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The total number of participants was 1,884: 975 in the Open and 909 in the Women's event. The number of registered teams was 197 from 195 nations in the Open section and 183 from 181 nations in the Women's section. Both sections set team participation records. This was the first [[Chess Olympiad]] in which teams of refugees participated due to efforts made through FIDE's initiative for refugees "Chess for Protection". Nine national teams made their debut in the Women's event and many players with children under the age of one decided to play, which was largely a result of the "National Female Team Initiative" and "ChessMom" programmes run by FIDE Commission for Women's Chess to ensure gender equality and support the provision of childcare. The main venue of the Chess Olympiad was [[SYMA Sports and Conference Centre]]. The Chief Arbiter of the event was Slovakia's [[International Arbiter]] Ivan Syrovy.
A total of 11 rounds were played in both the Open and Women's events, and each featured four players from one team facing four players from another team. India won the gold medal in both the Open and Women's events, which were the country's first overall victories at the Chess Olympiad, after they had previously won one bronze medal in the Women's event in [[44th Chess Olympiad|2022]]. It was the first time since [[43rd Chess Olympiad|2018]] that the same nation won the titles in both events, and India became the third nation to do so after the former [[Soviet Union]] and China. In the Open event, the Indian team set a new record by scoring 21 out of 22 possible match points, being the only unbeaten team in the tournament with four match points
The 95th FIDE Congress also took place during the Olympiad, at which FIDE's General Assembly upheld the ban on Russian and Belarusian players by rejecting the Kyrgyz Chess Federation's proposal to restore the full membership of their respective chess federations.
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==== Open summary ====
[[File:Gukesh in 2024 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|alt=Gukesh Dommaraju|Gukesh Dommaraju of India was the best individual player in the Open event.]]
India won the gold medal in the Open event with a total of 21 out of 22 possible match points, which broke the previous record set by the United States and Ukraine of 20 out of 22 points in [[42nd Chess Olympiad|2016]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.chessbase.in/news/45th-Chess-Olympiad-2024-Express-Report |author=Shahid Ahmed |title=Breaking news: India wins a historic double Gold at 45th Chess Olympiad |publisher=ChessBase India |date=22 September 2024 |access-date=26 September 2024 }}</ref> They were the only unbeaten team in the tournament, having scored ten wins and one draw, and scored four match points more than the rest of the field.<ref name="final-open">{{cite web |url=https://chess-results.com/tnr967173.aspx?lan=1&art=1&turdet=YES&flag=30 |title=45th Olympiad Budapest 2024 Open – Final Ranking after 11 Rounds |publisher=Chess-results.com |access-date=22 September 2024 |archive-date= |archive-url= }}</ref> It was India's first overall win at the Chess Olympiads.<ref name="espn-first">{{cite web |url=https://www.espn.com/chess/story/_/id/41379777/milestones-indian-chess-history-2024-olympiad-gold-gukesh-viswanathan-anand-manuel-aaron-subbaraman-vijayalakshmi |author=Anirudh Menon |title=68 years in the making: Olympiad golds mark milestones in Indian chess history |publisher=[[ESPN]] |date=22 September 2024 |access-date=23 September 2024 |archive-date=22 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240922180801/https://www.espn.com/chess/story/_/id/41379777/milestones-indian-chess-history-2024-olympiad-gold-gukesh-viswanathan-anand-manuel-aaron-subbaraman-vijayalakshmi |url-status=live }}</ref> On the road to the gold medal, they defeated the United States, Hungary and China, and were held to a draw only by Uzbekistan in the ninth round.<ref name="open-india">{{cite web |url=https://chess-results.com/tnr967173.aspx?lan=1&art=20&flag=30&snr=2 |title=45th Olympiad Budapest 2024 Open – India |publisher=Chess-results.com |access-date=23 September 2024 |archive-date=12 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240912151207/https://chess-results.com/tnr967173.aspx?lan=1&art=20&flag=30&snr=2 |url-status=live }}</ref> A group of five teams finished with 17 match points (eight wins, one draw and two losses), but the pre-tournament first-seeded team of the United States and defending champions Uzbekistan achieved better tie-breakers and won the silver and bronze medals, respectively.<ref name="chessbase-r11">{{cite web |url=https://en.chessbase.com/post/chess-olympiad-2024-r11 |author=Carlos Alberto Colodro |title=Double gold for India at the Chess Olympiad in Budapest! |publisher=Chessbase |date=22 September 2024 |access-date=23 September 2024 |archive-date=22 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240922222019/https://en.chessbase.com/post/chess-olympiad-2024-r11 |url-status=live }}</ref> Despite the lacklustre performance from World Champion Ding Liren, who did not win a single game in the tournament, the Chinese team was in the race for the gold until the final round and ended in fourth place due to their last-round loss to the US team.<ref name="chess.com-r11">{{cite web |url=https://www.chess.com/news/view/budapest-2024-fide-chess-olympiad-india-wins |author=Colin McGourty |title=India Clinches Historic Double Olympiad Gold |publisher=Chess.com |date=22 September 2024 |access-date=23 September 2024 |archive-date=22 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240922213551/https://www.chess.com/news/view/budapest-2024-fide-chess-olympiad-india-wins |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://chess-results.com/tnr967173.aspx?lan=1&art=20&flag=30&snr=3 |title=45th Olympiad Budapest 2024 Open – China |publisher=Chess-results.com |access-date=23 September 2024 |archive-date=20 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240920142557/https://chess-results.com/tnr967173.aspx?art=20&flag=30&lan=1&snr=3 |url-status=live }}</ref> Serbia came fifth and Armenia sixth after scoring 17 match points as well. Slovenia's strong performance with 16 match points (eight wins and three losses) earned them the ninth place even though they were not among the main pre-tournament favourites.<ref name="final-open"/> For the first time in the history of Chess Olympiads, no European team won a medal in the Open event.<ref name="barden">{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/sep/27/chess-india-win-double-gold-as-new-generation-dominates-at-olympiad |author= [[Leonard Barden]] |title=Chess: India win double gold as new generation dominates at Olympiad |date=27 September 2024 |access-date=7 October 2024 }}</ref>
The challenger in the World Chess Championship 2024, Gukesh Dommaraju of India, achieved the highest rating performance of 3056 in the Open event after scoring 9 out of 10 points (eight wins and two draws) on board one.<ref name="chessbase-r11"/><ref name="open-india"/> Individual gold medals were also won by [[Thai Dai Van Nguyen]] of the Czech Republic with 7½ out of 10 and a rating performance of 2783, Arjun Erigaisi of India who had the highest individual score in the tournament of 10 out of 11 with a rating performance of 2968, Shamsiddin Vokhidov of Uzbekistan who scored 8 out of 10 with a rating performance of 2779, and Frederik Svane of Germany who played as a reserve player and finished with 9 out of 10 and a rating performance of 2791.<ref name="best-open">{{cite web|url=https://chess-results.com/tnr967173.aspx?lan=1&art=21&flag=30 |title=45th Olympiad Budapest 2024 Open – Board-prizes (Final Ranking after 11 Rounds) - Open |publisher=Chess-results.com}}</ref> Gukesh's win against China's Wei Yi in the seventh round was awarded the Olympiad Best Game prize.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2776016 |title=Dommaraju Gukesh vs Wei Yi, Budapest Olympiad (2024) |publisher=Chessgames.com |access-date=19 September 2024 }}</ref> Erigaisi's performance earned him the third place on the FIDE rankings. Magnus Carlsen won the bronze medal on board one, leaving his ambition of eliminating one of the few gaps in his career unfulfilled.<ref name="barden"/>
English chess journalist [[Leonard Barden]] described India's performance as "seminal moment in chess history", and compared it to the [[US vs. USSR radio chess match 1945]] that the Soviet Union won 15½–4½ to mark the beginning of their chess dominance. He added that Gukesh and Erigaisi could be [[Mikhail Botvinnik]] and [[Vasily Smyslov]] or [[Anatoly Karpov]] and [[Garry Kasparov]] of the 2020s and 2030s. Barden mentioned Vishwanathan Anand as inspiration of India's success as he had mentored several of the players. India's prime minister [[Narendra Modi]] received the Indian teams at his residence to congratulate for their achievements.<ref name="barden"/>
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==== Women's summary ====
[[File:JinerZhu2022.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=Zhu Jiner|[[Zhu Jiner]] of China won an individual gold medal on board one in the Women's event.]]
India won the gold medal in the Women's event with a total of 19 match points, having recorded nine wins, one draw and one loss.<ref name="final-women">{{cite web |url=https://chess-results.com/tnr967172.aspx?lan=1&art=0&rd=11&flag=30 |title=45th Olympiad Chennai 2024 Women – Final Ranking after 11 Rounds |publisher=Chess-results.com |access-date=22 September 2024 |archive-date=22 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240922225259/https://chess-results.com/tnr967172.aspx?lan=1&art=0&rd=11&flag=30 |url-status=live }}</ref> It was India's first overall win at the Chess Olympiads.<ref name="espn-first"/> The team justified their role as pre-tournament top seeds according to the average rating, and defeated Georgia in the seventh and China in the tenth rounds on the road to the gold medal, but also lost to the third-seeded team of Poland in the eighth and drew with the United States in the ninth rounds.<ref name="women-india">{{cite web |url=https://chess-results.com/tnr967172.aspx?lan=1&art=20&flag=30&snr=1 |title=45th Olympiad Budapest 2024 Women – India |publisher=Chess-results.com |access-date=23 September 2024 |archive-date=14 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240914184129/https://chess-results.com/tnr967172.aspx?lan=1&art=20&flag=30&snr=1 |url-status=live }}</ref> Kazakhstsan had a strong performance that earned them the silver medal with 18 match points (eight wins, two draws and one loss), and the United States completed the podium with 17 match points (eight wins, one draw and two losses).<ref name="chessbase-r11"/> Following India's loss to Poland and draw with the United States, the Kazakh team was sole leader with two rounds to go.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://chess-results.com/tnr967172.aspx?lan=1&art=0&rd=9&flag=30 |title=5th Chess Olympiad Budapest 2024 Women — Rank after Round 9 - Women |publisher=Chess-results.com |access-date=24 September 2024 }}</ref> However, they lost the lead due to the two ties with Georgia and the United States in the final rounds.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://chess-results.com/tnr967172.aspx?lan=1&art=20&flag=30&snr=10 |title=45th Chess Olympiad Budapest 2024 Women – Kazakhstan |publisher=Chess-results.com |access-date=24 September 2024 }}</ref> The US team had the best tie-breaker amongst the four teams tied for third place, ahead of Spain, Armenia and Georgia, which got them the bronze medal.<ref name="fide-r11">{{cite web |url=https://www.fide.com/news/3228 |author=Anna Burtasova |title=India triumphs at 45th Chess Olympiad, winning both Open and Women's competitions |publisher=FIDE |date=22 September 2024 |access-date=23 September 2024 |archive-date=22 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240922222939/https://www.fide.com/news/3228 |url-status=live }}</ref> Without their top players, China finished in seventh place and defending champions Ukraine came eighth.<ref name="final-women"/> For the first time in the history of Chess Olympiads, no European team won a medal in the Women's event.<ref name="barden"/>
The highest rating performance of 2676 was achieved by [[Dana Kochavi]] who played as a reserve for Israel and had a perfect score of 8 out of 8 possible points.<ref name="final-israel">{{cite web |url=https://chess-results.com/tnr967172.aspx?lan=1&art=20&flag=30&snr=25 |title=45th Olympiad Budapest 2024 Women – Israel |publisher=Chess-results.com |access-date=23 September 2024 }}</ref> Individual gold medals were also won by Zhu Jiner of China with 7 out of 9 and a rating performance of 2597, Carissa Yip of the United States who had the highest individual score in the tournament of 10 out of 11 with a rating performance of 2634, Divya Deshmukh who scored 9½ out of 11 with a rating performance of 2608, and Vantika Agrawal of India with 7½ out of 9 and a rating performance of 2558.<ref name="best-women">{{cite web |url=https://chess-results.com/tnr967172.aspx?lan=1&art=21&flag=30 |title=45th Olympiad Budapest 2024 Women – Board-prizes (Final Ranking after 11 Rounds) |publisher=Chess-results.com |access-date=23 September 2024 |archive-date=22 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240922204925/https://chess-results.com/tnr967172.aspx?lan=1&art=21&flag=30 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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