Women's Chess Olympiad Women's Chess Olympiad The Women's Chess Olympiad is an event held by FIDE (the International Chess Federation) since 1957 (every two years since 1972), where national women's teams compete at chess for gold, silver and bronze medals. Since 1976 the Women's Chess Olympiad has been incorporated within Chess Olympiad events, with simultaneous women's and open tournaments. The Soviet Union has won it the most often: 11 times. Since the break-up of the Soviet Union, China and Georgia have won the event four times each. It has also been won by Hungary, Ukraine and Israel (one year when it was boycotted
International Philosophy Olympiad International Philosophy Olympiad The International Philosophy Olympiad (IPO) is an International Science Olympiad, a philosophy competition for high school students. It is organized under the auspices of the FISP (Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie) and supported by UNESCO. The International Philosophy Olympiad was founded through an initiative by Ivan Kolev from Sofia University, Bulgaria. The idea was to help replace the Marxist-Leninist subjects taught in schools throughout Eastern Europe between 1947 and 1990. The first International Philosophy Olympiad was held in 1993 in Smolyan, Bulgaria, with three participating countries, Bulgaria, Romania (lead by Elena Florina Otet) and Turkey (lead