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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 December 2024. After three drawn tiebreak games in the finals of the Open section, Magnus Carlsen proposed and Ian Nepomniachtchi agreed to share first place.
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.
Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen [a] (born 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster.Carlsen is a five-time World Chess Champion, five-time World Rapid Chess Champion, the reigning (shared with Ian Nepomniachtchi) eight time World Blitz Chess Champion and the reigning Chess World Cup Champion.
World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen played his first match at the World Blitz Championship after initially quitting the chess tournament due to a dress code dispute with organizers.. On Friday, Carlsen ...
NEW YORK — Top-ranked chess player Magnus Carlsen is headed back to the World Blitz Championship on Monday after its governing body agreed to loosen a dress code that got him fined and denied a ...
Magnus Carlsen at Day 2 of the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship in New York on December 27, 2024. (Misha Friedman/Getty Images)
The 2023 World Blitz Chess Championship was the 3rd edition of the annual chess tournament held by FIDE to determine the world ... Magnus Carlsen: 2887 1 (W 140) 16:
Magnus Carlsen: Tata Steel Chess India Blitz: Kolkata: Nov 16–17 Blitz 10 2757 Magnus Carlsen: International President Cup Tashkent: Nov 21–29 120 2691 + 3 ⁄ 4: Nihal Sarin: World Chess Championship: Singapore: Nov 25 – Dec 13 FIDE 2 2757 Gukesh Dommaraju: U.S. Masters: Charlotte: Nov 27 – Dec 1 264 2655 + 1 ⁄ 2: Fabiano Caruana ...