The 44th Chess Olympiad of 2022, the first to be hosted by India, was held near which city?
- A.Chennai
- B.Kolkata
- C.Hyderabad
- D.New Delhi
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, Chennai. The 44th Chess Olympiad was played in 2022 at Mamallapuram near Chennai in Tamil Nadu, the first time India had hosted the team world championship of chess, and the Indian teams won bronze medals in the open section and in the women's section. Chennai is also the home city of Viswanathan Anand and of several of the young Grandmasters who followed him, which is why the venue was fitting. Option B is wrong because Kolkata, though a long-standing centre of Indian chess, did not host this event. Option C is wrong because Hyderabad has hosted other international tournaments but not the Olympiad. Option D is wrong because New Delhi was not the venue. Two years later, at Budapest in 2024, India won gold in both sections.
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Practice Questions
View allThe modern game of chess is believed to have developed from which ancient Indian game?
- A.Chaturanga
- B.Pachisi
- C.Gilli Danda
- D.Chausar
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Chaturanga was played in India in the Gupta age and its name means four limbs, standing for the four divisions of an ancient army: infantry, cavalry, elephants and chariots.
Read the full explanation →Who became the first Grandmaster of India?
- A.Pentala Harikrishna
- B.Viswanathan Anand
- C.Manuel Aaron
- D.Dibyendu Barua
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Anand, born in Mayiladuthurai and brought up in Chennai, earned the Grandmaster title in 1988 while still a teenager and became the first Indian to hold the highest lifetime title awarded by FIDE.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Indian woman to be awarded the Grandmaster title?
- A.Koneru Humpy
- B.Dronavalli Harika
- C.Tania Sachdev
- D.Vaishali Rameshbabu
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Humpy, from Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh, earned the open Grandmaster title in 2002 while in her teens, and at that time she was the youngest woman in the world to have done so.
Read the full explanation →How many squares are there on a standard chessboard?
- A.36
- B.49
- C.64
- D.81
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A chessboard is a square divided into eight rows, called ranks, and eight columns, called files, so the number of squares is 8 multiplied by 8, that is 64.
Read the full explanation →In which year was FIDE, the international chess federation, founded?
- A.1912
- B.1924
- C.1936
- D.1951
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FIDE, the Federation Internationale des Echecs, was founded in Paris in 1924, and its motto is Gens una sumus, a Latin phrase meaning we are one people.
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