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A total of 937 players participated in the open event. [2] Uzbekistan won the gold medal in the Open event, which was their first overall medal in the Chess Olympiads. English player David Howell had the highest score for an individual player in the Open event, [3] scoring 7½ out of a possible 8 points with a performance rating of 2898. [4]
The 45th Chess Olympiad was an international team chess event organised by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in Budapest, Hungary, from 10 to 23 September 2024.. There were two main events contested at the Chess Olympiad—an Open event, enabling participation of players from all genders, and a Women's event, enabling participation of female players only.
For the first time in the history of Chess Olympiads, no European team won a medal in the Open event. [71] The challenger in the World Chess Championship 2024 Gukesh Dommaraju of India achieved the highest rating performance of 3056 in the Open event after scoring 9 out of a possible 10 points (eight wins and two draws) on board one.
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 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 open event at the 43rd Chess Olympiad was held from 24 September to 5 October 2018. It was contested by a record number of 185 teams, representing 180 nations. [1] Georgia, as host nation, fielded three teams, whilst the International Braille Chess Association (IBCA), the International Physically Disabled Chess Association (IPCA), and the International Chess Committee of the Deaf (ICCD ...
The open event at the 42nd Chess Olympiad, organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE), was held from 2–13 September 2016 in Baku, Azerbaijan.It had to be contested by a record number of 180 teams representing 175 nations, however 10 of these did not arrive so the actual participation was 170 teams. [1]
The 40th Chess Olympiad (Turkish: 40. Satranç Olimpiyatı), organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs and comprising an open [1] and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, was an international team chess event that took place in Istanbul, Turkey, [2] from 27 August to 10 September 2012.