The Guyana Chess Olympiad team leaves for Baku, Azerbaijan, this week to attend the 42nd Chess Olympiad. The mind game of chess has not as yet gained entry into the influential summer Olympics, although it has been trying to negotiate that barrier for years.
As an alternative, therefore, the World Chess Federation, known by its French acronym FIDE, hosts its own private, separate biennial Olympiad. At the 2014 Tromso, Norway, Olympiad, 172 nations were represented, a little less than almost the entire world, in reference to the 203 nations which competed in Rio de Janeiro. Other than the mammoth Olympics, and the FIFA World Cup, the chess Olympiad remains the largest sporting event in the world in relation to participating nations. It is reasonable to say Guyana is participating in a huge sophisticated event.
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