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FIDE World Rapid Team Championship
The FIDE World Rapid Team Championship is a team tournament in chess, played under rapid time controls and organized by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in collaboration with WR Logistics GmbH. The tournament took place in Dusseldorf, Germany, from August 26 to 28, 2023.International Chess Federation (FIDE), 2023. Inaugural World Rapid Team Championship: Registration open for all. Available at: https://www.fide.com/news/2354] Overview The FIDE World Rapid Team Championship followed the Swiss-system tournament, Swiss system with 12 rounds. The tournament rules ensured inclusivity, diversity, and fair representation by requiring each team to include at least one female player, and at least one player in each team, who has not achieved a FIDE Standard, Rapid, or Blitz Rating of 2000 Elo points or be unrated.International Chess Federation (FIDE), n.d. Regulations for the FIDE World Rapid Team Championship 2023. Available at: https://handbook.fide.com/files/handbook/WRTC2023 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fast Chess
Fast chess, also known as Speed chess, is a type of chess in which each player is given less time to consider their moves than normal tournament time controls allow. Fast chess is subdivided, by decreasing time controls, into rapid chess, blitz chess, and bullet chess. Armageddon chess is a particular variation of fast chess in which different rules apply for each of the two players. The top ranked 2021 world rapid chess player is Magnus Carlsen from Norway, who is also the top ranked classical chess player. The top ranked blitz chess player at the beginning of 2022 is Hikaru Nakamura. The top ranked 2021 women's rapid and blitz chess player is Hou Yifan from China, who is also the top ranked women's classical chess player. FIDE rules The World Chess Federation (FIDE) divides time controls for chess into "classical" time controls, and the fast chess time controls. , for master-level players (with an Elo of 2200 or higher) the regulations state that at least 120 minutes per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniil Dubov
Daniil Dmitrievich Dubov (russian: Даниил Дмитриевич Дубов; born 18 April 1996) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He achieved his final norm for the Grandmaster title at the age of 14 years, 11 months, 14 days in 2011. He is a former world rapid champion, winning the World Rapid Chess Championship held in Saint Petersburg from 26 to 28 December 2018. He is ranked 38th in the world Chess career 2006 Dubov won two medals at the European Youth Chess Championships: a bronze in 2006, in the U-10 division, and a silver in 2008, in the U-12. 2009 In 2009 he won the Young Stars of the World - Vanya Somov Memorial in Kirishi. In the same year he played for the Russian team that won the gold medal in the World Youth Under-16 Chess Olympiad. Dubov also won the individual bronze medal on board two. He won the Russian U16 rapid and blitz championships of 2009. 2011 Dubov played again in the World Youth Under-16 Chess Olympiad and won the team gold and the individual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastian Siebrecht
Sebastian Siebrecht (born 16 April 1973) is a German chess grandmaster. He earned the FIDE master title in 1993, followed by the International Master title in 1996. He was awarded the grandmaster title in 2008 after achieving five norms. Early life Siebrecht was born in Herdecke on April 16, 1973. At the age of three, he moved with his parents to Essen. He started playing chess because he watched his father and brother playing and was interested, whereby he started playing his father. He also cites a friend in school, who was interested in chess, whom he played blindfold chess with during mathematics lessons. Being a very tall man (2.02m), he made the basketball team in his school, playing for the regional (NRW) U17 section. He studied law at the Ruhr-University Bochum. Chess career In 1993, Siebrecht earned his FIDE master title, and three years later, gained his International Master title. He achieved five grandmaster norms overall, his first at the 8th International Bavar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gukesh D
Dommaraju Gukesh (born 29 May 2006), better known as Gukesh D, is an Indian chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he is the third-youngest person in history to qualify for the title of Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded him in March 2019. On 16 October 2022, at the age of 16, he became the youngest player ever to defeat current world champion Magnus Carlsen, when he beat Carlsen in a game at the Aimchess Rapid Tournament. Early life Gukesh was born on 29 May 2006 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. His father, Rajnikanth, is an ear, nose and throat surgeon, and his mother, Padma, is a microbiologist. He learnt chess at the age of seven. He studies in Velammal Vidyalaya, Mel Ayanambakkam, Chennai. Career Gukesh won the Under-9 section of the Asian School Chess Championships in 2015, and the World Youth Chess Championships in 2018 in the Under 12 category. He also won five gold medals at the 2018 Asian Youth Chess Championships, in the U-12 individual rapid and blitz, U-12 team rapid and blitz, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
R Praggnanandhaa
Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa (born 10 August 2005) is an Indian chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he earned the international master title at the age of 10, the youngest at the time to do so, and the grandmaster title at age 12, the second-youngest at the time to do so. On 22 February 2022, at the age of 16, he became the youngest player till then to defeat current world champion Magnus Carlsen, when he beat Carlsen in a rapid game at the Airthings Masters Rapid Chess Tournament. (Gukesh D is now holding the record since 16 October 2022) Chess career Praggnanandhaa won the World Youth Chess Championship Under-8 title in 2013, earning him the title of FIDE Master at the age of 7. He won the Under-10 title in 2015. In 2016, Praggnanandhaa became the youngest international master in history, at the age of 10 years, 10 months, and 19 days. He achieved his first grandmaster norm at the World Junior Chess Championship in November 2017, finishing fourth with 8 points. He gained his s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Keymer
Vincent Keymer (born 15 November 2004) is a German chess grandmaster, and a young chess prodigy. Chess career Vincent Keymer was born in Mainz, Germany, a city that has a long history of hosting rapid tournaments and Chess960 tournaments. He learned chess from his parents at the age of five. In 2015 and 2017 he became European champion with the German U18 national chess team. Garry Kasparov in 2016 referred to Keymer as "exceptional", and Keymer at 11 demonstrated his potential with an "impressive second prize" in a strong field in the Vienna Open tournament. In July 2017, Keymer obtained the third and final norm required for the title of International Master. He has been coached by Peter Leko of Hungary, who was himself once considered "the world's most promising prodigy". From 29 March to 2 April 2018, Keymer played in the A group of the Grenke Chess Open as 99th seed. He won the tournament ahead of 49 grandmasters, including four grandmasters with Elo ratings above 2700 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wesley So
Wesley Barbossa So (born October 9, 1993) is a Filipino and American chess grandmaster and 3-time U.S. Chess Champion (in 2017, 2020, and 2021). He is also a three-time Philippine Chess Champion. On the March 2017 FIDE rating list, he was ranked number two in the world and had an Elo rating of 2822, making him the fifth-highest rated player in history. In 2019, So said his favorite form of chess is chess960. Later that year, So became the inaugural official Fischer Random world champion, on 2 November 2019, after defeating Carlsen 13½–2½ to win the FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship. A former chess prodigy, So became the youngest player to pass a 2600 Elo rating in October 2008, breaking the record previously held by Magnus Carlsen. This record has since been broken by John M. Burke. In early 2013, So passed 2700 and in January 2017 he became the 11th player to pass 2800 Elo. So represented the Philippines until transferring to the United States in 2014. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polina Shuvalova
Polina Sergeevna Shuvalova (russian: Полина Сергеевна Шувалова; born 12 March 2001) is a Russian chess player. She holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM, 2020) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 2019). She is the 2019 World Girls U-20 Champion as well as the World Girl's U18 Champion in 2018 and 2019. Together with 43 other Russian chess players, Shuvalova signed an open letter to Russian president Vladimir Putin, protesting against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and expressing solidarity with the Ukrainian people. Biography Polina Shuvalova was a Moscow chess school student. In 2017, she won the Russian Junior Chess Championship for under-21 girls. In the 2000s Shuvalova repeatedly represented Russia at the European Youth Chess Championships and World Youth Chess Championships in different age groups, where she won four medals: two gold (in 2013, at the European Youth Chess Championship in the under-12 girls group, and in 2018, at the Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evgeniy Najer
Evgeniy Yuryevich Najer (russian: Евгений Юревич Наер, translit=Evgeniy Yuryevich Nayer; born 22 June 1977) is a Russian chess grandmaster and the European champion of 2015. He is also one of the coaches of the Russian women's national team. Career He won the Moscow City Chess Championship in 1998 and 2003. In 2002 he shared the victory of the U.S. Open Chess Championship with Gennadi Zaichik. Najer won the Cappelle-la-Grande Open of 2004 on tiebreak over Kaido Külaots, Artyom Timofeev, Zoltan Gyimesi, Sergey Grigoriants and Oleg Korneev. In the same year he tied for 1st–3rd with Michael Roiz and Leonid Gofshtein in the Ashdod Chess Festival. He won a gold medal at the 2005 Maccabiah Games in Israel. In 2007 he won the 3rd Moscow Open edging out on tiebreak Vasily Yemelin. Najer won the World Open in Philadelphia consecutively in 2008 and 2009. He was one of the seconds of Gata Kamsky in his 2009 match against Veselin Topalov (" Challenger Match ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vidit Gujrathi
Vidit Santosh Gujrathi (born 24 October 1994) is an Indian chess grandmaster. He attained the title of grandmaster in January 2013, becoming the 30th player from India to do so. he is the second highest rated player in India (behind Viswanathan Anand. He is the fourth Indian player to have crossed the Elo rating threshold of 2700. Early life and chess career Vidit Santosh Gujrathi was born in Nashik to Santosh Gujrathi and Nikita Santosh Gujrathi. He did his early schooling at Fravashi Academy and was coached in chess from an early age. In 2006, he finished second in the Asian Youth Championships in the U12 category, thus receiving the title of FIDE Master. Vidit achieved the title of International Master(14) when he secured 7 points out of 13 in the Velammal 45th National A Chess Championship in Chennai in 2008. In 2008, he won the World Youth Chess Championship in the Open U14 section, the first Indian to do so. He scored 9 points out of a possible 11, gaining his final ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richárd Rapport
Richárd Rapport (born 25 March 1996) is a Hungarian-Romanian chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he earned his grandmaster title at the age of 13 years, 11 months and 6 days, making him Hungary's youngest ever grandmaster. He was the Hungarian Chess Champion in 2017 and was the 5th highest rated player in the world Early life Rapport was born in Szombathely, to Tamás Rapport and Erzsébet Mórocz, both economists. He learned chess at age four from his father. Titles In 2006, he won the European Championships U10. Rapport achieved the National Master title in 2008, and became an International Master the next year. In March 2010, at the Gotth'Art Kupa in Szentgotthárd, he fulfilled the final norm and rating requirements for the Grandmaster title. He came in second on the tournament behind his trainer Alexander Beliavsky, and tied with Lajos Portisch (one of the strongest non-Soviet players in the second half of the 20th century). Thus, at the age of 13 years, 11 months and 6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kateryna Lagno
Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Lagno (russian: Екатерина Александровна Лагно, ; born 27 December 1989) is a Russian (formerly Ukrainian) chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, she earned the title Woman Grandmaster (WGM) at the age of 12 years, four months and two days. In 2007, she was awarded the grandmaster title. She is a twice European Women's Champion and won two team gold medals at the Women's Chess Olympiad, in 2006 and 2014, playing for Ukraine and Russia respectively. She also won team gold at the Women's World Team Championship in 2013 playing for the Ukrainian team and in 2017,2021 playing for Russian team. Lagno won the Women's European Team Championship in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, playing for the Ukrainian team in 2013 and for the Russian team in all following championships. Lagno was the Women's Vice World Champion in 2018, Women's World Rapid Champion in 2014 and Women's World Blitz Champion in 2010, 2018 and 2019. Chess career 1999–2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
