Chess Olympiad 2024: Star-studded India look for historic title win – All you need to know
India had won a bronze medal each in open and women’s event at the 2022 Chess Olympiad.
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Two years after Chennai hosted the Chess Olympiad – a prestigious team event in the individual sport landscape – the event returns with its 45th edition in Budapest, Hungary from Wednesday.
The 2024 Chess Olympiad will see a total of 197 teams in the Open event and 184 teams in the women section are expected to battle it out over 11 rounds until September 22 as the Chess Olympiad returns to Budapest for the first time in almost a century.
The European city hosted the second unofficial Olympiad back in 1926 with just six teams. But before the event could start, Austria and Czechoslovakia withdrew. Hosts Hungary were crowned the champions ahead of Yugoslavia, Romania, and Germany.
Unlike the 2022 Chess Olympiad in Chennai where India had the opportunity to field six teams (three each in open and women’s section) by virtue of being the hosts, the country will have just two teams in fray in Budapest – one each in open and women’s event.
With an average Elo rating of 2753, the Indian team in the open section will start as the second seeds in the competition behind the United States (2757), who will be without the services of world No 2 Hikaru Nakamura.
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