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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 42nd Chess Olympiad (Azerbaijani: 42-ci Şahmat Olimpiadası; also known as the Baku Chess Olympiad), organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) and comprising an open [note 1] and women's tournaments, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, was an international team chess event held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 1 to 14 September 2016. [1]
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]
[21] [22] Other pre-tournament favourites included Spain with Alexei Shirov on the top board and Poland led by the winner of the Chess World Cup 2021 Jan-Krzysztof Duda. [21] [23] [24] The young squads of Germany, Uzbekistan and especially India's second team with the prodigies R Praggnanandhaa, Nihal Sarin and Gukesh D were also expected to ...
It was the first classical game in a World Chess Championship in more than five years that did not end in a draw; after Magnus Carlsen won the tenth game of the World Chess Championship 2016 against Sergey Karjakin to level the score, there was the longest-ever streak of 19 draws in consecutive World Chess Championship classical games (games 11 ...
2016 Zurich Chess Challenge: 12–15 Feb: 6: Hikaru Nakamura: Viswanathan Anand: Vladimir Kramnik: Women's World Chess Championship 2016: 1–14 Mar: 2: Hou Yifan: Mariya Muzychuk – Candidates Tournament 2016: 11–30 Mar: 8: Sergey Karjakin: Fabiano Caruana: Viswanathan Anand: U.S. Chess Championship 2016: 13–30 Apr: 12: Fabiano Caruana ...
Emanuel Lasker (left) facing incumbent champion Wilhelm Steinitz (right) in Philadelphia during the 1894 World Chess Championship The World Chess Championship has taken various forms over time, including both match and tournament play. While the concept of a world champion of chess had already existed for decades, with several events considered by some to have established the world's foremost ...
The World Chess Championship 2016 was a chess match between the reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen and the challenger Sergey Karjakin to determine the World Chess Champion. [1] Carlsen had been world champion since 2013 , while Karjakin qualified as challenger by winning the 2016 Candidates Tournament .