Chess Olympiad 2026

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Standings
NRU
Seeded 181, category E
1 won, 3 drawn, 7 lost
Nauru as a nation

Nauru

In numbers

202

place of 206 after round 11

5

match points from 11 matches

14½

game points; TB1 100½, TB3 85

1745

average rating

Roster

Board	Player	Rating	Games	Score	Perf.	±	Favourite
1	Lanni Gadeanang	1819	10	1½	1620	−54
2	Tieta Apadinuwe	1779	9	2	1632	−75
3	Jamiedson Temaki	1701	11	4½	1659	−35
4	James Scotty	1655	6	2	1683	−10
5	Andrew Gadeanang	1770	8	4½	1713	−7

Boards follow the order the players have appeared in, as the team list keeps it; board 5 is the reserve. Games and scores count played games only. Performance and rating change come from Lichess. A name opens the player’s page.

Who carries the team

Each board from the player’s rating (hollow) to the performance so far (filled); red, the largest lift, grey, a board below its rating. The grey line is the team’s average rating, the score closes the row. A performance on few games moves a long way.

Matches

Round 1 v Venezuela VEN

0–4

Lost, 0 match pointsBlack on board 1

1IM Samid Eduardo Escalona Landi 23741Lanni Gadeanang 18190 2Tieta Apadinuwe 17790FM Moises Antonio Castro Silva 22661 3FM Ali Aaron Jaramillo Lopez 22491Jamiedson Temaki 17010 4James Scotty 16550FM Dilson Alejandro Pena Duran 22371

Round 2 v Palestine PLE

1–3

Lost, 0 match pointsWhite on board 1

1Lanni Gadeanang 18190Majed Altell 20441 2Yazid Elhayek 20631Tieta Apadinuwe 17790 3Jamiedson Temaki 17011Ahmad Awad 18080 4CM Mohammed Damaj 21121James Scotty 16550

Round 3 v Ghana GHA

2–2

Drawn, 1 match pointWhite on board 1

1Lanni Gadeanang 18190CM Bernard Anhwere 19651 2CM Cephas Clinton Fomevor 19261Tieta Apadinuwe 17790 3Jamiedson Temaki 17011Akpa Prince 18550 4Daniel Loglo 17990Andrew Gadeanang 17701

Round 4 v Isle of Man IOM

1–3

Lost, 0 match pointsBlack on board 1

1FM Li Wu 22661Lanni Gadeanang 18190 2Tieta Apadinuwe 17790Sanjay Gumireddy 18901 3Sandor Talas 17961Jamiedson Temaki 17010 4Andrew Gadeanang 17701Harry Quayle 16750

Round 5 v Saint Vincent and the Grenadines VIN

2–2

Drawn, 1 match pointBlack on board 1

1CM Brian S Cottle 18801Lanni Gadeanang 18190 2Jamiedson Temaki 17011Oris L Robinson 15500 3Vedant Shetty 18121James Scotty 16550 4Andrew Gadeanang 17701Jahnyiah Gumbs 0

Round 6 v Grenada GRN

2–2

Drawn, 1 match pointWhite on board 1

1Lanni Gadeanang 18190Renniel Gilbert 18481 2Gennard Roberts 15640Tieta Apadinuwe 17791 3Jamiedson Temaki 17010Omario Pope 14311 4Vladimir Mendez 16510James Scotty 16551

Round 7 v Belize BIZ

3–1

Won, 2 match pointsWhite on board 1

1Lanni Gadeanang 18191Alfred Awe 17190 2Nathaniel Leonel Reyes 17641Jamiedson Temaki 17010 3James Scotty 16551Roger Rashid Canto 0 4Kenet Alejandro Perez 16710Andrew Gadeanang 17701

Round 8 v Aruba ARU

0–4

Lost, 0 match pointsBlack on board 1

1FM Juan Pablo De Mey 20771Tieta Apadinuwe 17790 2Jamiedson Temaki 17010CM Ilya Stetsenko 19611 3Paul Andres Villalba Martinez 18061James Scotty 16550 4Andrew Gadeanang 17700Ayden Dirks 18001

Round 9 v Laos LAO

1½–2½

Lost, 0 match pointsWhite on board 1

1Lanni Gadeanang 1819½CM Chi Yang 1691½ 2Souminta Yomvilath 14951Tieta Apadinuwe 17790 3Jamiedson Temaki 17011Saengtavanh Thipvongsa 0 4Bounthengnoy Sengphachan 1Andrew Gadeanang 17700

Round 10 v Cambodia CAM

1–3

Lost, 0 match pointsWhite on board 1

1Lanni Gadeanang 18190Seyha Men 17851 2CM Rozak El 16190Tieta Apadinuwe 17791 3Jamiedson Temaki 17010Untac Nem 15731 4Zhitian Chea 15211Andrew Gadeanang 17700

Round 11 v Dominica DMA

1–3

Lost, 0 match pointsBlack on board 1

1Nicholas Goldberg 15961Lanni Gadeanang 18190 2Tieta Apadinuwe 17790CM Nigel Francis 17701 3Larry Thomas 1710½Jamiedson Temaki 1701½ 4Andrew Gadeanang 1770½Romel Laudat 1470½

Team awards

Time in the Bank

56:59left on average

Round 4, over 4 games
Nauru NRU

Most time left on the clock after the last move, on average.

Time in the Bank

1:08:24left on average

Round 5, over 4 games
Nauru NRU

Most time left on the clock after the last move, on average.

Escape Artists

2games saved

Round 6, the deepest hole -5.07
Nauru NRU

Most games won or drawn from a position the engine had at −3.00 or worse.

Deep Bench

69% from boards 3 and 4

10 of 14½ points from boards 3 and 4
Nauru NRU

Largest share of the team's game points scored on boards 3 and 4 of its matches.