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The daily bulletins from the Dubai 1986 Chess Olympiad were printed publications released throughout the tournament to document what was happening day by day. They acted as the official record of the event, combining results, commentary, and announcements in a pre-internet era when this was the main way information circulated inside a major chess competition.

Each bulletin typically reported on the most recent round, giving match scores, updated standings, and brief written accounts of notable encounters. Important games, especially from the top boards, were often included with light annotation, along with occasional photographs of players and the playing hall. The tone was formal and practical, focused on accuracy rather than storytelling.

Today these bulletins are valued because they capture the Olympiad as it unfolded, not as it was later remembered. They preserve contemporary perspectives on key moments, strong performances, and surprises, and they record details that do not always appear in later databases or books. For historians and collectors, they are a direct window into one of the last great Soviet-dominated Olympiads and into how elite chess events were documented in the mid-1980s.

Bulletin nos. 1-14. 16-24 pages. 42 cm (!)

Condition: Bound in blue cloth with gilt print on cover. VG.

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