Event: 2024 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship

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NEW YORK - As the clock ticks down to 2025, the best players in the world descend on Wall Street for the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships. In a year that marked the International Chess Federation's centenary, celebrated the 45th Chess Olympiad, and witnessed an intense battle for the World Championship title, 2024 will conclude with a fitting and extraordinary finale: the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships. This year's event features an all-star lineup of over 300 players.

The competition is headlined by five-time World Champion and current number one in the world rating list, Magnus Carlsen. The Norwegian superstar holds the Rapid and the Blitz crowns and altogether has six Blitz and five Rapid Championship titles. Carlsen will be facing a large field of challengers, led by world number two and three, Americans Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura. Adding the pressure on the Norwegian will be the 21-year-old Alireza Firouza, who has solidified his status as the most formidable player challenging Carlsen's dominance. The field will also see former world championship title contenders as well as previous Blitz and Rapid Championship winners take part, including Ian Nepomniachtchi, Boris Gelfand, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Alexander Grischuk.

The event will be held at Cipriani Wall Street, an iconic landmark built in 1841 and once the home of the New York Stock Exchange.

Top Participants

# Title Name FED Elo
1 GM Magnus Carlsen 🇳🇴 NOR 2838
2 GM Fabiano Caruana 🇺🇸 USA 2766
3 GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 🇫🇷 FRA 2763
4 GM Wei Yi 🇨🇳 CHN 2760
5 GM Ian Nepomniachtchi FIDE 2758
6 GM Levon Aronian 🇺🇸 USA 2757
7 GM Alireza Firouzja 🇫🇷 FRA 2756
8 GM Hikaru Nakamura 🇺🇸 USA 2755
9 GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov 🇺🇿 UZB 2740
10 GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda 🇵🇱 POL 2740
11 GM Wesley So 🇺🇸 USA 2739
12 GM Jeffery Xiong 🇺🇸 USA 2714
13 GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 🇦🇿 AZE 2711
14 GM Leinier Domínguez 🇺🇸 USA 2699
15 GM Yu Yangyi 🇨🇳 CHN 2698
16 GM Arjun Erigaisi 🇮🇳 IND 2694
17 GM R Praggnanandhaa 🇮🇳 IND 2688
18 GM Anish Giri 🇳🇱 NED 2678
19 GM Daniil Dubov FIDE 2677
20 GM Alexander Grischuk FIDE 2675

Format/Time Controls

The FIDE World Rapid Championship is a 13-round Swiss. The time control is 15 minutes for the entire game, with a 10-second increment per move starting on move one.

Schedule

All times are in EST.

Date Time Rounds
26 Dec 2:00 PM Rounds 1-5
27 Dec 2:00 PM Rounds 6-9
28 Dec 2:00 PM Rounds 10-13

Live Coverage

  • The official live broadcast is available on FIDE's YouTube channel, with commentary by GM Maurice Ashley and GM Evgeny Miroshnichenko.

  • Live coverage of the event can be viewed on Chess24's YouTube channel, with commentary by GM Aman Hambleton and FM James Canty III.