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Zhu Jiner from the young team of China is the board 1 gold medalist of the Women Chess Olympiad 2024. The other gold medalists by board are Carissa Yip, Diviya Deshmukh, Agrawal Vantika, and Dana Kochavi.

Final standings open: India gold, USA Silver, Uzbekistan bronze (complete standings)

Gukesh D, with historic performance, won the gold medal on board 1. The other gold medalists by board are Nguyen Thai Dai Van, Arjun Erigaisi, Shamsiddin Vokhidov, and Frederik Svane.

Final standings open: India gold, USA Silver, Uzbekistan bronze (complete standings)

India also won the Gaprindashvili Cup for a second consecutive time the Gaprindashvili Cup, which is currently being searched for by the police.

Gaprindashvili team is awarded to the best team performance of the Chess Olympiad 2024, based on the sum of the ranks of the open and women teams. India won the cup, ahead of USA (silver) and Armenia (bronze)

India secured the double gold at the Chess Olympiad 2024 with Harika Dronavalli, Rameshbabu Vaishali, Divya Deshmukh, Vantika Agrawal, and Tania Sachdev making the success of the Indian team complete. Kazakhstan take the silver medals, while the bronze is for USA on tiebreak ahead of Spain, Armenia, and Georgia.

Chess Olympiad 2024 standings

India won the gold and even secured the double gold at the Chess Olympiad 2024. In a dramatic photo fishing the team of USA won the silver medals with better tiebreak ahead of the winners of the 2022 Olympiad Uzbekistan who remained with bronze. With the same points, but lower tiebreak remained the teams of China, Serbia, Armenia, and Germany.

The teams of India win double gold at the Chess Olympiad 2024. Congratulations!

Team India Open: Arjun Erigaisi, Gukesh D, Praggnanandhaa, Vidit Santosh Gujrathi, and Pentala Harikrishna (captain Srinath Narayanan)

Team India women: Harika Dronavalli, Rameshbabu Vaishali, Divya Deshmukh, Vantika Agrawal, and Tania Sachdev (captain Abhijit Kunte)

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India are 2024 Chess Olympiad champions! Dominant performance of Gukesh D and Arjun Erigaisi and solid play by the teammates secured the title for India.

The gold medal of Gukesh is a special boost for his confidence ahead of the World Chess Championship match. His performance of ~3070 is the second best in history.

With India basically having the title guaranteed in the open section most of the attention in the final day of the Chess Olympiad is directed towards the women section. With India and Kazakhstan as favorites for the gold, USA and Poland with chances, and multiple teams in contention for medals, the women section will draw attention.

In day 1 of the FIDE General Assembly Yolander Persaud elected FIDE Ethics Commission Chairman in a dramatic day that was called the first crucial election which Russia loses in the last 30 years

India have practically won the 2024 Chess Olympiad with a round to spare, but there is much excitement with the norms, medals, and individual titles.

Afruza Khamdamova secured a WGM norm at the Chess Olympiad after 9 rounds. Five other players won their WIM norm, including Anastasia Avramidou (Greece), Setayesh Karimi (Iran), Li Ting Tan (Malaysia), Machteld Van Foreest (Netherlands), and Alexandra Zherebtsova (Montenegro).

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