Barbados is among 163 countries set to compete at the inaugural FIDE Online Chess Olympiad.
The Barbados Chess Federation has named a 12-member team for the global event, which will start on Saturday and run until August 30.
The event has been organised in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic which forced the world governing body for chess to postpone the over-the-board 44th Olympiad from August this year until the summer of 2021 in Moscow, Russia.
Played as a mixed event – each country will field three males and three females for each round – the Online Olympiad will be contested over the rapid format in which games usually last a maximum of half-hour. (PR)
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