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August 20 - September 15

Current Stage – Playoff

The International Chess Federation is pleased to announce the FIDE Online Olympiad 2021, to be held between August 20th and September 15th, 2021.

The Online Olympiad is a national teams event in which all federations affiliated to FIDE have the right to participate.

Each team will consist of six players, in a mixed format with a minimum of three female players and two junior players.
Specifically, each team must include:
- at least 2 women
- at least 1 player U-20 (born in 2001 or later)
- at least 1 girl U-20 (born in 2001 or later)

The teams may have up to six reserves, plus a team captain.
The time control for this event will be 15 minutes + 5 seconds increment per move.

The event will consist of two main stages: the “Divisions stage”, and the Play-offs stage.

Since the Online Olympiad is a mixed event, for pairing purposes the teams’ federations performance ranking will be established in accordance with the final standings of the last “Gaprindashvili Cup”, which combines the results in the open and women’s sections at the Batumi Chess Olympiad 2018,and in the FIDE Online Olympiad 2020.

FIRST STAGE: Divisions

All the teams-participants will be divided into 4 divisions ranked from “Division 4” to “Top Division”.

SECOND STAGE: Play-off

Eight teams qualified from Stage 1 play a knock-out tournament. Each duel consists of two matches, alternating which team has white on the first board (and subsequently, on the rest of even-numbered boards).

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

TOURNAMENT OFFICIALS

ARBITERS
Alex Holowczak (ENG) - Chief Arbiter
Sabina de San Vincente (URU) – Deputy Chief Arbiter
Nebojsa Baralic (SRB) – Pool Arbiter
Shaun Press (PNG) – Pool Arbiter
Jirina Prokopova (CZE) – Pool Arbiter
Kausar Bauyrzhan (KAZ) – Zoom
Shohreh Bayat (ENG) – Zoom
Anand Dommalapati (USA) – Zoom
Marika Japaridze (GEO) – Zoom
Carlos Gimenez Canadas (ESP) – Zoom
Aris Marghetis (CAN) – Zoom
Amira Marzouk (TUN) – Zoom
Alberto Muniz Pardino (HKG) – Zoom
Chanda Nsakanya (ZAM) – Zoom
Gunther van den Bergh (RSA) – Zoom
Zhu Jiaqi (CHN) – Zoom

FAIR PLAY PANEL
Yuri Garrett (ITA) – Principal
Andy Howie (SCO) – Principal
Konstantin Landa (RUS) – Member
Christiana Ashley (GHA) – Member
Vincent Geeraets (NED) – Member
Michail Prevenios (GRE) – Member
Gopakumar Sudhakaran (IND) – Member

DISCONNECTION RESOLUTION OFFICER
Andy Howie (SCO)

APPEALS COMMITTEE
Emil Sutovsky (ISR) – Chairman
Dana Reizniece-Ozola (LAT) – Member
Yin Hao (CHN) – Member
Pavel Tregubov (RUS) – First reserve
Lukasz Turlej (POL) – Second reserve