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[[File:AM012-09.jpg|thumb|Armenian stamp featuring the logo of the 38th Chess Olympiad (top)]]
The '''38th [[Chess Olympiad]]''', organized by [[FIDE]] and comprising an open<ref>Although commonly referred to as the ''men's division'', this section is open to both male and female players.</ref> and a women's tournament, as well as several other events designed to promote the game of [[chess]], took place between 12–25 November 2008 in [[Dresden]], [[Germany]].<ref>[http://www.fide.com/calendar FIDE Calendar 2008]. fide.com</ref> There were 146 teams in the open event and 111 in the women's event. In total, 1277 players were registered.

Both tournament sections were officiated by [[International Arbiter|international arbiter]] [[Ignatius Leong]] ([[Singapore]]). In a change from recent Olympiads, the number of rounds of the [[Swiss system tournament|Swiss system]] were reduced from 13 to 11 with [[accelerated pairings]]. For the first time, the women's division, like the open division, was played over four boards per round, with each team allowed one alternate for a total of five players. In another first, the final rankings were determined by match points, not game points. In the event of a draw, the tie-break was decided by 1. Deducted [[Sonneborn-Berger]]; 2. Deducted sum of match points; 3. Game points.<ref>[http://www.fide.com/fide/handbook.html?id=95&view=article FIDE Handbook] Retrieved on 2012-09-03.</ref>

The [[time control]] for each game permitted each player 90 minutes their first 40 moves and 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with an additional 30 seconds increment for each player after each move, beginning with the first. As a new rule, no [[Draw by agreement|draws by agreement]] were permitted before 30 moves had been completed. Yet there were games drawn as soon as the 16th move, formally drawn by repetition against which there was no rule.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090131211339/http://schachlive.dresden2008.de/games/m/9/2/2/index.eng.html Dresden 2008]. dresden2008.de</ref> In addition, players who were not present at the board at the commencement of a round automatically forfeited the game. This rule was implemented to align chess with other sports events.<ref>[http://main.uschess.org/content/view/8893/141/ Let the Games Begin in Dresden] uschess.org, Mike Klein, 13 November 2008</ref>

==Open event==
[[File:Dresden Olympiad 2008.jpg|thumb|500px|Dresden Olympiad Scene]]
The open division was contested by 146 teams representing 141 nations. Germany, as hosts, fielded three teams, whilst the ''[[International Braille Chess Association]]'' (IBCA), the ''International Physically Disabled Chess Association'' (IPCA), and the ''International Committee of Silent Chess'' (ICSC) each provided one squad. [[Morocco]] were signed up, but never appeared for their first round match and were disqualified.

Defending champions [[Armenia]], once again led by [[Levon Aronian]], clinched their second consecutive title. Despite being seeded only eighth, they won nine out of eleven matches, drew against fourth-placed [[Ukraine]] and lost only (1½-2½) to runners-up [[Israel]], captained by [[Boris Gelfand]]. The Israelis finished one point behind Armenia. The [[United States]], led by [[Gata Kamsky]], took the bronze medals on a better tie break score than [[Vasyl Ivanchuk]] and the rest of the Ukrainian team after defeating Ukraine (3½-½) in the last round.

Once again, the Russian team under captain [[Vladimir Kramnik]] were the pre-tournament favourites but finished disappointingly in fifth place. Kramnik, having recently lost a [[World Chess Championship 2008|world championship match]], performed well below his rating, as did the rest of the team, except alternate [[Dmitry Yakovenko]] who won the reserve board.

[[File:AM011-09.jpg|thumb|The winning Armenian team]]
Arguably the biggest surprise of the tournament was [[Vietnam]], who weren't even seeded in the top 30, but still managed to finish in ninth place, aided somewhat by the new tournament structure which allotted them some weaker opponents, although they did manage a 2-2 result against [[China]]. The German hosts finished 13th, while [[India]], without World Champion [[Viswanathan Anand]], had to settle for 16th place.

:{| class="wikitable"
|+ Open event results, #1–#10
! # !! Country !! Players !! Average<br/>rating !! MP !! dSB
|-
| style="background:gold;"|1 || '''{{ARM}}''' || '''[[Levon Aronian|Aronian]], [[Vladimir Akopian|Akopian]], [[Gabriel Sargissian|Sargissian]], [[Tigran L. Petrosian|Petrosian]], [[Artashes Minasian|Minasian]]''' || '''2677''' || '''19''' || 
|-
| style="background:silver;"|2 || {{ISR}} || [[Boris Gelfand|Gelfand]], [[Michael Roiz|Roiz]], [[Boris Avrukh|Avrukh]], [[Evgeny Postny|Postny]], [[Maxim Rodshtein|Rodshtein]] || 2682 || 18 || 
|-
| style="background:#cc9966;"|3 || {{USA}} || [[Gata Kamsky|Kamsky]], [[Hikaru Nakamura|Nakamura]], [[Alexander Onischuk|Onischuk]], [[Yury Shulman|Shulman]], [[Varuzhan Akobian|Akobian]] || 2673 || 17 || 362.0
|-
| 4 || {{UKR}} || [[Vasyl Ivanchuk|Ivanchuk]], [[Sergey Karjakin|Karjakin]], [[Pavel Eljanov|Eljanov]], [[Zahar Efimenko|Efimenko]], [[Andrei Volokitin|Volokitin]] || 2729 || 17 || 348.5
|-
| 5 || {{RUS}} || [[Vladimir Kramnik|Kramnik]], [[Peter Svidler|Svidler]], [[Alexander Grischuk|Grischuk]], [[Alexander Morozevich|Morozevich]], [[Dmitry Yakovenko|Yakovenko]] || 2756 || 16 || 375.0
|-
| 6 || {{AZE}} || [[Teimour Radjabov|Radjabov]], [[Shakhriyar Mamedyarov|Mamedyarov]], [[Vugar Gashimov|Gashimov]], [[Gadir Guseinov|Guseinov]], [[Rauf Mamedov|Mamedov]] || 2709 || 16 || 359.5
|-
| 7 || {{CHN}} || [[Wang Yue]], [[Bu Xiangzhi]], [[Ni Hua]], [[Wang Hao (chess player)|Wang Hao]], [[Li Chao (chess player)|Li Chao]] || 2714 || 16 || 357.5
|-
| 8 || {{HUN}} || [[Péter Lékó|Lékó]], [[Judit Polgár|Polgár]], [[Zoltán Almási|Almási]], [[Csaba Balogh|Balogh]], [[Ferenc Berkes|Berkes]] || 2692 || 16 || 341.5
|-
| 9 || {{VIE}} || [[Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son]], [[Lê Quang Liêm]],<br/>[[Dao Thien Hai]], [[Nguyễn Văn Huy]], [[Tu Hoang Thong]] || 2539 || 16 || 340.0
|-
| 10 || {{ESP}} || [[Alexei Shirov|Shirov]], [[Francisco Vallejo Pons|Vallejo Pons]], [[Miguel Illescas Córdoba|Illescas Córdoba]],<br/>[[Ibragim Khamrakulov|Khamrakulov]], [[Pablo San Segundo Carrillo|San Segundo Carrillo]] || 2644 || 16 || 337.5
|}
:{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"
|+ class="nowrap" |Open event results, #11–end (#146)
! Rank !! Country !! Average<br/>rating !! MP !! dSB !! dSMP
|-
| 11 || {{GEO}} || 2618 || 16 || 321.0 || 
|-
| 12 || {{NED}} || 2609 || 15 || 343.0 || 
|-
| 13 || {{GER}} || 2647 || 15 || 339.0 || 
|-
| 14 || {{BUL}} || 2691 || 15 || 327.5 || 
|-
| 15 || {{ENG}} || 2629 || 15 || 320.0 || 
|-
| 16 || {{IND}} || 2634 || 15 || 310.0 || 
|-
| 17 || {{SLO}} || 2583 || 15 || 288.0 || 
|-
| 18 || {{flagcountry|BLR|1995}} || 2602 || 14 || 307.0 || 
|-
| 19 || {{ROM}} || 2631 || 14 || 306.5 || 
|-
| 20 || {{flagcountry|SRB|2004}} || 2604 || 14 || 302.0 || 
|-
| 21 || {{NOR}} || 2611 || 14 || 300.0 || 
|-
| 22 || {{FRA}} || 2690 || 14 || 295.0 || 
|-
| 23 || {{CUB}} || 2626 || 14 || 294.5 || 
|-
| 24 || {{GRE}} || 2585 || 14 || 292.5 || 
|-
| 25 || {{SWE}} || 2576 || 14 || 286.0 || 
|-
| 26 || {{MNE}} || 2522 || 14 || 279.0 || 
|-
| 27 || {{CRO}} || 2588 || 14 || 275.5 || 
|-
| 28 || {{CAN}} || 2500 || 14 || 272.5 || 
|-
| 29 || {{POL}} || 2609 || 13 || 301.0 || 
|-
| 30 || {{BIH}} || 2577 || 13 || 294.0 || 
|-
| 31 || {{SVK}} || 2587 || 13 || 290.0 || 
|-
| 32 || {{FIN}} || 2491 || 13 || 287.5 || 
|-
| 33 || {{EST}} || 2495 || 13 || 282.0 || 
|-
| 34 || {{LTU}} || 2548 || 13 || 278.0 || 
|-
| 35 || {{GER}} "C" || 2506 || 13 || 276.5 || 122
|-
| 36 || {{TUR}} || 2496 || 13 || 276.5 || 121
|-
| 37 || {{KAZ}} || 2555 || 13 || 272.5 || 
|-
| 38 || {{CZE}} || 2611 || 13 || 270.5 || 
|-
| 39 || {{DEN}} || 2566 || 13 || 268.5 || 
|-
| 40 || {{IRI}} || 2524 || 13 || 265.0 || 
|-
| 41 || {{ITA}} || 2521 || 13 || 261.0 || 
|-
| 42 || {{GER}} "B" || 2523 || 13 || 259.0 || 
|-
| 43 || {{MDA}} || 2585 || 13 || 258.5 || 
|-
| 44 || {{LAT}} || 2522 || 13 || 257.5 || 
|-
| 45 || {{AUT}} || 2486 || 13 || 252.5 || 
|-
| 46 || {{PHI}} || 2526 || 13 || 250.0 || 
|-
| 47 || {{BAN}} || 2486 || 13 || 249.0 || 
|-
| 48 || {{flagcountry|PAR|1990}} || 2415 || 13 || 220.5 || 
|-
| 49 || {{COL}} || 2459 || 12 || 257.0 || 
|-
| 50 || {{UZB}} || 2557 || 12 || 256.5 || 
|-
| 51 || {{SUI}} || 2541 || 12 || 251.0 || 
|-
| 52 || {{INA}} || 2387 || 12 || 249.5 || 
|-
| 53 || {{SCO}} || 2512 || 12 || 249.0 || 
|-
| 54 || {{BRA}} || 2460 || 12 || 240.0 || 
|-
| 55 || {{POR}} || 2441 || 12 || 237.5 || 
|-
| 56 || {{EGY}} || 2497 || 12 || 232.0 || 
|-
| 57 || {{AUS}} || 2488 || 12 || 222.5 || 
|-
| 58 || {{RSA}} || 2315 || 12 || 220.5 || 
|-
| 59 || {{MKD}} || 2525 || 12 || 220.0 || 
|-
| 60 || {{IRL}} || 2452 || 12 || 218.5 || 
|-
| 61 || {{FRO}} || 2364 || 12 || 213.5 || 
|-
| 62 || {{SIN}} || 2352 || 12 || 210.5 || 
|-
| 63 || {{UAE}} || 2332 || 12 || 191.0 || 
|-
| 64 || {{ISL}} || 2420 || 11 || 246.0 || 
|-
| 65 || {{PAK}} || 2031 || 11 || 234.5 || 
|-
| 66 || {{QAT}} || 2400 || 11 || 225.5 || 
|-
| 67 || {{VEN}} || 2444 || 11 || 224.5 || 
|-
| 68 || {{CRC}} || 2403 || 11 || 223.5 || 
|-
| 69 || {{ARG}} || 2572 || 11 || 221.5 || 
|-
| 70 || {{BEL}} || 2395 || 11 || 215.5 || 
|-
| 71 || {{TJK}} || 2358 || 11 || 207.0 || 
|-
| 72 || {{ECU}} || 2408 || 11 || 206.0 || 
|-
| 73 || {{MGL}} || 2372 || 11 || 188.5 || 
|-
| 74 || {{MEX}} || 2423 || 11 || 188.0 || 
|-
| 75 || {{LUX}} || 2286 || 11 || 177.5 || 
|-
| 76 || {{JOR}} || 2288 || 11 || 175.5 || 
|-
| 77 || {{JPN}} || 2206 || 11 || 174.5 || 
|-
| 78 || {{ESA}} || 2300 || 11 || 173.5 || 
|-
| 79 || ICSC || 2305 || 11 || 166.5 || 
|-
| 80 || {{JAM}} || 2217 || 11 || 165.0 || 
|-
| 81 || {{WAL}} || 2263 || 11 || 158.0 || 
|-
| 82 || {{KGZ}} || 2337 || 10 || 222.5 || 
|-
| 83 || {{TKM}} || 2355 || 10 || 200.5 || 
|-
| 84 || {{SYR}} || 2312 || 10 || 192.5 || 
|-
| 85 || {{IRQ}} || 2290 || 10 || 188.5 || 
|-
| 86 || {{BOL}} || 2313 || 10 || 183.5 || 
|-
| 87 || {{GUA}} || 2263 || 10 || 182.5 || 
|-
| 88 || IPCA || 2358 || 10 || 178.5 || 
|-
| 89 || {{ALG}} || 2340 || 10 || 174.0 || 
|-
| 90 || {{DOM}} || 2358 || 10 || 167.5 || 
|-
| 91 || [[International Braille Chess Association|IBCA]] || 2318 || 10 || 166.0 || 
|-
| 92 || {{ALB}} || 2102 || 10 || 162.5 || 
|-
| 93 || {{PAN}} || 2206 || 10 || 161.0 || 
|-
| 94 || {{SRI}} || 2169 || 10 || 160.0 || 
|-
| 95 || {{PUR}} || 2228 || 10 || 159.0 || 
|-
| 96 || {{MYS}} || 2362 || 10 || 157.5 || 
|-
| 97 || {{NZL}} || 2370 || 10 || 152.0 || 
|-
| 98 || {{ANG}} || 2231 || 10 || 151.5 || 
|-
| 99 || {{LIB}} || 2312 || 10 || 150.5 || 
|-
| 100 || {{THA}} || 2272 || 10 || 140.5 || 
|-
| 101 || {{flag|Palestine}} || 2306 || 9 || 177.5 || 
|-
| 102 || {{NGR}} || 1988 || 9 || 174.0 || 
|-
| 103 || {{BOT}} || 2185 || 9 || 173.0 || 
|-
| 104 || {{MON}} || 2275 || 9 || 171.0 || 
|-
| 105 || {{TUN}} || 2310 || 9 || 163.5 || 
|-
| 106 || {{YEM}} || 2332 || 9 || 163.5 || 
|-
| 107 || {{flagcountry|AFG|2004}} || 2095 || 9 || 152.0 || 
|-
| 108 || {{NEP}} || 2022 || 9 || 148.0 || 
|-
| 109 || {{flagcountry|KOR|1997}} || 2068 || 9 || 146.5 || 
|-
| 110 || {{AND}} || 2256 || 9 || 144.0 || 
|-
| 111 || {{flag|Libya|1977}} || 2145 || 9 || 141.0 || 
|-
| 112 || {{AHO}} || 2168 || 9 || 135.5 || 
|-
| 113 || {{MLT}} || 2177 || 9 || 134.0 || 
|-
| 114 || {{URU}} || 2287 || 9 || 130.5 || 
|-
| 115 || {{JEY}} || 1742 || 9 || 127.0 || 
|-
| 116 || {{NCA}} || 2238 || 9 || 120.0 || 
|-
| 117 || {{ZAM}} || 2082 || 8 || 140.5 || 
|-
| 118 || {{BRB}} || 2142 || 8 || 136.0 || 
|-
| 119 || {{MOZ}} || 1775 || 8 || 132.0 || 
|-
| 120 || {{UGA}} || 2175 || 8 || 126.0 || 
|-
| 121 || {{flagcountry|SMR|1862}} || 1907 || 8 || 124.5 || 
|-
| 122 || {{CYP}} || 2144 || 8 || 120.0 || 
|-
| 123 || {{NAM}} || 1937 || 8 || 116.5 || 
|-
| 124 || {{flag|Ethiopia|1996}} || 1769 || 8 || 108.0 || 
|-
| 125 || {{TRI}} || 2173 || 8 || 106.5 || 
|-
| 126 || {{GGY}} || 2055 || 8 || 97.0 || 
|-
| 127 || {{VGB}} || 1952 || 8 || 95.5 || 
|-
| 128 || {{HON}} || 1968 || 7 || 129.0 || 
|-
| 129 || {{flagcountry|MRT|1959}} || 2139 || 7 || 116.0 || 
|-
| 130 || {{SUR}} || 2141 || 7 || 110.0 || 
|-
| 131 || {{KEN}} || 2164 || 7 || 109.0 || 
|-
| 132 || {{HKG}} || 2023 || 7 || 106.0 || 
|-
| 133 || {{PNG}} || 1896 || 7 || 94.5 || 
|-
| 134 || {{MAC}} || 2020 || 7 || 94.0 || 
|-
| 135 || {{ABW}} || 2034 || 7 || 92.0 || 
|-
| 136 || {{TPE}} || 1846 || 7 || 85.0 || 
|-
| 137 || {{BER}} || 1978 || 7 || 81.0 || 
|-
| 138 || {{MWI}} || 1400 || 6 || 116.5 || 
|-
| 139 || {{LIE}} || 2086 || 6 || 88.0 || 
|-
| 140 || {{GHA}} || 1400 || 6 || 77.0 || 
|-
| 141 || {{VIR}} || 1400 || 6 || 43.0 || 
|-
| 142 || {{GAB}} || 1400 || 5 || 87.0 || 
|-
| 143 || {{FIJ}} || 1923 || 5 || 73.0 || 
|-
| 144 || {{SYC}} || 1710 || 5 || 68.5 || 
|-
| 145 || {{MAD}} || 1400 || 4 ||  || 
|-
| 146 || {{RWA}} || 1608 || 3 ||  || 
|}

===Group prizes===

In addition to the overall medals, prizes were given out to the best teams in five different seeding groups—in other words, the teams who exceeded their seeding the most. Overall medal winners were not eligible for group prizes.

:{| class="wikitable"
|+ Group Prizes
! Group !! Seeding<br/>range !! Team !! MP !! dSB
|-
| A || 1–29 || {{UKR}} || 17 || 348.5
|-
| B || 30–58 || {{VIE}} || 16 || 340.0
|-
| C || 59–87 || {{flagcountry|PAR|1990}} || 13 || 220.5
|-
| D || 88–116 || {{LUX}} || 11 || 177.5
|-
| E || 117–146 || {{PAK}} || 11 || 234.5
|}

===Individual medals===

For the first time, all board prizes were given out according to [[Performance rating (chess)|performance ratings]]. Accordingly, there was no overall prize, although Sargissian on the third board had the best performance of all players at the tournament:

* Board 1: {{flagicon|HUN}} [[Peter Leko]] 2834
* Board 2: {{flagicon|ARM}} [[Vladimir Akopian]] 2813
* Board 3: {{flagicon|ARM}} [[Gabriel Sargissian]] 2869
* Board 4: {{flagicon|MNE}} [[Dragiša Blagojević]] 2792
* Reserve: {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Dmitry Yakovenko]] 2794

==Women's section==

The women's division was contested by 111 teams representing 106 nations. Germany, as hosts, fielded three teams, whilst the ''[[International Braille Chess Association]]'' (IBCA), the ''International Physically Disabled Chess Association'' (IPCA), and the ''International Committee of Silent Chess'' (ICSC) each provided one squad.

[[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] won their fourth title, 12 years after the third one, narrowly defeating [[Ukraine]] on tie breaks. The two teams didn't meet during the tournament, but when the Ukrainians only drew their penultimate match against [[Serbia]] while the Georgians defeated former champions [[China]] (2½-1½), the gold was Georgia's to lose. In the last round they record a win (3-1) against the Serbian, who thus came to play a crucial role in the fight for the title, despite finishing in seventh place themselves. The Georgian team were led by former World Champion, 47-year-old [[Maia Chiburdanidze]], who delivered a stellar performance, winning the top board with the best performance of the tournament.

The [[United States]] clinched the bronze medals on tie breaks, just ahead of [[Russia]] (with newly crowned World Champion [[Alexandra Kosteniuk]]) and [[Poland]]. The German hosts finished in 21st place.

:{| class="wikitable"
|+ Women's section results, #1–#10
! # !! Country !! Players !! Average<br/>rating !! MP !! dSB
|-
| style="background:gold;"|1 || '''{{GEO}}''' || '''[[Maia Chiburdanidze|Chiburdanidze]], [[Nana Dzagnidze|Dzagnidze]], [[Lela Javakhishvili|Javakhishvili]], [[Maia Lomineishvili|Lomineishvili]], [[Sopiko Khukhashvili|Khukhashvili]]''' || '''2476''' || '''18''' || '''411.5'''
|-
| style="background:silver;"|2 || {{UKR}} || [[Kateryna Lahno|Lahno]], [[Natalia Zhukova|Zhukova]], [[Anna Ushenina|Ushenina]], [[Inna Gaponenko|Gaponenko]], [[Natalia Zdebskaya|Zdebskaya]] || 2486 || 18 || 406.5
|-
| style="background:#cc9966;"|3 || {{USA}} || [[Irina Krush|Krush]], [[Anna Zatonskih|Zatonskih]], [[Rusudan Goletiani|Goletiani]], [[Katerina Rohonyan|Rohonyan]], [[Tatev Abrahamyan|Abrahamyan]] || 2396 || 17 || 390.5
|-
| 4 || {{RUS}} || [[Alexandra Kosteniuk|Kosteniuk]], [[Tatiana Kosintseva|T. Kosintseva]], [[Nadezhda Kosintseva|N. Kosintseva]], [[Ekaterina Korbut|Korbut]], [[Natalia Pogonina|Pogonina]] || 2495 || 17 || 367.0
|-
| 5 || {{POL}} || [[Monika Soćko|Soćko]], [[Iweta Rajlich|Rajlich]], [[Jolanta Zawadzka|Zawadzka]], [[Joanna Majdan-Gajewska|Majdan]], [[Marta Bartel|Przeździecka]] || 2386 || 17 || 364.5
|-
| 6 || {{ARM}} || [[Elina Danielian|Danielian]], [[Lilit Mkrtchian|Mkrtchian]], [[Nelly Aginian|Aginian]], [[Lilit Galojan|Galojan]], [[Siranush Andriasian|Andriasian]] || 2397 || 16 || 353.0
|-
| 7 || {{flagcountry|SRB|2004}} || [[Alisa Marić|Marić]], [[Nataša Bojković|Bojković]], [[Anđelija Stojanović|Stojanović]], [[Irina Chelushkina|Chelushkina]], [[Ana Benderać|Benderać]] || 2386 || 16 || 318.5
|-
| 8 || {{CHN}} || [[Hou Yifan]], [[Zhao Xue]], [[Shen Yang (chess player)|Shen Yang]], [[Ju Wenjun]], [[Tan Zhongyi]] || 2486 || 15 || 392.5
|-
| 9 || {{ISR}} || [[Masha Klinova|Klinova]], [[Angela Borsuk|Borsuk]], [[Bella Igla|Igla]], [[Olga Gutmakher|Vasiliev]], [[Marsel Efroimski|Efroimski]] || 2304 || 15 || 325.0
|-
| 10 || {{flagcountry|BLR|1995}} || [[Anna Sharevich|Sharevich]], [[Natalia Popova (chess player)|Popova]], [[Nadezhda Azarova|Azarova]], [[Tatiana Berlin|Berlin]], [[Elena Maksimova|Klimets]] || 2278 || 15 || 317.5
|}
:{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"
|+ class="nowrap" |Women's section results, #11–end (#111)
! Rank !! Country !! Average<br/>rating !! MP !! dSB !! dSMP
|-
| 11 || {{ROM}} || 2348 || 15 || 306.5 || 
|-
| 12 || {{ITA}} || 2245 || 15 || 280.0 || 
|-
| 13 || {{FRA}} || 2427 || 14 || 336.5 || 
|-
| 14 || {{HUN}} || 2389 || 14 || 321.0 || 
|-
| 15 || {{IND}} || 2388 || 14 || 320.5 || 
|-
| 16 || {{SVK}} || 2348 || 14 || 299.5 || 
|-
| 17 || {{MGL}} || 2161 || 14 || 289.0 || 
|-
| 18 || {{NED}} || 2323 || 14 || 286.0 || 
|-
| 19 || {{BUL}} || 2375 || 14 || 282.0 || 
|-
| 20 || {{CRO}} || 2259 || 14 || 281.5 || 
|-
| 21 || {{GER}} || 2379 || 14 || 279.0 || 
|-
| 22 || {{UZB}} || 2181 || 14 || 267.0 || 
|-
| 23 || {{ESP}} || 2296 || 14 || 266.5 || 
|-
| 24 || {{GRE}} || 2317 || 13 || 307.5 || 
|-
| 25 || {{CUB}} || 2289 || 13 || 288.0 || 
|-
| 26 || {{VIE}} || 2292 || 13 || 272.5 || 
|-
| 27 || {{AUT}} || 2231 || 13 || 269.5 || 
|-
| 28 || {{LAT}} || 2264 || 13 || 266.5 || 
|-
| 29 || {{ARG}} || 2260 || 13 || 262.0 || 
|-
| 30 || {{TUR}} || 2184 || 13 || 249.5 || 
|-
| 31 || {{AZE}} || 2261 || 13 || 246.5 || 
|-
| 32 || {{EST}} || 2174 || 13 || 245.5 || 
|-
| 33 || {{MDA}} || 2246 || 13 || 238.0 || 
|-
| 34 || {{GER}} "B" || 2159 || 13 || 236.0 || 
|-
| 35 || {{MNE}} || 2242 || 13 || 227.5 || 
|-
| 36 || {{CZE}} || 2321 || 12 || 270.0 || 
|-
| 37 || {{SLO}} || 2359 || 12 || 260.0 || 
|-
| 38 || {{SWE}} || 2317 || 12 || 258.5 || 
|-
| 39 || {{IRI}} || 2194 || 12 || 258.0 || 
|-
| 40 || {{SUI}} || 2210 || 12 || 257.5 || 
|-
| 41 || {{COL}} || 2179 || 12 || 255.5 || 
|-
| 42 || {{INA}} || 2021 || 12 || 237.5 || 
|-
| 43 || {{PHI}} || 2134 || 12 || 232.0 || 
|-
| 44 || {{LUX}} || 2185 || 12 || 227.5 || 
|-
| 45 || {{KAZ}} || 2240 || 12 || 226.5 || 
|-
| 46 || {{POR}} || 2145 || 12 || 218.0 || 
|-
| 47 || {{GER}} "C" || 2142 || 12 || 208.5 || 
|-
| 48 || {{BRA}} || 2077 || 12 || 196.0 || 
|-
| 49 || {{KGZ}} || 2093 || 12 || 182.0 || 
|-
| 50 || {{ENG}} || 2248 || 11 || 250.0 || 
|-
| 51 || {{LTU}} || 2294 || 11 || 239.0 || 
|-
| 52 || {{ECU}} || 2223 || 11 || 230.0 || 
|-
| 53 || {{NOR}} || 2193 || 11 || 224.0 || 
|-
| 54 || {{FIN}} || 2014 || 11 || 205.0 || 
|-
| 55 || {{DOM}} || 2022 || 11 || 200.5 || 
|-
| 56 || {{SCO}} || 1986 || 11 || 199.5 || 
|-
| 57 || {{RSA}} || 1938 || 11 || 198.0 || 
|-
| 58 || {{TKM}} || 2063 || 11 || 194.5 || 
|-
| 59 || {{BIH}} || 2110 || 11 || 193.0 || 
|-
| 60 || {{ISL}} || 2029 || 11 || 191.0 || 
|-
| 61 || IPCA || 2018 || 11 || 180.0 || 
|-
| 62 || {{NZL}} || 1912 || 11 || 174.5 || 
|-
| 63 || {{AUS}} || 2122 || 10 || 209.0 || 
|-
| 64 || {{ESA}} || 2098 || 10 || 199.5 || 
|-
| 65 || {{CAN}} || 2124 || 10 || 190.0 || 
|-
| 66 || {{MEX}} || 2106 || 10 || 184.0 || 
|-
| 67 || {{VEN}} || 2108 || 10 || 178.0 || 
|-
| 68 || {{GUA}} || 1920 || 10 || 176.0 || 
|-
| 69 || [[International Braille Chess Association|IBCA]] || 2035 || 10 || 168.0 || 
|-
| 70 || {{DEN}} || 2098 || 10 || 163.5 || 
|-
| 71 || {{BOL}} || 1978 || 10 || 162.0 || 
|-
| 72 || ICSC || 2130 || 10 || 161.0 || 
|-
| 73 || {{ALG}} || 1936 || 10 || 158.0 || 
|-
| 74 || {{BAN}} || 2093 || 10 || 156.0 || 
|-
| 75 || {{TJK}} || 1767 || 10 || 155.0 || 104
|-
| 76 || {{SYR}} || 1808 || 10 || 155.0 || 96
|-
| 77 || {{ALB}} || 2004 || 10 || 151.0 || 
|-
| 78 || {{SRI}} || 1850 || 9 || 169.5 || 
|-
| 79 || {{WAL}} || 1891 || 9 || 145.0 || 
|-
| 80 || {{URU}} || 1882 || 9 || 140.0 || 107
|-
| 81 || {{PUR}} || 1870 || 9 || 140.0 || 103
|-
| 82 || {{LIB}} || 1802 || 9 || 139.0 || 
|-
| 83 || {{CRC}} || 1861 || 9 || 129.0 || 
|-
| 84 || {{flagcountry|PAR|1990}} || 1725 || 9 || 127.0 || 
|-
| 85 || {{QAT}} || 1656 || 9 || 121.0 || 
|-
| 86 || {{TPE}} || 1556 || 9 || 118.5 || 
|-
| 87 || {{IRQ}} || 1706 || 9 || 117.5 || 
|-
| 88 || {{EGY}} || 1842 || 8 || 142.0 || 
|-
| 89 || {{UAE}} || 1805 || 8 || 129.0 || 
|-
| 90 || {{ANG}} || 1506 || 8 || 124.0 || 
|-
| 91 || {{TUN}} || 1490 || 8 || 119.0 || 
|-
| 92 || {{YEM}} || 1400 || 8 || 114.5 || 
|-
| 93 || {{BOT}} || 1529 || 8 || 113.5 || 
|-
| 94 || {{IRL}} || 1534 || 8 || 90.5 || 
|-
| 95 || {{BRB}} || 1400 || 8 || 81.0 || 
|-
| 96 || {{JPN}} || 1621 || 7 || 119.5 || 
|-
| 97 || {{NGR}} || 1400 || 7 || 111.0 || 
|-
| 98 || {{HON}} || 1400 || 7 || 106.0 || 
|-
| 99 || {{SUR}} || 1498 || 7 || 105.0 || 
|-
| 100 || {{MLT}} || 1731 || 7 || 101.5 || 
|-
| 101 || {{flag|Libya|1977}} || 1400 || 7 || 92.5 || 
|-
| 102 || {{PAK}} || 1400 || 7 || 90.0 || 
|-
| 103 || {{PAN}} || 1641 || 7 || 82.5 || 
|-
| 104 || {{MAC}} || 1554 || 7 || 79.5 || 
|-
| 105 || {{FIJ}} || 1551 || 7 || 74.5 || 
|-
| 106 || {{flagcountry|KOR|1997}} || 1469 || 7 || 66.5 || 
|-
| 107 || {{TRI}} || 1667 || 7 || 58.0 || 
|-
| 108 || {{ABW}} || 1400 || 6 ||  || 
|-
| 109 || {{KEN}} || 1400 || 5 ||  || 
|-
| 110 || {{SYC}} || 1400 || 3 ||  || 
|-
| 111 || {{flagcountry|AFG|2004}} || 1400 || 1 ||  || 
|}

===Individual medals===

For the first time, all board prizes were given out according to [[Performance rating (chess)|performance ratings]]. Accordingly, there was no overall prize, although reborn ex-champion Chiburdanidze on the top board had the best performance of all players at the tournament:

* Board 1: {{flagicon|GEO}} [[Maia Chiburdanidze]] 2715
* Board 2: {{flagicon|USA}} [[Anna Zatonskih]] 2571
* Board 3: {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Nadezhda Kosintseva]] 2591
* Board 4: {{flagicon|POL}} [[Joanna Majdan-Gajewska|Joanna Majdan]] 2621
* Reserve: {{flagicon|UKR}} [[Natalia Zdebskaya]] 2528

==Overall title==

The [[Nona Gaprindashvili]] Trophy is awarded to the nation that has the highest total number of match points in the open and women's divisions combined. Where two or more teams are tied, they are ordered by the same tie breakers as in the two separate events.

The trophy, named after the former women's World Champion (1961–78), was created by FIDE in 1997.

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;"
|-			
! #
! Team
! MP
! dSB
|-
| style="background:gold;"| '''1'''
| '''{{UKR}}'''
| '''35'''
| '''755.0'''
|-
| style="background:silver;"| 2
| {{ARM}}
| 35
| 753.5
|-
| style="background:#cc9966;"| 3
| {{USA}}
| 34
| 
|}

==Bibliography==
* Harald Fietz, Josip Asik, Anna Burtasova: ''Olympiad United! Dresden 2008.'' Verlag Schach Wissen, Berlin 2009. {{ISBN|978-3-9813348-0-7}}

==Notes==

{{reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category}}
*[http://www.olimpbase.org/2008/2008in.html 38th Chess Olympiad: Dresden 2008] OlimpBase
*[http://www.38chessolympiad.com/site/en/main.htm Official website]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110721192213/http://chess-results.info/tnr16314.aspx?art=0&lan=1&fed=NOR&flag=30&m=-1&zeilen=99999 Open section results]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110721192700/http://chess-results.info/tnr16315.aspx?art=0&lan=1&fed=NOR&flag=30&m=-1&zeilen=99999 Women's section results]

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