Chess Olympiad 2020 Final - India lose with server crash controversy

The Chess Online Olympiad Final which was the first ever has seen another controversy with 3 of Indian games getting effected because of disconnection issues unfortunately. Game 1 was a draw with 3 points each for India and Russia. It was all poised to thrilling game 2 where games were well balanced and hopes getting raised to see another armageddon. Game 2 had Vishwanath Anand, Vidit and Harika who had their games drawn. And games of Nihal, Divya and Humpy suddenly got disconnected. Humpy had reportedly connected back in time but both of Divya and Nihal reportedly lost on time. Divya was in a winning position just before the incident happened. Humpy eventually lost her game but lost time due the issue. Lot of support for India with over 60k+ people viewing the game live on youtube channel. At this moment India had formally submitted their appeal against the issue result is awaited. It doesnt look good for India as similar incidents had gone in opponents favor previously in the tournament. One of the users in youtube had reported that the cloudfare which is supposedly hosting chess.com servers had crashed for a majorly. cloudfarestatus.com screenshot placed for reference. Looks like global internet outage at this point. LATEST Update: By the decision of FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich both finalists - Russia and India - are declared co-champions & awarded with the gold medals. READ MORE..

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