CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Q. Which countries were jointly declared as the winners of FIDE Chess Olympiad 2020? Notes: In the 2020 FIDE Chess Olympiad, India and Russia were declared joint winners. This was so because the final game was disrupted by internet disconnection.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Team India Shares Gold medal with Russia in the “FIDE Online Chess Olympiad” Team India has turned out a stellar performance by sharing the Gold Medal at the first ever on-line Chess Olympiad in the revised format.

Detailed explanation-4: -FIDE Chess Olympiad 2022 highlights: India finish with nine medals, including historic women’s team bronze. The India A team, comprising Koneru Humpy, R Vaishali, Tania Sachdev and Bhakti Kulkarni, won India’s first-ever women’s team medal at the Chess Olympiad.

Detailed explanation-5: -There will also be no Russian or Belarusian teams at the Chess Olympiad after they were banned by FIDE in response to the war in Ukraine.