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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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