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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 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 match score is usually given as "6−5", or "6−5 with 21 draws". Sometimes a Three points for a win system is used: 3 points for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss. This is usually shown as the number of points from number of games played, for instance "10 points from 6 games" for 3 wins, 2 losses and 1 draw.
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 Open and Women's tournaments, as well as several events to promote chess .
India won the gold medal in the Women's event, which was their first overall win at the Chess Olympiads. [3] Kazakhstan won the silver and the United States took the bronze medals. [4] Dana Kochavi, playing as a reserve for Israel, had the highest rating performance of 2676 by achieving a perfect score of 8 out of 8 possible points. [5]
Average ratings calculated by chess-results.com based on September 2024 FIDE ratings. ^† The Sonneborn-Berger score is a tie-breaking criterion used to rank teams with equal match points. All board prizes were given out according to performance ratings for players who played at least eight games at the tournament.
In the absence of a match, FIDE declared Anatoly Karpov, winner of the 1974 Candidates Tournament, to be the World Chess Champion by default. [31] While the issue had played a role in Fischer's forfeit, FIDE ultimately did change the match format going forward, such that the first to win 6 games would be champion. [32]
The 35th Chess Olympiad, a chess tournament for teams. A chess tournament is a series of chess games played competitively to determine a winning individual or team. Since the first international chess tournament in London, 1851, chess tournaments have become the standard form of chess competition among multiple serious players.