The International Chess Federation issued a statement on its official website on 25th Beijing time, saying that due to the impact of the new Crown pneumonia epidemic, the 2020 Chess Olympic team competition scheduled to be held this summer will be postponed to the summer of 2021.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 25 (reporter Zheng Zhi, Lu Yuchen) the international chess federation issued a statement on its official website on 25th Beijing time, saying that affected by the outbreak of the new Crown pneumonia, the 2020 Chess Olympic team competition originally scheduled for this summer will be postponed to the summer of 2021.
The statement said that the international chess federation paid close attention to the increasingly serious epidemic of covid-19 and its harm to life and health. Considering the increasing number of confirmed cases reported by the World Health Organization worldwide, in view of the fact that the International Olympic Committee has issued a statement to postpone the Tokyo Olympic Games, the International Chess Federation decided to postpone the 44th Chess Olympic Games (including the disabled) and the International Chess Federation Congress.
These activities were originally planned to be held in Moscow and Hunter-Mansisk in the summer of 2020, and now they are decided to be held in the same place in the summer of 2021. The international chess federation will continue its efforts to support various chess activities, and at the same time make the health and well-being of the entire international chess community a top priority.
The Olympic chess team competition is the largest, highest level and most influential chess team competition in the world. In the 43rd International Chess Olympic team competition held in Batumi, Georgia in 2018, the Chinese men’s and women’s teams joined hands to win the championship and crowned the Olympic Games “double champion King” for the first time “.