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The tour was co-founded by five-time World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen and German investor Jan Henric Buettner. [2] [3] [4] Carlsen has been an advocate for Chess960 as an alternative to classical chess that eliminates opening preparation and theory. [5] [6] [7] In July 2024, Left Lane Capital invested $12 million in the venture.
Olexandr Bortnyk (born 18 October 1996) is a Ukrainian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2015, at the age of 19. A chess prodigy , Bortnyk is considered one of the strongest players according to his rating on the chess.com website in the "Blitz" and "Bullet" category.
Christopher Hikaru Nakamura [2] (born December 9, 1987) is an American chess grandmaster, streamer, YouTuber, five-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the reigning World Fischer Random Chess Champion. A chess prodigy , he earned his grandmaster title at the age of 15, the youngest American at the time to do so.
In December 2020, he made it to the finals round of the Chess.com Bullet Open Championship. [1]In September 2022, he finished second in the late Titled Tuesday tournament.
American grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura, who has played in every single edition to date, won the event a record five times consecutively from 2018 to 2022. [2] He had also reached every final until 2024, when he was knocked out in the semifinals for the first time. [3] Since 2019, Chess.com has also held the Women's and Junior Speed Chess ...
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 ...
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.
2019: Third place in Chess.com's Bullet Chess Championship, behind runner-up Oleksandr Bortnyk and Hikaru Nakamura, the winner. Winner of the 2019 Norway Chess blitz tournament with 7.5 out of 9. 2019: Fifth Place at the World Blitz Championship in Moscow with 14 points out of 21.