India’s Unconventional Win
Sep 12, 2020
3 minutes
—Devangshu Datta
Illustration by SIDDHANT JUMDE
The Indian team scored gold at the Online Chess Olympiad under strange circumstances. It is the first time India has won gold at an Olympiad—the previous best performance was a bronze in 2014 under very different conditions.
The final between Russia and India had to be written off due to a massive internet outage on Sunday, August 31, making it impossible to connect to the host website, . After some cogitation, the World Chess Federation president Arkady Dvorkovich awarded gold
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