Event: 2024 FIDE World Blitz 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 đŸ‡ŗ🇴 NOR 2890
2 GM Alireza Firouzja đŸ‡Ģ🇷 FRA 2871
3 GM Hikaru Nakamura đŸ‡ē🇸 USA 2860
4 GM Wesley So đŸ‡ē🇸 USA 2803
5 GM Fabiano Caruana đŸ‡ē🇸 USA 2796
6 GM Daniil Dubov FIDE 2784
7 GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda đŸ‡ĩ🇱 POL 2776
8 GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave đŸ‡Ģ🇷 FRA 2776
9 GM Ian Nepomniachtchi FIDE 2770
10 GM Olexandr Bortnyk đŸ‡ēđŸ‡Ļ UKR 2762
11 GM Bu Xiangzhi 🇨đŸ‡ŗ CHN 2760
12 GM Arjun Erigaisi 🇮đŸ‡ŗ IND 2749
13 GM Levon Aronian đŸ‡ē🇸 USA 2737
14 GM Yangyi Yu 🇨đŸ‡ŗ CHN 2728
15 GM Wei Yi 🇨đŸ‡ŗ CHN 2719
16 GM R Praggnanandhaa 🇮đŸ‡ŗ IND 2716
17 GM Daniel Naroditsky đŸ‡ē🇸 USA 2711
18 GM Hans Niemann đŸ‡ē🇸 USA 2709
19 GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov đŸ‡ēđŸ‡ŋ UZB 2707
20 GM Jeffery Xiong đŸ‡ē🇸 USA 2707

Format/Time Controls

The FIDE World Blitz Championship is a 13-round Swiss followed by a knockout stage with the top eight players from the Swiss. The knockout stage will feature four-game matches. The time control is 3 minutes for the entire game, with a 2-second increment per move starting on move one.

Schedule

All times are in EST.

Date Time Rounds
30 Dec 2:00 PM Rounds 1-13
31 Dec 2:00 PM Knockout Stages

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.