Chess Olympics: Indian shahists stop the internet in finals, announced winners with Russians

The Chess Olympics are being held online for the first time this year because of the Coronavirus pandemic.

India was alarmed when two of its players lost the internet in their matches and lost time in today's day, writes the BBC, translates Periscopi.

Officials said these were “around unprecedented”.

“Olympia Online chess has been affected by global Internet disruption, which has seriously damaged many countries, including India. Two of the Indian chess players lost the network when the match flow was still unclear, said Arkardy Dvorkovich, president of the International Chess Federation.

He said he had decided to give both teams gold medals under <x0mungen of a unanimous” decision by the appeals committee.

Teams from more than 160 countries around the world have participated in this year's online event, which began in July.

And this wasn't the first Internet incident.

Armenia has said Friday that one of its chess players was connected to the internet during the quarterfinals against India, and lost time. The appeal was rejected, and his country was pulled out of the race as a sign of protest. /Periscope