The 44th Chess Olympiad was an international team chess event organised by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in Chennai, India, in 2022. This was the first Chess Olympiad to take place in India. The main venue was the Four Points by Sheraton convention centre at Mahabalipuram. There were 937 participants in the open tournament and 800 in the women's event. Teams represented 186 nations in the open section and 160 in the women's. Both sections set team participation records. Uzbekistan won the gold medal in the open event, while Ukraine claimed gold in the women's event. English player David Howell had the highest performance for an individual player in the open event with a performance rating of 2898, scoring 7½ out of a possible 8 points. Polish player Oliwia Kiołbasa had the highest individual performance in the women's event with a performance rating of 2565, with 9½ out of a possible 11 points. The 93rd FIDE Congress took place during the Olympiad.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/44th_Chess_Olympiad

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1932:

The Australian military began a "war against emus" (man with dead emu pictured), flightless native birds blamed for widespread damage to crops in Western Australia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War

1943:

World War II: A U.S. Navy task force turned away an Imperial Japanese Navy fleet at the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, thus protecting the landings at Cape Torokina. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Empress_Augusta_Bay

1960:

In the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, publisher Penguin Books was acquitted of obscenity for the publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Penguin_Books_Ltd

2007:

In Tbilisi, Georgia, tens of thousands of people demonstrated against the allegedly corrupt government of president Mikheil Saakashvili. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Georgian_demonstrations

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

obituary: 1. A brief notice of a person's death, especially one published in a newspaper or other publication; also (obsolete), the section of a newspaper where notices of deaths are published. 2. (by extension) A brief biography of a person (especially one who is well-known) who has recently died, usually describing their life and achievements, particularly in the form of an article in a news publication or an item in a news broadcast. 3. (figurative) An announcement or description of the end of something. 4. (historical) A register of deaths, especially one maintained by a religious institution; a necrology. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/obituary

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It’s peace that’s wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.   --Lois McMaster Bujold https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lois_McMaster_Bujold