I think each Olympiad team should only have players that are country born on the team. I think if we have pure Olympiad team that chess might be more popular in some countries. I think having non born players is ok but i can see it discouraging players that were born in that country. I want to hear what people think of national born Olympiad teams.
I think it is a terrible idea. FIDE (and the US) should not discriminate against those who moved to their current country after birth (or for that matter, in the United States, people who are natural-born citizens but were not born in the US).
Many grandmasters of years past played on Olympiad teams where they were not born, including a couple of world champions. In many cases, telling them they could only play for the country they were born in would mean they would not be able to play at all. Just off the top of my head.
Miguel Najdorf (A Jewish Polish player, stayed in Argentina after World War II broke out during the 1939 Olympiad and chose to stay permanently after hearing that his entire family had been killed in his native Poland, played many times for the Argentine Olympic team.
Samuel Reshevsky (emigrated to the US when nine years old from Poland)
Alexander Alekhine (born in Moscow, was declared an enemy of the people by the Soviet regime and played for the French Olympic team in his later years)
Victor Korchnoi (fled the Soviet Union in 1975 and later played for the Swiss Olympic team)
Garry Kasparov (born in Azerbaijan, but played for Russia after Azerbaijan declared independence in 1991)
Hikaru Nakamura (born in Japan but to a US citizen mother [so a US Citizen at birth], moved to US at age 2)
I know there are many others. A person’s place of birth should have no relevance on Olympic eligibility.
Loren Schmidt, born and raised in Nebraska, played 1st board for Japan on their 1988 Olympiad team in Thessaloniki, Greece. Loren had lived in Japan for a number of years, teaching.
When I directed the U.S. Championship, there were 18 GMs, all foreign born. One born in Japan, one Australia, one Cuba, and 15 Soviet Union. Since then other players in the tournament have made GM, including at least one U.S. born.
Alex Relyea
I agree.
And notable defectors from the old Soviet Union who endured harrowing escapes to later play on the U.S. Olympic team include Gata Kamsky, Lev Alburt and Boris Gulko.
The big winner for such a proposal would be oppressive regimes – giving them the ability to continue to punish political opponents even after they’ve left the country. In recent years, there have been top players changing from the federations of Cuba and Iran. And I have to believe that there have/will be female players switching federations known to treat females as second-class citizens.
There are countries that have been invaded, annexed, or significantly changed since the person emigrated. Think a player born in South Vietnam in the late-1960s or early-1970s would want to play for the present-day “Vietnam”? Or persons born in Moscow, now living in the Ukraine, who’d want to play for the Russian federation? There are other countries (Namibia is one, I think) that repudiate athletes that leave, leaving them effectively a person without a country until they can satisfy requirements for residency in their new country as specified by the IOC or FIDE.
Some foreign-born players might still be OK (e.g. Nakamura). We should set up a tribunal to judge special exceptions like this.
Discrimination against a member of a particular national origin (or all national origins except the US), might have a negative impact upon 501(c)(3) status.
I think that each Olympiad team should only have players all of whose ancestors were born in the country of the team. Consequently, the US will no longer provide an Olympiad team. 
The U.S would have an Olympiad team just not as strong.
Since the U.S. has no originally indigenous population - everyone who is here got here by migration - then an Olympiad team of only have players all of whose ancestors were born in the country of the team could not be fielded by the United States.
Frankly, given current scientific analysis, the only possible teams would be from the continent of Africa.
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I think just born in the country would be good enough. Going back to origin would be a little too far.
Should only people born in Miami be part of the Miami Heat?
People born in the u.s should be the only ones on the Olympiad team.
Rationale, please?
See the first post in the thread. I don’t agree with him, but he did give his rationale there.
The position in the first post is not the same as the position in Mr. Antonucci’s most recent post. So, it is fair to ask him what rationale supports the most recent post, given its country-specific nature. I have taken no position on either post as of yet.
Do the terms racism or xenophobia mean anything to you?
Why? How does that make it any better? Maybe his or her parents are from another country and our little chess player was conceived there and just barely made it to our shores before being born. Maybe he/she was raised in a neighborhood where everyone was foreign anyway.
If they just have to be born here, why bother with the test anyway? Shouldn’t their family had to have been around for some time and shown some real allegiance to the country?
Why is being born here enough? Maybe they were born here and raised overseas their whole life.