1st unofficial Chess Olympiad


The 1st Team Chess Tournament was held together with the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, 12–20 July 1924, at the Hotel Majestic. The key members of the organizing committee were the Frenchmen Pierre Vincent and Alexander Alekhine. Fifty-four players representing 18 countries arrived to Paris. They were split into nine preliminary groups of six, a winner of each qualifying into the Championship Final while the rest joined eight-round Swiss consolation tournament. The winner of the individual tournament earned the title of the Amateur World Champion. Mrs. Edith Holloway for Great Britain was the first woman to have appeared at the Olympiads.

Results

The final results were as follows:

Amateur World Championship

Consolation Cup

Individual medals

Team Classification

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 and elected Dr. Alexander Rueb of the Netherlands the first FIDE president.
Latin motto Gens una sumus became official and well-recognized watchword of the chess unity. Below is the historic list of 15 founders of FIDE: Abonyi, Grau, Gudju, Marusi, Nicolet, Ovadija, Penalver y Zamora, Rawlins, Rueb, Skalička, Smith, Towbin, Tschepurnoff, Vincent, Weltjens.