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“Yeah, we are bidding for the chess Olympiad this year. The budget for the event would be USD 10 million (about Rs 75 crore),” AICF secretary Bharat Singh Chauhan told PTI.
The Chess Olympiad is a biennial team event, in which teams from some 190 countries compete for honours over a two-week period.
The chess Olympiad 2022 was supposed to take place in Moscow from July 26 July to August 8.
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The other events that are moved away from Russia are the first chess Olympiad for people with disabilities and the 93rd FIDE Congress.
FIDE is said to be already working on finding alternative dates and locations for these events.
If India gets the nod to host the Olympiad, it would be the second major world event to be held in the country after the World Championship match in 2013 between Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen, the current world No.1.