Final List for FIDE Olympiad Training Support is to 48 Teams from 31 Federations
With the withdrawal of several Federations that earlier applied for Olympiad Training Support, we have been able to accommodate additional Federations who had appealed not being able to commit participation earlier, making it a total of 48 teams of which 17 are women.
Each Federation were asked to choose from the list of trainers given who applied but there were cases where no trainer was acceptable to them with good reasons while others lacked the language skills demanded.
We understand the disappointment of some of our trainer colleagues not selected but we cannot force a team to take a trainer they do not want and so TRG had no other option but to directly negotiate with the Federations in question to agree a suitable trainer.
On completion of Phase 1 – the online pre-Olympiad training, the Federations will have the option to continue with the trainer chosen/assigned to them to continue to work with them in Phase 2 – as trainer-captains of teams in Chennai, provided the trainer agrees and the Federation’s hotel accommodation is allocated and their airfare covered with the help of the travel subsidy awarded.
Alternatively the Federation may choose from a pool of 20 licensed trainers, selected by the All Indian Chess Federation (AICF) and endorsed by the FiDE Trainers’ Commission (TRG).
We wish to state here that should we find that there was insufficient commitment or seriousness in Phase 1 training or that the team’s level was found to be simply too low, then the FIDE Trainers’ Commission (TRG) will not agree to having a trainer in Chennai paid for by FIDE.
| No. | Federation | Languages | Trainer Choices & Allocation |
| 1 | Botswana | English | Vishal Sareen |
| & Women Team | English | ||
| 3 | Barbados | English | Swayams Mishra |
| & Women Team | English | ||
| 5 | Bermuda | English | Aleksandra Dimitrijevic |
| & Women Team | English | ||
| 7 | British Virgin Islands | English | Christiansen Sava |
| 8 | Cambodia | English, Chinese | Jackson Li |
| 9 | Cameroon | French | Neeraj-Kumar Mishra |
| 10 | Djibouti | French | Vladimir Lazarev |
| 11 | Dominica | English | Reinaldo Vera Gonzalez |
| 12 | Fiji | English | Sekhar Sahu |
| & Women Team | English | ||
| 14 | Gabon | French, English | Marko Tratar |
| & Women Team | French, English | ||
| 16 | Ghana | English | Ribli Zlotan |
| & Women Team | English | ||
| 18 | Gambia | English | Jamie Kenmure |
| & Women Team | English | ||
| 20 | Guernsey | English | Enkhtuul Altan-Ulzii |
| 21 | Guyana | English | Georg Mohr |
| 22 | Jersey | English | Alonso Zapata |
| & Women Team | English | ||
| 24 | Kenya | English | Marian Petrov |
| & Women Team | English | ||
| 26 | Liechtenstein* | German | Uwe Boensch |
| 27 | Malawi | English | Komarov, Dmytro |
| & Women Team | English | ||
| 29 | Malta | English | Tadej Sakelsek |
| 30 | Mauritania | French | Vladimir Lazarev |
| & Women Team | French | Mezioud Amina | |
| 32 | Nauru | English | Makota Rodwell |
| 33 | Pakistan | English | Gaprindashvili, Valeriane |
| & Women Team | English | ||
| 35 | Palestine* | Arabic, English | Jaroslaw Krassowizkij |
| & Women Team | Arabic, English | ||
| 37 | Saint Lucia | English | Jomo Pitterson |
| 38 | Sao Tome Principe | Portuguese, Spanish | Rodney Oscar Perez Garcia |
| & Women Team | Portuguese, Spanish | ||
| 40 | Senegal | French | Gripeos Kiriakos |
| & Women Team | French | ||
| 42 | Somalia | English | Georg Mohr |
| & Women Team | English | Neeraj-Kumar Mishra | |
| 44 | St. Nevis & Kitts | English | Reinaldo Vera Gonzalez |
| 45 | St. Vincent and Grenadines | English | José Luis Vilela Acuña |
| 46 | Sudan | Arabic, English | Sami Khader* |
| 47 | Togo | French | Slim Bouaziz |
| & Women Team | French |
*To be replaced
From earlier expressions of interest, FIDE budgeted for a total of 50 teams and so may in very special circumstance be able to accept two more teams.