From London 1927 to Budapest 2024 — every game preserved, every team profiled. The brilliant champions and the fearless underdogs alike. Because at the Olympiad, every story deserves to be told.
Krzysztof Puszczewicz
London, July 1927. Sixteen nations gather for the very first official team chess tournament in history. Witness the birth of a tradition that would span nearly a century — the rivalries, the brilliance, and the historic games that started it all.
Physicist, teacher, chess player, chess historian
Krzysztof Puszczewicz – physicist, teacher, active chess player, and above all the world's greatest chronicler of chess olympiads. For over three decades, with Benedictine patience, he has been realizing his life's work: "The Great Book of Chess Olympiads", a monumental series aiming to document the history of all official FIDE Olympiads since 1927.
His unique approach combines three worlds. As a physicist and author of award-winning school courses (for which he was decorated with the Bronze Cross of Merit by the President of Poland in 2005), he approaches the material with scientific precision, attending to every detail and historical fact. As an active player with the candidate master title, he views the games through a practitioner's eye, understanding the strategic nuances and psychological tension of battle on 64 squares.
Based in Wroclaw, the author dedicated decades to collecting sources, analyzing games and creating a chronicle that fills a gap in world chess literature. His books are not just collections of games, but complete, narrated stories that let the reader feel the atmosphere of each tournament and relive the Olympic emotions anew.
The result of this titanic work is, at present, a complete study of all 45 men's Olympiads (from London 1927 to Budapest 2024) and all 30 women's Olympiads (from Emmen 1957 to Budapest 2024). This unprecedented global achievement makes "The Great Book of Chess Olympiads" the most complete and detailed compendium of knowledge about the history of these prestigious competitions.
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