OPENING CEREMONY | 45TH FIDE CHESS OLYMPIAD

The Chess Olympiad has begun!

⚔️ Open Section: Who will reign supreme in Budapest?

🔝 The teams from the 🇺🇸 USA, 🇮🇳 India, and 🇨🇳 China stand out as rating favourites, with the average rating of all team members exceeding 2700.

ℹ️ 197 teams have registered for the open section of the upcoming Chess Olympiad. As is often the case, not every registered team will make it to Budapest for various reasons. Nevertheless, this Olympiad is set to break participation records.

The Women's #ChessOlympiad, like the Open section, will set a participation record this year with 184 teams registered, compared to 162 in Chennai in 2022. 🔥

Several women's teams, including Liechtenstein, 🇬🇬 Guernsey, 🇬🇩 Grenada, 🇻🇨 St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 🇰🇳 St. Kitts and Nevis, the 🇻🇮 US Virgin Islands, 🇱🇨 St. Lucia, 🇳🇷 Nauru, and the 🇰🇾 Cayman Islands, will make their debut.

🔝 The top teams from the last edition— 🇺🇦 Ukraine, 🇬🇪 Georgia, and 🇮🇳 India—are among the favorites in Budapest as well. According to the average rating of their rosters, the top teams are India (2467), Georgia (2462), 🇵🇱 Poland (2422), China (2416), and Ukraine (2400).

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