Squad won plaudits for silver medals at the 2020 world teams but this event promises to present a tougher challenge
It was as recently as March 2019, though like much else pre-Covid it seems an era ago, that the
England team won their first major chess medals for 22 years, silver behind
Russia at the world team championship in Astana, Kazakhstan.
This weekend, with games starting at 5pm on Friday, comes the first phase of another opportunity in the nine rounds of section E of the B group in the 163-nation online Olympiad.