FIDE Chess Olympiad 2022 will be held in Chennai
Highlights:
- India has been picked as the host nation for the FIDE Chess Olympiad 2022.
- The 44th edition of the Olympiad is scheduled to be held in Chennai, from 26th July 2022 to 8th August 2022.
- This is the first time that India will host the FIDE Chess Olympiad since its inception in 1927.
- The event was originally scheduled to be held in Russia, but FIDE pulled out from there following the Ukraine invasion.
- The venue will be the Four Points by Sheraton Mahabalipuram Resort & Convention Center, 60 kilometres south of central Chennai.
- It is located in Mamallapuram, one of the famous tourist sites in India and a UNESCO World Heritage Site of seventh- and eighth-century Hindu monuments.
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