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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 Women's event was contested by a total of 909 players from 183 teams. [10] It featured only Nana Dzagnidze from the top ten players according to the FIDE rating list published in September 2024. [11] India had the highest pre-tournament average rating of 2467, but the team was weakened due to the absence of Koneru Humpy who played in 2022.
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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 ).
The Women's event was contested by a record number of 162 teams, representing 160 nations. India, as host nation, fields three teams. [1]The women's tournament was short of seven out of the ten top players according to the FIDE rating list published in July 2022, with only the Muzychuk sisters—former Women's World Champion Mariya and Anna—and Nana Dzagnidze participating. [8]
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 ...
Judit Polgár, widely acknowledged as the greatest female chess player in history, has won the most high-level open tournaments among women by far. Some of her strongest victories in classical came in the four-player double round-robin Crown division in Hoogeveen, where she won four times and regularly faced competition averaging near or above ...
Krush has played on the U.S. national team in the Women's Chess Olympiad since 1998. The U.S. team won the silver medal in 2004 [ 12 ] and bronze in 2008 . [ 13 ] In 2022, Krush was a member of the U.S. women's team at the 44th Chess Olympiad , [ 14 ] where the team placed fourth. [ 15 ]