FIDE and Chessify, the No. 1 cloud service for chess engine analysis, partnered on the 44th Chess Olympiad for powering the chess game analysis of top games. For the last, decisive rounds, the Chessify live analysis tool is available for the top 48 games of the day (top 6 matches of Open and top 6 […]
Armenia leads the Olympiad after eight rounds IM Michael Rahal, FIDE Press Officer, Chennai From the outside it’s always very difficult to speculate on what may be happening to the USA team, but it’s clear that they are not going through their best moment. Despite having the best team on paper by quite a margin, […]
Top-seeded USA, who have struggled to hit any semblance of form, already drawing two matches, were beaten 3-1 by India B, a result that might have ended all hope for Gold. USA fielded their strongest line-up, Fabiano Caruana, Levon Aronian, Wesley So, and Leinier Dominguez Perez, each of who have been on the top board […]
India B, the young Darlings of the Chess World created the biggest and most sensational upset of the 44th Chess Olympiad today at the Four Point by Sheraton, routing the top seed and star-studded USA Team with a whopping 3-1 score. This is a wonderful effort by Team B comprising of four dangerous debutants still […]
The India Women A Team victory march was halted with a 2-2 draw against second seed Ukraine, boasting of two former Women World Champions In Mariya Muzychuk and Anna Ushenina. All the four encounters ended in deadlock and India A still continues to be in charge of the sole lead with 15 points while Georgia […]
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India B Gukesh stuns the world with 7/7 IM Michael Rahal, FIDE Press Officer, Chennai The Olympiad is arguably the world’s largest team championship, played at the same time in a single venue. It’s so huge – more than 350 four-player teams – that it typically takes two or more buildings to lodge all the […]
The USA Women’s trounce Argentina The USA today faced an in-form Armenia who have been playing above their level, and the final drawn of a 2-2 drawn match was probably a fair result. Naturally, the main topic of discussion before the match was if Levon Aronian, a national icon who had led Armenia to three […]
Indian Women A notched their seventh successive victory against sixth seed Azerbaijan with a 2.5-1.5 score to maintain their sole lead in the Women’s section of the 44th Chess Olympiad with 14 points and is a clear two points ahead of the second-placed Ukraine and Armenia. Indian eves suffered a few hiccups after Humpy ended […]
India A Open Team hit the accelerator when it mattered, defeating their fellow countrymen Team C with a 3-1 score. Arjun Erigaisi defeated Abhijit Gupta, and S L Narayanan outplayed Abhimanyu Puranik even as Pentala Harikrishna was held to a draw by Surya Shekhar Ganguly, and S P Sethuraman forced Vidit to split the point. India […]
The top seeded Indian women team recorded their 7th streaight win defeating Azerbaijani eves by a 3-1 score in the seventh round of the 44th Chess Olympiad here at the Four Points by Sheraton. It was a day of fluctuating fortunes for the Indian women as ace player Koneru Humpy suffered a rare defeat against […]
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