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The women's event at the 44th Chess Olympiad was held from 29 July to 9 August 2022. It was contested by a record number of 162 teams, representing 160 nations. [1] India, as host nation, fielded three teams. A total of 799 players participated in the women's event. [2]
The Women's Chess Olympiad is an event held by FIDE (the International Chess Federation) since 1957 (every two years since 1972), where national women's teams compete at chess for gold, silver and bronze medals. Since 1976 the Women's Chess Olympiad has been incorporated within Chess Olympiad events, with simultaneous women's and open tournaments.
The 44th Chess Olympiad was an international team chess event organised by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in Chennai, India, from 28 July to 10 August 2022.It consisted of two main tournaments—an Open event, enabling participation of players from all genders, and a Women's event, enabling participation of female players only—as well as several events to promote chess.
The trophy for the winning women's team is known as the Vera Menchik Cup in honor of the first Women's World Chess Champion. Judit Polgár from Hungary is the only player who won Chess Olympiad medals in both competitions – two gold medals in the women's event (1988, 1990) and two silver medals in the open event (2002, 2014).
In 2023, in Baku Noshin Anjum participated in single-elimination Women's Chess World Cup and lost in 1st round to Polish Woman Grandmaster Monika Soćko. [4] Noshin Anjum played for Bangladesh in the Women's Chess Olympiads: In 2022, at second board in the 44th Chess Olympiad (women) in Chennai (+7, =1, -4). [5]
Humpy competed at the 2022 Chess Olympiad as part of the women's India team, which achieved a bronze medal. [ 23 ] In 2023, Humpy was the runner up in the World Rapid championships.
Deshmukh became India's 21st woman chess Grandmaster in 2021. [4] She won the 2022 Women's Indian Chess Championship. [7] She also won an individual bronze medal at the 2022 Chess Olympiad. She was also part of the gold medal-winning FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020 team. [8] [9] As of December 2024, she is the 2nd ranked woman chess player in ...
Svitlana Demchenko is the 2023 Canadian Women's Closed Champion. [2] She was a five-time Canadian Girls Champion and a two-time North American Girls Champion in different age categories. [3] [4] [5] Demchenko has been a member of the Canadian Women's Olympiad Team since 2018, and has represented Canada at the Women's World Cup. [6]