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I note that India has successfully hosted the 2010 Commonwealth Games, the world's second-largest sports event, after the Olympics, in terms of competitors and nations taking part. But that was with a lead-in preparation time of several years. This Chess event is on short notice.
This was the most expensive Games ever, costing more than $10 billion (U.S.), according to wikipedia.org.
So the nation has experience at hosting significant sporting events.
The 2022 Chess Olympiad will see more nations, but fewer competitors, than India hosted in 2010.
Victor, I am wondering if FIDE has considered the possibility of expanding the sizes of team rosters, for Olympiad 2022, in view of COVID. Granted, this would increase the costs all round, but it would be really a shame to see teams have to withdraw, due to losing players who contract COVID illness during the event. This would also disturb the competitive balance.
As far as I know, FIDE is not considering this. The size was reduced from 6 to 5 many years ago and, personally, I don't see any reason to change it now.
Euro 2020 Football (played in Summer 2021) allowed federations to increase their squads to 26 - from the conventional 23 - in light of covid / travel restrictions.
Losing one player in chess Olympiad restricts the team's flexibility completely right now. Losing two leaves a team handicapped. But I also imagine FIDE won't change things, especially with covid seemingly out the door (not really, but we're just living with the new waves).
Also, in 2021 the entire situation was different. Last big official FIDE events (like European individual championship last month) the impact of COVID was very limited.
If you have 6 players for 4 boards, you probably need much longer tournament, at least 13 or 14 rounds (like it used to be 20 years ago with 6 players roster). Looks extremely expensive and just unrealistic in current situation. Unfortunately, FIDE faces more serious problems nowadays.
Thanks to Victor for his informative posts on this topic.
Now, seeing the National Team list, in view of the inexperience of our new champion, if it would make sense to rearrange the board order, to move IM-elect Zhang to a lower board. I am concerned about the possibility of him getting overmatched on board one.
As I mentioned many times here, board order is the decision of a team captain only. The qualification list of players has absolutely nothing to do with board order.
Just for fun. Last Olympiads, from 2006, the champion was playing:
2006 - IM I.Zugic played on board 3
2008 - IM N.Noritsyn - board 5
2010 - IM J.Hebert - did not play
2012 - GM B.Sambuev - board 1
2014 - GM B.Sambuev - board 4
2016 - IM T.Krnan - board 5
2018 - GM B.Sambuev - did not play.
So, out of 5 Olympiads the average (3-5-1-4-5) is 3.6.
3.6 is much larger than 1.
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