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The 2024 World Blitz Chess Championship was the 4th edition of the annual chess tournament held by FIDE to determine the world champion in chess played under blitz time controls. Since 2012, FIDE has held the World Rapid and Blitz Championships at a joint tournament. The tournament was held in New York City, United States, from 30 to 31 ...
Lichess (/ ˈ l iː tʃ ɛ s /; LEE-ches) [3] [4] is a free and open-source Internet chess server run by a non-profit organization of the same name. Users of the site can play online chess anonymously and optionally register an account to play rated games.
The Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2025 was the 87th edition of the annual chess tournament held in Wijk aan Zee.It was held from 17 January to 2 February 2025. The field of 14 players in the Masters section included the defending champion Wei Yi, as well as 2024 Challengers winner Leon Luke Mendonca.
The FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship 2022 (WFRCC) was the second official world championship in Fischer Random Chess (also known as Chess960). [1] [2] The competition followed a similar format to the first championship in 2019, with qualifying stages open to all interested participants taking place online on chess.com and Lichess, and four qualified players joined four invited ...
In contrast, Lichess tends to secretly place detected cheaters in a separate playing pool, which prevents cheaters from knowing when they have been caught. [12] Chess.com and Lichess both allow detected cheaters to appeal their ban statuses. [13] Of roughly 39,000 appeals processed by Chess.com in 2023, about 0.3% were granted. [4]
The tournament was a 12-player round robin, and utilized a mix of rapid and blitz time controls – 25 minutes for the first 20 moves, and 5 minutes for the remainder of the game. Due to the irregular time controls, several players lost on time, and the quality of the games was thought to have suffered as a result.
The tournament took place at The Great Hall in Toronto, Canada, from April 3–22, 2024. [1] The event was held alongside the Women's Candidates Tournament . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The event was won by Gukesh Dommaraju , which made him the youngest ever winner of a Candidates Tournament , and the youngest ever World Chess Championship challenger.
Swiss system tournaments, a type of group tournament common in chess and other board games, and in card games such as bridge, use various criteria to break ties between players who have the same total number of points after the last round. This is needed when prizes are indivisible, such as titles, trophies, or qualification for another tournament.