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Chess Olympiad 2026

Japan

In numbers

114

place of 189 after round 11

10

match points from 11 matches

21

game points; TB1 183, TB3 110

1778

average rating

Roster

BoardPlayerGamesScorePerf.
1WCM Azumi Sakai105½1920
2Kanako Kinoshita93½1682
3WCM Rikka Mitsuyama841770
4Ami Kato821538
5Elizabeth Ivanov961743

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.

1400160018002000team 17781Sakai5½/102Kinoshita3½/93Mitsuyama4/84Kato2/85Ivanov6/9

Matches

Team awards

Forward March

7.38retreats per 100 moves

  • Round 4, 11 of 149 moves went backwards

Fewest retreating moves per 100 of the team's own moves.

The Late Knight Show

9per game

  • Round 5, 36 late knight moves in 4 games

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

Chicken Nation

23.95retreats per 100 moves

  • Round 5, 57 of 238 moves went backwards

Most retreating moves per 100 of the team's own moves; castling never counts.

Finishers

3checkmates

  • Round 9, 3 of 3 wins by checkmate on the board

Most checkmates delivered on the board.