Chess Olympiad 2024: Schedule, Registration, Tickets, Prize Money, GK Questions

The 45^th Chess Olympiad 2024 will start on September 10, 2024 and end by September 23. Check here details about its schedule, registration process, tickets, prize money and many other important details.

Chess Olympiad 2024 registration is now over. The Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) is the concerned authority who organizes Chess Olympiad every year. The event was supposed to be held at Khanty-Mansiysk and later FIDE decided to organize it at Moscow.

However, later the decision was withdrawn and now it has been decided that the 45^th Chess Olympiad 2024 will be held at Chennai India.

Chess Olympiad 2024 Overview

 Chess Olympiad 2024 Full Schedule

Check list of world’s ricehest chess players

Chess Olympiad 2024 Participating Teams

Here is the list of participating teams of Chess Olympiad 2024:

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Prepare Chess GK questons with answers

Women’s Section

Disclaimer: The above list of participating teams has been taken from https://www.fide.com/.

Chess Olympiad 2024 Tickets

Chess Olympiad 2024 tickets booking is now open and one can book a ticket at its official website- https://tickets.aicf.in/. Check below the ticket price of Chess Olympiad 2024:

How to Book Ticket for Chess Olympiad 2024?

The official website to book your ticket for Chess Olympiad 2024 is https://tickets.aicf.in/. Please follow the procedure below to book your ticket online:

Step 1: Visit the official website of Chess Olympiad.

Step 2: Hit the Book now button displayed on the screen.

The following screen will be displayed soon you click Book Now button.

Here you need to enter your name, email, mobile number, country name, and city name. You’ll also need to upload a government ID proof (aadhar/passport).

Important Notes:

• You are not allowed to bring mobile and all electronics devices including wrist watches inside the tournament hall.
• You can deposit your gadget the specified counters.
• The authority might reject your ticket in case of submission of wrong information.
• There is also a provision of parking your vehicle.

Chess Olympiad 2024 Prize Money

The total prize money for Chess Olympiad 2024 is INR 500000 Lakh. We have shared the prize money for winners with first, second and third rank below:

First Winner: INR35000/-

Second Winner: INR25000/-

Third Winner: INR20000/-

GK Questions on Chess Olympiad

Question: During World War II, who were some of the top Chess players as well as code breakers?

Ans: British masters Harry Golombek, Stuart Milner-Barry, and H.O’D. Alexander was on the team which broke the Nazi Enigma code.

Question: How many squares are there on a chessboard?

Ans: Sixty Four Squares

Question: When was the First Chess Board appeared?

Ans: The modern chessboard as we see it today appeared first in Europe in 1090.

Question: In which country did chess first originate?

Ans: India – in the early 7th century.

Question: What is the old name of chess?

Ans: Chess passed from Persia to the Arab world, where its name changed to Ariabic shatranj.

Question: Who starts a game of chess?

Ans: The white player

Question: Who is the World Chess Champion for the longest time ever?

Ans: A German named Dr. Emanuel Lasker retained the Champion title for the most time: 26 years and 337days

Question: Who was the youngest ever world chess champion?

Ans: Garry Kasparov – he became the youngest international chess champion at 22 years and 210 days back in In 1985.

Question: Who is Credited for creating the longest Chess Problem, mate in 290 moves?

Ans: Blathy, Otto (1860-1939)

Question: What is ‘queening’?

Ans: When a pawn reaches the opposite end of the board, and transforms into another piece – the queen.

Question: Who holds the record for being the youngest ever chess grandmaster?

Ans: Avhimanyu Mishra was the youngest at 12 years and 4 months, and second was Sergei Karjakin who was 12 years and 7 months.

Question: What’s the highest title for a chess player?

Ans: Grandmaster

Question: What was ‘Deep Blue’?

Ans: An IBM computer program that defeated reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov in a game of chess in February 1996.

Question: What is the shortest possible number of moves for a checkmate?

Ans: Two. This is known as a ‘Fool’s Mate’, and can only be achieved by whoever is playing black.

Question: Which is the only piece that can start with a special move?

Ans: Pawn. Pawns can begin by moving two squares instead of one, only on their first move.

Question: Beth Harmon is a fictional character in which chess-themed drama?

Ans: The Queen’s Gambit

Question: Who developed the first computer program for playing chess?

Ans: Alan Turing

Question: What is the origin of the word ‘checkmate’?

Ans: It comes from the Persian ‘shah mat’, meaning ‘the king is dead’.

Question: What is a ‘Scholar’s Mate’?

Ans: A strategy in which the player wins in only four moves.