A day after 55-year-old Vasyl Ivanchuk avenged his 2009 World Cup defeat against Wesley So, TOI chronicles the intriguing statistics of the 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad, where nearly 2,000 participants from almost 200 countries converged in Budapest.
Fifteen years after announcing his retirement from the game following a loss against the then 16-year-old So, Ivanchuk recently reversed his decision and helped Ukraine in stunning top seeds United States in the fourth round at the Olympiad on Friday, demonstrating that chess has no age limit.
