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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 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.
FIDE is recognized as a sports governing body by the International Olympic Committee, [43] but chess has never been part of the Olympic Games. Garry Kasparov, former World Chess Champion. FIDE's most visible activity is organizing the World Chess Championship, a role it assumed in 1948. The current World Champion is Gukesh Dommaraju of India.
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 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 Olympic Esports Series [a] is an Olympic Games-style esports event, planned to be held annually, [2] featuring multiple different virtual sports and video games coming together in a single location similar to a multi-sport event, run by the International Olympic Committee.
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It was India's first overall win at the Chess Olympiad. [3] The team justified their role as pre-tournament top seeds according to the average rating, and defeated Georgia in the seventh and China in the tenth rounds on the road to the gold medal, but also lost to the third-seeded team of Poland in the eighth and drew with the United States in ...