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class="vector-toc-text"> 8.4 Team flags </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Team_flags-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Other_incidents" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Other_incidents"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.5 Other incidents </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Other_incidents-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9 See also </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 10 Notes </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div 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– Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Olimpíada d'escacs de 2022" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schacholympiade_2022" title="Schacholympiade 2022 – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Schacholympiade 2022" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022._aasta_maleol%C3%BCmpia" title="2022. aasta maleolümpia – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="2022. aasta maleolümpia" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olimpiada_de_ajedrez_de_2022" title="Olimpiada de ajedrez de 2022 – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Olimpiada de ajedrez de 2022" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%87%D9%84_%D9%88_%DA%86%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%87_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%B4%D8%B7%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%AC" title="چهل و چهارمین دوره المپیاد شطرنج – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="چهل و چهارمین دوره المپیاد شطرنج" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympiade_d%27%C3%A9checs_de_2022" title="Olympiade d'échecs de 2022 – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Olympiade d'échecs de 2022" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%87%D5%A1%D5%AD%D5%B4%D5%A1%D5%BF%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%AB%D5%B6_%D6%85%D5%AC%D5%AB%D5%B4%D5%BA%D5%AB%D5%A1%D5%A4%D5%A1_2022" title="Շախմատային օլիմպիադա 2022 – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Շախմատային օլիմպիադա 2022" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Հայերեն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olimpiade_Catur_ke-44" title="Olimpiade Catur ke-44 – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Olimpiade Catur ke-44" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olimpiadi_degli_scacchi_del_2022" title="Olimpiadi degli scacchi del 2022 – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Olimpiadi degli scacchi del 2022" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%90%D7%93%D7%AA_%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%97%D7%9E%D7%98_2022" title="אולימפיאדת השחמט 2022 – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="אולימפיאדת השחמט 2022" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%82_%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%8B_(2022)" title="Шахмат олимпиадасы (2022) – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Шахмат олимпиадасы (2022)" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Қазақша</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/44._%C5%A1aha_olimpi%C4%81de" title="44. šaha olimpiāde – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="44. šaha olimpiāde" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022-es_sakkolimpia" title="2022-es sakkolimpia – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="2022-es sakkolimpia" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mt mw-list-item"><a href="https://mt.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-44_Olimpijadi_ta%C4%8B-%C4%8Aess" title="L-44 Olimpijadi taċ-Ċess – Maltese" lang="mt" hreflang="mt" data-title="L-44 Olimpijadi taċ-Ċess" data-language-autonym="Malti" data-language-local-name="Maltese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Malti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/44e_Schaakolympiade" title="44e Schaakolympiade – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="44e Schaakolympiade" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sjakk-OL_2022" title="Sjakk-OL 2022 – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Sjakk-OL 2022" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/44-shaxmat_Olimpiadasi" title="44-shaxmat Olimpiadasi – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="44-shaxmat Olimpiadasi" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olimpiada_szachowa_2022" title="Olimpiada szachowa 2022 – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Olimpiada szachowa 2022" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B0_2022" title="Шахматная олимпиада 2022 – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Шахматная олимпиада 2022" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sa mw-list-item"><a href="https://sa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A5%AA%E0%A5%AA%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%93%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%8D-%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%99%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE" title="४४तमी ओलिम्पियाड्-चतुरङ्गप्रतियोगिता – Sanskrit" lang="sa" hreflang="sa" data-title="४४तमी ओलिम्पियाड्-चतुरङ्गप्रतियोगिता" data-language-autonym="संस्कृतम्" data-language-local-name="Sanskrit" class="interlanguage-link-target">संस्कृतम्</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakkiolympialaiset_2022" title="Shakkiolympialaiset 2022 – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Shakkiolympialaiset 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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vevent"><caption class="infobox-title summary">44th Chess Olympiad</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a href="/wiki/File:Chess_Olympiad_2022_official_logo.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Geometric circular pattern with "44th FIDE Chess Olympiad Chennai 2022" circling it" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cc/Chess_Olympiad_2022_official_logo.png/220px-Chess_Olympiad_2022_official_logo.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="225" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cc/Chess_Olympiad_2022_official_logo.png 1.5x" data-file-width="312" data-file-height="319" /></a><div class="infobox-caption">Logo of the 44th Chess Olympiad</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Host city</th><td class="infobox-data location"><a href="/wiki/Mahabalipuram" class="mw-redirect" title="Mahabalipuram">Mahabalipuram</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chennai" title="Chennai">Chennai</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">India</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nations</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>186 (Open)</li><li>160 (Women)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Teams</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>188 (Open)</li><li>162 (Women)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Athletes</th><td 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/23px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/35px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/45px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /> <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><img alt="2nd place, silver medalist(s)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Silver_medal_icon.svg/16px-Silver_medal_icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Silver_medal_icon.svg/24px-Silver_medal_icon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Silver_medal_icon.svg/32px-Silver_medal_icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="16" data-file-height="16" /></th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_Georgia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Georgia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_Georgia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Georgia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_Georgia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Georgia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)">Georgia</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><img alt="3rd place, bronze medalist(s)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Bronze_medal_icon.svg/16px-Bronze_medal_icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Bronze_medal_icon.svg/24px-Bronze_medal_icon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Bronze_medal_icon.svg/32px-Bronze_medal_icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="16" data-file-height="16" /></th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Individual (Open)</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Board 1</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/India" title="India"><img alt="India" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Gukesh_D" class="mw-redirect" title="Gukesh D">Gukesh D</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Board 2</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/India" title="India"><img alt="India" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Nihal_Sarin" title="Nihal Sarin">Nihal Sarin</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Board 3</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/England" title="England"><img alt="England" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/23px-Flag_of_England.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/35px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/46px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /></a> <a href="/wiki/David_Howell_(chess_player)" title="David Howell (chess player)">David Howell</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Board 4</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Uzbekistan" title="Uzbekistan"><img alt="Uzbekistan" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg/46px-Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Jahongir_Vakhidov" class="mw-redirect" title="Jahongir Vakhidov">Jahongir Vakhidov</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Reserve</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland"><img alt="Poland" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/46px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="800" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Mateusz_Bartel" title="Mateusz Bartel">Mateusz Bartel</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Individual (Women)</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Board 1</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sweden" title="Sweden"><img alt="Sweden" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Sweden.svg/23px-Flag_of_Sweden.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Sweden.svg/35px-Flag_of_Sweden.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Sweden.svg/46px-Flag_of_Sweden.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1000" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Pia_Cramling" title="Pia Cramling">Pia Cramling</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Board 2</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)"><img alt="Georgia (country)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_Georgia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Georgia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_Georgia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Georgia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_Georgia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Georgia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Nino_Batsiashvili" title="Nino Batsiashvili">Nino Batsiashvili</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Board 3</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland"><img alt="Poland" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/46px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="800" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Oliwia_Kio%C5%82basa" title="Oliwia Kiołbasa">Oliwia Kiołbasa</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Board 4</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mongolia" title="Mongolia"><img alt="Mongolia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Mongolia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Mongolia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Mongolia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Mongolia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Mongolia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Mongolia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Bat-Erdene_Mungunzul" title="Bat-Erdene Mungunzul">Bat-Erdene Mungunzul</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Reserve</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany"><img alt="Germany" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Jana_Schneider_(chess_player)" title="Jana Schneider (chess player)">Jana Schneider</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><a href="/wiki/Nona_Gaprindashvili_Trophy" title="Nona Gaprindashvili Trophy">Gaprindashvili Trophy</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> India</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: solid 1px #aaa;"><div style="width:100%"><div style="float: left; text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;" class="noprint">← <a href="/wiki/43rd_Chess_Olympiad" title="43rd Chess Olympiad">Batumi 2018</a></div><div style="float: right; text-align:right;padding-left:0.5em;" class="noprint"><a href="/wiki/45th_Chess_Olympiad" title="45th Chess Olympiad">Budapest 2024</a> →</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> The 44th Chess Olympiad was an international team chess event organised by the <a href="/wiki/FIDE" title="FIDE">International Chess Federation</a> (FIDE) in <a href="/wiki/Chennai" title="Chennai">Chennai</a>, India, from 28 July to 10 August 2022. It consisted of two main tournaments—an Open event, enabling participation of players from all genders, and a Women's event, enabling participation of female players only—as well as several events to promote <a href="/wiki/Chess" title="Chess">chess</a>. The Olympiad was initially supposed to take place in <a href="/wiki/Khanty-Mansiysk" title="Khanty-Mansiysk">Khanty-Mansiysk</a>, Russia, the host of the <a href="/wiki/Chess_World_Cup_2019" title="Chess World Cup 2019">Chess World Cup 2019</a>, in August 2020, but it was later moved to <a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a>. However, it was postponed due to the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a> and then relocated to Chennai following <a href="/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" title="Russian invasion of Ukraine">Russia's invasion of Ukraine</a>. This was the first <a href="/wiki/Chess_Olympiad" title="Chess Olympiad">Chess Olympiad</a> to take place in India. The total number of participants was 1,737: 937 in the Open and 800 in the Women's event. The number of registered teams was 188 from 186 nations in the Open section and 162 from 160 nations in the Women's section; being the host nation, India had three teams participating in each section. Both sections set team participation records. The main venue of the Chess Olympiad was the convention centre at the <a href="/wiki/Four_Points_by_Sheraton" title="Four Points by Sheraton">Four Points by Sheraton</a>, while the opening and closing ceremonies were held at the <a href="/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru_Stadium_(Chennai)" title="Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium (Chennai)">Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium</a>. The Chief Arbiter of the event was France's Laurent Freyd. A total of 11 rounds were played in both the Open and Women's events, and each featured four players from one team facing four players from another team. Uzbekistan won the gold medal in the Open event, which was their second medal at the Chess Olympiad after having previously won a silver medal at the <a href="/wiki/30th_Chess_Olympiad" title="30th Chess Olympiad">1992</a>, while Ukraine claimed their second gold in the Women's event after having previously won the <a href="/wiki/37th_Chess_Olympiad" title="37th Chess Olympiad">2006</a>. English player <a href="/wiki/David_Howell_(chess_player)" title="David Howell (chess player)">David Howell</a> had the highest performance for an individual player in the Open event with a <a href="/wiki/Elo_rating#Performance_rating" class="mw-redirect" title="Elo rating">performance rating</a> of 2898 (he scored 7½ out of a possible 8 points). Polish player <a href="/wiki/Oliwia_Kio%C5%82basa" title="Oliwia Kiołbasa">Oliwia Kiołbasa</a> had the highest individual performance in the Women's event with a performance rating of 2565 (she scored 9½ of a possible 11 points). The 93rd FIDE Congress also took place during the Olympiad, at which <a href="/wiki/Arkady_Dvorkovich" title="Arkady Dvorkovich">Arkady Dvorkovich</a> was re-elected as FIDE President and former World Champion <a href="/wiki/Viswanathan_Anand" title="Viswanathan Anand">Viswanathan Anand</a> was elected as FIDE Deputy President. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=44th_Chess_Olympiad&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background">edit</a>]</div> The <a href="/wiki/Chess_Olympiad" title="Chess Olympiad">Chess Olympiad</a> is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations compete in an Olympic-style event.<a href="#cite_note-chessable-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-regulations-2">[2]</a> The <a href="/wiki/1st_unofficial_Chess_Olympiad" title="1st unofficial Chess Olympiad">first unofficial edition</a>, labelled as the "Chess Olympic Games", was held in Paris in 1924, and coincided with the <a href="/wiki/1924_Summer_Olympics" title="1924 Summer Olympics">Summer Olympic Games</a> that took place in the city in the same year.<a href="#cite_note-földeák-3">[3]</a> Despite the fact that the event was not officially part of the Olympic Games and the winners were not awarded official <a href="/wiki/Olympic_medal" title="Olympic medal">Olympic medals</a>, the rules of the Olympic Games applied.<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> The organisers of the Summer Olympics defined chess as a sport,<a href="#cite_note-6">[a]</a> but demanded that only amateurs be allowed to participate, which posed a problem because it was difficult to draw a line between amateurs and professionals.<a href="#cite_note-history-7">[6]</a> The <a href="/wiki/1st_Chess_Olympiad" title="1st Chess Olympiad">first official edition</a> of the Chess Olympiad was held in London in 1927.<a href="#cite_note-földeák-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-8">[7]</a> Up until 1950 the tournament was organised at irregular intervals. From then on it has been held once every two years.<a href="#cite_note-9">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-history-7">[6]</a> The <a href="/wiki/1st_Women%27s_Chess_Olympiad" title="1st Women's Chess Olympiad">first Women's Chess Olympiad</a> took place in <a href="/wiki/Emmen,_Netherlands" title="Emmen, Netherlands">Emmen, Netherlands</a> in 1957;<a href="#cite_note-10">[9]</a>since 1976, the Women's tournament has been held simultaneously with an Open tournament<a href="#cite_note-11">[b]</a> at the Chess Olympiads.<a href="#cite_note-12">[10]</a> The former <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> has historically been the most successful nation with 18 gold medals won.<a href="#cite_note-chessable-1">[1]</a> The 44th Chess Olympiad was supposed to take place in 2020. Bidding for the Olympiad and the simultaneous FIDE Congress opened in December 2015; bids could be made in connection with those for the <a href="/wiki/Chess_World_Cup_2019" title="Chess World Cup 2019">Chess World Cup 2019</a>.<a href="#cite_note-13">[11]</a> Each city bid had to be submitted to the <a href="/wiki/FIDE" title="FIDE">Fédération Internationale des Échecs</a> (FIDE) by 31 March 2016, including details of the organising committee, finances, provision of amenities and stipends.<a href="#cite_note-14">[12]</a> The city of <a href="/wiki/Khanty-Mansiysk" title="Khanty-Mansiysk">Khanty-Mansiysk</a> (Russia) submitted the only original bid for the event,<a href="#cite_note-15">[13]</a> although the national federations of Argentina and Slovakia had previously also expressed interest.<a href="#cite_note-16">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-17">[15]</a> The bid was approved at the 87th FIDE Congress in September 2016.<a href="#cite_note-18">[16]</a> In November 2019, in the opening ceremony of the <a href="/wiki/FIDE_Grand_Prix_2019#Hamburg,_November_2019" title="FIDE Grand Prix 2019">FIDE Grand Prix in Hamburg</a>, FIDE President <a href="/wiki/Arkady_Dvorkovich" title="Arkady Dvorkovich">Arkady Dvorkovich</a> announced that the Chess Olympiad would be relocated from Khanty-Mansiysk to <a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a>.<a href="#cite_note-move-19">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-20">[18]</a> The president of the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Chess_Federation" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian Chess Federation">Russian Chess Federation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Andrey_Filatov" title="Andrey Filatov">Andrey Filatov</a>, explained that the decision was driven by technical problems because of the enlarged number of participants due to the inaugural <a href="/w/index.php?title=Chess_Olympiad_for_People_with_Disabilities&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chess Olympiad for People with Disabilities (page does not exist)">Chess Olympiad for People with Disabilities</a>, as well as the growing demands from amateur chess players following the <a href="/wiki/2018_FIFA_World_Cup" title="2018 FIFA World Cup">2018 FIFA World Cup</a> who would like to attend the event.<a href="#cite_note-21">[19]</a> Ultimately, it was decided that Khanty-Mansiysk would host the Chess Olympiad for People with Disabilities from 29 July to 4 August 2020, whereas Moscow was supposed to host the tournaments of the Chess Olympiad from 5 to 17 August 2020.<a href="#cite_note-22">[20]</a><a href="#cite_note-move-19">[17]</a> In February 2022, following the <a href="/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" title="Russian invasion of Ukraine">Russian invasion of Ukraine</a>, FIDE decided to move the Chess Olympiad, FIDE Congress and Chess Olympiad for People with Disabilities away from Russia.<a href="#cite_note-not-23">[21]</a> Shortly after this announcement, the <a href="/wiki/All_India_Chess_Federation" title="All India Chess Federation">All India Chess Federation</a> (AICF) expressed interest in hosting the events, in either <a href="/wiki/Delhi" title="Delhi">Delhi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gujarat" title="Gujarat">Gujarat</a> or <a href="/wiki/Tamil_Nadu" title="Tamil Nadu">Tamil Nadu</a>. Politicians in Tamil Nadu agreed to host the Chess Olympiad and provided around <a href="/wiki/Indian_rupee" title="Indian rupee">₹</a>75 <a href="/wiki/Crore" title="Crore">crore</a> (US$8.7 million).<a href="#cite_note-24">[22]</a> On 15 March 2022, FIDE announced that <a href="/wiki/Chennai" title="Chennai">Chennai</a>, the capital of Tamil Nadu, would be the new host of the event.<a href="#cite_note-25">[23]</a> It meant that the Chess Olympiad would be hosted in <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> for the first time.<a href="#cite_note-26">[24]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Preparations">Preparations</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=44th_Chess_Olympiad&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Preparations">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:44th_Chess_Olympiad_2022_stamp_of_India.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Indian postal stamp" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/44th_Chess_Olympiad_2022_stamp_of_India.jpg/220px-44th_Chess_Olympiad_2022_stamp_of_India.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/44th_Chess_Olympiad_2022_stamp_of_India.jpg/330px-44th_Chess_Olympiad_2022_stamp_of_India.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/44th_Chess_Olympiad_2022_stamp_of_India.jpg/440px-44th_Chess_Olympiad_2022_stamp_of_India.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1364" data-file-height="1020" /></a><figcaption>Indian postal stamp dedicated to the 44th Chess Olympiad</figcaption></figure> The total budget for the Olympiad was ₹92 crore (US$11 million).<a href="#cite_note-27">[25]</a> The event was hosted and managed in India by the AICF.<a href="#cite_note-28">[26]</a><a href="#cite_note-29">[27]</a> Sanjay Kapoor, who later became president of AICF, was the president of the organising committee for the 44th Chess Olympiad, and AICF's secretary, Bharat Singh Chauhan, was the tournament director.<a href="#cite_note-30">[28]</a> The coordinating committee was headed by the <a href="/wiki/Chief_Minister_of_Tamil_Nadu" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu">Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu</a> <a href="/wiki/M._K._Stalin" title="M. K. Stalin">M. K. Stalin</a> and included <a href="/wiki/A._Raja" title="A. Raja">A. Raja</a> (<a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament,_Lok_Sabha" title="Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha">MP</a> from <a href="/wiki/Nilgiris_Lok_Sabha_constituency" title="Nilgiris Lok Sabha constituency">Nilgiris</a>), <a href="/wiki/Udhayanidhi_Stalin" title="Udhayanidhi Stalin">Udhayanidhi Stalin</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tamil_Nadu_Legislative_Assembly" title="Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly">MLA</a> from <a href="/wiki/Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni_Assembly_constituency" title="Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni Assembly constituency">Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni</a>) three representatives of the AICF, the president of the <a href="/wiki/Tamil_Nadu_State_Chess_Association" title="Tamil Nadu State Chess Association">Tamil Nadu State Chess Association</a> and other representatives of the local authorities.<a href="#cite_note-31">[29]</a> France's <a href="/wiki/International_Arbiter" class="mw-redirect" title="International Arbiter">International Arbiter</a> Laurent Freyd was named Chief Arbiter of the Olympiad.<a href="#cite_note-32">[30]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Venue_and_transport">Venue and transport</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=44th_Chess_Olympiad&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Venue and transport">edit</a>]</div> The venue was the convention centre at the <a href="/wiki/Four_Points_by_Sheraton" title="Four Points by Sheraton">Four Points by Sheraton</a> in <a href="/wiki/Mahabalipuram" class="mw-redirect" title="Mahabalipuram">Mahabalipuram</a> near Chennai.<a href="#cite_note-venue-33">[31]</a> This consisted of an existing banquet hall (Hall 1) and a newly constructed hall (Hall 2), which cost ₹5 crore (US$580,000). Hall 1 had a usable area of 22,500 square feet (2,090 m2), while Hall 2 was double the size at 45,000 square feet (4,200 m2). Hall 1 hosted games played between the best-ranking teams in the standings on the top 28 boards in the Open section and the top board in the Women's section, while the rest of the boards were played in Hall 2. Exhibition space was also provided.<a href="#cite_note-preparations-34">[32]</a><a href="#cite_note-express-35">[33]</a> The opening and closing ceremonies were held at the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Nehru_Indoor_Stadium&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nehru Indoor Stadium (page does not exist)">Nehru Indoor Stadium</a>, part of the <a href="/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru_Stadium_(Chennai)" title="Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium (Chennai)">Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium</a> complex.<a href="#cite_note-36">[34]</a> This was built in 1995 at a cost of ₹20 crore (equivalent to ₹119 crore or US$14 million in 2023) and has a capacity of 8,000 spectators.<a href="#cite_note-37">[35]</a> Around 125 buses, 100 <a href="/wiki/SUVs" class="mw-redirect" title="SUVs">SUVs</a> and six luxury cars were used to transport players and dignitaries during the event. The road between <a href="/wiki/Chennai_International_Airport" title="Chennai International Airport">Chennai International Airport</a> and Mahabalipuram was widened and reconstructed to improve traffic flow, and one lane of the highway was reserved for Olympiad traffic during the event.<a href="#cite_note-preparations-34">[32]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Security_and_biosecurity">Security and biosecurity</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=44th_Chess_Olympiad&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Security and biosecurity">edit</a>]</div> The <a href="/wiki/Tamil_Nadu_Police" title="Tamil Nadu Police">Tamil Nadu Police</a> deployed 4,000 police officers to provide security during the Olympiad, on special duty from 25 July to 10 August.<a href="#cite_note-38">[36]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Greater_Chennai_Police" title="Greater Chennai Police">Greater Chennai Police</a> deployed an additional 22,000 police officers during Modi's visit to the city on 28 July. Flying of drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles was banned in the city limits in the period 28–29 July.<a href="#cite_note-express-35">[33]</a> Because the event was held during the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_India" title="COVID-19 pandemic in India">COVID-19 pandemic in India</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Health_and_Family_Welfare_(Tamil_Nadu)" title="Department of Health and Family Welfare (Tamil Nadu)">Tamil Nadu Health Department</a> deployed medical teams and 30 ambulances to perform COVID-19 screening at airports, hotels and venues. Nearly 1,000 doctors and other health personnel were engaged for the Olympiad. Thirteen hospitals in and around <a href="/wiki/Rajiv_Gandhi_Salai" title="Rajiv Gandhi Salai">Old Mahabalipuram Road</a> and <a href="/wiki/East_Coast_Road" title="East Coast Road">East Coast Road</a> were utilised. The <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Tamil_Nadu" title="Government of Tamil Nadu">Government of Tamil Nadu</a> issued health insurance cards to all players, covering medical expenses up to ₹2 <a href="/wiki/Lakh" title="Lakh">lakh</a> (US$2,300) per player.<a href="#cite_note-health-39">[37]</a><a href="#cite_note-40">[38]</a> <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_testing#Reverse_transcription_polymerase_chain_reaction_(RT-PCR)_test" title="COVID-19 testing">COVID-19 PCR testing</a> was performed on a randomly selected two per cent of all arriving flight passengers at the airport, including players, coaches, support staff and visitors. All passengers had to present a <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_vaccine_card" title="COVID-19 vaccine card">vaccine passport</a> certifying they had received two doses of a <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_vaccine" title="COVID-19 vaccine">COVID-19 vaccine</a>, or a certificate of a negative PCR test taken within 72 hours before arrival. Thermal screening was applied to all players on a daily basis and symptomatic cases were isolated, tested and treated.<a href="#cite_note-health-39">[37]</a> Due to the <a href="/wiki/2022_monkeypox_outbreak" class="mw-redirect" title="2022 monkeypox outbreak">2022 monkeypox outbreak</a>, players from outside India were required to also be tested for <a href="/wiki/Monkeypox" class="mw-redirect" title="Monkeypox">monkeypox</a>.<a href="#cite_note-testing-41">[39]</a> Food safety officials inspected food served every day in all hotels accommodating players. Due to the elevated risk of <a href="/wiki/Malaria" title="Malaria">malaria</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dengue_fever" title="Dengue fever">dengue fever</a>, continuous fogging and spraying measures were deployed to prevent mosquito breeding. Additional hygiene training and inspection was arranged.<a href="#cite_note-42">[40]</a> Around 100 staff from other districts were used to monitor food safety measures in all hotels.<a href="#cite_note-health-39">[37]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ticketing">Ticketing</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=44th_Chess_Olympiad&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Ticketing">edit</a>]</div> The price of a full-day ticket for Hall 1 was ₹3,000 (US$35) for domestic visitors and ₹8,000 (US$92) for foreigners, while students under 19 years of age, women and Tamil Nadu government staff could get a two-hour ticket at discounted price of ₹300 (US$3.50). A full-day ticket for Hall 2 was ₹2,000 (US$23) for domestic visitors and ₹6,000 (US$69) for foreigners, while the concession categories received a two-hour ticket for ₹200 (US$2.30).<a href="#cite_note-43">[41]</a> The high pricing raised concerns that people would not be able to pay the amount to attend the event. An official of the AICF explained that the pricing had resulted mainly from the fact that the event was held at a hotel with limited capacity of spectators compared to stadiums, while an official of the Tamil Nadu State Chess Association stated that all tickets for the event had been entirely sold.<a href="#cite_note-44">[42]</a> To prevent <a href="/wiki/Cheating_in_chess#Technology" title="Cheating in chess">cheating using chess engines</a>, players had to leave their mobile phones and any other electronic devices outside the playing halls.<a href="#cite_note-express-35">[33]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_event">The event</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=44th_Chess_Olympiad&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: The event">edit</a>]</div> A torch relay was held prior to the event, the first for a Chess Olympiad. It started on 19 July at the <a href="/wiki/Indira_Gandhi_Arena" title="Indira Gandhi Arena">Indira Gandhi Arena</a> in New Delhi, where FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich handed the torch to the Indian Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Narendra_Modi" title="Narendra Modi">Narendra Modi</a>, who passed it to former World Chess Champion <a href="/wiki/Viswanathan_Anand" title="Viswanathan Anand">Viswanathan Anand</a>. The torch was then taken to 75 cities in 40 days, finishing in Chennai where it passed through <a href="/wiki/Shore_Temple" title="Shore Temple">Shore Temple</a>. Related events involved the Indian sport <a href="/wiki/Mallakhamba" title="Mallakhamba">mallakhamba</a>. The torch arrived at the venue in Mahabalipuram on the morning of 27 July, the day before the event.<a href="#cite_note-45">[43]</a><a href="#cite_note-46">[44]</a><a href="#cite_note-47">[45]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Opening_ceremony">Opening ceremony</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=44th_Chess_Olympiad&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Opening ceremony">edit</a>]</div> The opening ceremony was held on 28 July at 16:00 <a href="/wiki/Indian_Standard_Time" title="Indian Standard Time">IST</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B05:30" title="UTC+05:30">UTC+5:30</a>) at the Nehru Indoor Stadium with an audience of more than 20,000 players, coaches and spectators.<a href="#cite_note-fide-opening-48">[46]</a><a href="#cite_note-hindu-opening-49">[47]</a> The opening address was given by Tamil Nadu Minister for Youth Welfare and Sport Development <a href="/wiki/Meyyanathan_Siva_V" title="Meyyanathan Siva V">Meyyanathan Siva V</a>.<a href="#cite_note-hindu-opening-49">[47]</a> A musical show, directed by <a href="/wiki/Vignesh_Shivan" title="Vignesh Shivan">Vignesh Shivan</a>, was performed in which <a href="/wiki/Kamal_Haasan" title="Kamal Haasan">Kamal Haasan</a> narrated the <a href="/wiki/History_of_Tamil_Nadu" title="History of Tamil Nadu">history of Tamil Nadu</a>.<a href="#cite_note-tie-opening-50">[48]</a> Singers <a href="/wiki/Dhee_(singer)" title="Dhee (singer)">Dhee</a> and Kidakuzhi Mariyammal performed the song "<a href="/wiki/Enjoy_Enjaami" title="Enjoy Enjaami">Enjoy Enjaami</a>".<a href="#cite_note-hindu-opening-49">[47]</a> A dance song, "Vanakkam Chennai, Vanakkam Chess", was also played.<a href="#cite_note-tie-opening-50">[48]</a> Pianist <a href="/wiki/Lydian_Nadhaswaram" title="Lydian Nadhaswaram">Lydian Nadhaswaram</a> played classical and modern tunes, including a blindfold exhibition. There was also a <a href="/wiki/Parade_of_nations" class="mw-redirect" title="Parade of nations">flag parade</a> that introduced the participating countries and their delegations.<a href="#cite_note-fide-opening-48">[46]</a> The event was formally opened by Modi. In his speech, he discussed chess venues in Tamil Nadu and the <a href="/wiki/Chathuranga_Vallabhanathar_Temple" title="Chathuranga Vallabhanathar Temple">Chathuranga Vallabhanathar Temple</a> in <a href="/wiki/Thiruvarur" title="Thiruvarur">Thiruvarur</a>, where myth states God played chess with a princess. Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu <a href="/wiki/M._K._Stalin" title="M. K. Stalin">M. K. Stalin</a> also spoke, praising the organisation of the event in less than four months. He noted that the Olympiad would be held near the coastal town <a href="/wiki/Sadras" title="Sadras">Sadurangapattinam</a>, thought to be the home of <a href="/wiki/Chaturanga" title="Chaturanga">chaturanga</a>, a <a href="/wiki/History_of_chess#India" title="History of chess">predecessor game to chess</a>. FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich also welcomed participants.<a href="#cite_note-tie-opening-50">[48]</a><a href="#cite_note-fide-opening-48">[46]</a> Anand passed the Olympic LED illuminated torch to Modi, who passed it to Indian chess players <a href="/wiki/R_Praggnanandhaa" title="R Praggnanandhaa">R Praggnanandhaa</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gukesh_D" class="mw-redirect" title="Gukesh D">Gukesh D</a> who "lit" the virtual <a href="/wiki/Olympic_cauldron" class="mw-redirect" title="Olympic cauldron">Olympic cauldron</a>.<a href="#cite_note-fide-opening-48">[46]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Participating_teams">Participating teams</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=44th_Chess_Olympiad&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Participating teams">edit</a>]</div> The event was contested by a total of 350 teams, representing 190 national federations, both records for a Chess Olympiad.<a href="#cite_note-51">[49]</a> India, as host country, was permitted to field three teams in each of the two sections.<a href="#cite_note-teams-open-52">[50]</a> The Women's tournament featured 162 teams, also a record, representing 160 federations.<a href="#cite_note-record-53">[51]</a><a href="#cite_note-teams-women-54">[52]</a> Russia and <a href="/wiki/Belarus" title="Belarus">Belarus</a> were banned from taking part by FIDE as a result of the ongoing <a href="/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" title="Russian invasion of Ukraine">Russian invasion of Ukraine</a>. China declined to send a team.<a href="#cite_note-55">[53]</a> Pakistan boycotted the event and a team from <a href="/wiki/Rwanda" title="Rwanda">Rwanda</a> were prevented from attending by their own government.<a href="#cite_note-pakistan-boycott-56">[54]</a><a href="#cite_note-rwanda-57">[55]</a> A team representing the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands_Antilles" title="Netherlands Antilles">Netherlands Antilles</a> was permitted to compete, despite having <a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles" title="Dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles">dissolved itself in 2010</a>, because the Curaçao Chess Federation remains officially registered as representing the dissolved country in the FIDE Directory.<a href="#cite_note-58">[56]</a> <table class="wikitable collapsible" style="width:100%;"> <tbody><tr> <th>Participating teams in the 44th Chess Olympiad </th></tr> <tr> <td><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output 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href="#ref_B">^b</a> Countries in bold denote those fielding teams in the Women's event only.</dd> <dd><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><a href="#ref_C">^c</a> Countries in <s>strikethrough</s> registered for the event but withdrew or could not participate before it began.</dd> <dd><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><a href="#ref_D">^d</a> FIDE officially recognises <a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Afghanistan#Islamic_Republic_tricolor" title="Flag of Afghanistan">the flag</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Republic_of_Afghanistan" title="Islamic Republic of Afghanistan">Islamic Republic of Afghanistan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-afghanistan-flag-59">[57]</a></dd></dl> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Competition_format_and_calendar">Competition format and calendar</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=44th_Chess_Olympiad&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Competition format and calendar">edit</a>]</div> The tournament was played in a <a href="/wiki/Swiss-system_tournament" title="Swiss-system tournament">Swiss system format</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Time_control" title="Time control">time control</a> for all games was 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, after which an additional 30 minutes were granted; an increment of 30 seconds per move was applied from the first move. Players were permitted to <a href="/wiki/Draw_by_agreement" title="Draw by agreement">offer a draw</a> at any time. A total of 11 rounds were played, and all teams were paired in every round.<a href="#cite_note-FIDE-rules-60">[58]</a> In each round, four players from each team faced four players from another team; teams were permitted one reserve player who could be substituted between rounds. The four games were played simultaneously on four boards with alternating colours, <a href="/wiki/Chess_scoring" title="Chess scoring">scoring</a> 1 game point for a win and ½ game point for a draw. The scores from each game were summed together to determine which team won the round. Winning a round was worth two match points, regardless of the game point margin, while drawing a round was worth one match point. Teams were ranked in a table based on match points. <a href="/wiki/Tiebreakers" class="mw-redirect" title="Tiebreakers">Tie-breakers</a> for the table were i) the <a href="/wiki/Sonneborn%E2%80%93Berger" class="mw-redirect" title="Sonneborn–Berger">Sonneborn–Berger</a> system; ii) total game points scored; iii) the sum of the match points of the opponents, excluding the lowest one.<a href="#cite_note-FIDE-rules-60">[58]</a> The event took place from 28 July to 10 August 2022.<a href="#cite_note-61">[59]</a> Tournament rounds started on 29 July and ended with the final round on 9 August. All rounds began at 15:00 IST (UTC+5:30), except for the final round which began at 10:00 IST (UTC+5:30). There was one rest day on 4 August, after the sixth round.<a href="#cite_note-schedule-62">[60]</a> <dl><dd>All times are <a href="/wiki/Indian_Standard_Time" title="Indian Standard Time">IST</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B05:30" title="UTC+05:30">UTC+5:30</a>)</dd></dl> <div style="text-align:center;"> <table class="wikitable" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:90%;position:relative;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width:2.5em; background:#0c3; text-align:center;">OC</td> <td>Opening ceremony </td> <td style="width:2.5em; background:khaki; text-align:center;">A</td> <td>Arbiters meeting </td> <td style="width:2.5em; background:khaki; text-align:center;">C</td> <td>Captains meeting </td> <td style="width:2.5em; background:#7CB9E8; text-align:center">1</td> <td>Round </td> <td style="width:2.5em; background:#E7FEFF; text-align:center">RD</td> <td>Rest day </td> <td style="width:2.5em; background:#e33; text-align:center;">CC</td> <td>Closing ceremony </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable" style="margin:0.9em auto; font-size:90%; line-height:1.25em;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2">July/August </th> <th style="width:2.5em">28th Thu </th> <th style="width:2.5em">29th Fri </th> <th style="width:2.5em">30th Sat </th> <th style="width:2.5em">31st Sun </th> <th style="width:2.5em">1st Mon </th> <th style="width:2.5em">2nd Tue </th> <th style="width:2.5em">3rd Wed </th> <th style="width:2.5em">4th Thu </th> <th style="width:2.5em">5th Fri </th> <th style="width:2.5em">6th Sat </th> <th style="width:2.5em">7th Sun </th> <th style="width:2.5em">8th Mon </th> <th style="width:2.5em">9th Tue </th></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:left;">Ceremonies</td> <td style="background:#0c3; text-align:center;">OC</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td style="background:#e33; text-align:center;">CC </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;">Meetings</td> <td style="background:khaki; text-align:center;">A</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td></td> <td style="background:khaki; text-align:center;">C</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:left;">Tournament round </td> <td> </td> <td style="background:#7CB9E8;">1 </td> <td style="background:#7CB9E8;">2 </td> <td style="background:#7CB9E8;">3 </td> <td style="background:#7CB9E8;">4 </td> <td style="background:#7CB9E8;">5 </td> <td style="background:#7CB9E8;">6 </td> <td style="background:#E7FEFF;">RD </td> <td style="background:#7CB9E8;">7 </td> <td style="background:#7CB9E8;">8 </td> <td style="background:#7CB9E8;">9 </td> <td style="background:#7CB9E8;">10 </td> <td style="background:#7CB9E8;">11 </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Open_event">Open event</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=44th_Chess_Olympiad&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Open event">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Open_event_at_the_44th_Chess_Olympiad" title="Open event at the 44th Chess Olympiad">Open event at the 44th Chess Olympiad</a></div> The Open tournament<a href="#cite_note-64">[c]</a><a href="#cite_note-65">[62]</a> was contested by a total of 937 players from 188 teams.<a href="#cite_note-66">[63]</a> It featured five out of the top ten players from the <a href="/wiki/FIDE_rankings" title="FIDE rankings">FIDE rating list</a> published in July 2022. World Champion <a href="/wiki/Magnus_Carlsen" title="Magnus Carlsen">Magnus Carlsen</a> played for Norway.<a href="#cite_note-67">[64]</a> Former World Champion Viswanathan Anand decided not to play for India, acting as team mentor instead.<a href="#cite_note-68">[65]</a> <a href="/wiki/Ian_Nepomniachtchi" title="Ian Nepomniachtchi">Ian Nepomniachtchi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ding_Liren" title="Ding Liren">Ding Liren</a>, who contested the <a href="/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_2023" title="World Chess Championship 2023">World Chess Championship 2023</a>, both missed the tournament due to Russia's suspension and China's withdrawal, respectively.<a href="#cite_note-suspension-69">[66]</a><a href="#cite_note-70">[67]</a> Other top players who skipped the Olympiad include France's <a href="/wiki/Alireza_Firouzja" title="Alireza Firouzja">Alireza Firouzja</a> and <a href="/wiki/Maxime_Vachier-Lagrave" title="Maxime Vachier-Lagrave">Maxime Vachier-Lagrave</a>, with the latter citing the unfavourable weather conditions;<a href="#cite_note-71">[68]</a> <a href="/wiki/Teimour_Radjabov" title="Teimour Radjabov">Teimour Radjabov</a> withdrew from playing for Azerbaijan shortly before the start of the tournament, due to suffering after-effects of a <a href="/wiki/COVID-19" title="COVID-19">COVID-19</a> infection that he contracted following the <a href="/wiki/Candidates_Tournament_2022" title="Candidates Tournament 2022">Candidates Tournament 2022</a>.<a href="#cite_note-radjabov-72">[69]</a> <a href="/wiki/L%C3%AA_Quang_Li%C3%AAm" title="Lê Quang Liêm">Lê Quang Liêm</a> also did not play, because Vietnam only entered the Women's event.<a href="#cite_note-73">[70]</a> <a href="/wiki/Rich%C3%A1rd_Rapport" title="Richárd Rapport">Richárd Rapport</a> could not compete, as he was in the process of switching federation from Hungary to Romania.<a href="#cite_note-comment-74">[71]</a> <a href="/wiki/Fabiano_Caruana" title="Fabiano Caruana">Fabiano Caruana</a>, <a href="/wiki/Levon_Aronian" title="Levon Aronian">Levon Aronian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wesley_So" title="Wesley So">Wesley So</a>, all top ten in the FIDE rankings, played for the United States.<a href="#cite_note-chess24-seeds-75">[72]</a> In the absence of Russia and China, the United States were regarded as favourites due to their average rating of 2771, higher than any other team.<a href="#cite_note-chessbase-seeds-76">[73]</a> Anand described the team as "breathtaking", and Dutch player on board one <a href="/wiki/Anish_Giri" title="Anish Giri">Anish Giri</a> said that the US team "not dominating the Olympiad would be a shocker".<a href="#cite_note-chess24-seeds-75">[72]</a><a href="#cite_note-77">[74]</a> The host nation India had the second strongest team with an average pre-tournament rating of 2696,<a href="#cite_note-78">[75]</a><a href="#cite_note-chess24-seeds-75">[72]</a> while Norway had the third highest average rating of 2692.<a href="#cite_note-chessbase-seeds2-79">[76]</a><a href="#cite_note-80">[77]</a> Other pre-tournament favourites included Spain and Poland.<a href="#cite_note-chessbase-seeds2-79">[76]</a><a href="#cite_note-81">[78]</a><a href="#cite_note-82">[79]</a> The young squads of Germany, Uzbekistan and India's second team were also expected to be competitive.<a href="#cite_note-chessbase-seeds2-79">[76]</a><a href="#cite_note-chessbase-seeds-76">[73]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Open_summary">Open summary</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=44th_Chess_Olympiad&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Open summary">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:David_Howell_2013.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="David Howell" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/David_Howell_2013.jpg/170px-David_Howell_2013.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/David_Howell_2013.jpg/255px-David_Howell_2013.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/David_Howell_2013.jpg/340px-David_Howell_2013.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/David_Howell_(chess_player)" title="David Howell (chess player)">David Howell</a> of England was the best individual player in the Open event.</figcaption></figure> Uzbekistan won the gold medal in the open event, with a total of 19 match points. Their eight wins and three draws made them the only undefeated team in the tournament.<a href="#cite_note-final-open-83">[80]</a> Following the tie with the United States in the fourth round,<a href="#cite_note-84">[81]</a> the Uzbek team was lagging a point behind Armenia until their head-to-head victory in the ninth round, which put them on top of the table, and the draw against the second team of India in the tenth round, which was enough to retain the lead.<a href="#cite_note-85">[82]</a><a href="#cite_note-chess24-r10-86">[83]</a> Armenia defied expectations to win the silver medal with equal number of match points as the winning Uzbek team but worse tie-breaker largely because of their head-to-head loss.<a href="#cite_note-fide-final-87">[84]</a> The second Indian team won the bronze medal following a strong performance by 16-year-old Gukesh D, who won eight consecutive games in the first eight rounds.<a href="#cite_note-fide-final-87">[84]</a><a href="#cite_note-chessbase-final-88">[85]</a> Three teams scored 17 match points (seven wins, three draws and one loss each): the first Indian team came fourth, the United States fifth, and Moldova sixth.<a href="#cite_note-final-open-83">[80]</a> The heavily favoured US team failed to win a medal due to lacklustre performances from Caruana, who suffered three losses, and Aronian, who won only one game in the tournament.<a href="#cite_note-fide-final-87">[84]</a> The highest scoring individual player in the Open event was <a href="/wiki/David_Howell_(chess_player)" title="David Howell (chess player)">David Howell</a>, playing for England on board three, who scored 7½ out of a possible 8 points (seven wins and one draw) with a performance rating of 2898.<a href="#cite_note-best-player-open-89">[86]</a><a href="#cite_note-best-england-90">[87]</a> Individual gold medals were also awarded to Gukesh D of India-2 who scored 9/11 with a performance rating of 2867 on board one, <a href="/wiki/Nihal_Sarin" title="Nihal Sarin">Nihal Sarin</a> also of India-2 who scored 7½/10 with a performance rating of 2774 on board two, <a href="/wiki/Jahongir_Vakhidov" class="mw-redirect" title="Jahongir Vakhidov">Jahongir Vakhidov</a> of Uzbekistan who scored 6½/8 with a performance rating of 2813 on board four, and <a href="/wiki/Mateusz_Bartel" title="Mateusz Bartel">Mateusz Bartel</a> of Poland who played the tournament as a reserve player and scored 8½/10 points with a performance rating of 2778.<a href="#cite_note-best-open-91">[88]</a> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Final standings<a href="#cite_note-92">[89]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>#</th> <th>Country</th> <th>Players</th> <th>Average rating</th> <th><abbr title="match points">MP</abbr></th> <th><abbr title="Sonneborn-Berger score excluding worst result">dSB</abbr><a href="#endnote_†">†</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td><img alt="1st place, gold medalist(s)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Gold_medal_icon.svg/16px-Gold_medal_icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Gold_medal_icon.svg/24px-Gold_medal_icon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Gold_medal_icon.svg/32px-Gold_medal_icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="16" data-file-height="16" /></td> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg/46px-Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /> Uzbekistan</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nodirbek_Abdusattorov" title="Nodirbek Abdusattorov">Abdusattorov</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nodirbek_Yakubboev" title="Nodirbek Yakubboev">Yakubboev</a>, <a href="/wiki/Javokhir_Sindarov" title="Javokhir Sindarov">Sindarov</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jahongir_Vakhidov" class="mw-redirect" title="Jahongir Vakhidov">Vakhidov</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shamsiddin_Vokhidov" title="Shamsiddin Vokhidov">Vokhidov</a></td> <td>2625</td> <td>19</td> <td>435.0 </td></tr> <tr> <td><img alt="2nd place, silver medalist(s)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Silver_medal_icon.svg/16px-Silver_medal_icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Silver_medal_icon.svg/24px-Silver_medal_icon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Silver_medal_icon.svg/32px-Silver_medal_icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="16" data-file-height="16" /></td> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Flag_of_Armenia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Armenia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Flag_of_Armenia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Armenia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Flag_of_Armenia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Armenia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /> Armenia</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Sargissian" title="Gabriel Sargissian">Sargissian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hrant_Melkumyan" title="Hrant Melkumyan">Melkumyan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Samvel_Ter-Sahakyan" title="Samvel Ter-Sahakyan">Ter-Sahakyan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Manuel_Petrosyan" title="Manuel Petrosyan">Petrosyan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Robert_Hovhannisyan" title="Robert Hovhannisyan">Hovhannisyan</a></td> <td>2642</td> <td>19</td> <td>382.5 </td></tr> <tr> <td><img alt="3rd place, bronze medalist(s)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Bronze_medal_icon.svg/16px-Bronze_medal_icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Bronze_medal_icon.svg/24px-Bronze_medal_icon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Bronze_medal_icon.svg/32px-Bronze_medal_icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="16" data-file-height="16" /></td> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> India-2</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gukesh_D" class="mw-redirect" title="Gukesh D">Gukesh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nihal_Sarin" title="Nihal Sarin">Nihal</a>, <a href="/wiki/R_Praggnanandhaa" title="R Praggnanandhaa">Praggnanandhaa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Adhiban_Baskaran" title="Adhiban Baskaran">Adhiban</a>, <a href="/wiki/Raunak_Sadhwani" title="Raunak Sadhwani">Raunak</a></td> <td>2649</td> <td>18</td> <td style="background: #EEE; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-cast">Does not appear </td></tr> <tr> <td>4</td> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> India</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pentala_Harikrishna" title="Pentala Harikrishna">Harikrishna</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vidit_Gujrathi" title="Vidit Gujrathi">Vidit</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arjun_Erigaisi" title="Arjun Erigaisi">Arjun</a>, <a href="/wiki/S._L._Narayanan" title="S. L. Narayanan">Narayanan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Krishnan_Sasikiran" title="Krishnan Sasikiran">Sasikiran</a></td> <td>2696</td> <td>17</td> <td>409.0 </td></tr> <tr> <td>5</td> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /> United States</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fabiano_Caruana" title="Fabiano Caruana">Caruana</a>, <a href="/wiki/Levon_Aronian" title="Levon Aronian">Aronian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wesley_So" title="Wesley So">So</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leinier_Dom%C3%ADnguez" title="Leinier Domínguez">Domínguez</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sam_Shankland" title="Sam Shankland">Shankland</a></td> <td>2771</td> <td>17</td> <td>352.0 </td></tr> <tr> <td>6</td> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_Moldova.svg/23px-Flag_of_Moldova.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_Moldova.svg/35px-Flag_of_Moldova.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_Moldova.svg/46px-Flag_of_Moldova.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="900" /> Moldova</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ivan_Schitco" title="Ivan Schitco">Schitco</a>, <a href="/wiki/Andrei_Macovei" title="Andrei Macovei">Macovei</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Hami%C8%9Bevici" title="Vladimir Hamițevici">Hamițevici</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iulian_Baltag" title="Iulian Baltag">Baltag</a>, <a href="/wiki/Drago%C8%99_Cere%C8%99" title="Dragoș Cereș">Cereș</a></td> <td>2462</td> <td>17</td> <td>316.5 </td></tr> <tr> <td>7</td> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg/46px-Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /> Azerbaijan</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shakhriyar_Mamedyarov" title="Shakhriyar Mamedyarov">Mamedyarov</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rauf_Mamedov" title="Rauf Mamedov">Mamedov</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gadir_Guseinov" title="Gadir Guseinov">Guseinov</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vasif_Durarbayli" title="Vasif Durarbayli">Durarbayli</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nijat_Abasov" title="Nijat Abasov">Abasov</a></td> <td>2680</td> <td>16</td> <td>351.5 </td></tr> <tr> <td>8</td> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Flag_of_Hungary.svg/23px-Flag_of_Hungary.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Flag_of_Hungary.svg/35px-Flag_of_Hungary.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Flag_of_Hungary.svg/46px-Flag_of_Hungary.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /> Hungary</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Viktor_Erd%C5%91s" title="Viktor Erdős">Erdős</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ferenc_Berkes" title="Ferenc Berkes">Berkes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tam%C3%A1s_B%C3%A1nusz" title="Tamás Bánusz">Bánusz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gergely_K%C3%A1ntor" title="Gergely Kántor">Kántor</a>, <a href="/wiki/P%C3%A9ter_%C3%81cs" title="Péter Ács">Ács</a></td> <td>2607</td> <td>16</td> <td>341.5 </td></tr> <tr> <td>9</td> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/46px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="800" /> Poland</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jan-Krzysztof_Duda" title="Jan-Krzysztof Duda">Duda</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rados%C5%82aw_Wojtaszek" title="Radosław Wojtaszek">Wojtaszek</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kacper_Piorun" title="Kacper Piorun">Piorun</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wojciech_Moranda" title="Wojciech Moranda">Moranda</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mateusz_Bartel" title="Mateusz Bartel">Bartel</a></td> <td>2683</td> <td>16</td> <td>322.5 </td></tr> <tr> <td>10</td> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Lithuania.svg/23px-Flag_of_Lithuania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Lithuania.svg/35px-Flag_of_Lithuania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Lithuania.svg/46px-Flag_of_Lithuania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /> Lithuania</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tomas_Lauru%C5%A1as" title="Tomas Laurušas">Laurušas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Titas_Stremavi%C4%8Dius" title="Titas Stremavičius">Stremavičius</a>, <a href="/wiki/Karolis_Juk%C5%A1ta" title="Karolis Jukšta">Jukšta</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paulius_Pultinevi%C4%8Dius" title="Paulius Pultinevičius">Pultinevičius</a>, <a href="/wiki/Valery_Kazakouski" title="Valery Kazakouski">Kazakouski</a></td> <td>2540</td> <td>16</td> <td>297.0 </td></tr></tbody></table> <dl><dt>Notes</dt></dl> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239549316"><div class="refbegin" style=""> <ul><li>Average ratings calculated by chess-results.com based in July 2022 FIDE ratings.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><a href="#ref_†">^†</a> The <a href="/wiki/Sonneborn-Berger_score" class="mw-redirect" title="Sonneborn-Berger score">Sonneborn-Berger score</a> is a tie-breaking criterion used to rank teams with equal match points.</li></ul> </div> All board medals were given out according to <a href="/wiki/Performance_rating_(chess)" title="Performance rating (chess)">performance ratings</a> for players who played at least eight games at the tournament. David Howell on the third board had the best performance of all players in the tournament with a rating of 2898.<a href="#cite_note-93">[90]</a> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders" border="1" style="font-size: 100%"> <tbody><tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="col" colspan="1" style="width: 120px;">Board </th> <th scope="col" colspan="1" style="width: 200px; color: #333; background: #FFD700;">Gold </th> <th scope="col" colspan="1" style="width: 200px; color: #333; background: #CCCCCC;">Silver </th> <th scope="col" colspan="1" style="width: 200px; color: #333; background: #CC9966;">Bronze </th></tr> <tr> <td>Board 1 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gukesh_D" class="mw-redirect" title="Gukesh D">Gukesh D</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> India-2 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nodirbek_Abdusattorov" title="Nodirbek Abdusattorov">Nodirbek Abdusattorov</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg/46px-Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /> Uzbekistan </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Magnus_Carlsen" title="Magnus Carlsen">Magnus Carlsen</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/21px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/32px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/41px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="372" /> Norway </td></tr> <tr> <td>Board 2 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nihal_Sarin" title="Nihal Sarin">Nihal Sarin</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> India-2 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nikolas_Theodorou" title="Nikolas Theodorou">Nikolas Theodorou</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Greece.svg/23px-Flag_of_Greece.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Greece.svg/35px-Flag_of_Greece.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Greece.svg/45px-Flag_of_Greece.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /> Greece </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nodirbek_Yakubboev" title="Nodirbek Yakubboev">Nodirbek Yakubboev</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg/46px-Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /> Uzbekistan </td></tr> <tr> <td>Board 3 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/David_Howell_(chess_player)" title="David Howell (chess player)">David Howell</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/23px-Flag_of_England.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/35px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/46px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /> England </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Arjun_Erigaisi" title="Arjun Erigaisi">Arjun Erigaisi</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> India </td> <td><a href="/wiki/R_Praggnanandhaa" title="R Praggnanandhaa">R Praggnanandhaa</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> India-2 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Board 4 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jahongir_Vakhidov" class="mw-redirect" title="Jahongir Vakhidov">Jahongir Vakhidov</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg/46px-Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /> Uzbekistan </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Paulius_Pultinevi%C4%8Dius" title="Paulius Pultinevičius">Paulius Pultinevičius</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Lithuania.svg/23px-Flag_of_Lithuania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Lithuania.svg/35px-Flag_of_Lithuania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Lithuania.svg/46px-Flag_of_Lithuania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /> Lithuania </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jaime_Santos_Latasa" title="Jaime Santos Latasa">Jaime Santos Latasa</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/35px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/45px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /> Spain </td></tr> <tr> <td>Reserve </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mateusz_Bartel" title="Mateusz Bartel">Mateusz Bartel</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/46px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="800" /> Poland </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Robert_Hovhannisyan" title="Robert Hovhannisyan">Robert Hovhannisyan</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Flag_of_Armenia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Armenia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Flag_of_Armenia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Armenia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Flag_of_Armenia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Armenia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /> Armenia </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Volodymyr_Onyshchuk" title="Volodymyr Onyshchuk">Volodymyr Onyshchuk</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/23px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/35px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/45px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /> Ukraine </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Women's_event">Women's event</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=44th_Chess_Olympiad&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Women's event">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_event_at_the_44th_Chess_Olympiad" title="Women's event at the 44th Chess Olympiad">Women's event at the 44th Chess Olympiad</a></div> The Women's tournament was contested by a total of 800 players representing 162 teams.<a href="#cite_note-94">[91]</a> It featured three of the ten top players according to the FIDE rating list published in July 2022: sisters <a href="/wiki/Mariya_Muzychuk" title="Mariya Muzychuk">Mariya Muzychuk</a> and <a href="/wiki/Anna_Muzychuk" title="Anna Muzychuk">Anna Muzychuk</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Nana_Dzagnidze" title="Nana Dzagnidze">Nana Dzagnidze</a>.<a href="#cite_note-95">[92]</a> Since China withdrew and Russia was suspended, the other six players of the top ten were missing: <a href="/wiki/Hou_Yifan" title="Hou Yifan">Hou Yifan</a>, highest rated woman player in the world; <a href="/wiki/Ju_Wenjun" title="Ju Wenjun">Ju Wenjun</a>, current Women's World Champion and <a href="/wiki/Tan_Zhongyi" title="Tan Zhongyi">Tan Zhongyi</a> from China, and <a href="/wiki/Alexandra_Kosteniuk" title="Alexandra Kosteniuk">Alexandra Kosteniuk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aleksandra_Goryachkina" title="Aleksandra Goryachkina">Aleksandra Goryachkina</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kateryna_Lagno" title="Kateryna Lagno">Kateryna Lagno</a> from Russia.<a href="#cite_note-96">[93]</a> The absence of Russia and China, which had together won the gold medal at nine of the eleven previous Olympiads, made India the first seed, with an average rating of 2486.<a href="#cite_note-teams-women-54">[52]</a> Ukraine, with former Women's World Champion <a href="/wiki/Anna_Ushenina" title="Anna Ushenina">Anna Ushenina</a>, were the second highest rated team averaging 2478,<a href="#cite_note-97">[94]</a> while Georgia were seeded third with 2475.<a href="#cite_note-98">[95]</a> Other medal contenders were expected to be Poland, France, Azerbaijan, the United States and Germany.<a href="#cite_note-chess24-seeds-75">[72]</a><a href="#cite_note-chessbase-seeds2-79">[76]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Women's_summary">Women's summary</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=44th_Chess_Olympiad&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Women's summary">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:2021-Oliwia-Kiolbasa.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Oliwia Kiołbasa" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/2021-Oliwia-Kiolbasa.JPG/170px-2021-Oliwia-Kiolbasa.JPG" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/2021-Oliwia-Kiolbasa.JPG/255px-2021-Oliwia-Kiolbasa.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/2021-Oliwia-Kiolbasa.JPG/340px-2021-Oliwia-Kiolbasa.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3163" data-file-height="4224" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Oliwia_Kio%C5%82basa" title="Oliwia Kiołbasa">Oliwia Kiołbasa</a> of Poland was the best individual player in the Women's event.</figcaption></figure> Ukraine won the gold medal with 18 match points from seven wins and four draws, making them the only unbeaten team. It was their second title, having previously won in <a href="/wiki/37th_Chess_Olympiad" title="37th Chess Olympiad">2006</a>.<a href="#cite_note-final-women-99">[96]</a> The Ukrainians opened the tournament with a perfect score after four rounds before two consecutive draws against Azerbaijan and Romania in the fifth and sixth rounds set them back with a two-point deficit.<a href="#cite_note-100">[97]</a><a href="#cite_note-101">[98]</a><a href="#cite_note-102">[99]</a> However, following India's loss to Poland in the ninth round,<a href="#cite_note-FIDE-103">[100]</a> they narrowed the gap to one point before the final round in which they beat Poland and benefited from India's loss against the United States to finish on top.<a href="#cite_note-104">[101]</a> Silver medallists Georgia also finished with 18 match points but had a worse tie-breaker. The bronze medal went to the first Indian team, who were leading the tournament by two points after seven rounds, before losing to Poland in the ninth round and the United States in the eleventh round, finishing on 17 match points.<a href="#cite_note-FIDE-103">[100]</a><a href="#cite_note-chessbase-final-88">[85]</a> The United States and Kazakhstan had the same score as India but due to weaker tie-breakers finished in fourth and fifth place, respectively.<a href="#cite_note-final-women-99">[96]</a> <a href="/wiki/Oliwia_Kio%C5%82basa" title="Oliwia Kiołbasa">Oliwia Kiołbasa</a> had the highest individual score in the Women's event, playing for Poland on board three, who scored 9½/11 (nine wins, one draw and one loss) and a performance rating of 2565 after she had opened the tournament with a perfect score of 9/9.<a href="#cite_note-FIDE-103">[100]</a><a href="#cite_note-best-player-women-105">[102]</a><a href="#cite_note-best-poland-106">[103]</a> Individual gold medals were also won by <a href="/wiki/Pia_Cramling" title="Pia Cramling">Pia Cramling</a> of Sweden with 9½/11 and a rating performance of 2532 on board one, Nino Batsiashvili of Georgia with 7½/10 and a rating performance of 2504 on board two, <a href="/wiki/Bat-Erdene_Mungunzul" title="Bat-Erdene Mungunzul">Bat-Erdene Mungunzul</a> of Mongolia who scored 7½/10 with a rating performance of 2460 on board four, and <a href="/wiki/Jana_Schneider_(chess_player)" title="Jana Schneider (chess player)">Jana Schneider</a> of Germany who played as a reserve player and scored 9/10 points with a rating performance of 2414.<a href="#cite_note-best-women-107">[104]</a> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Final standings<a href="#cite_note-108">[105]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>#</th> <th>Country</th> <th>Players</th> <th>Average rating</th> <th><abbr title="match points">MP</abbr></th> <th><abbr title="Sonneborn-Berger score excluding worst result">dSB</abbr><a href="#endnote_‡">‡</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td><img alt="1st place, gold medalist(s)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Gold_medal_icon.svg/16px-Gold_medal_icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Gold_medal_icon.svg/24px-Gold_medal_icon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Gold_medal_icon.svg/32px-Gold_medal_icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="16" data-file-height="16" /></td> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/23px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/35px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/45px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /> Ukraine</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mariya_Muzychuk" title="Mariya Muzychuk">M. Muzychuk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anna_Muzychuk" title="Anna Muzychuk">A. Muzychuk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anna_Ushenina" title="Anna Ushenina">Ushenina</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nataliya_Buksa" title="Nataliya Buksa">Buksa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iulija_Osmak" class="mw-redirect" title="Iulija Osmak">Osmak</a></td> <td>2478</td> <td>18</td> <td>413.5 </td></tr> <tr> <td><img alt="2nd place, silver medalist(s)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Silver_medal_icon.svg/16px-Silver_medal_icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Silver_medal_icon.svg/24px-Silver_medal_icon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Silver_medal_icon.svg/32px-Silver_medal_icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="16" data-file-height="16" /></td> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_Georgia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Georgia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_Georgia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Georgia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_Georgia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Georgia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> Georgia</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nana_Dzagnidze" title="Nana Dzagnidze">Dzagnidze</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nino_Batsiashvili" title="Nino Batsiashvili">Batsiashvili</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lela_Javakhishvili" title="Lela Javakhishvili">Javakhishvili</a>, <a href="/wiki/Salome_Melia" title="Salome Melia">Melia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Meri_Arabidze" title="Meri Arabidze">Arabidze</a></td> <td>2475</td> <td>18</td> <td>392.0 </td></tr> <tr> <td><img alt="3rd place, bronze medalist(s)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Bronze_medal_icon.svg/16px-Bronze_medal_icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Bronze_medal_icon.svg/24px-Bronze_medal_icon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Bronze_medal_icon.svg/32px-Bronze_medal_icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="16" data-file-height="16" /></td> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> India</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Koneru_Humpy" title="Koneru Humpy">Humpy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Harika_Dronavalli" title="Harika Dronavalli">Harika</a>, <a href="/wiki/R_Vaishali" class="mw-redirect" title="R Vaishali">Vaishali</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tania_Sachdev" title="Tania Sachdev">Sachdev</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bhakti_Kulkarni" title="Bhakti Kulkarni">Kulkarni</a></td> <td>2486</td> <td>17</td> <td>396.5 </td></tr> <tr> <td>4</td> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /> United States</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gulrukhbegim_Tokhirjonova" title="Gulrukhbegim Tokhirjonova">Tokhirjonova</a>, <a href="/wiki/Irina_Krush" title="Irina Krush">Krush</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carissa_Yip" title="Carissa Yip">Yip</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anna_Zatonskih" title="Anna Zatonskih">Zatonskih</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tatev_Abrahamyan" title="Tatev Abrahamyan">Abrahamyan</a></td> <td>2390</td> <td>17</td> <td>390.0 </td></tr> <tr> <td>5</td> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg/46px-Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /> Kazakhstan</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Zhansaya_Abdumalik" title="Zhansaya Abdumalik">Abdumalik</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bibisara_Assaubayeva" title="Bibisara Assaubayeva">Assaubayeva</a>, <a href="/wiki/Xeniya_Balabayeva" title="Xeniya Balabayeva">Balabayeva</a>, <a href="/wiki/Guliskhan_Nakhbayeva" title="Guliskhan Nakhbayeva">Nakhbayeva</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nazerke_Nurgali" title="Nazerke Nurgali">Nurgali</a></td> <td>2365</td> <td>17</td> <td>352.0 </td></tr> <tr> <td>6</td> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/46px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="800" /> Poland</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alina_Kashlinskaya" title="Alina Kashlinskaya">Kashlinskaya</a>, <a href="/wiki/Monika_So%C4%87ko" title="Monika Soćko">Soćko</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oliwia_Kio%C5%82basa" title="Oliwia Kiołbasa">Kiołbasa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maria_Malicka_(chess_player)" title="Maria Malicka (chess player)">Malicka</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michalina_Rudzi%C5%84ska" title="Michalina Rudzińska">Rudzińska</a></td> <td>2423</td> <td>16</td> <td>396.0 </td></tr> <tr> <td>7</td> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg/46px-Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /> Azerbaijan</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gunay_Mammadzada" title="Gunay Mammadzada">Mammadzada</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gulnar_Mammadova" title="Gulnar Mammadova">Mammadova</a>, <a href="/wiki/Govhar_Beydullayeva" title="Govhar Beydullayeva">Beydullayeva</a>, <a href="/wiki/Khanim_Balajayeva" title="Khanim Balajayeva">Balajayeva</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ulviyya_Fataliyeva" title="Ulviyya Fataliyeva">Fataliyeva</a></td> <td>2399</td> <td>16</td> <td>389.0 </td></tr> <tr> <td>8</td> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> India-2</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Vantika_Agrawal" title="Vantika Agrawal">Agrawal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Padmini_Rout" title="Padmini Rout">Rout</a>, <a href="/wiki/Soumya_Swaminathan_(chess_player)" title="Soumya Swaminathan (chess player)">Soumya</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mary_Ann_Gomes" title="Mary Ann Gomes">Gomes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Divya_Deshmukh" title="Divya Deshmukh">Deshmukh</a></td> <td>2351</td> <td>16</td> <td>369.5 </td></tr> <tr> <td>9</td> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/46px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /> Bulgaria</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nurgyul_Salimova" title="Nurgyul Salimova">Salimova</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gergana_Peycheva" title="Gergana Peycheva">Peycheva</a>, <a href="/wiki/Beloslava_Krasteva" title="Beloslava Krasteva">Krasteva</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gabriela_Antova" title="Gabriela Antova">Antova</a>, <a href="/wiki/Viktoria_Radeva" title="Viktoria Radeva">Radeva</a></td> <td>2319</td> <td>16</td> <td>361.0 </td></tr> <tr> <td>10</td> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /> Germany</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Elisabeth_P%C3%A4htz" title="Elisabeth Pähtz">Pähtz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Josefine_Heinemann" title="Josefine Heinemann">Heinemann</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hanna_Marie_Klek" title="Hanna Marie Klek">Klek</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dinara_Wagner" title="Dinara Wagner">Wagner</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jana_Schneider_(chess_player)" title="Jana Schneider (chess player)">Schneider</a></td> <td>2383</td> <td>16</td> <td>344.5 </td></tr></tbody></table> <dl><dt>Notes</dt></dl> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239549316"><div class="refbegin" style=""> <ul><li>Average ratings calculated by chess-results.com based on July 2022 FIDE ratings.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><a href="#ref_‡">^‡</a> The Sonneborn-Berger score is a tie-breaking criterion used to rank teams with equal match points.</li></ul> </div> All board medals were given out according to performance ratings for players who played at least eight games at the tournament. Oliwia Kiołbasa on the third board had the best performance of all players in the tournament with a rating of 2565.<a href="#cite_note-best-women-107">[104]</a> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders" border="1" style="font-size: 100%"> <tbody><tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="col" colspan="1" style="width: 120px;">Board </th> <th scope="col" colspan="1" style="width: 200px; color: #333; background: #FFD700;">Gold </th> <th scope="col" colspan="1" style="width: 200px; color: #333; background: #CCCCCC;">Silver </th> <th scope="col" colspan="1" style="width: 200px; color: #333; background: #CC9966;">Bronze </th></tr> <tr> <td>Board 1 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pia_Cramling" title="Pia Cramling">Pia Cramling</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Sweden.svg/23px-Flag_of_Sweden.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Sweden.svg/35px-Flag_of_Sweden.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Sweden.svg/46px-Flag_of_Sweden.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1000" /> Sweden </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Eline_Roebers" title="Eline Roebers">Eline Roebers</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> Netherlands </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Zhansaya_Abdumalik" title="Zhansaya Abdumalik">Zhansaya Abdumalik</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg/46px-Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /> Kazakhstan </td></tr> <tr> <td>Board 2 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nino_Batsiashvili" title="Nino Batsiashvili">Nino Batsiashvili</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_Georgia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Georgia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_Georgia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Georgia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_Georgia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Georgia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> Georgia </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Anna_Muzychuk" title="Anna Muzychuk">Anna Muzychuk</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/23px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/35px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/45px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /> Ukraine </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Khanim_Balajayeva" title="Khanim Balajayeva">Khanim Balajayeva</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg/46px-Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /> Azerbaijan </td></tr> <tr> <td>Board 3 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Oliwia_Kio%C5%82basa" title="Oliwia Kiołbasa">Oliwia Kiołbasa</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/46px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="800" /> Poland </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Anna_Ushenina" title="Anna Ushenina">Anna Ushenina</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/23px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/35px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/45px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /> Ukraine </td> <td><a href="/wiki/R_Vaishali" class="mw-redirect" title="R Vaishali">R Vaishali</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> India </td></tr> <tr> <td>Board 4 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bat-Erdene_Mungunzul" title="Bat-Erdene Mungunzul">Bat-Erdene Mungunzul</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Mongolia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Mongolia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Mongolia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Mongolia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Mongolia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Mongolia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /> Mongolia </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Maria_Malicka_(chess_player)" title="Maria Malicka (chess player)">Maria Malicka</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/46px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="800" /> Poland </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tania_Sachdev" title="Tania Sachdev">Tania Sachdev</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> India </td></tr> <tr> <td>Reserve </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jana_Schneider_(chess_player)" title="Jana Schneider (chess player)">Jana Schneider</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /> Germany </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ulviyya_Fataliyeva" title="Ulviyya Fataliyeva">Ulviyya Fataliyeva</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg/46px-Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /> Azerbaijan </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Divya_Deshmukh" title="Divya Deshmukh">Divya Deshmukh</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> India-2 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Gaprindashvili_Trophy">Gaprindashvili Trophy</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=44th_Chess_Olympiad&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Gaprindashvili Trophy">edit</a>]</div> The <a href="/wiki/Nona_Gaprindashvili_Trophy" title="Nona Gaprindashvili Trophy">Nona Gaprindashvili Trophy</a>, created by FIDE in 1997 and named after former Women's World Champion <a href="/wiki/Nona_Gaprindashvili" title="Nona Gaprindashvili">Nona Gaprindashvili</a>, is given to the teams with the best combined performance in the Open and Women's tournaments (sum of their positions in both standings). The first team of India won the Trophy ahead of the United States in second place and the second Indian team in third place.<a href="#cite_note-109">[106]</a> <table class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;"> <tbody><tr> <th># </th> <th>Team </th> <th>Sum of positions </th></tr> <tr> <td style="background:gold;">1 </td> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> India </td> <td style="text-align: right;">7 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:silver;">2 </td> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /> United States </td> <td style="text-align: right;">9 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#c96;">3 </td> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> India-2 </td> <td style="text-align: right;">11 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="FIDE_Congress">FIDE Congress</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=44th_Chess_Olympiad&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: FIDE Congress">edit</a>]</div> The 93rd FIDE Congress<a href="#cite_note-111">[d]</a> was held during the Olympiad, from 31 July to 9 August, with its General Assembly on 7 and 8 August.<a href="#cite_note-112">[108]</a><a href="#cite_note-113">[109]</a> The FIDE presidential election took place on 7 August. Four sets of candidates were approved by the FIDE Electoral Commission, each consisting of a <a href="/wiki/Joint_ticket" class="mw-redirect" title="Joint ticket">joint ticket</a> for president and deputy president:<a href="#cite_note-election-114">[110]</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arkady_Dvorkovich" title="Arkady Dvorkovich">Arkady Dvorkovich</a> (president, incumbent) and <a href="/wiki/Viswanathan_Anand" title="Viswanathan Anand">Viswanathan Anand</a> (deputy president)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrey_Baryshpolets" title="Andrey Baryshpolets">Andrey Baryshpolets</a> (president) and <a href="/wiki/Peter_Heine_Nielsen" title="Peter Heine Nielsen">Peter Heine Nielsen</a> (deputy president)</li> <li>Inalbek Cheripov (president) and Lewis Ncube (deputy president)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bachar_Kouatly" title="Bachar Kouatly">Bachar Kouatly</a> (president) and Ian Wilkinson (deputy president)</li></ul> Each ticket had to meet several requirements in order to be approved: it had to be submitted two months before the General Assembly; the candidates for president and deputy president could not be from the same member federation; and the ticket required endorsements from five member federations including one from each of the four FIDE continents, but no more than eight federations in total, and each federation was entitled to endorse only one ticket.<a href="#cite_note-115">[111]</a> A candidate ticket of Enyonam Sewa Fumey (president) and <a href="/wiki/Stuart_Fancy" title="Stuart Fancy">Stuart Fancy</a> (deputy president) was rejected by FIDE because it had received support from member federations of Africa (Burkina Faso, Egypt, Togo and Senegal), Asia (Papua New Guinea) and America (Haiti) but not from Europe.<a href="#cite_note-election-114">[110]</a> Inalbek Cheripov withdrew a few days before the election. On election day, each of the remaining candidates was allowed to speak to delegates for 15 minutes before the voting, in an order determined by drawing lots. Kouatly withdrew during his speech.<a href="#cite_note-chess.com-election-116">[112]</a> Dvorkovich and Anand won in a landslide, winning 157 of the 179 federations who voted. Baryshpolets and Nielsen came in second with 16 votes.<a href="#cite_note-france24-election-117">[113]</a> Apart from the re-election of Dvorkovich as FIDE President, other notable decisions were made at the Congress. Uzbekistan was elected to host the 46th Chess Olympiad in either <a href="/wiki/Tashkent" title="Tashkent">Tashkent</a> or <a href="/wiki/Samarkand" title="Samarkand">Samarkand</a>. They were the only valid bid submitted by the 31 May 2022 deadline.<a href="#cite_note-118">[114]</a><a href="#cite_note-congress-119">[115]</a> <a href="/wiki/Xie_Jun" title="Xie Jun">Xie Jun</a> of China, Sheikh Saud bin Adulaziz Al Mualla of the United Arab Emirates, <a href="/wiki/Georgios_Makropoulos" title="Georgios Makropoulos">Georgios Makropoulos</a> of Greece and <a href="/wiki/Michael_Khodarkovsky" title="Michael Khodarkovsky">Michael Khodarkovsky</a> of the United States were elected as FIDE Vice Presidents.<a href="#cite_note-congress-119">[115]</a> The Mitropa Chess Association, a Central European chess organisation, was admitted, and the ASEAN Chess Confederation, a Southeast Asian chess organisation, was re-admitted as an affiliate member of FIDE.<a href="#cite_note-congress-119">[115]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Year_of_the_Woman_in_Chess">Year of the Woman in Chess</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=44th_Chess_Olympiad&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Year of the Woman in Chess">edit</a>]</div> In January 2022, FIDE declared 2022 the "Year of the Woman in Chess". In that context, seven initiatives were planned to organise events and extend collaborations, including annual awards for women in various categories and a "Queen Pavilion" during the Chess Olympiad.<a href="#cite_note-120">[116]</a> On the first day of the Olympiad, the Queen's and Social Pavilion was opened by FIDE President Dvorkovich and Managing Director <a href="/wiki/Dana_Reizniece-Ozola" title="Dana Reizniece-Ozola">Dana Reizniece-Ozola</a>.<a href="#cite_note-121">[117]</a> The winners of the Year of the Woman in Chess Awards were announced at a special ceremony which took place on 5 August. In the period preceding the ceremony, national chess federations were encouraged to submit nominations in different categories that covered almost all aspects of chess. Awards in each category were presented to overall winners, as well as to continental winners. The overall winners across award categories were: <ul><li>Spirit of FIDE: Dana Riezniece-Ozola (Latvia)</li> <li>FIDE ICON: <a href="/wiki/Judit_Polg%C3%A1r" title="Judit Polgár">Judit Polgár</a> (Hungary)</li> <li>Outstanding chess player of 2021: <a href="/wiki/Alexandra_Kosteniuk" title="Alexandra Kosteniuk">Alexandra Kosteniuk</a> (Russia)</li> <li>Outstanding chess administrator: Sonja Johnson (Trinidad and Tobago)</li> <li>Outstanding chess arbiter: <a href="/wiki/Anastasia_Sorokina" title="Anastasia Sorokina">Anastasia Sorokina</a> (Belarus)</li> <li>Outstanding photographer: <a href="/wiki/Anastasiya_Karlovich" title="Anastasiya Karlovich">Anastasiya Karlovich</a> (Ukraine)</li> <li>Outstanding 'game changer': <a href="/wiki/Jennifer_Shahade" title="Jennifer Shahade">Jennifer Shahade</a> (United States)</li> <li>Outstanding chess educator: Alshaeby Razan (Jordan)</li> <li>Outstanding chess organiser: Cristina Pernici Rigo (Italy)</li> <li>Outstanding chess trainer: <a href="/wiki/Shadi_Paridar" title="Shadi Paridar">Shadi Paridar</a> (Iran)</li> <li>Outstanding influencer/commentator/social media star: <a href="/wiki/Tania_Sachdev" title="Tania Sachdev">Tania Sachdev</a> (India)</li> <li>Outstanding politician: <a href="/wiki/Viktorija_%C4%8Cmilyt%C4%97-Nielsen" title="Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen">Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen</a> (Lithuania)</li> <li>Outstanding representation of 'He-For-She': Jean-Michel Rapaire (Monaco)</li> <li>Woman with disability for outstanding fighting spirit: Svetlana Gerasimova (Russia)</li> <li>Federation with the highest percentage of female rated players: Vietnam</li></ul> The awards were provided by Alwahshi Abdullah Salem of the Saudi Arabian Chess Federation, which fielded a women's team at the Olympiad for the first time.<a href="#cite_note-122">[118]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Marketing">Marketing</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=44th_Chess_Olympiad&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Marketing">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Napier-Bridge-Chessboard.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Napier Bridge" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Napier-Bridge-Chessboard.jpg/220px-Napier-Bridge-Chessboard.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Napier-Bridge-Chessboard.jpg/330px-Napier-Bridge-Chessboard.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Napier-Bridge-Chessboard.jpg/440px-Napier-Bridge-Chessboard.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption>Napier Bridge in Chennai, painted with a chessboard pattern</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mascot">Mascot</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=44th_Chess_Olympiad&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Mascot">edit</a>]</div> The official mascot was named "Thambi" (<abbr title="translation">transl.</abbr> younger brother), a <a href="/wiki/Knight_(chess)" title="Knight (chess)">chess knight</a> wearing a <a href="/wiki/Veshti" title="Veshti">vēṭṭi</a> (the ethnic Tamil male attire) and a white shirt. He was depicted with folded hands, extending the Tamil greeting "<a href="/wiki/Namaste" title="Namaste">Vanakkam</a>".<a href="#cite_note-123">[119]</a> The mascot appeared on billboards, statues and posters. Commentators compared Thambi to 'Appu', the mascot for the <a href="/wiki/1982_Asian_Games" title="1982 Asian Games">1982 Asian Games</a>.<a href="#cite_note-124">[120]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Promotional_activities">Promotional activities</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=44th_Chess_Olympiad&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Promotional activities">edit</a>]</div> <a href="/wiki/Buses_in_Chennai" class="mw-redirect" title="Buses in Chennai">Buses in Chennai</a> were branded with the promotional slogan "Namma Chess, Namma Pride" (trans. Our Chess, Our Pride). Buses in <a href="/wiki/Coimbatore" title="Coimbatore">Coimbatore</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tiruchirappalli" title="Tiruchirappalli">Tiruchirappalli</a> also carried marketing for the event. The mascot Thambi was put at the "Namma Chennai" <a href="/wiki/Selfie" title="Selfie">selfie</a> point on the East Coast Road; a contest was held for images with the mascot posted on social media, with prizes of free tickets to the opening ceremony. Billboards were installed at major bus stops, and the event was also promoted at <a href="/wiki/Chennai_Metro" title="Chennai Metro">Chennai Metro</a> stations.<a href="#cite_note-express-35">[33]</a> A private school in <a href="/wiki/Perambur" title="Perambur">Perambur</a> erected a 6,400-square-foot (590 m2) giant chessboard, opened by <a href="/wiki/P._K._Sekar_Babu" title="P. K. Sekar Babu">P. K. Sekar Babu</a>, Tamil Nadu's minister of <a href="/wiki/Hindu_Religious_and_Charitable_Endowments_Department" title="Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department">Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department</a>, on which students played the pieces. The space around the chessboard was decorated with eight 14-foot (4.3 m) cut-outs of the Thambi mascot.<a href="#cite_note-125">[121]</a> <a href="/wiki/India_Post" title="India Post">India Post</a> issued a postage stamp featuring the Olympiad. It was unveiled during a ceremony on <a href="/wiki/International_Chess_Day" title="International Chess Day">International Chess Day</a>.<a href="#cite_note-126">[122]</a> Sponsors for the tournament included <a href="/wiki/Tech_Mahindra" title="Tech Mahindra">Tech Mahindra</a>,<a href="#cite_note-127">[123]</a> <a href="/wiki/Glaceau_Smartwater" title="Glaceau Smartwater">Smartwater</a>,<a href="#cite_note-128">[124]</a> <a href="/wiki/Indian_Oil_Corporation" title="Indian Oil Corporation">Indian Oil</a>, <a href="/wiki/Titan_Company" title="Titan Company">Titan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chessable" class="mw-redirect" title="Chessable">Chessable</a>.<a href="#cite_note-129">[125]</a> Chennai's <a href="/wiki/Napier_Bridge" title="Napier Bridge">Napier Bridge</a> was painted with a chessboard pattern,<a href="#cite_note-130">[126]</a> which divided opinion. While some commentators liked the artwork, others raised concerns that the pattern was disorienting, especially for people with <a href="/wiki/Anxiety_disorder" title="Anxiety disorder">anxiety disorder</a>.<a href="#cite_note-131">[127]</a> The chessboard pattern also led to traffic congestion as people thronged to the bridge to take selfies and record videos for social media.<a href="#cite_note-132">[128]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Side_tournaments">Side tournaments</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=44th_Chess_Olympiad&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Side tournaments">edit</a>]</div> FIDE held an online event in May 2020 titled 'Checkmate Coronavirus'. This consisted of 2,762 tournaments held simultaneously over a 30-day period, played by 120,000 unique participants from over 140 countries. The various winners of the event were awarded masterclasses with <a href="/wiki/Grandmaster_(chess)" title="Grandmaster (chess)">grandmasters</a>, free tickets to the Olympiad, and/or souvenirs and memorabilia.<a href="#cite_note-133">[129]</a> Immediately prior to the Olympiad, on 24 July, a <a href="/wiki/Rapid_chess" class="mw-redirect" title="Rapid chess">rapid chess</a> tournament was held in Hall 1 and Hall 2, with 1,414 participants. Games from all 707 boards were broadcast live online. The winner of the event was Indian grandmaster <a href="/wiki/Vishnu_Prasanna_V." title="Vishnu Prasanna V.">Vishnu Prasanna</a>, who scored a perfect 9 out of 9 possible points. First prize was ₹35,000 (US$400) and the total prize fund was ₹500,000 (US$5,800).<a href="#cite_note-134">[130]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Broadcasting">Broadcasting</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=44th_Chess_Olympiad&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Broadcasting">edit</a>]</div> The Olympiad was broadcast live on FIDE's official <a href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</a> channel, with commentary by grandmasters <a href="/wiki/Judit_Polg%C3%A1r" title="Judit Polgár">Judit Polgár</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mihail_Marin" title="Mihail Marin">Mihail Marin</a>.<a href="#cite_note-135">[131]</a> In India, television broadcast was on the <a href="/wiki/Doordarshan" title="Doordarshan">Doordarshan</a> channel.<a href="#cite_note-136">[132]</a> <a href="/wiki/Chess24" title="Chess24">Chess24</a> provided online streaming commentary by grandmasters <a href="/wiki/Peter_Leko" title="Peter Leko">Peter Leko</a> and <a href="/wiki/Peter_Svidler" title="Peter Svidler">Peter Svidler</a>.<a href="#cite_note-comment-74">[71]</a> <a href="/wiki/Chess.com" title="Chess.com">Chess.com</a> streamed the event through their ChessTV, <a href="/wiki/Twitch_(service)" title="Twitch (service)">Twitch</a> and YouTube channels.<a href="#cite_note-137">[133]</a> <a href="/wiki/ChessBase" title="ChessBase">ChessBase India</a> also streamed the event live on their YouTube channel.<a href="#cite_note-138">[134]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Concerns_and_controversies">Concerns and controversies</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=44th_Chess_Olympiad&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Concerns and controversies">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Doping_restrictions">Doping restrictions</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=44th_Chess_Olympiad&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Doping restrictions">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Doping_in_Russia" title="Doping in Russia">Doping in Russia</a></div> Russia's initial right to host the event raised concerns because of <a href="/wiki/World_Anti-Doping_Agency" title="World Anti-Doping Agency">World Anti-Doping Agency</a>'s recommendation from November 2019 that the country should be banned from hosting all major events for a period of four years.<a href="#cite_note-139">[135]</a> Namely, Russian international teams engaged in widespread <a href="/wiki/Doping_(sport)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doping (sport)">doping</a> (illegal use of <a href="/wiki/Performance_enhancing_drug" class="mw-redirect" title="Performance enhancing drug">performance enhancing drugs</a>) in multiple sports, with the complicit inaction of the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Anti-Doping_Agency" title="Russian Anti-Doping Agency">Russian Anti-Doping Agency</a>, which led the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to launch an investigation. As part of their position that chess is a sport, FIDE is affiliated with WADA and implements <a href="/wiki/Chess_Olympiad#Drug_testing" title="Chess Olympiad">drug testing at Chess Olympiads</a> following WADA guidelines.<a href="#cite_note-140">[136]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Russian_Chess_Federation" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian Chess Federation">Russian Chess Federation</a> denied that WADA's recommendations applied to the Chess Olympiad, as its president Andrey Filatov stated in an interview that the decision to host the Olympiad was made long before WADA's decision.<a href="#cite_note-141">[137]</a> FIDE officially responded to WADA that the contracts for the two affected tournaments—<a href="/wiki/Candidates_Tournament_2020%E2%80%932021" title="Candidates Tournament 2020–2021">Candidates Tournament 2020–2021</a> and the 44th Chess Olympiad—had already been signed and therefore they could not be moved. FIDE also argued that the events qualified for an exemption specified by WADA because they were the only valid bids to organise each event.<a href="#cite_note-142">[138]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="COVID-19_pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=44th_Chess_Olympiad&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: COVID-19 pandemic">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Impact_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_on_sports" title="Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports">Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports</a>, <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Russia" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Russia">COVID-19 pandemic in Russia</a>, and <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_India" title="COVID-19 pandemic in India">COVID-19 pandemic in India</a></div> As the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a> spread around the world in early 2020, FIDE announced in March 2020 that the Chess Olympiad would be postponed. They planned to reschedule it in the summer of 2021 with the same host.<a href="#cite_note-143">[139]</a><a href="#cite_note-postponed-144">[140]</a> In December 2020, when the pandemic was still ongoing, FIDE formally cancelled the event and planned to reorganise it for 2022.<a href="#cite_note-145">[141]</a> Even after a two-year delay, the pandemic still affected participation in the Olympiad. The Chinese team, which won gold medals in both events at the <a href="/wiki/43rd_Chess_Olympiad" title="43rd Chess Olympiad">2018 Chess Olympiad</a>, withdrew due to the pandemic.<a href="#cite_note-chessbase-seeds-76">[73]</a><a href="#cite_note-146">[142]</a> Azerbaijan's <a href="/wiki/Teimour_Radjabov" title="Teimour Radjabov">Teimour Radjabov</a>, the winner of the <a href="/wiki/Chess_World_Cup_2019" title="Chess World Cup 2019">Chess World Cup 2019</a>, did not play, due to the after-effects of a COVID-19 infection that he contracted after competing in the <a href="/wiki/Candidates_Tournament_2022" title="Candidates Tournament 2022">Candidates Tournament 2022</a>.<a href="#cite_note-radjabov-72">[69]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine">Russian invasion of Ukraine</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=44th_Chess_Olympiad&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Russian invasion of Ukraine">edit</a>]</div> Amid the international sanctions against Russia in response to the <a href="/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" title="Russian invasion of Ukraine">invasion of Ukraine in February 2022</a>, FIDE announced that the Olympiad would no longer take place in Russia.<a href="#cite_note-not-23">[21]</a> This has resulted from a recommendation by the <a href="/wiki/International_Olympic_Committee" title="International Olympic Committee">International Olympic Committee</a> made in March 2022 to suspend Russia and Belarus from participation in international tournaments, including the Olympiad, that FIDE followed.<a href="#cite_note-suspension-69">[66]</a><a href="#cite_note-147">[143]</a> Although their teams were not allowed to compete, the Russian and Belarusian national federations were permitted to take part in the FIDE Congress, submit candidates and vote in the <a href="#FIDE_presidential_election">FIDE presidential election</a> held during the Olympiad.<a href="#cite_note-148">[144]</a> Many Russian chess players disapproved of the invasion. Some decided to leave the country, switch federations, or play under the FIDE flag instead of the Russian flag.<a href="#cite_note-149">[145]</a> Forty-four top Russian players signed an open letter addressed to Russian President <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a>, stating their opposition to the war. Signatories included <a href="/wiki/Ian_Nepomniachtchi" title="Ian Nepomniachtchi">Ian Nepomniachtchi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alexandra_Kosteniuk" title="Alexandra Kosteniuk">Alexandra Kosteniuk</a>, Peter Svidler, <a href="/wiki/Andrey_Esipenko" title="Andrey Esipenko">Andrey Esipenko</a> and <a href="/wiki/Daniil_Dubov" title="Daniil Dubov">Daniil Dubov</a>.<a href="#cite_note-150">[146]</a> <a href="/wiki/Dmitry_Andreikin" title="Dmitry Andreikin">Dmitry Andreikin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alexandr_Predke" title="Alexandr Predke">Alexandr Predke</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Fedoseev" title="Vladimir Fedoseev">Vladimir Fedoseev</a>, who all played in the <a href="/wiki/FIDE_Grand_Prix_2022" title="FIDE Grand Prix 2022">FIDE Grand Prix 2022</a> held in February and March, did not return to Russia and moved to North Macedonia, Uzbekistan and Spain, respectively. <a href="/wiki/Daniil_Yuffa" title="Daniil Yuffa">Daniil Yuffa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kirill_Alekseenko" title="Kirill Alekseenko">Kirill Alekseenko</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nikita_Vitiugov" title="Nikita Vitiugov">Nikita Vitiugov</a> also moved to Spain, while <a href="/wiki/Alexey_Sarana" title="Alexey Sarana">Alexey Sarana</a> stayed in <a href="/wiki/Belgrade" title="Belgrade">Belgrade</a> after participating in a tournament there.<a href="#cite_note-151">[147]</a> <a href="/wiki/Alina_Kashlinskaya" title="Alina Kashlinskaya">Alina Kashlinskaya</a> transferred her affiliation to Poland and played for them at the Olympiad.<a href="#cite_note-152">[148]</a><a href="#cite_note-chess24-seeds-75">[72]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Team_flags">Team flags</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=44th_Chess_Olympiad&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Team flags">edit</a>]</div> Competitors representing <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a> used <a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Afghanistan" title="Flag of Afghanistan">the flag</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a> militant group, which <a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Kabul_(2021)" title="Fall of Kabul (2021)">took control of the country in 2021</a>, instead of the flag of the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Republic_of_Afghanistan" title="Islamic Republic of Afghanistan">Islamic Republic of Afghanistan</a> which was still officially recognised by FIDE.<a href="#cite_note-afghanistan-flag-59">[57]</a> Images of the Taliban flag at the Olympiad were widely circulated by Taliban officials and supporters on social media.<a href="#cite_note-153">[149]</a><a href="#cite_note-154">[150]</a> <a href="/wiki/2008_Kosovo_declaration_of_independence" title="2008 Kosovo declaration of independence">Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008</a>, and the Kosovo Chess Federation has been a full member of <a href="/wiki/FIDE" title="FIDE">FIDE</a> since 2016.<a href="#cite_note-155">[151]</a> However, <a href="/wiki/India%27s_reaction_to_the_2008_Kosovo_declaration_of_independence" title="India's reaction to the 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence">India does not recognise the nation</a>, so the hosts banned the <a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Kosovo" title="Flag of Kosovo">flag of Kosovo</a> at the Olympiad. The Kosovo team were therefore forced to play under the FIDE flag.<a href="#cite_note-156">[152]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_incidents">Other incidents</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=44th_Chess_Olympiad&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Other incidents">edit</a>]</div> The torch relay passed through parts of <a href="/wiki/Jammu_and_Kashmir_(union_territory)" title="Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)">Jammu and Kashmir</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ladakh" title="Ladakh">Ladakh</a>, in the disputed region of <a href="/wiki/Kashmir" title="Kashmir">Kashmir</a>. The route stuck to locations administered by India as <a href="/wiki/Union_territories" class="mw-redirect" title="Union territories">union territories</a>, but those locations are also claimed by Pakistan (see <a href="/wiki/Kashmir_conflict" title="Kashmir conflict">Kashmir conflict</a>). The Pakistan team had already arrived in India for the Olympiad. Nevertheless, the Pakistani federation withdrew from the event in protest, describing the torch route as "provocative".<a href="#cite_note-pakistan-boycott-56">[54]</a><a href="#cite_note-157">[153]</a> A dispute over the financial management and governance at the Rwandan Chess Federation led to Rwanda's Ministry of Sport blocking the Rwandan team's participation in the Olympiad. The ministry and the country's Olympic committee had refused to recognise the federation since December 2021.<a href="#cite_note-rwanda-57">[55]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=44th_Chess_Olympiad&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1266661725">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-image{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-link{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em 0.2em 0.2em 0.3em;vertical-align:middle}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .portalleft{margin:0.5em 1em 0.5em 0}.mw-parser-output .portalright{clear:right;float:right;margin:0.5em 0 0.5em 1em}}</style><ul role="navigation" aria-label="Portals" class="noprint portalbox portalborder portalright"> <li class="portalbox-entry"><a href="/wiki/File:Chess.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Chess.svg/28px-Chess.svg.png" decoding="async" width="28" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Chess.svg/42px-Chess.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Chess.svg/56px-Chess.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></a><a href="/wiki/Portal:Chess" title="Portal:Chess">Chess portal</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chess_Olympiad" title="Chess Olympiad">Chess Olympiad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chess_World_Cup_2019" title="Chess World Cup 2019">Chess World Cup 2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/FIDE_Online_Chess_Olympiad_2020" title="FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020">FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/FIDE_Online_Chess_Olympiad_2021" title="FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2021">FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2021</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=44th_Chess_Olympiad&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Notes">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-6"><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a> Chess was officially recognised as a sport by the <a href="/wiki/International_Olympic_Committee" title="International Olympic Committee">International Olympic Committee</a> in 1999. At the <a href="/wiki/Chess_at_the_2000_Summer_Olympics" title="Chess at the 2000 Summer Olympics">2000 Summer Olympics</a>, a two-game exhibition match between grandmasters <a href="/wiki/Vishwanathan_Anand" class="mw-redirect" title="Vishwanathan Anand">Vishwanathan Anand</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alexey_Shirov" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexey Shirov">Alexey Shirov</a> took place, but no Olympic medals were awarded.<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a> The Open tournament enables participation of players from all genders. </li> <li id="cite_note-64"><a href="#cite_ref-64">^</a> The open section was open to all players, and 13 out of 937 were female.<a href="#cite_note-63">[61]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-111"><a href="#cite_ref-111">^</a> The FIDE Congress is an annual event that combines the sessions of FIDE's main bodies—namely, the General Assembly, the FIDE Council, the Zonal Council and the FIDE Commissions. In even years, it is preferred that the FIDE Congress takes place during the Chess Olympiad, and it is therefore organised by the organiser of the Chess Olympiad.<a href="#cite_note-110">[107]</a> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=44th_Chess_Olympiad&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-chessable-1">^ <a href="#cite_ref-chessable_1-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-chessable_1-1">b</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFAstle2022" class="citation web cs1">Astle, Matthew (27 July 2022). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.chessable.com/blog/chess-olympiad-2022/">"Chessable's Guide to the 44th FIDE Chess Olympiad"</a>. 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