OlimpBase, the online encyclopaedia of international team events

OlimpBase, the online encyclopaedia of international team events, was launched in 2004, and soon became widely known and renowned source of information on team chess. Although originally it dealt merely with the history of the chess olympiads - from which idea it took its name - it grew quickly due to high pressure from the readers on adding new events into the database. Nowadays it provides detailed information on more than 300 tournaments, and still fast growing, from 1900s until today.

The database provides details on more than 30 types of events including a.o. the Olympiads, World & continental team events, all sorts of junior events (including complete set of the legendary Student Olympiads), club events, Balkaniads, Mitropa Cup, Clare Benedicts, Oxford-Cambridge varsities, blind olympiads, world's most complete list of friendlies, national team champions and many, many more.

OlimpBase is fully independent project financed from private funds and it has no relation neither to FIDE nor to any other third party. It is freely available for use to anyone.

Still, there are a lot of unsolved mysteries, and everyone might possibly help, either sending the bulletins or providing contacts to people owing old tournament books. Join the community of circa 300 chess lovers whose work and dedication lead to spectacular growth of OlimpBase archives. Dig up old, dust covered bulletins from your attic and share them with the world! It really pays to make a one time effort and then enjoy its effects forever. You should not forget to visit www.olimpbase.org regularly and check WHAT'S NEW section every week. Enjoy!

OlimpBase was founded and is webmastered by the Pole Wojciech Bartelski, b.1977. In early 1990s he was Polonia Warsaw's B-class junior player. A long term local councilman, in 2006 he was appointed full-time as mayor of downtown Warsaw.