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The event was organised after the 44th Chess Olympiad was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The final match between Russia and India was called off after several Indian team members experienced connectivity issues due to a global outage of Cloudflare servers; Russia and India were subsequently declared joint winners. [1]
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 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 ...
Captain of gold medal-winning Indian team in the Online Chess Olympiad 2020. [15] Runner-up of the 2020 Prague Chess Festival Masters. Winner of the 2019 Biel Chess Festival. Quarter-finalist of the World Fischer Random Chess Championship 2019. Score of 7/11 in the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2019. Winner of the 2018 Tata Steel Challengers.
Chess.com now boasts 190 million users worldwide, up from 51 million in January 2020. The world’s biggest chess platform told NBC News that 1 in 10 Americans have an account.
It was Carlsen's first defeat after a 125-game unbeaten streak in classical chess. [29] At the FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020, he won bronze medal after the Polish team reached the semi-finals of the tournament and lost in a match-deciding tie-break 1-2 against India. [30]
Winner Runner-up Third Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2020: Round robin: 10–26 Jan: 14 (11) Fabiano Caruana: Magnus Carlsen: Wesley So: Tata Steel Challengers 2020: Round robin: 10–26 Jan: 14 (0) David Anton Guijarro: Nodirbek Abdusattorov: Pavel Eljanov: Prague Chess Festival 2020: Round robin: 12–21 Feb: 10 (6) Alireza Firouzja: Vidit ...