Tromsø bids for 2014 Chess Olympiad

The Norwegian city of Tromsø, in cooperation with the Norwegian Chess Federation has made its official bid to be host city for the 2014 Chess Olympiad. It also includes a bid for the 2013 World Cup.

One of the world’s largest sporting events, the Olympiad hosts 1400 participants from 150 nations in a team competition spanning two weeks.

The Chess Olympiad is a biennal tournament to determine the best five-player open and women’s teams in the world. World Chess Federation FIDE organizes the event, selecting the host nation based on a bidding process.

Tromsø’s application is the fruit of long-term preparations which began in 2006.Tromsø has a very active chess community and hosts an annual international festival, the Arctic Chess Challenge, in August every year.

With 75,000 inhabitants Tromsø has all the amenities of "a small large city". Tromsø has a relatively mild climate, and is just a three-hour flight away from London and Frankfurt, and less than two hours by air from the Norwegian capital, Oslo.

(NRK/Press release)

Saturday, 01 May 2010 07:01