Questo medagliere raccoglie il numero di medaglie vinte dai singoli giocatori nelle edizioni ufficiali delle Olimpiadi degli scacchi. Sono contate anche le medaglie assegnate per le migliori performance Elo (tra il 1984 e il 2006).
Il medagliere è aggiornato alle olimpiadi di Tromsø 2014.Le prossime olimpiadi degli scacchi si terranno a Baku nel 2016 (previste in agosto).
Medaglie individuali Torneo open Nota: la lista comprende solo i giocatori che hanno ottenuto almeno una medaglia d'oro individuale. {| class="wikitable" style="width:70%;float:left;text-align:right;" |- ! Pos. ! Giocatore ! Paese ! Scacchiera ! ! ! ! Totale
| 1 | style="text-align:left" | Garri Kasparov | style="text-align:left" | , | 1, 2, 6 | 7 || 2 || 2 || style="text-align:center" | 11 |- | 2 | style="text-align:left" | Tigran Petrosyan | style="text-align:left" | | 1, 2, 4, 6 | 6 || 0 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 6 |- | 3 | style="text-align:left" | Michail Tal' | style="text-align:left" | | 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 | 5 || 2 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 7 |- | 4 | style="text-align:left" | Paul Keres | style="text-align:left" | , | 1, 3, 4 | 5 || 1 || 1 || style="text-align:center" | 7 |- | 5 | style="text-align:left" | Vasilij Smyslov | style="text-align:left" | | 2, 3, 5, 6 | 4 || 2 || 2 || style="text-align:center" | 8 |- | 6 | style="text-align:left" | Viktor Korčnoj | style="text-align:left" | , | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 | 4 || 0 || 3 || style="text-align:center" | 7 |- | 7 | style="text-align:left" | Juchym Heller | style="text-align:left" | | 4, 5, 6 | 3 || 3 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 6 |- | rowspan="3" | 8 | style="text-align:left" | Miguel Najdorf | style="text-align:left" | , | 1, 2, 3 | 3 || 1 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 4 |- | style="text-align:left" | David Bronštejn | style="text-align:left" | | 3, 4 | 3 || 1 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 4 |- | style="text-align:left" | Anatolij Karpov | style="text-align:left" | | 1, 2, 5 | 3 || 1 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 4 |- | rowspan="2" | 11 | style="text-align:left" | Boris Spasskij | style="text-align:left" | , | 1, 2, 3, 6 | 3 || 0 || 2 || style="text-align:center" | 5 |- | style="text-align:left" | Vladimir Kramnik | style="text-align:left" | | 1, 5 | 3 || 0 || 2 || style="text-align:center" | 5 |- | rowspan="2" | 13 | style="text-align:left" | Veselin Topalov | style="text-align:left" | | 1 | 2 || 2 || 1 || style="text-align:center" | 5 |- | style="text-align:left" | Borislav Ivkov | style="text-align:left" | | 2, 3, 4 | 2 || 2 || 1 || style="text-align:center" | 5 |- | 15 | style="text-align:left" | Aleksandr Alechin | style="text-align:left" | | 1 | 2 || 2 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 4 |- | rowspan="2" | 16 | style="text-align:left" | Michail Botvinnik | style="text-align:left" | | 1, 2 | 2 || 1 || 2 || style="text-align:center" | 5 |- | style="text-align:left" | Isaac Kashdan | style="text-align:left" | | 1, 3 | 2 || 1 || 2 || style="text-align:center" | 5 |- | rowspan="2" | 18 | style="text-align:left" | Salo Flohr | style="text-align:left" | | 1 | 2 || 1 || 1 || style="text-align:center" | 4 |- | style="text-align:left" | Georgi Tringov | style="text-align:left" | | 2, 3, 4, 5 | 2 || 1 || 1 || style="text-align:center" | 4 |- | rowspan="2" | 20 | style="text-align:left" | John Nunn | style="text-align:left" | | 2, 3, 6 | 2 || 1 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 3 |- | style="text-align:left" | Rafayel Vahanyan | style="text-align:left" | , | 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 | 2 || 1 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 3 |- | 22 | style="text-align:left" | Mohamad Al-Modiahki | style="text-align:left" | | 1 | 2 || 0 || 2 || style="text-align:center" | 4 |- | rowspan=2 | 23 | style="text-align:left" | James Tarjan | style="text-align:left" | | 4, 5, 6 | 2 || 0 || 1 || style="text-align:center" | 3 |- | style="text-align:left" | Sergej Karjakin | style="text-align:left" | , | 3, 4, 6 | 2 || 0 || 1 || style="text-align:center" | 3 |- | rowspan="10" | 25 | style="text-align:left" | Robert Hübner | style="text-align:left" | | 1 | 2 || 0 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | Zenón Franco Ocampos | style="text-align:left" | | 1 | 2 || 0 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | Israel Horowitz | style="text-align:left" | | 2, 4 | 2 || 0 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | Andor Lilienthal | style="text-align:left" | | 2, 5 | 2 || 0 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | Frank Anderson | style="text-align:left" | | 2 | 2 || 0 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | Andreas Dückstein | style="text-align:left" | | 2 | 2 || 0 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | Ennio Arlandi | style="text-align:left" | | 3, 5 | 2 || 0 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | Baadur Jobava | style="text-align:left" | | 4 | 2 || 0 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | Raúl Sanguineti | style="text-align:left" | | 4, 5 | 2 || 0 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | Dmitrij Jakovenko | style="text-align:left" | | 5 | 2 || 0 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | 34 | style="text-align:left" | Aleksandar Matanović | style="text-align:left" | | 3, 4, 6 | 1 || 2 || 1 || style="text-align:center" | 4 |- | rowspan="4" | 36 | style="text-align:left" | Yasser Seirawan | style="text-align:left" | | 1, 2, 3, 4 | 1 || 2 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 4 |- | style="text-align:left" | Suchart Chaivichit | style="text-align:left" | | 3, 4 | 1 || 2 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 4 |- | style="text-align:left" | Milan Matulović | style="text-align:left" | | 3, 4, 6 | 1 || 2 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 4 |- | style="text-align:left" | Vladimir Hakobyan | style="text-align:left" | | 1, 2, 3 | 1 || 2 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 3 |- | 39 | style="text-align:left" | Vasyl' Ivančuk | style="text-align:left" | , | 1 | 1 || 1 || 3 || style="text-align:center" | 4 |- | rowspan="4" | 41 | style="text-align:left" | Evgeni Ermenkov | style="text-align:left" | , | 1, 4 | 1 || 1 || 1 || style="text-align:center" | 3 |- | style="text-align:left" | Larry Evans | style="text-align:left" | | 3, 4, 6 | 1 || 1 || 1 || style="text-align:center" | 3 |- | style="text-align:left" | Gedeon Barcza | style="text-align:left" | | 1, 3, 5 | 1 || 1 || 1 || style="text-align:center" | 3 |- | style="text-align:left" | Christian Langeweg | style="text-align:left" | | 3, 4 | 1 || 1 || 1 || style="text-align:center" | 3 |- | rowspan="19" | 45 | style="text-align:left" | William Hook | style="text-align:left" | | 1 | 1 || 1 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | Daniel Cámpora | style="text-align:left" | | 1 | 1 || 1 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | Utut Adianto | style="text-align:left" | | 1 | 1 || 1 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | Reuben Fine | style="text-align:left" | | 1, 2, 3 | 1 || 1 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | Julio Bolbochán | style="text-align:left" | | 2 | 1 || 1 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | Tudev Ujtumen | style="text-align:left" | | 2 | 1 || 1 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | Adam Kuligowski | style="text-align:left" | | 2, 3 | 1 || 1 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | Ruslan Ponomarëv | style="text-align:left" | | 2, 6 | 1 || 1 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | Carlos Matamoros Franco | style="text-align:left" | | 3 | 1 || 1 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | Arthur Dake | style="text-align:left" | | 3, 4 | 1 || 1 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | Gösta Danielsson | style="text-align:left" | | 4 | 1 || 1 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | István Csom | style="text-align:left" | | 4, 5 | 1 || 1 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | Artur Jusupov | style="text-align:left" | | 3, 4, 5, 6 | 1 || 1 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | Wang Yue | style="text-align:left" | | 4 | 1 || 1 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | Leonid Štejn | style="text-align:left" | | 4, 5 | 1 || 1 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | William Lombardy | style="text-align:left" | | 5, 6 | 1 || 1 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | Boris De Greiff | style="text-align:left" | | 4 | 1 || 1 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | Stuart Fancy | style="text-align:left" | | 2, 6 | 1 || 1 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | Lewon Aronyan | style="text-align:left" | | 1 | 1 || 1 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | rowspan="4" | 63 | style="text-align:left" | Bent Larsen | style="text-align:left" | | 1 | 1 || 0 || 2 || style="text-align:center" | 3 |- | style="text-align:left" | Savelij Tartakover | style="text-align:left" | | 1, 2 | 1 || 0 || 2 || style="text-align:center" | 3 |- | style="text-align:left" | Yrjö Rantanen | style="text-align:left" | | 2, 3, 5 | 1 || 0 || 2 || style="text-align:center" | 3 |- | style="text-align:left" | Petar Trifunović | style="text-align:left" | | 2, 3, 4 | 1 || 0 || 2 || style="text-align:center" | 3 |- | rowspan="13" | 67 | style="text-align:left" | Friðrik Ólafsson | style="text-align:left" | | 1 | 1 || 0 || 1 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | Wolfgang Uhlmann | style="text-align:left" | | 1 | 1 || 0 || 1 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | Oscar Panno | style="text-align:left" | | 2, 3 | 1 || 0 || 1 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | Vladimirs Petrovs | style="text-align:left" | | 1, 3 | 1 || 0 || 1 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | Gennadij Sosonko | style="text-align:left" | | 2, 3 | 1 || 0 || 1 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | Erik Lundin | style="text-align:left" | | 2, 3 | 1 || 0 || 1 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | William Hartston | style="text-align:left" | | 2, 3 | 1 || 0 || 1 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | Ljubomir Ljubojević | style="text-align:left" | | 1, 2, 3 | 1 || 0 || 1 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | Braslav Rabar | style="text-align:left" | | 2, 4 | 1 || 0 || 1 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | Shimon Kagan | style="text-align:left" | | 4 | 1 || 0 || 1 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | Isaias Pleci | style="text-align:left" | | 4, 5 | 1 || 0 || 1 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | Franciscus Kujpers | style="text-align:left" | | 6 | 1 || 0 || 1 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | style="text-align:left" | Boris Avrukh | style="text-align:left" | | 6 | 1 || 0 || 1 || style="text-align:center" | 2 |- | rowspan="106" | 81 | style="text-align:left" | Héctor Rossetto | style="text-align:left" | | 1 | 1 || 0 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 1 |- | style="text-align:left" | José Raúl Capablanca | style="text-align:left" | | 1 | 1 || 0 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 1 |- | style="text-align:left" | Svetozar Gligorić | style="text-align:left" | | 1 | 1 || 0 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 1 |- | style="text-align:left" | Jan Timman | style="text-align:left" | | 1 | 1 || 0 || 0 || style="text-align:center" | 1 |- | style="text-align:left" | Karl Robatsch | style="text-align:left" | | 1