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The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament and selects the host nation. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, FIDE held an Online Chess Olympiad in 2020 and 2021, with a rapid time control that affected players' online ratings.
The provisional total budget for the Chess Olympiad was €16.6 million, including €9 million for event services and operations as well as the hosting fee. [15] In June 2021, FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich, together with the president of the Hungarian Chess Federation László Szabó and the executive director of the National Sports Agency of Hungary Attila Mihok, signed the contract in ...
The Open event was contested by a total of 975 players from 197 teams. [10] It featured seven of the top ten players from the FIDE rating list published in September 2024. . World no. 2 Hikaru Nakamura decided not to play for a second Olympiad in a row, and Alireza Firouzja did not play for France.
The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations compete in an Olympic-style event. [1] [2] The first unofficial edition, labelled as the "Chess Olympic Games", was held in Paris in 1924, and coincided with the Summer Olympic Games that took place in the city in the same year. [3]
The table contains teams ranked by total number of medals won at the Chess Olympiad (not including the online or unofficial events) in the Open event (since 1927) and Women's event (since 1957), ranked by the number of first-place medals, ties broken by second-place medals, etc.
In 1984, at first reserve board in the 26th Chess Olympiad in Thessaloniki (+6, =2, -1) and won individual gold medal, In 1986, at fourth board in the 27th Chess Olympiad in Dubai (+2, =4, -2), In 1988, at second reserve board in the 28th Chess Olympiad in Thessaloniki (+4, =4, -1). In 1981, he was awarded the FIDE International Master (IM) title.
The winning American team is awarded the Hamilton-Russell Cup. Award from the 1935 Chess Olympiad. The 6th Chess Olympiad (Polish: 6. Olimpiada szachowa), organized by the FIDE and comprising an open [1] and (unofficial) women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between August 16 and August 31, 1935, in Warsaw, Poland.
An official medal from the Olympiad. Israeli postal stamp, 1964 David Ben-Gurion presenting the trophy to the winning USSR team. The 16th Chess Olympiad (Hebrew: אולימפיאדת השחמט ה-16, Olimpiadat ha-shachmat ha-16), organized by FIDE and comprising an open [1] team tournament, as well as several other events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between November 2 ...