Managing Director Volodar Murzin won the 2024 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship with an undefeated score of 10/13. Despite a slow start on the first day, GM Koneru Humpy won the 2024 FIDE Women's Rapid Chess World Championship with 8.5/11, her second rapid chess world title.
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After a day of rest, the FIDE Blitz World Chess Championship and the FIDE Women's Blitz World Chess Championship begin on Monday, December 30, from 2:00 p.m. ET/8:00 p.m. CET/12:30 a.m. IST (December 31).
How to watch
Leaderboards will be added after all matches are completed.
Here is the game with annotations from GM Dejan Bojkov. It will be added soon.
The 2024 FIDE Rapid and Blitz World Championships determine the rapid and blitz chess world champions in the open and women's sections. For rapid championships, the Open is a Swiss in 13 rounds; for women, it's a Swiss of 11 rounds. The time control for both tournaments is 15 minutes plus a 10 second increment. Blitz Championships feature the same number of rounds followed by a knockout played by the top eight, with a time control of 3+2 for all matches. The prize fund is $1.5 million.
Previous coverage:
- Day 2: Carlsen leaves the Rapid and Blitz championships; Murzin, Duda, Arjun and Grischuk lead the Open
- Day 1: Lazavik bat Carlsen; Murzin, Sargsyan, Dominguez, Naroditsky lead the overture
- New format, new year: the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships come to Wall Street
- Wall Street Gambit: $5,000 tickets, chess legends, financial elite
- FIDE breaks with global tradition of rapids and blitzes and introduces a day of rest
- The 2024 FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships will take place in New York
