Jedanesta Šahovska olimpijada 1954., koju je organizirala FIDE i koja se sastojala od otvorenog turnira, održana je od 4 do 25. septembra u Amsterdamu.Šahovska olimpijada 1954. na OlimpBaseu
Turnir 140px|mini|desno|Mihail Botvinik, dobitnik zlatne medalje na prvoj tabli Turnir se igrao u Apollohalu u Amsterdamu. Na olimpijadi je nastupilo 26 ekipa sa ukupno 149 šahista, koji su igrali po Bergerovom sistemu. Ukupno su nastupili devetnaestorica velemajstora. te 38-ica međunarodnih majstora. Ukupno je odigrano 916 partija (četiri po meču), timovi su igrali na četiri table, a dva su rezervna igrača bila dozvoljena. Igralo se na dva i po sata sata za prvih 40 poteza, a nakon toga sat vremena za svakih 16 poteza. Glavni sudija bio je Jugoslaven Milan Vidmar sr. U slučaju istog broja osvojenih bodova, odlučivalo je timsko bodovanje (TB), po kojem je za pobjedu tima dodjeljivano 2 boda, za remi 1 bod i poraz nije donosio bodove, zatim broj pobjeda i međusobni odnos (MO).
Organizacija
Rezultati Pobjednik je po drugi put uzastopno, nakon olimpijade 1952. bila ekipa Sovjetskog saveza u sastavu: Mihail Botvinik, sa šest pobjede i pet remija, Vasilij Smislov (+6 −0 =6), David Bronštejn (+7 −0 =7), Paul Keres, (+13 −0 =1), Jefim Geler (+4 −1 =2) i Aleksandar Kotov (+4 −2 =0). Drugo mjesto osvojili su ponovo šahisti Argentine: Miguel Najdorf (+7 −1 =7), Julio Bolbochán (+8 −0 =7), Oscar Panno (+3 −3 =7), Carlos Guimard (+3 −1 =2), Hector Rossetto (+3 −2 =3) i Herman Pilnik (+3 −2 =2), a treće, kao i na prethodnoj olimpijadi, šahisti Jugoslavije: Vasja Pirc (+3 −1 =9), Svetozar Gligorić (+4 −2 =8), Petar Trifunović (+3 −1 =8), Braslav Rabar (+1 −3 =4), Andrija Fuderer (+6 −1 =5) i Aleksandar Matanović (+5 −1 =3). Najbolji igrač bio je Paul Keres sa učinkom 96,4% i osvojenih 13½ poena iz 14 partija.
Timovi {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; font-size: 90%" ! # !! Finale !!Država !! Igrači !! Bodovi !! !! |- ! rowspan=12| A ||style="background:gold;"|1 | || Mihail Botvinik, Vasilij Smislov, David Bronštejn, Paul Keres, Jefim Geler, Aleksandar Kotov||align="center"| 34 || || |- ! style="background:silver;"|2 | || Miguel Najdorf, Julio Bolbochán, Oscar Panno, Carlos Guimard, Hector Rossetto, Herman Pilnik ||align="center"| 27 || || |- ! style="background:#cc9966;"|3 | || Vasja Pirc, Svetozar Gligorić, Petar Trifunović, Braslav Rabar, Andrija Fuderer, Aleksandar Matanović ||align="center"| 26½ || || |- ! 4 | || Luděk Pachman, Miroslav Filip, František Zíta, Jaroslav Šajtar, Jiří Fichtl, Maximilian Ujtelky ||align="center"| 24½ || || |- ! 5 | || Wolfgang Unzicker, Lothar Schmid, Gerhard Pfeiffer, Ludwig Rellstab, Klaus Darga, Erich Joppen ||align="center"| 23½ || || |- ! 6 | || László Szabó, Gyula Kluger, Gedeon Barcza, Béla Sándor, Ernő Gereben || align="center"|23 || || |- ! 7 | || Yosef Porath, Moshe Czerniak, Menachem Oren, Izak Aloni, I. Kniazer ||align="center"| 22 || || |- ! 8 | || Max Euwe, Jan Hein Donner, Nicolaas Cortlever, Lodewijk Prins, Haije Kramer, Theo van Scheltinga ||align="center"| 21 || || |- ! 9 | || Conel Hughes Alexander, Jonathan Penrose, Harry Golombek, Robert Wade, Leonhard William Barden, Peter Clarke ||align="center"| 17 ||align="center"| 7 || |- ! 10 | || Nikolaj Minev, Oleg Neikirh, Zdravko Milev, Aleksandar Cvetkov, Milko Bobotsov, Radko Bobekov ||align="center"| 17 ||align="center"| 6 || |- ! 11 | || Gideon Ståhlberg, Erik Lundin, Gösta Stoltz, Bengt-Eric Hörberg, Zandor Nilsson, Royal Goode ||align="center"| 15 || || |- ! 12 | || Friðrik Ólafsson, Guðmundur Guðmundsson, Guðmundur Pálmason, Guðmundur Ágústsson, Ingi Randver Jóhannsson, Guðmundur Arnlaugsson || align="center"|13½ || || |- ! rowspan=14| B || 13 | || Josef Kupper, Maximilian Blau, Erwin Nievergelt, Edwin Bhend, Otto Zimmermann, Edgar Walther || align="center"|37 || || |- ! 14 | || Daniel Abraham Yanofsky, Frank Ross Anderson, Paul Vaitonis, Fedor Bohatirchuk, Maurice Fox, Nathan Joseph Divinsky ||align="center"| 36 ||align="center"| 21 ||align="center"| 3 |- ! 15 | || Karl Robatsch,Alfred Beni, Alexander Prameshuber, Josef Lokvenc, Zoltan Kovács || align="center"|36 || align="center"| 21 ||align="center"| 1 |- ! 16 | || Bent Larsen, Axel Nielsen, Palle Nielsen, E. Verner Nielsen, Harald Enevoldsen, Borge Andersen ||align="center"| 34½ || || |- ! 17 | || Enrico Paoli, Giorgio Porreca, Federico Norcia, Francesco Scafarelli, Ugo Calà ||align="center"| 28½ || || |- ! 18 | || Miguel Cuéllar Gacharna, Boris De Greiff, Luis Augusto Sánchez, Carmelo Rivera, H. Tejada, G. Hernández ||align="center"| 27½ || || |- ! 19 | || Alberic O'Kelly de Galway, Arthur Dunkelblum, Jozef Gobert, Robert Lemaire, Alfons Franck, Georges Thibaut ||align="center"| 27 || || |- ! 20 | ||Toivo Salo, Jorma Vesterinen, Olavi Katajisto, Aatos Fred, Matti Rantanen ||align="center"| 26½ || || |- ! 21 | || Ossip Bernstein, Maurice Raizman, André Thiellement, Volf Bergraser, Georges Noradounguian, Sylvain Burstein ||align="center"|26 || || |- ! 22 | || Otto Benkner, Gerhard Lorson, W. Morena, O. Kastel, Ernst Weichselbaumer, Adolf Haas ||align="center"| 24 || || |- ! 23 | || Otto Morcken, Aage Vestøl, Per Lindblom, Thor Støre, Odd Flater, Wilhelm Ramm ||align="center"| 22 || || |- ! 24 | || Dimitrios Parliaros, Ioannis Anagnostou, Panagiotis Panagopoulos, Paulos Papapavlou ||align="center"| 21 || || |- ! 25 | || Brian Patrick Reilly, Terry Kelly, Vincent Maher, James Walsh, William Nash, Enda Rohan ||align="center"| 11 || || |- ! 26 | || Charles Doerner, Aloyse Neu, Georges Philippe, Lucien Schneider, Pierre Kremer, J. Jerolim ||align="center"| 7 || ||
Tabela Sistem takmičenja bio je sličan 8-oj i 10. šahovskoj olimpijadi. Timovi su bili podijeljeni u četiri grupe i to dvije sa šest ekipa i dvije grupe sa sedam. U podijeli po grupama odlučivao je rejting država, tako da su jači timovi podijeljeni u sve tri grupe kao nositelji. Tri prvoplasirana iz prve runde kvalificirala su se za finalnu rundu grupe A, timovi od četvrtog do šestog, odnosno sedmoga za B finale.
Prva runda 1. Grupa {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size: 90%" !#||Država|| || || || || || || || +|| −|| =||
!rowspan=3| A |style="text-align: left"| |16px |style="color: green"|2 |style="color: red;"|3½ |style="color: red;"|3 |style="color: red;"|4 |style="color: red;"|4 ! |4 |0 |1 |16½
|style="text-align: left"| |style="color: green"|2 |16px |style="color: red;"|2½ |style="color: red;"|3 |style="color: red;"|3 |style="color: red;"|2½ ! |4 |0 |1 |13
|style="text-align: left"| |style="color: blue;"|½ |style="color: blue;"|1½ |16px |style="color: red;"|3 |style="color: red;"|3½ |style="color: red;"|2½ ! |3 |2 |0 |11 |- style="border-top:2px solid grey;"
!rowspan=3| B |style="text-align: left"| |style="color: blue;"|1 |style="color: blue;"|1 |style="color: blue;"|1 |16px |style="color: red;"|3 |style="color: red;"|3½ ! |2 |3 |0 |9½
|style="text-align: left"| |style="color: blue;"|0 |style="color: blue;"|1 |style="color: blue;"|½ |style="color: blue;"|1 |16px |style="color: red;"|3 ! |1 |4 |0 |5½
|style="text-align: left"| |style="color: blue;"|0 |style="color: blue;"|1½ |style="color: blue;"|1½ |style="color: blue;"|½ |style="color: blue;"|1 |16px ! |0 |5 |0 |4½
Grupa 2 {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size: 90%" !#||Država|| || || || || || || || +|| −|| =||
!rowspan=3| A |style="text-align: left"| |16px |style="color: green"|2 |style="color: green"|2 |style="color: red;"|3 |style="color: red;"|3 |style="color: red;"|4 ! |3 |0 |2 |14
|style="text-align: left"| |style="color: green"|2 |16px |style="color: green"|2 |style="color: red;"|2½ |style="color: red;"|3½ |style="color: red;"|3½ ! |3 |0 |2 |13½
|style="text-align: left"| |style="color: green"|2 |style="color: green"|2 |16px |style="color: red;"|2½ |style="color: red;"|3 |style="color: red;"|4 ! |3 |0 |2 |13½ |- style="border-top:2px solid grey;" !rowspan=3| B |style="text-align: left"| |style="color: blue;"|1 |style="color: blue;"|1½ |style="color: blue;"|1½ |16px |style="color: red;"|2½ |style="color: red;"|3½ ! |2 |3 |0 |10
|style="text-align: left"| |style="color: blue;"|1 |style="color: blue;"|½ |style="color: blue;"|1 |style="color: blue;"|1½ |16px |style="color: red;"|3½ ! |1 |4 |0 |7½
|style="text-align: left"| |style="color: blue;"|0 |style="color: blue;"|½ |style="color: blue;"|0 |style="color: blue;"|½ |style="color: blue;"|½ |16px ! |0 |5 |0 |1½
Grupa 3 {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size: 90%" !#||Država|| || || || || || || || || +|| −|| =||
!rowspan=3| A |style="text-align: left"| |16px |style="color: blue;"|1½ |style="color: red;"|3 |style="color: red;"|2½ |style="color: red;"|3 |style="color: red;"|3 |style="color: red;"|3 ! |5 |1 |0 |16
|style="text-align: left"| |style="color: red;"|2½ |16px |style="color: green"|2 |style="color: red;"|3 |style="color: red;"|2½ |style="color: red;"|2½ |style="color: blue;"|1½ ! |4 |1 |1 |14
|style="text-align: left"| |style="color: blue;"|1 |style="color: green"|2 |16px |style="color: green"|2 |style="color: red;"|2½ |style="color: red;"|2½ |style="color: red;"|4 ! |3 |1 |2 |14 |- style="border-top:2px solid grey;" !rowspan=4| B |style="text-align: left"| |style="color: blue;"|1½ |style="color: blue;"|1 |style="color: green"|2 |16px |style="color: blue;"|1½ |style="color: red;"|3½ |style="color: green"|2 ! |1 |3 |2 |11½
|style="text-align: left"| |style="color: blue;"|1 |style="color: blue;"|1½ |style="color: blue;"|1½ |style="color: red;"|2½ |16px |style="color: green"|2 |style="color: red;"|2½ ! |2 |3 |1 |11
|style="text-align: left"| |style="color: blue;"|1 |style="color: blue;"|1½ |style="color: blue;"|1½ |style="color: blue;"|½ |style="color: green"|2 |16px |style="color: red;"|3 ! |1 |4 |1 |9½
|style="text-align: left"| |style="color: blue;"|1 |style="color: red;"|2½ |style="color: blue;"|0 |style="color: green"|2 |style="color: blue;"|1½ |style="color: blue;"|1 |16px ! |1 |4 |1 |8
Grupa 4 {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size: 90%" !#||Država|| || || || || || || || || +|| −|| =||
!rowspan=3| A |style="text-align: left"| |16px |style="color: red;"|2½ |style="color: blue;"|1½ |style="color: red;"|3 |style="color: red;"|4 |style="color: red;"|3 |style="color: red;"|4 ! |5 |1 |0 |18
|style="text-align: left"| |style="color: blue;"|1½ |16px |style="color: red;"|2½ |style="color: red;"|3 |style="color: green"|2 |style="color: red;"|3½ |style="color: red;"|4 ! |4 |1 |1 |16½
|style="text-align: left"| |style="color: red;"|2½ |style="color: blue;"|1½ |16px |style="color: red;"|2½ |style="color: blue;"|1½ |style="color: blue;"|1½ |style="color: red;"|4 ! |3 |3 |0 |13½ |- style="border-top:2px solid grey;" !rowspan=4| B |style="text-align: left"| |style="color: blue;"|1 |style="color: blue;"|1 |style="color: blue;"|1½ |16px |style="color: red;"|2½ |style="color: red;"|3½ |style="color: red;"|4 ! |3 |3 |0 |13½
|style="text-align: left"| |style="color: blue;"|0 |style="color: green"|2 |style="color: red;"|2½ |style="color: blue;"|1½ |16px |style="color: red;"|2½ |style="color: red;"|4 ! |3 |2 |1 |12½
|style="text-align: left"| |style="color: blue;"|1 |style="color: blue;"|½ |style="color: red;"|2½ |style="color: blue;"|½ |style="color: blue;"|1½ |16px |style="color: red;"|3 ! |2 |4 |0 |9
|style="text-align: left"| |style="color: blue;"|0 |style="color: blue;"|0 |style="color: blue;"|0 |style="color: blue;"|0 |style="color: blue;"|0 |style="color: blue;"|1 |16px ! |0 |6 |0 |1
Finale A {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size: 90%"