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| Dates run | 10–23 September 2024 |
| Competitors | 1,884 (975 in Open and 909 in Women's event) |
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| Opened by | Arkady Dvorkovich |
| Cauldron | Judit Polgár |
| Venue | SYMA Sports and Conference Centre (all matches) Dr. Jeno Koltai Sports Center (opening ceremony) |
| Location | Budapest, Hungary |
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| Gaprindashvili Cup |  India
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| Previous | ←Chennai 2022 |
| Next | Tashkent 2026 → |
The 45th Chess Olympiad was an international team chess event organised by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in Budapest, Hungary, from 10 to 23 September 2024.
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 2022. It was the first time since 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 more than the rest of the field. The United States won silver and Uzbekistan won bronze in the Open event, while Kazakhstan and the United States completed the podium in the Women's event. For the first time in a Chess Olympiad, no European team won a medal in either the Open or the Women's event. Indian top-board player Gukesh Dommaraju had the highest performance for an individual player in the Open event with a performance rating of 3056 (he scored 9 out of 10 points). Israeli player Dana Kochavi had the highest individual performance in the Women's event with a performance rating of 2676 (she scored a perfect 8 of a possible 8 points). Overall, India players won four gold medals on individual boards in both events.
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.