Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the torch relay for the forty fourth Chess Olympiad for the primary time. He will flag off the match to be held in July-August on June 19 in Delhi. The Prime Minister will inaugurate the relay on the Indira Gandhi Stadium in Delhi. All India Chess Federation gave this info in a tweet.

AICF President Sanjay Kapoor tweeted that the primary torch relay of Chess Olympiad will probably be inaugurated by none aside from Honorable Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi ji on nineteenth June 2022 at IG Stadium.

Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand will even be part of the relay. This relay, which is on the strains of the Olympic Games, will now all the time be held within the Chess Olympiad in future additionally. The World Chess Federation (FIDE) has already introduced this. FIDE had mentioned that the torch relay would all the time begin from India, the daddy of chess, and journey via totally different subcontinents to the host metropolis. Due to time constraints this 12 months, the relay will probably be held in India solely. The Chess Olympiad will probably be held from 28 July to 10 August at Mahabalipuram. A file 343 groups from 187 nations will take part within the Open and Women’s classes.