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18/06/22 07:35 AM IST

44th Chess Olympiad

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  • Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will launch the historic torch relay for the 44th Chess Olympiad on 19th June at Indira Gandhi Stadium, New Delhi.
Chess Olympiad 
  • The 44th Chess Olympiad will be held in Chennai from July 28 to August 10, 2022.
  • The prestigious competition, which has been organised since 1927, is being hosted in India for the first time and in Asia after 30 years.
  • With 189 countries participating, this will be the largest participation in any Chess Olympiad.
Torch Relay 
  • This year, for the very first time, the International Chess Body, FIDE, has instituted the Chess Olympiad Torch that is part of Olympic tradition, but was never done in the Chess Olympiad.
  • India will be the first-ever country to have the Chess Olympiad Torch Relay. 
  • FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich will hand over the torch to Prime Minister, who in turn will hand it over to Grandmaster Vishwanathan Anand.
  • This torch will then be taken to 75 cities in a span of 40 days before the final culmination at Mahabalipuram near Chennai.
Source- PIB 

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