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The 2021 World Blitz Chess Championship is the 1st 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 average Elo rating of top players has risen over time. For instance, the average of the top 10 active players rose from 2751 in July 2000 to 2794 in July 2014, a 43-point increase in 14 years. The average rating of the top 100 players, meanwhile, increased from 2644 to 2703, a 59-point increase. [ 3 ]
The 2023 World Blitz Chess Championship was the 3rd 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 first blitz chess tournament to be recognized by FIDE as a "world championship" took place on 6 September 2006 in Rishon Lezion, Israel.Structured as a 16-player round-robin, the tournament featured seven of the world's top 20 Grandmasters, as well as a young Magnus Carlsen.
He frequently ranks at the top of both websites' leaderboards in Blitz and Bullet. His peak bullet rating on Chess.com is 3553, and peak bullet rating on lichess is 3326. [18] [19] By FIDE ratings, Naroditsky is consistently ranked in the top 150 in the World, top 15 in the U.S., top 75 in Rapid, and top 25 in Blitz. [20]
The 34-year-old, who has won five world rapid and seven world blitz titles in the last 10 years, was fined $200 for wearing jeans during the rapid tournament on Friday and was asked to change by ...
Later that year, in September, he won the Moscow Blitz Championship [28] and one month later, he took the silver medal at the World Rapid Chess Championship in Berlin. [ 29 ] At the Chess World Cup 2015 , Nepomniachtchi defeated Zhao Jun and Laurent Fressinet in the first and second rounds, but lost to Hikaru Nakamura in the third round in ...
Since 2012, FIDE has held the World Rapid and Blitz Championships at a joint tournament. The tournament was held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan from 26 to 28 December 2023, [1] using a Swiss-system with 13 rounds for the open tournament and 11 rounds for the women's tournament. [1]