schach.wienerzeitung.at/tnr3410.aspx?tnr=3410&art=16&lan=1&flag=30] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070611222433/http://schach.wienerzeitung.at/tnr3410.aspx?tnr=3410&art=16&lan=1&flag=30 |date=2007-06-11 }}, Russia held second place, just behind Armenia, through the seventh round but lost matches to [[France]] (1½-2½), the [[United States]] (1½-2½), and, in the final round, [[Israel]] (1-3), and ultimately finished sixth; the worst Olympic result ever for a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] or Russian side.

Although they defeated the United States (2½-1½) in the penultimate round, Israel had to settle for a tie for third place; the Americans claimed the [[bronze medal]]s on [[Buchholz chess rating system|Buchholz]] [[tiebreaker|tiebreak]]s. Hungary, [[Single-elimination tournament#Seeding|seed]]ed 16th, finished fifth, thanks to strong performances from third board [[Ferenc Berkes]] and fourth board [[Csaba Balogh]], while [[India]], who entered the tournament seeded second, finished in 30th place, with first board [[Viswanathan Anand]] (former and future World Champion) and fourth board [[Surya Shekhar Ganguly]] both scoring just 50%. Even without FIDE World Champion [[Veselin Topalov]], [[Bulgaria]] still managed to clinch a top ten result, finishing in ninth place.

:{| class="wikitable"
|+ Open event
! # !! Country !! Players !! Average<br/>rating !! Points !! Buchholz
|-
| style="background:gold;"|1 || '''{{ARM}}''' || '''[[Levon Aronian|Aronian]], [[Vladimir Akopian|Akopian]], [[Karen Asrian|Asrian]], [[Smbat Lputian|Lputian]], [[Gabriel Sargissian|Sargissian]], [[Artashes Minasian|Minasian]]''' || '''2682''' || '''36''' || 
|-
| style="background:silver;"|2 || {{CHN}} || [[Bu Xiangzhi]], [[Zhang Zhong]], [[Zhang Pengxiang]], [[Wang Yue (chess player)|Wang Yue]], [[Ni Hua]], [[Zhao Jun (chess player)|Zhao Jun]] || 2628 || 34 || 
|-
| style="background:#cc9966;"|3 || {{USA}} || [[Gata Kamsky|Kamsky]], [[Alexander Onischuk|Onischuk]], [[Hikaru Nakamura|Nakamura]], [[Ildar Ibragimov|Ibragimov]], [[Gregory Kaidanov|Kaidanov]], [[Varuzhan Akobian|Akobian]] || 2656 || 33 || 392.5
|-
| 4 || {{ISR}} || [[Boris Gelfand|Gelfand]], [[Ilia Smirin|Smirin]], [[Emil Sutovsky|Sutovsky]], [[Boris Avrukh|Avrukh]], [[Alexander Huzman|Huzman]], [[Victor Mikhalevski|Mikhalevski]] || 2663 || 33 || 380.5
|-
| 5 || {{HUN}} || [[Zoltán Almási|Almási]], [[Zoltán Gyimesi|Gyimesi]], [[Ferenc Berkes|Berkes]], [[Csaba Balogh|Balogh]], [[Róbert Ruck|Ruck]], [[Ádám Horváth|Horváth]] || 2610 || 32½ || 
|-
| 6 || {{RUS}} || [[Vladimir Kramnik|Kramnik]], [[Peter Svidler|Svidler]], [[Alexander Grischuk|Grischuk]], [[Alexander Morozevich|Morozevich]], [[Evgeny Bareev|Bareev]], [[Sergei Rublevsky|Rublevsky]] || 2730 || 32 || 410.5
|-
| 7 || {{FRA}} || [[Etienne Bacrot|Bacrot]], [[Joël Lautier|Lautier]], [[Andrei Sokolov|Sokolov]], [[Laurent Fressinet|Fressinet]], [[Maxime Vachier-Lagrave|Vachier-Lagrave]], [[Christian Bauer|Bauer]] || 2665 || 32 || 396.0
|-
| 8 || {{UKR}} || [[Vasyl Ivanchuk|Ivanchuk]], [[Andrei Volokitin|Volokitin]], [[Sergey Karjakin|Karjakin]], [[Pavel Eljanov|Eljanov]], [[Alexander Moiseenko|Moiseenko]], [[Zahar Efimenko|Efimenko]] || 2680 || 32 || 390.5
|-
| 9 || {{BUL}} || [[Kiril Georgiev|Georgiev]], [[Ivan Cheparinov|Cheparinov]], [[Aleksandr Delchev|Delchev]], [[Vasil Spasov (chess player)|Spasov]], [[Vladimir Petkov|Petkov]], [[Valentin Iotov|Iotov]] || 2633 || 32 || 385.0
|-
| 10 || {{ESP}} || [[Alexei Shirov|Shirov]], [[Francisco Vallejo Pons|Vallejo Pons]], [[Miguel Illescas Córdoba|Illescas Córdoba]],<br/>[[Julen Luis Arizmendi Martínez|Arizmendi Martinez]], [[Pablo San Segundo Carrillo|San Segundo Carrillo]], [[Marc Narciso Dublan|Narciso Dublan]] || 2628 || 32 || 377.5
|}
:{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"
! # !! Country !! Average<br/>rating !! Points !! Buchholz !! MP
|+ class="nowrap" |Final Ranking - Open
|-
| 11 || {{CZE}} || 2596 || 31 || 399.0 || 
|-
| 12 || {{NED}} || 2646 || 31 || 396.0 || 
|-
| 13 || {{UZB}} || 2554 || 31 || 389.5 || 
|-
| 14 || {{GEO}} || 2610 || 31 || 388.0 || 
|-
| 15 || {{GER}} || 2621 || 31 || 381.0 || 
|-
| 16 || {{CUB}} || 2598 || 30½ || 386.0 || 
|-
| 17 || {{SWE}} || 2549 || 30½ || 381.0 || 
|-
| 18 || {{MDA}} || 2578 || 30½ || 376.5 || 
|-
| 19 || {{ENG}} || 2627 || 30½ || 366.0 || 
|-
| 20 || {{DEN}} || 2577 || 30 || 396.0 || 
|-
| 21 || {{POL}} || 2593 || 30 || 381.0 || 
|-
| 22 || {{GRE}} || 2582 || 30 || 379.0 || 
|-
| 23 || {{SLO}} || 2547 || 30 || 378.5 || 
|-
| 24 || {{AZE}} || 2643 || 30 || 377.5 || 
|-
| 25 || {{CRO}} || 2559 || 30 || 373.5 || 
|-
| 26 || {{ROM}} || 2610 || 30 || 372.0 || 
|-
| 27 || {{SUI}} || 2555 || 30 || 367.5 || 
|-
| 28 || {{LAT}} || 2516 || 30 || 357.5 || 
|-
| 29 || {{AUS}} || 2479 || 30 || 351.0 || 
|-
| 30 || {{IND}} || 2688 || 29½ || 391.5 || 
|-
| 31 || {{NOR}} || 2577 || 29½ || 376.0 || 
|-
| 32 || {{BRA}} || 2573 || 29½ || 371.5 || 
|-
| 33 || {{MKD}} || 2517 || 29½ || 366.0 || 
|-
| 34 || {{CAN}} || 2482 || 29½ || 357.0 || 
|-
| 35 || {{ITA}} || 2493 || 29½ || 354.5 || 
|-
| 36 || {{flagcountry|BLR|1995}} || 2598 || 29 || 381.0 || 
|-
| 37 || {{flagcountry|SCG}} || 2542 || 29 || 376.0 || 
|-
| 38 || {{TUR}} || 2540 || 29 || 372.5 || 
|-
| 39 || {{VIE}} || 2533 || 29 || 372.0 || 
|-
| 40 || {{INA}} || 2489 || 29 || 369.5 || 
|-
| 41 || {{BIH}} || 2521 || 29 || 367.5 || 
|-
| 42 || {{LTU}} || 2530 || 29 || 360.5 || 
|-
| 43 || {{SVK}} || 2536 || 28½ || 373.5 || 
|-
| 44 || {{PHI}} || 2538 || 28½ || 369.5 || 
|-
| 45 || {{ISL}} || 2560 || 28½ || 368.0 || 
|-
| 46 || {{EST}} || 2487 || 28½ || 355.0 || 
|-
| 47 || {{MEX}} || 2449 || 28½ || 354.0 || 
|-
| 48 || {{ITA}} "B" || 2375 || 28½ || 353.5 || 
|-
| 49 || {{IRI}} || 2472 || 28 || 375.5 || 
|-
| 50 || {{POR}} || 2481 || 28 || 362.5 || 
|-
| 51 || {{ARG}} || 2532 || 28 || 361.5 || 
|-
| 52 || {{SCO}} || 2479 || 28 || 358.0 || 
|-
| 53 || {{KAZ}} || 2348 || 28 || 345.5 || 
|-
| 54 || {{TJK}} || 2165 || 28 || 331.0 || 
|-
| 55 || {{QAT}} || 2472 || 27½ || 354.0 || 
|-
| 56 || {{IRL}} || 2455 || 27½ || 352.0 || 
|-
| 57 || {{COL}} || 2437 || 27 || 362.5 || 
|-
| 58 || {{EGY}} || 2448 || 27 || 360.0 || 
|-
| 59 || {{MGL}} || 2332 || 27 || 358.5 || 
|-
| 60 || {{BAN}} || 2493 || 27 || 352.0 || 
|-
| 61 || {{ALB}} || 2439 || 27 || 351.5 || 14
|-
| 62 || {{FIN}} || 2466 || 27 || 351.5 || 12
|-
| 63 || {{DOM}} || 2314 || 27 || 351.0 || 
|-
| 64 || {{VEN}} || 2342 || 27 || 349.0 || 
|-
| 65 || {{CHI}} || 2438 || 27 || 340.5 || 
|-
| 66 || {{UAE}} || 2327 || 27 || 324.0 || 
|-
| 67 || {{PAR}} || 2420 || 26½ || 354.5 || 
|-
| 68 || {{MAR}} || 2348 || 26½ || 353.5 || 
|-
| 69 || {{ALG}} || 2291 || 26½ || 347.0 || 
|-
| 70 || {{BEL}} || 2438 || 26½ || 342.0 || 
|-
| 71 || {{BOL}} || 2336 || 26½ || 327.5 || 
|-
| 72 || {{CRC}} || 2362 || 26½ || 324.0 || 
|-
| 73 || {{PER}} || 2404 || 26 || 362.5 || 
|-
| 74 || {{ECU}} || 2439 || 26 || 349.5 || 
|-
| 75 || {{TKM}} || 2444 || 26 || 348.0 || 
|-
| 76 || ICSC || 2308 || 26 || 333.5 || 
|-
| 77 || {{AUT}} || 2410 || 26 || 332.5 || 
|-
| 78 || {{SIN}} || 2388 || 26 || 330.5 || 
|-
| 79 || {{PUR}} || 2237 || 26 || 320.5 || 
|-
| 80 || {{MYS}} || 2331 || 25½ || 364.5 || 
|-
| 81 || {{LUX}} || 2424 || 25½ || 350.5 || 
|-
| 82 || {{FRO}} || 2333 || 25½ || 345.0 || 
|-
| 83 || {{ITA}} "C" || 2366 || 25½ || 337.5 || 
|-
| 84 || {{RSA}} || 2321 || 25½ || 334.5 || 
|-
| 85 || {{NCA}} || 2315 || 25½ || 329.0 || 
|-
| 86 || {{flag|Iraq|2004}} || 2310 || 25½ || 326.0 || 
|-
| 87 || {{AND}} || 2400 || 25½ || 316.5 || 
|-
| 88 || {{JPN}} || 2139 || 25½ || 314.5 || 
|-
| 89 || {{KGZ}} || 2332 || 25 || 347.0 || 
|-
| 90 || {{TUN}} || 2383 || 25 || 341.0 || 
|-
| 91 || {{WAL}} || 2284 || 25 || 333.5 || 
|-
| 92 || {{NZL}} || 2335 || 24½ || 342.5 || 
|-
| 93 || {{NGR}} || 2275 || 24½ || 341.5 || 
|-
| 94 || {{SYR}} || 2329 || 24½ || 338.5 || 
|-
| 95 || {{ESA}} || 2279 || 24½ || 334.0 || 
|-
| 96 || {{LIB}} || 2255 || 24½ || 325.0 || 
|-
| 97 || {{URU}} || 2248 || 24½ || 320.5 || 
|-
| 98 || {{BRB}} || 2268 || 24½ || 319.0 || 
|-
| 99 || {{PAK}} || 2074 || 24½ || 206.5 || 
|-
| 100 || {{THA}} || 2274 || 24 || 333.0 || 
|-
| 101 || {{TRI}} || 2217 || 24 || 314.5 || 
|-
| 102 || {{NEP}} || 2191 || 24 || 312.0 || 
|-
| 103 || {{BOT}} || 2212 || 24 || 305.0 || 
|-
| 104 || {{CYP}} || 2126 || 24 || 297.0 || 
|-
| 105 || {{JAM}} || 2227 || 23½ || 329.0 || 
|-
| 106 || {{ANG}} || 2257 || 23½ || 328.0 || 
|-
| 107 || IPCA || 2339 || 23½ || 322.0 || 
|-
| 108 || {{MLT}} || 2187 || 23½ || 304.0 || 
|-
| 109 || {{SUD}} || 1968 || 23½ || 299.5 || 
|-
| 110 || {{ZAM}} || 2052 || 23½ || 222.5 || 
|-
| 111 || [[International Braille Chess Association|IBCA]] || 2339 || 23 || 322.0 || 
|-
| 112 || {{flag|Libya|1977}} || 2052 || 23 || 304.0 || 
|-
| 113 || {{UGA}} || 2172 || 23 || 303.5 || 
|-
| 114 || {{PAN}} || 2199 || 23 || 303.0 || 
|-
| 115 || {{AHO}} || 2079 || 23 || 273.5 || 
|-
| 116 || {{YEM}} || 2276 || 22½ || 325.0 || 
|-
| 117 || {{GUA}} || 2245 || 22½ || 320.5 || 
|-
| 118 || {{SRI}} || 2181 || 22½ || 303.5 || 
|-
| 119 || {{BRN}} || 2244 || 22½ || 291.0 || 
|-
| 120 || {{BHR}} || 2115 || 22 || 307.5 || 
|-
| 121 || {{LIE}} || 2152 || 22 || 301.5 || 
|-
| 122 || {{HKG}} || 2175 || 22 || 300.5 || 
|-
| 123 || {{KEN}} || 2112 || 22 || 279.0 || 
|-
| 124 || {{JEY}} || 2120 || 22 || 274.5 || 
|-
| 125 || {{flag|Palestine}} || 2188 || 21½ || 297.0 || 
|-
| 126 || {{HAI}} || 1400 || 21½ || 295.5 || 
|-
| 127 || {{MCO}} || 2165 || 21½ || 291.5 || 
|-
| 128 || {{flag|Ethiopia|1996}} || 1587 || 21½ || 289.5 || 
|-
| 129 || {{flagcountry|SMR|1862}} || 2089 || 21½ || 288.5 || 
|-
| 130 || {{SUR}} || 2187 || 21½ || 270.0 || 
|-
| 131 || {{MOZ}} || 1576 || 21 || 296.5 || 
|-
| 132 || {{NAM}} || 2147 || 21 || 292.5 || 
|-
| 133 || {{HON}} || 2140 || 21 || 289.0 || 
|-
| 134 || {{SYC}} || 1771 || 21 || 286.0 || 
|-
| 135 || {{MAC}} || 2117 || 21 || 281.0 || 
|-
| 136 || {{TPE}} || 1572 || 21 || 259.5 || 
|-
| 137 || {{flagcountry|AFG|2004}} || 1707 || 20½ || 297.0 || 
|-
| 138 || {{flagcountry|MRT|1959}} || 2194 || 20½ || 290.5 || 
|-
| 139 || {{GGY}} || 2017 || 20 || 280.0 || 
|-
| 140 || {{FIJ}} || 1793 || 20 || 259.0 || 
|-
| 141 || {{MWI}} || 1400 || 19½ || 277.5 || 
|-
| 142 || {{PNG}} || 1766 || 19½ || 263.0 || 
|-
| 143 || {{flagcountry|KOR|1997}} || 1910 || 19 || 288.0 || 
|-
| 144 || {{BER}} || 1967 || 19 || 268.5 || 
|-
| 145 || {{ABW}} || 2017 || 18 ||  || 
|-
| 146 || {{VGB}} || 1986 || 15½ ||  || 
|-
| 147 || {{RWA}} || 1470 || 12 ||  || 
|-
| 148 || {{VIR}} || 1753 || 10½ ||  || 
|}

===Group prizes===

In addition to the overall medals, prizes were given out to the best teams in five different seeding groups—in other words, the teams who exceeded their seeding the most. Overall medal winners were not eligible for group prizes.

:{| class="wikitable"
|+ Group Prizes
! Group !! Seeding<br/>range !! Team !! Seed !! Overall<br/>finish
|-
| A || 1–30 || {{ISR}} || 6 || 4
|-
| B || 31–60 || {{SWE}} || 31 || 17
|-
| C || 61–89 || {{ITA}} "B" || 70 || 48
|-
| D || 90–120 || {{TJK}} || 106 || 54
|-
| E || 121–147 || {{JPN}} || 121 || 87
|}

===Individual medals===

* [[Performance rating (chess)|Performance rating]]: {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Vladimir Kramnik]] 2847
* Board 1: {{flagicon|PAK}} [[Tunveer Mohyuddin Gillani]] 7 / 8 = 87.5%
* Board 2: {{flagicon|AND}} [[Josep Oms Pallise]] 9 / 11 = 81.8%
* Board 3: {{flagicon|URU}} [[Manuel Larrea|Gustavo Manuel Larrea Llorca]] 7 / 8 = 87.5%
* Board 4: {{flagicon|PRC}} [[Wang Yue (chess player)|Wang Yue]] 10 / 12 = 83.3%
* 1st reserve: {{flagicon|YEM}} [[Basheer Al Qudaimi]] 7 / 7 = 100.0%
* 2nd reserve: {{flagicon|ZAM}} [[Richmond Phiri]] 6½ / 7 = 92.9%

==Women's event<span class="anchor" id="Women's results"></span>==
[[File:Brunello-Chiamparino TO 2006.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Italy's [[Marina Brunello]] (12), with Olympiad mascot ''Ruki'' and Turin Mayor [[Sergio Chiamparino]] ]]
The women's division was contested by 103 teams representing 99 nations. Italy, as hosts, fielded two teams, whilst the ''[[International Braille Chess Association]]'' (IBCA) and the ''International Physically Disabled Chess Association'' (IPCA) each provided one squad. [[Somalia]] and [[Sudan]] had registered but never showed up. [[Afghanistan]], [[Uganda]], and [[Rwanda]] all withdrew after forfeiting their first round matches.

[[Ukraine]] had finished in 18th place at the [[36th Chess Olympiad|previous Olympiad]] but entered the tournament [[Single-elimination tournament#Seeding|seeded]] second. They trailed top-seeds [[Russia]] half a point through the seventh round, despite having taken defeated the Russians in the fifth round (2-1), but took the lead in round eight, defeating [[Hungary]] while Russia managed only to draw their match with the [[United States]]. Ukraine never gave up their lead for the remainder of the tournament and all but secured the [[gold medal]]s and the [[Vera Menchik]] Trophy with a twelfth round win over India (2½-½), eventually finishing 1½ points ahead of [[silver medal]]lists Russia. The Ukrainian team was led by [[Natalia Zhukova]], who scored 7½ points in her nine games, defeating the top- and second-[[ELO rating|rated]] players, [[Humpy Koneru]] of [[India]] and [[Alexandra Kosteniuk]] of Russia. Third board [[Inna Gaponenko]] won six games, [[draw (chess)|drew]] two, and lost only one.

Defending champions [[China]] were missing newly crowned World Champion [[Xu Yuhua]], but still claimed the [[bronze medal]]s by three points over the United States with whom they drew in the penultimate round Their third-place finish was in no small part due to top board [[Zhao Xue]], who entered the tournament seeded 22nd yet, having played in every round, went through the Olympiad undefeated, conceding only six draws in her 13 games.

The American team took fourth place on [[tiebreaker|tiebreak]]s, just ahead of Hungary, [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], and the [[Netherlands]] - the Dutch team being seeded only 18th.

:{| class="wikitable"
! # !! Country !! Players !! Average<br/>rating !! Points !! Buchholz
|-
| style="background:gold;"|1 || '''{{UKR}}''' || '''[[Natalia Zhukova|Zhukova]], [[Kateryna Lahno|Lahno]], [[Inna Gaponenko|Yanovska-Gaponenko]], [[Anna Ushenina|Ushenina]]''' || '''2441''' || '''29½''' || 
|-
| style="background:silver;"|2 || {{RUS}} || [[Alexandra Kosteniuk|Kosteniuk]], [[Tatiana Kosintseva|T. Kosintseva]], [[Nadezhda Kosintseva|N. Kosintseva]], [[Ekaterina Kovalevskaya|Kovalevskaya]] || 2499 || 28 || 
|-
| style="background:#cc9966;"|3 || {{CHN}} || [[Zhao Xue]], [[Wang Yu (chess player)|Wang Yu]], [[Shen Yang (chess player)|Shen Yang]], [[Hou Yifan]] || 2408 || 27½ || 
|-
| 4 || {{USA}} || [[Anna Zatonskih|Zatonskih]], [[Irina Krush|Krush]], [[Rusudan Goletiani|Goletiani]], [[Camilla Baginskaite|Baginskaite]] || 2414 || 24½ || 307.0
|-
| 5 || {{HUN}} || [[Hoang Thanh Trang]], [[Ildikó Mádl|Mádl]], [[Szidonia Vajda|Vajda]], [[Anita Gara|Gara]] || 2426 || 24½ || 306.0
|-
| 6 || {{GEO}} || [[Nino Khurtsidze|Khurtsidze]], [[Nana Dzagnidze|Dzagnidze]], [[Lela Javakhishvili|Javakhishvili]], [[Maia Lomineishvili|Lomineishvili]] || 2430 || 24½ || 305.5
|-
| 7 || {{NED}} || [[Peng Zhaoqin]], [[Tea Bosboom-Lanchava|Bosboom-Lanchava]], [[Petra Schuurman|Schuurman]], [[Bianca de Jong-Muhren|Muhren]] || 2344 || 24½ || 276.5
|-
| 8 || {{ARM}} || [[Lilit Mkrtchian|Mkrtchian]], [[Elina Danielian|Danielian]], [[Nelly Aginian|Aginian]], [[Siranush Andriasian|Andriasian]] || 2402 || 24 || 299.0
|-
| 9 || {{SLO}} || [[Anna Muzychuk|A. Muzychuk]], [[Ana Srebrnič|Srebrnič]], [[Jana Krivec|Krivec]], [[Ksenija Novak|Novak]]|| 2348 || 24 || 286.0
|-
| 10 || {{CZE}} || [[Jana Jacková|Jacková]], [[Kateřina Čedíková|Čedíková]], [[Olga Sikorová|Sikorová]], [[Petra Sochorová|Blažková]] || 2302 || 24 || 270.5
|}
:{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"
! # !! Country !! Average<br/>rating !! Points !! Buchholz !! MP !! S-B
|+ class="nowrap" |Final Ranking - Women
|-
| 11 || {{GER}} || 2399 || 23½ ||  ||  || 
|-
| 12 || {{IND}} || 2389 || 23 || 305.0 ||  || 
|-
| 13 || {{BUL}} || 2378 || 23 || 302.0 ||  || 
|-
| 14 || {{ROM}} || 2375 || 23 || 294.0 ||  || 
|-
| 15 || {{VIE}} || 2302 || 23 || 283.5 ||  || 
|-
| 16 || {{CUB}} || 2289 || 23 || 279.0 ||  || 
|-
| 17 || {{LAT}} || 2292 || 23 || 263.0 ||  || 
|-
| 18 || {{FRA}} || 2366 || 22½ || 299.5 ||  || 
|-
| 19 || {{GRE}} || 2370 || 22½ || 297.0 ||  || 
|-
| 20 || {{POL}} || 2375 || 22½ || 293.0 ||  || 
|-
| 21 || {{flagcountry|BLR|1995}} || 2262 || 22½ || 293.0 ||  || 
|-
| 22 || {{SVK}} || 2354 || 22½ || 292.0 ||  || 
|-
| 23 || {{LTU}} || 2374 || 22 || 286.5 ||  || 
|-
| 24 || {{TUR}} || 2189 || 22 || 273.0 ||  || 
|-
| 25 || {{flagcountry|SCG}} || 2343 || 22 || 272.5 ||  || 
|-
| 26 || {{PHI}} || 2083 || 22 || 271.5 ||  || 
|-
| 27 || {{IRI}} || 2222 || 22 || 271.0 ||  || 
|-
| 28 || {{ESP}} || 2296 || 21½ || 286.0 ||  || 
|-
| 29 || {{ISR}} || 2329 || 21½ || 281.5 ||  || 
|-
| 30 || {{CRO}} || 2227 || 21½ || 281.0 ||  || 
|-
| 31 || {{SWE}} || 2191 || 21½ || 260.0 ||  || 
|-
| 32 || {{UZB}} || 2200 || 21½ || 257.0 ||  || 
|-
| 33 || {{EST}} || 2246 || 21 || 285.5 ||  || 
|-
| 34 || {{MGL}} || 2264 || 21 || 282.5 ||  || 
|-
| 35 || {{ARG}} || 2265 || 21 || 273.5 ||  || 
|-
| 36 || {{TKM}} || 2182 || 21 || 266.5 ||  || 
|-
| 37 || {{ITA}} || 2304 || 21 || 266.0 ||  || 
|-
| 38 || {{SUI}} || 2262 || 21 || 265.5 ||  || 
|-
| 39 || {{MDA}} || 2262 || 21 || 262.5 ||  || 
|-
| 40 || {{INA}} || 1919 || 21 || 257.5 ||  || 
|-
| 41 || {{CAN}} || 2132 || 21 || 252.5 ||  || 
|-
| 42 || {{ENG}} || 2231 || 20½ || 271.5 ||  || 
|-
| 43 || {{VEN}} || 1874 || 20½ || 264.5 ||  || 
|-
| 44 || {{MYS}} || 2089 || 20½ || 259.5 ||  || 
|-
| 45 || {{KAZ}} || 2262 || 20 || 283.5 ||  || 
|-
| 46 || {{ECU}} || 2269 || 20 || 280.0 ||  || 
|-
| 47 || {{POR}} || 2117 || 20 || 258.0 ||  || 
|-
| 48 || {{COL}} || 2137 || 20 || 256.0 ||  || 
|-
| 49 || {{ESA}} || 2058 || 20 || 254.0 ||  || 
|-
| 50 || {{ISL}} || 2111 || 20 || 249.0 ||  || 
|-
| 51 || {{AZE}} || 2123 || 20 || 244.0 ||  || 
|-
| 52 || {{BRA}} || 2081 || 20 || 238.0 ||  || 
|-
| 53 || {{MEX}} || 2137 || 19½ || 250.0 ||  || 
|-
| 54 || {{AUS}} || 2210 || 19½ || 256.0 ||  || 
|-
| 55 || {{DEN}} || 2085 || 19½ || 254.5 ||  || 
|-
| 56 || {{FIN}} || 2134 || 19½ || 247.5 ||  || 
|-
| 57 || {{BIH}} || 2165 || 19 || 260.0 ||  || 
|-
| 58 || {{AUT}} || 2092 || 19 || 259.0 ||  || 
|-
| 59 || {{NOR}} || 2182 || 19 || 258.5 ||  || 
|-
| 60 || {{PER}} || 2136 || 19 || 255.0 ||  || 
|-
| 61 || {{KGZ}} || 2137 || 19 || 254.0 ||  || 
|-
| 62 || {{LUX}} || 1812 || 19 || 241.5 ||  || 
|-
| 63 || {{BOL}} || 1802 || 19 || 223.0 ||  || 
|-
| 64 || {{MKD}} || 2137 || 18½ || 252.5 ||  || 
|-
| 65 || {{ITA}} "B" || 1945 || 18½ || 242.0 ||  || 
|-
| 66 || {{RSA}} || 1900 || 18½ || 236.5 ||  || 
|-
| 67 || IPCA || 2056 || 18½ || 229.5 ||  || 
|-
| 68 || {{BAN}} || 2090 || 18 || 260.5 ||  || 
|-
| 69 || {{ALB}} || 2054 || 18 || 248.5 ||  || 
|-
| 70 || {{DOM}} || 2079 || 18 || 239.5 ||  || 
|-
| 71 || {{GUA}} || 2030 || 18 || 236.0 ||  || 
|-
| 72 || [[International Braille Chess Association|IBCA]] || 2113 || 17½ || 248.0 ||  || 
|-
| 73 || {{SCO}} || 1834 || 17½ || 240.0 ||  || 
|-
| 74 || {{TJK}} || 1629 || 17½ || 236.0 ||  || 
|-
| 75 || {{WAL}} || 1947 || 17½ || 234.5 ||  || 
|-
| 76 || {{JAM}} || 1791 || 17½ || 232.0 || 10 || 82.75
|-
| 77 || {{SRI}} || 1863 || 17½ || 232.0 || 10 || 80.50
|-
| 78 || {{IRL}} || 1747 || 17½ || 231.5 ||  || 
|-
| 79 || {{ALG}} || 1588 || 17½ || 227.5 ||  || 
|-
| 80 || {{NZL}} || 1692 || 17½ || 226.0 ||  || 
|-
| 81 || {{flag|Iraq|2004}} || 1805 || 17 || 247.0 ||  || 
|-
| 82 || {{NGR}} || 1590 || 17 || 233.0 ||  || 
|-
| 83 || {{CRC}} || 1617 || 17 || 209.0 ||  || 
|-
| 84 || {{BOT}} || 1584 || 16½ || 231.5 ||  || 
|-
| 85 || {{JPN}} || 1581 || 16½ || 211.5 ||  || 
|-
| 86 || {{MLT}} || 1400 || 16½ || 198.0 ||  || 
|-
| 87 || ICSC || 2008 || 16 || 234.0 ||  || 
|-
| 88 || {{PUR}} || 1826 || 16 || 233.5 ||  || 
|-
| 89 || {{UAE}} || 1853 || 16 || 211.0 ||  || 
|-
| 90 || {{PAN}} || 1400 || 15½ ||  ||  || 
|-
| 91 || {{TPE}} || 1400 || 15 || 193.5 ||  || 
|-
| 92 || {{QAT}} || 1400 || 15 || 182.5 ||  || 
|-
| 93 || {{SUR}} || 1400 || 14½ || 184.5 ||  || 
|-
| 94 || {{KEN}} || 1469 || 14½ || 182.0 ||  || 
|-
| 95 || {{FIJ}} || 1400 || 14 || 205.5 ||  || 
|-
| 96 || {{ANG}} || 1400 || 14 || 192.0 ||  || 
|-
| 97 || {{YEM}} || 1400 || 14 || 179.5 ||  || 
|-
| 98 || {{TRI}} || 1400 || 13½ || 176.0 ||  || 
|-
| 99 || {{flag|Libya|1977}} || 1467 || 13½ || 174.5 ||  || 
|-
| 100 || {{NAM}} || 1400 || 13 ||  ||  || 
|-
| 101 || {{AHO}} || 1400 || 12½ ||  ||  || 
|-
| 102 || {{VIR}} || 1400 || 12 ||  ||  || 
|-
| 103 || {{HON}} || 1400 || 9 ||  ||  || 
|}

===Group prizes===

In addition to the overall medals, prizes were given out to the best teams in five different seeding groups—in other words, the teams who exceeded their seeding the most. Overall medal winners were not eligible for group prizes.

:{| class="wikitable"
|+ Group Prizes
! Group !! Seeding<br/>range !! Team !! Seed !! Overall<br/>finish
|-
| A || 1–20 || {{USA}} || 5 || 4
|-
| B || 21–42 || {{CZE}} || 22 || 10
|-
| C || 43–64 || {{PHI}} || 60 || 26
|-
| D || 65–86 || {{INA}} || 68 || 40
|-
| E || 87–103 || {{ALG}} || 87 || 79
|}

===Individual medals===

* [[Performance rating (chess)|Performance rating]]: {{flagicon|PRC}} [[Zhao Xue]] 2617
* Board 1: [[Lubov Zsiltzova-Lisenko]] ([[International Braille Chess Association|IBCA]]) 9 / 10 = 90.0%
* Board 2: {{flagicon|LUX}} [[Fiona Steil-Antoni]] 10 / 12 = 83.3%
* Board 3: {{flagicon|UAE}} [[Nora Mohd Saleh]] 7 / 8 = 87.5%
* Reserve: {{flagicon|BLR|1995}} [[Tatiana Berlin]] 7 / 8 = 87.5%

==Overall title==

The [[Nona Gaprindashvili Trophy]] is awarded to the nation that has the highest total number of game points in the open and women's divisions combined. Where two or more teams are tied, they are ordered by best single finish in either division and then by total number of points scored.

The trophy, named after the former women's World Champion (1961–78), was created by FIDE in 1997.

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;"
|-			
! #
! Team
! Open<br/>division
! Women's<br/>division
! Total
|-
| style="background:gold;"| '''1'''
| '''{{CHN}}'''
| '''34'''
| '''27½'''
| '''61½'''
|-
| style="background:silver;"| 2
| {{UKR}}
| 32
| 29½
| 61½
|-
| style="background:#cc9966;"| 3
| {{ARM}}
| 36
| 24
| 60
|}

==Participating teams==
Squads representing 133 nations, three international organizations, three constituent countries, two [[autonomous entity|autonomous entities]], two [[crown dependency|crown dependencies]], two [[Special administrative region (People's Republic of China)|special administrative region]]s, two [[insular area]]s, and one [[associated state]] were entered into the Olympiad, comprising a total of 1307 registered players (some of which did not play).

[[File:37th Chess Olympiad participants.PNG|thumb|center|800px|Countries that participated only in the open division are shown in dark green, while the rest of the participants are shown in light green.]]

==FIDE Congress==
Concurrent with the chess competition, the 77th [[FIDE]] Congress was held in Turin, where delegates from all the national chess federations met to transact business. Incumbent FIDE president [[Kirsan Ilyumzhinov]] faced criticisms for alleged mismanagement and [[Political corruption|corruption]], primarily from [[Western world|Western]] federations, including those of the [[United States Chess Federation|United States]], [[English Chess Federation|England]], [[France]], and [[Chess Federation of Canada|Canada]], but, with the support of most Asian and African delegates, notably those representing [[Russian Chess Federation|Russia]] and [[Singapore Chess Federation|Singapore]], he staved off a challenge from Dutch businessman [[Bessel Kok]] to retain his position through 2010, winning by 96 votes to Kok's 54.

The general assembly also awarded the 38th Chess Olympiad, to be held in 2010, to [[Khanty-Mansiysk]], [[Russia]], the site of the [[Chess World Cup 2005]] and one of five candidates that had submitted bids. The city led after every round of the [[Two-round system|runoff voting]], eventually beating [[Budva]], [[Montenegro]] by 71–64.

==Associated events==
Held in conjunction with the Olympiad, though not officially sponsored by FIDE, were two [[computer chess]] events: the 14th [[World Computer Chess Championship]], played at [[Time control|classical time control]]s, and the 14th [[World Computer Speed Chess Championship]]. The computer [[Junior (chess program)|Junior]] won its fifth championship and third in five years in the slower event, while newcomer [[Ikarus (chess)|Ikarus]] defeated quadruple defending champion [[Shredder (chess)|Shredder]] to win the [[blitz chess|blitz]] event.

==Notes==
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==External links==
{{Commons category}}
* [http://www.olimpbase.org/2006/2006in.html 37th Chess Olympiad: Turin 2006] OlimpBase
* [http://www.scacchisticatorinese.it/olimpiadi_scacchi_2006/ Turin Olympiad 2006 official homepage]
* [http://www.fide.com/news.asp?id=1025 FIDE press release on Olympiad results]
* [http://schach.wienerzeitung.at/tnr3410.aspx?tnr=3410&art=2&rd=1&lan=1&flag=30 Detailed Olympiad results] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202231949/http://schach.wienerzeitung.at/tnr3410.aspx?tnr=3410&art=2&rd=1&lan=1&flag=30 |date=2013-12-02 }}
* [http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/event/turin06/ ''This Week in Chess'' round-by-round Olympiad summaries]

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