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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Italian chess players, 37th Chess Olympiad, Giulio Cesare Polerio, Fabiano Caruana, Italian Chess Championship, De ludo scachorum, Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani, Serafino Dubois, Reggio Emilia chess tournament, Giambattista Lolli, Sergio Mariotti, Max Romih, Gioachino Greco, Ignazio Calvi, Alessandro Salvio, Esteban Canal, Daniele Vocaturo, San Remo 1930 chess tournament, Stefano Rosselli del Turco, Michele Godena, Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona, Arturo Reggio, Lexy Ortega, Antonio Sacconi, Carlo Cozio, Giorgio Porreca, Mario Monticelli, Louisa Matilda Fagan, Clarice Benini, Giovanni Martinolich, Cyril Vansittart, Vincenzo Nestler, Eugenio Szabados, Italian Chess Federation, Davide Marotti, Jacobus de Cessolis, Federico Norcia, Giovanni Cenni, Ercole del Rio, Mario Napolitano, Paolo Boi, Carlos Garcia Palermo, Beniamino Vergani, Matteo Gladig, Enrico Paoli, Vincenzo Castaldi, Alessandra Riegler, Alice Tonini, Vittorio Torre. Excerpt: The 37th Chess Olympiad, comprising an open and women's tournament and the general assembly of the Federation Internationale des Echecs (FIDE), took place between 20 May and 6 June 2006, in Turin, Italy. The open division was contested by 148 teams representing 143 nations and territories; Italy, as hosts, fielded three teams, whilst the International Blind Chess Association, the International Physically Disabled Chess Association, International Silent Chess Committee each provided one squad; neither Somalia nor Sierra Leone, each of which had registered a team, participated. Led by first board Grandmaster (GM) Levon Aronian, the second highest-rated player at the Olympiad, and first reserve GM Gabriel Sargissian, who scored 10 points in 11 games, Armenia improved on their third place performance at the 36th Olympiad, claiming the gold medal by two full points over the silver medal-winning Peopl...
