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FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020

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2020 FIDE Online Chess Olympiad
Fide Online Chess Olympiad
Dates run 24 July – 30 August
Teams 163
Nations 162
Venue Online (hosted by Chess.com)
Location Online
Team medalists
Open 1st place, gold medalist(s)  India and  Russia

The FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020 was an online chess tournament organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) and hosted by Chess.com.[1] It was held between 24 July and 30 August. The event was organised after the 44th Chess Olympiad was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The final match between Russia and India was called off after several Indian team members experienced connectivity issues due to a global outage of Cloudflare servers; Russia and India were subsequently declared joint winners.[1] The second edition of the tournament was held in 2021.

Participating teams

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Participating teams in the 2020 Online Chess Olympiad[2]

Medalists

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Gold Bronze
India India[3]
Viswanathan Anand
Vidit Gujrathi
Koneru Humpy
Harika Dronavalli
Nihal Sarin
Divya Deshmukh
Pentala Harikrishna
Aravindh Chithambaram
Bhakti Kulkarni
Vaishali Rameshbabu
Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu
Vantika Agrawal 		Russia Russia[4]
Alexander Grischuk
Ian Nepomniachtchi
Kateryna Lagno
Aleksandra Goryachkina
Andrey Esipenko
Polina Shuvalova
Daniil Dubov
Vladislav Artemiev
Alexandra Kosteniuk
Valentina Gunina
Alexey Sarana
Margarita Potapova 		Poland Poland[5]
Jan-Krzysztof Duda
Radoslaw Wojtaszek
Monika Socko
Jolanta Zawadzka
Szymon Gumularz
Alicja Śliwicka
Mateusz Bartel
Grzegorz Gajewski
Karina Cyfka
Iweta Rajlich
Igor Janik
Julia Antolak 		United States United States of America[5]
Wesley So
Samuel Shankland
Carissa Yip
Anna Zatonskih
Jeffery Xiong
Annie Wang
Ray Robson
Tatev Abrahamyan

Gazprom Brilliancy Prize

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Gazprom sponsored a brilliancy prize for the event, with the judges being 14 popular streamers and YouTubers:[6] Anna Cramling, Maria Emelianova, Jesse February, Anna-Maja Kazarian, Daniel King, Ayelen Martinez, Carlos Matamoros Franco, Daniel Naroditsky, Antonio Radić, Michael Rahal, IM Eric Rosen, Sagar Shah and Amruta Mokal (joint submission),[6] Fiona Steil-Antoni, and Simon Williams.[6] Nine of the games that were presented to the judges received votes, with the game totaling the most votes being Danyyil Dvirnyy–Alexei Shirov; Shirov, in the Slav Defense, executed a decisive queenside attack involving a queen sacrifice.[6]

References

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  1. ^ a b "India, Russia announced joint winners of Chess Olympiad after controversial finish". The Indian Express. 30 August 2020. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  2. ^ "Teams". FIDE Online Olympiad 2020 (in Russian). Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  3. ^ "Chessresults 2020 FIDE Online Olympiad Top Division Pool A - Team Composition".
  4. ^ "Chessresults 2020 FIDE Online Olympiad Top Division Pool C - Team Composition".
  5. ^ a b "Chessresults 2020 FIDE Online Olympiad Top Division Pool D - Team Composition".
  6. ^ a b c d "Alexei Shirov wins Gazprom Brilliancy Prize". ChessBase. 5 September 2020. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
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