1st unofficial Chess Olympiad

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates The 1st Team Chess Tournament was held together with the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, 12–20 July 1924, at the Hotel Majestic. Fifty-four players representing 18 countries were split into nine preliminary groups of six. The winner of each round qualified for the Championship while the rest joined an eight-round Swiss consolation tournament.

Results

The final results were as follows:

Amateur World Championship

#	Player	Points	Buch
1	Template:Flagathlete	5.5
2	Template:Flagathlete	5.0
3	Template:Flagathlete	4.5
4	Template:Flagathlete	4	16.75
5	Template:Flagathlete	4	15.75
6	Template:Flagathlete	4	14.75
7	Template:Flagathlete	3.5
8	Template:Flagathlete	3
9	Template:Flagathlete	2.5

Consolation Cup

#	Player	Σ Points	Qual.	Final
1	Template:Flagathlete	9.5	3	6.5
2	Template:Flagathlete	9	4	5
3	Template:Flagathlete	8.5	3.5	5
4	Template:Flagathlete	8	2	6
	Template:Flagathlete	8	3	5
	Template:Flagathlete	8	3.5	4.5
	Template:Flagathlete	8	3.5	4.5
8	Template:Flagathlete	7.5	1.5	6
	Template:Flagathlete	7.5	2	5.5
	Template:Flagathlete	7.5	2.5	5
	Template:Flagathlete	7.5	2.5	5
	Template:Flagathlete	7.5	3	4.5
	Template:Flagathlete	7.5	3.5	4
14–45	etc.

Individual medals

#	Player	Achievement
1	Template:Flagathlete	Championship Final Winner
2	Template:Flagathlete	Championship Final 2nd place
	Template:Flagathlete	Championship Final 3rd place
3	Template:Flagathlete	Championship Final Participant
	Template:Flagathlete	Championship Final Participant
	Template:Flagathlete	Championship Final Participant
	Template:Flagathlete	Championship Final Participant
	Template:Flagathlete	Championship Final Participant
	Template:Flagathlete	Championship Final Participant
	Template:Flagathlete	Consolation Cup Winner

Team classification

#	Team	Points	Players
1		31	Hromádka 9½, Schulz 9, Vaněk 6½, Skalička 6
2	Template:Flagcountry	30	Vajda 8, Sterk 7½, Steiner E. 7½, Havasi 7
3		29	Voellmy 8½, Zimmermann 7½, Johner H. 6½, Naegeli 6½
4		27.5	Apšenieks 10, Matisons 9½, Bētiņš 8
		27.5	Grau 8, Reca 7½, Palau 7, Fernández Coria 5
6	Template:Flagcountry	26.5	Cenni 7½, Rosselli del Turco 7, Romih 6½, Miliani 5½
7	Template:Flagcountry	25.5	Renaud 8, Lazard F. 6½, Duchamp 6, Gibaud 5
	Template:Flagcountry	25.5	Daniuszewski 7½, Piltz 6, Kohn 6, Kleczyński 6
9		24	Colle 8½, Koltanowski 8, Lancel 5, Jonet 2½
10	Template:Flagcountry	19	Golmayo Torriente 7, Marin y Llovet 6, Rey Ardid 6
11		18.5	Euwe 8, Oskam 6, Rueb 4½
12		18	Davidescu 7, Gudju 6, Loewenton 5
13		15	Tschepurnoff 9, Malmberg 6
14	Template:Flagcountry	12.5	Handasyde 6, Wreford-Brown 3½ Holloway 3
15	Template:Flagcountry	5.5	O'Hanlon 5½
16	Template:Flagcountry	5	Smith 5
17	1	4.5	Potemkine 3, Kahn 1½
18	Template:Flagdeco Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes	2.5	Rozić 2½

¹ Potemkine and Kahn were émigrés living in Paris and represented "Russia", not the Soviet Union.

FIDE

On 20 July, the last day of the games, 15 delegates from all over the World signed the proclamation act of the International Chess Federation (originally known as Fédération Internationale des Échecs in French) and elected Alexander Rueb of the Netherlands the first FIDE president.

Latin motto Gens una sumus ("we are one family") became official and well-recognized watchword of the chess unity. Below is the historic list of 15 founders of FIDE: Abonyi (Hungary), Grau (Argentina), Gudju (Romania), Marusi (Italy), Nicolet (Switzerland), Ovadija (Yugoslavia), Penalver y Zamora (Spain), Rawlins (Great Britain), Rueb (Netherlands), Skalička (Czechoslovakia), Smith (Canada), Towbin (Poland), Tschepurnoff (Finland), Vincent (France), Weltjens (Belgium).