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The 21st Chess Olympiad (French: La 21 e Olympiade d'échecs), 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 June 6 and June 30, 1974, in Nice, France.
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.
Eugene Torre participated in the 1969 (10th) and 1971 (11th) editions of the Junior World Chess Championship, an under-20 chess tournament (players must have been under 20 years old on 1 January in the year of competition) organized by the World Chess Federation (FIDE). It was the brainchild of William Ritson-Morry who organized the inaugural ...
The chess federations of the United Kingdom and the United States also opposed the proposal stating that it would hand a symbolic victory to Vladimir Putin. [13] The president of Ukrainian Chess Federaton Oleksandr Kamyshin published a statement from his X account that he would work to stop the resolution being approved. He added that 21 chess ...
The women's event at the 45th Chess Olympiad was from 11 to 22 September 2024. It was contested by a record number of 183 teams, representing 181 nations. [1] Hungary, as host nation, fielded three teams. A total of 909 players participated in the open event. [2]
Alekhine scored 9–0 on first board for France at the 3rd Chess Olympiad (Hamburg, 1930), and Dragoljub Čirić scored 8–0 as second reserve (the sixth player on his team) for Yugoslavia at the 17th Olympiad (Havana, 1966), but each played only about half of the possible games. [62]
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. [14] 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 ...
Gukesh defeated Caruana for a second Olympiad in a row after spotting a blunder on the 34th move and reacting correctly with only 21 seconds on the clock. In the last game of the match, Vidit Gujrathi secured a draw against Levon Aronian with the Black pieces. [61] [62]