“We are pleased with how the tournament went. There were a lot of spectators - especially in China. Today, according to our data, the audience was about 700 thousand people on one of the channels - these are big numbers. So we will continue, ”TASS quoted Dvorkovich as saying.
Speaking about the course of the tournament, he noted that the favorite of the competition was the winner.
“According to the initial scenario, it was clear that the Chinese team will be among the first, it played very confidently - only in the last round they lost to the Americans and met with them in the final. But the intrigue continued: the Americans gave a real fight, everything was decided in the last moves, ”the head of FIDE added.
Earlier it was reported that the Chinese team became the winner of the Chess Cup of Nations.