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Hello everyone and welcome to the Chess Olympiad 2024 live blog! In this rolling updates article, we will cover all events and news regarding the Chess Olympiad 2024 in Budapest. The news will appear here time stamped at reverse chronological order. Scroll down to the first news, while on top you will find the latest curiosities from Budapest. Round 1 starts September 11 at 15:00 CET

The Chess Olympiad 2024 has India as the highest rated team of the event with average rating of 2467 ELO. They are closely followed by Georgia (2461), Poland (2418), China (2414), Ukraine (2402), Azerbaijan (2402), USA (2388), Spain (2382), Germany (2380), Kazakhstan (2370, and Armenia (2365)

These ratings are according to the July FIDE rating list. See the open section here

The Chess Olympiad 2024 is breaking participation records both in the Open and Women sections. According to the July rating list, the top team of the Olympiad is USA with average ELO of 2755, followed by India (2753), China (2726), Netherlands (2687), Uzbekistan (2684), Norway (2673), England (2666), Germany (2663), Hungary (2663), and Poland (2662).

The Chess Olympiad 2024 will have an official song. This is Rose May and Raul – Trojan war. It inherits the Chess Olympiad 2022 Anthem | FT. Hon Chief Minister MK Stalin aka Welcome to Chennay, and is yet another musical addition to chess.

Throwback: Juga Di Prima sings at Candidates 2022 opening

The Chess Olympiad 2024 in Budapest breaks the participation record. 2022 Chennai Olympiad held the participation record with 187 teams registered in Open competition and 162 teams registered in the Women’s competition, a record that was previously set in Batumi, 2018 with 182 teams representing 176 countries in Open and Women sections.

Olympic spirit and smiles! This is how one would describe the Paraguay team delegation for the Chess Olympiad 2024 in Budapest. Seeded 57th in the open section and 65th in the women section, Paraguay national teams are already on their way to the Chess Olympiad. Before landing in Budapest, large part of the team will participate in the Open Sants 2024 , which boasts 700 participants.

The ELO system formula in chess has a unique property: inflation. This means that with more games played, the total average rating of players increases over time. That is a fact, deeply embedded in the rating calculation FIDE uses.

There are only 3 months left to game 1 of the World Chess Championship 2024. Two indisputable talents, representing two superpowers and the two largest nations in the world are going to clash on the chess arena of the World Chess Championship 2024 in Singapore.

Just look at this young kid! Suberb! And this is not isolated event, GothamChess is right, chess is getting younger. It is no surprise that Gukesh has the chance to become the youngest World Champion ever. And it is no surprise that the general level of youth and junior chess is exploding.

More from #TweetOftheDay / New: All in #FactOftheday

Today’s #FactOftheDay comes from none other than Daily Telegraph Chess Correspondent, CEO of CSC, and ECU Vice President Malcolm Pein. On the anniversary of the “Englishman in New York”, Malcolm Pein shared, “Well over 20 years ago Chris Botti came into the London Chess Centre to buy Sting a travel chess set for his birthday. He said the whole band played. I asked him who wins, Sting came the answer.