2020 FIDE Online Chess Olympiad Dates run24 July – 30 AugustTeams163Nations162Venue Online (hosted by Chess.com)Location Online Team medalistsOpen and
The FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020 was an online chess tournament organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) and hosted by Chess.com. It was held between 24 July and 30 August. The event was organised after the 44th Chess Olympiad was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 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. The second edition of the tournament was held in 2021.
Participating teams Participating teams in the 2020 Online Chess Olympiad
IPCA
Netherlands Antilles
Medalists
Gold Bronze IndiaViswanathan AnandVidit GujrathiKoneru HumpyHarika DronavalliNihal SarinDivya DeshmukhPentala HarikrishnaAravindh ChithambaramBhakti KulkarniVaishali RameshbabuPraggnanandhaa RameshbabuVantika Agrawal RussiaAlexander GrischukIan NepomniachtchiKateryna LagnoAleksandra GoryachkinaAndrey EsipenkoPolina ShuvalovaDaniil DubovVladislav ArtemievAlexandra KosteniukValentina GuninaAlexey SaranaMargarita Potapova PolandJan-Krzysztof DudaRadoslaw WojtaszekMonika SockoJolanta ZawadzkaSzymon GumularzAlicja ŚliwickaMateusz BartelGrzegorz GajewskiKarina CyfkaIweta RajlichIgor JanikJulia Antolak United States of AmericaWesley SoSamuel ShanklandCarissa YipAnna ZatonskihJeffery XiongAnnie WangRay RobsonTatev Abrahamyan
Gazprom Brilliancy Prize Gazprom sponsored a brilliancy prize for the event, with the judges being 14 popular streamers and YouTubers: Anna Cramling, Maria Emelianova, Jesse February, Anna-Maja Kazarian, Daniel King, Ayelen Martinez, Carlos Matamoros Franco, Daniel Naroditsky, Antonio Radić, Michael Rahal, IM Eric Rosen, Sagar Shah and Amruta Mokal (joint submission), Fiona Steil-Antoni, and Simon Williams. Nine of the games that were presented to the judges received votes, with the game totaling the most votes being Danyyil Dvirnyy–Alexei Shirov; Shirov, in the Slav Defense, executed a decisive queenside attack involving a queen sacrifice.
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