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World Blitz Chess Championship 2024 was an over-the-board chess tournament held in New York City on 30 and 31 December 2024. It was the 2024 edition of the World Blitz Chess Championship and comprised an Open section and a Women's section.
One of the earliest examples was the local chess club at Hastings, England, where 10 seconds were allowed per move during a blitz tournament held after the 1904 British Chess Championship. By 1950, the time controls had changed to the more familiar 5 minutes per player (now 3 minutes), hence the "5-minute game" moniker.
Gukesh Dommaraju won the 2024 World Chess Championship, becoming the youngest undisputed world chess champion at the age of 18. [1]The Candidates Tournament and Women's Candidates Tournament were held concurrently for the first time to determine the challengers for the reigning world champions Ding Liren and Ju Wenjun. [2]
Chess is an ancient game. A slow and cerebral pursuit, favored by philosophers and thinkers, it demands patience, poise, and caution. Bullet chess is none of those things. As a reformed addict of ...
The 2024 World Chess Championship is set to kick off this week, ... India’s first world champion, who won the title in 2007 to break Russia’s stranglehold over the sport.
The Grand Chess Tour 2024 was a series of chess tournaments, which was the ninth edition of the Grand Chess Tour. It consisted of five tournaments with a total prize pool of US$1.4 million, including two tournaments with classical time control and three tournaments with faster time controls .
The World Chess Championship 2024 was a chess match between the reigning world champion Ding Liren and the challenger Gukesh Dommaraju to determine the World Chess Champion. The match took place between 25 November and 12 December 2024 in Singapore. It was played to a best of 14 games, with tiebreaks if required. [1]
In May 2024, Faustino defeated 5-time world champion and world #1 ranked Magnus Carlsen during a weekly Bullet Brawl tournament hosted by Chess.com. [3] [11] [12] He holds the world record for the youngest International Master, a title which he earned in June 2024 at the age of 10 years, 8 months, and 16 days, breaking the record of Abhimanyu ...