Chess Olympiad 2026

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Standings
SRB
Seeded 15, category A
7 won, 1 drawn, 3 lost
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Serbia as a nation

Serbia

In numbers

22

place of 206 after round 11

15

match points from 11 matches

26

game points; TB1 313, TB3 144

2599

average rating

Roster

Board	Player	Rating	Games	Score	Perf.	±	Favourite
1	GM Alexey Sarana	2666	10	6	2644	−1
2	GM Aleksandar Indjic	2598	10	6½	2637	+8
3	GM Alexandr Predke	2598	10	6½	2643	+7
4	GM Velimir Ivic	2601	8	3½	2397	−20
5	GM Bojan Maksimovic	2534	6	3½	2450	−4

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 South Sudan SSD

3½–½

Won, 2 match pointsBlack on board 1

1CM Madol Garang Panthou Joh 21700GM Alexey Sarana 26661 2GM Aleksandar Indjic 25981Manyok Chaderek Panchol 20770 3CM Gong Thon Gong 2159½GM Velimir Ivic 2601½ 4GM Bojan Maksimovic 25341Daniel Thokjang Malony 21050

Round 2 v Turkmenistan TKM

3–1

Won, 2 match pointsWhite on board 1

1GM Alexey Sarana 26661GM Saparmyrat Atabayev 25030 2GM Meylis Annaberdiyev 2384½GM Alexandr Predke 2598½ 3GM Velimir Ivic 26011FM Amanmuhammet Hommadov 23890 4Shahruh Turayev 2222½GM Bojan Maksimovic 2534½

Round 3 v Canada CAN

2½–1½

Won, 2 match pointsBlack on board 1

1GM Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux 25361GM Alexey Sarana 26660 2GM Aleksandar Indjic 25981GM Anthony Atanasov 24810 3GM Razvan Preotu 24750GM Alexandr Predke 25981 4GM Velimir Ivic 2601½IM Sai Krishna G V 2451½

Round 4 v China CHN

1–3

Lost, 0 match pointsWhite on board 1

1GM Alexey Sarana 2666½GM Liren Ding 2733½ 2GM Yi Wei 27521GM Aleksandar Indjic 25980 3GM Alexandr Predke 2598½GM Yangyi Yu 2710½ 4GM Xiangrui Kong 25491GM Bojan Maksimovic 25340

Round 5 v Cuba CUB

3–1

Won, 2 match pointsBlack on board 1

1GM Jorge Roberto Elias Reyes 2505½GM Aleksandar Indjic 2598½ 2GM Alexandr Predke 25981GM Dylan Isidro Berdayes Ason 24620 3GM Lelys Stanley Martinez Duany 2440½GM Velimir Ivic 2601½ 4GM Bojan Maksimovic 25341GM Ermes Espinosa Veloz 24600

Round 6 v Sweden SWE

2–2

Drawn, 1 match pointBlack on board 1

1GM Nils Grandelius 2603½GM Alexey Sarana 2666½ 2GM Aleksandar Indjic 25981IM Jung Min Seo 25030 3GM Erik Blomqvist 2482½GM Alexandr Predke 2598½ 4GM Velimir Ivic 26010IM Edvin Trost 24721

Round 7 v Kazakhstan KAZ

3½–½

Won, 2 match pointsWhite on board 1

1GM Alexey Sarana 26661GM Denis Makhnev 25680 2IM Sauat Nurgaliyev 24930GM Aleksandar Indjic 25981 3GM Alexandr Predke 25981IM Daniyal Sapenov 25100 4GM Aldiyar Ansat 2495½GM Velimir Ivic 2601½

Round 8 v United States of America USA

½–3½

Lost, 0 match pointsBlack on board 1

1GM Fabiano Caruana 27891GM Alexey Sarana 26660 2GM Aleksandar Indjic 25980GM Hans Moke Niemann 27251 3GM Levon Aronian 2725½GM Alexandr Predke 2598½ 4GM Velimir Ivic 26010GM Awonder Liang 26931

Round 9 v Switzerland SUI

3–1

Won, 2 match pointsWhite on board 1

1GM Alexey Sarana 26661GM Sebastian Bogner 25470 2GM Nico Georgiadis 25350GM Aleksandar Indjic 25981 3GM Alexandr Predke 2598½GM Li Min Peng 2568½ 4IM Fabian Baenziger 2426½GM Velimir Ivic 2601½

Round 10 v Lithuania LTU

2½–1½

Won, 2 match pointsBlack on board 1

1GM Titas Stremavicius 2554½GM Alexey Sarana 2666½ 2GM Aleksandar Indjic 2598½GM Tomas Laurusas 2536½ 3IM Pijus Stremavicius 23620GM Alexandr Predke 25981 4GM Bojan Maksimovic 2534½IM Gleb Pidluznij 2410½

Round 11 v Azerbaijan AZE

1½–2½

Lost, 0 match pointsWhite on board 1

1GM Alexey Sarana 2666½GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 2720½ 2GM Aydin Suleymanli 2664½GM Aleksandar Indjic 2598½ 3GM Alexandr Predke 25980GM Mahammad Muradli 26531 4GM Eltaj Safarli 2616½GM Bojan Maksimovic 2534½

Team awards

The Late Knight Show

7per game

Round 2, 28 late knight moves in 4 games
Serbia SRB

Most knight moves from move 31 on, per game, over the team's finished games.

Comeback Match

Round 3, board 1 lost
Serbia SRB2½Canada CAN1½

Lost on board 1 and still won the match.

Favourite Piece

28.1% of the team's moves

Round 6, Bishops, 59 of 210 moves
Serbia SRB

For each piece, the team whose own moves have the highest share of it.