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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.
Table of top 20 rated players of all-time, with date their best ratings were first achieved Rank Rating Player Date Age 1 2882 Magnus Carlsen: May 2014 23 years, 5 months 2 2851 Garry Kasparov: July 1999 36 years, 2 months 3 2844 Fabiano Caruana: October 2014 22 years, 2 months 4 2830 Levon Aronian: March 2014
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.
The Champions Chess Tour (CCT) 2024 was a fast chess tournament circuit organized in 2024 by Chess.com.The tour started on 26 January 2024 and ended on 21 December 2024. It involved four online chess tournaments and an over-the-board final round, featuring some of the world's top players who played for a prize money pool of US$1,700,000.
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 time control is 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game, and a 30-second increment per move after move 40. The matches consist of two classical games. In the event of a tie, rapid and blitz tiebreaks are played in the following order until the tie is broken – two 15+10 rapid games, two 5+2 blitz ...