Best ever team player?

[Nick Burrows]

I would be very surprised if anyone can beat the record of Tigran Petrosian.

6 individual olympiad gold medals (9 team golds) with a record of 78 wins, 50 draws, 1 loss!

Any other candidates?

[Roger de Coverly]

6 individual olympiad gold medals (9 team golds) with a record of 78 wins, 50 draws, 1 loss!

Any other candidates?

Most of the Soviet players of that era had pretty impressive records in Olympiads.

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Soviet Olympiad records discussed previously here (for those who missed it at the time):

http://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php ... 35#p188048

Apparently, Petrosian's single loss was on time in a rook endgame he could well have held.

[Nick Burrows]

Aha, thanks Chris