The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament for teams representing a chess federation affiliated with FIDE, the international chess federation.
Most teams consist of five players, but only four play during matches. For this reason, teams are seeded by the average rating of the four top players.
Held with the [Swiss system](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss-system_tournament) over 11 rounds, the competition consists of four players of a team facing four players of another team on their respective boards. Players of each team are fielded in a prefixed order (first board, second board, third board, fourth board and reserve board) submitted before the start of the event.
In each match, the team scoring the most wins (board points: 1 point for a win, half-point for a draw, 0 for a loss) wins the match and gets 2 match points; the losing team gets 0 match points. If two teams tie their match, they each get 1 match point.
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Israel is part of the ECU (European Chess Union), and it competes in European chess competitions.
Data from: https://chess-results.com/tnr653631.aspx?lan=1&art=32&flag=30 :
Norway 2692
Spain 2687
Poland 2683
Azerbaijan 2680
Netherlands 2672
Ukraine 2666
Germany 2664
England 2662
Armenia 2642
France 2621
Croatia 2611
Czech Republic 2608
Hungary 2607
Romania 2605
Turkey 2602
Israel 2598
Serbia 2595
Georgia 2580
Greece 2575
Italy 2574
Denmark 2566
Sweden 2556
Austria 2546
Slovakia 2543
Lithuania 2540
Switzerland 2534
Montenegro 2521
Slovenia 2510
Iceland 2507
Moldova 2462
Belgium 2460
Portugal 2440
Albania 2434
Finland 2433
Estonia 2414
Andorra 2398
Ireland 2396
Faroe Islands 2394
North Macedonia 2389
Bulgaria 2387
Latvia 2382
Scotland 2342
Kosovo 2319
Luxembourg 2263
Monaco 2216
Wales 2192
Cyprus 2148
Malta 2040
Liechtenstein 1983
Jersey 1968
San Marino 1797
Guernsey 1602
Info about the Chess Olympiad:
The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament for teams representing a chess federation affiliated with FIDE, the international chess federation.
Most teams consist of five players, but only four play during matches. For this reason, teams are seeded by the average rating of the four top players.
Held with the [Swiss system](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss-system_tournament) over 11 rounds, the competition consists of four players of a team facing four players of another team on their respective boards. Players of each team are fielded in a prefixed order (first board, second board, third board, fourth board and reserve board) submitted before the start of the event.
In each match, the team scoring the most wins (board points: 1 point for a win, half-point for a draw, 0 for a loss) wins the match and gets 2 match points; the losing team gets 0 match points. If two teams tie their match, they each get 1 match point.
The final rankings are decided by match points.
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