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Comment by pritambarhate

There was the finals of The FIDE Chess Olympiad going on between India and Russia when this outage started. 2 Indian players lost connect to Chess.com at this time and ended up losing their games on time. This ensued a lot of drama. In the FIDE ended up declaring both India and Russia as joint gold medalist. Russian players were not happy. Also Armenia had forfeited from tournament as they had faced similar disconnection issue against India during quarterfinals.

Here are a few links if you want to follow the drama:

BBC: Chess Olympiad: India and Russia both get gold after controversial final [1]

YouTube: Joint Gold for Team India and Russia at the Online Olympiad 2020 | Full [2] story

FINALE!! INDIA vs RUSSIA CHESS OLYMPIAD LIVE STREAM [3]: Actual live stream of the final. The actual incident starts around 01:56:00

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-53965748

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgZAVOUmWcg

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJLyFSVuRnk

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