Baku 2016 Chess Olympiad Round 1 Pairings

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Round 1 is scheduled to start today.

As is the usual case with the Swiss system, in Round 1 the top seed gets to face the middle seeded player/team. Thus, the higher half of the tournament participants in terms of their seed number are usually pitted against the much lower rated/seeded player/team in the first round.

We expect not much tension yet in Round 1.

The Baku 2016 Chess Olympiad playing hall. Photo courtesy of Chess Daily News.

The Baku 2016 Chess Olympiad playing hall. Photo courtesy of Chess Daily News.

As such, let’s check out the team pairings in the pages that follow.

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