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Fast chess

February 01, 2023

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.

Spectators watch as a street chess player "Russian Paul"[1] (left) plays bullet chess with Jonathan Corbblah in Union Square, Manhattan.

The top ranked 2021 world rapid chess player is Magnus Carlsen from Norway, who is also the top ranked classical chess player.[2] The top ranked blitz chess player at the beginning of 2022 is Hikaru Nakamura.[3]

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.[4]

FIDE rules

The World Chess Federation (FIDE) divides time controls for chess into "classical" time controls, and the fast chess time controls. As of July 2014, for master-level players (with an Elo of 2200 or higher) the regulations state that at least 120 minutes per player (based on a 60-move game) must be allocated for a game to be rated on the "classical" list;[5] for lower rated players this can be reduced to as little as 60 minutes.[5] Games played faster than these time controls can be rated for rapid and blitz if they comply with the time controls for those categories.[6]

Players of fast and blitz chess are exempt from the requirement to record their moves onto a scoresheet (A.2). The arbiter or their assistant is responsible for the recording in competitions (A.3.1.2, B.3.1.2). Electronic recording is preferred.[7]

Overview

A fast chess game can be further divided into several categories, which are primarily distinguished by the selection of time controls. Games may be played with or without time increments per move.

Rapid (FIDE), quick (USCF), or active

Time controls for each player in a game of rapid chess are, according to FIDE, more than 10 minutes but less than 60 minutes.[6] Rapid chess can be played with or without time increments for each move. When time increments are used, a player can automatically gain, for instance, ten more seconds on the clock after each move. When time increments are used, the total time per player for a 60-move game must be more than 10 minutes but less than 60 minutes.[6] Rapid chess was called active chess by FIDE between 1987 and 1989.[8]

For the FIDE World Rapid Championship, each player has 15 minutes plus 10 seconds additional time per move starting from move 1.[9]

Blitz

Time controls for each player in a game of blitz chess are, according to FIDE, 10 minutes or less per player.[6] This can be played with or without an increment or delay per move, made possible by the adoption of digital clocks. Three minutes with a two-second increment is preferred. In the case of time increments, the total time per player for a 60-move game must be 10 minutes or less (hence averaging 10 seconds or less per move).[6]

For the FIDE World Blitz Championship, each player has 3 minutes plus 2 additional seconds per move, starting from move 1.[9]

Bullet

A variant of blitz chess, bullet chess games have less than three minutes per player, based on a 40-move game;[10][11] some chess servers rate one-minute-per-player games separately.[12] Lower time controls are called 'hyperbullet' and 'ultrabullet' for 30-second-per-player and 15-second-per-player games, respectively.[13][14] Other common time-control options for bullet games include two minutes with one-second increment, one minute with a two-second increment, or one minute with one-second increment. The term lightning can also be applied to this variant.[15] The use of increment in bullet chess is primarily to avoid issues with latency as well as so-called "dirty flagging".

Online bullet chess avoids practical problems associated with live bullet chess, particularly players accidentally knocking over the pieces. Playing online also allows premoving, or committing to a move before the opponent has taken their turn.[16]

Armageddon

A variant of blitz chess where a drawn game is counted as a win for Black. This guarantees the game ends decisively, so it can be used as a final tiebreaker game. It is used in tournaments such as Chess World Cup as a tiebreaker.[17]

To compensate for giving Black draw odds, White has more time on the clock. Common times are six minutes for White and five minutes for Black or five minutes for White and four minutes for Black. This can also be played with a small increment.[18]

Some tournaments utilise a bidding system for individual players of each match to decide how little time they would be willing to play with as black. The player with the lowest bid for each match receives the black pieces with draw odds. This system minimises the perceived unfairness of Armageddon time controls that are decided in advance before a tournament with colours randomly allocated.[19][20][21][22] Such an idea is reminiscent of the logical use case of fair cake-cutting.

Other terms

Lightning
An alternative term for either blitz chess,[23][24] or for extremely fast chess. It can also refer to games with a fixed amount of time (e.g. ten seconds) for each move, or to one-minute games.

History and rules

Before the advent of digital clocks, five minutes per side was the standard for blitz or speed chess. Before the introduction of chess clocks, chess club "rapid transit" tournaments had referees who called out every ten seconds.[clarification needed] The Washington Divan (2445 15th St. NW) had regular weekly games and used a special clock that beeped every ten seconds to indicate the time to move. Players had to use their full ten seconds and move on the bell.[citation needed]

In 1988, Walter Browne formed the World Blitz Chess Association and its magazine Blitz Chess, which folded in 2003.[25]

In some chess tournaments and matches, the final standings of the contestants are decided by a series of games with ever-shortening control times as tie breaks. In this case, two games may be played with each time control, as playing with black or white pieces is not equally liked among players. The short time controls in fast chess reduce the amount of time available to consider each move, and may result in a frantic game, especially as time runs out. A player whose time runs out automatically loses, unless the opposing player has insufficient material to checkmate, in which case the game is a draw. "Losing on time" is possible at even the longer, traditional time controls, but is more common in blitz and rapid versions.

Play is governed by the FIDE Laws of Chess, except as modified by a specific tournament. However, in case of a dispute during a tournament, either player may stop the clock and call the arbiter to make a final and binding judgment.

Chess boxing uses a fast version for the chess component of the sport, granting 9 minutes for each side with no increment.[26]

USCF rules for Quick and Blitz chess

The rules for fast chess differ between FIDE and the USCF.

With the USCF, a game with more than 10 minutes affects the Quick rating, and the upper bounds for this rating is capped at 65 minutes per player.[27] As 30-minute to 65-minute-per-player time controls are also under the Regular rating system, these games affect both the Quick and Regular ratings[27] and are known as dual-rated games. However, the K factor (a statistic used for ratings) is reduced by comparison, meaning that players will either lose or gain (or rarely both) fewer rating points compared to a solely Quick or Regular game. Any time control over 65 minutes counts under the Regular rating only.[27] All of these time controls include the delay added to the time control, such as a 60-minute game with a 5-second delay, which is still considered to be a 60-minute game, not a 65-minute game.

As of March 2013, the USCF has also added a separate Blitz class rating for any time control between 5 and 10 minutes per player.[27] It is not possible for a game to be dual rated as both Blitz and Quick. Unlike Quick chess, 5 minutes can also mean game 3+2 (three minutes with a two-second increment).

World championships

Main articles: World Rapid Chess Championship and World Blitz Chess Championship

Both official and unofficial FIDE-sponsored world championships for fast chess have been held since the 1970s.

World Rapid championships before 2012

In 1987, Garry Kasparov (the World Champion of classical chess at the time) and Nigel Short played a 6-game exhibition Rapid match ("Speed Chess Challenge") at the London Hippodrome, won by Kasparov 4–2.[28][29]

The 1988 victory by Anatoly Karpov in Mazatlan was officially called the World Active Championship, but FIDE changed the word 'active' to 'rapid' soon after.[8]

In 1992, FIDE held the Women's World Rapid and Blitz Championship in Budapest, Hungary. Both Rapid and Blitz Championships were won by Susan Polgar.[30]

The 2001 victory by Garry Kasparov in the FIDE World Cup of Rapid Chess (organized by the French Chess Federation in Cannes) was held contemporaneously to the Melody Amber rapids (thus splitting the top players between the two events),[31] and it is sometimes considered to be official, although it was never named as a "championship" but rather a "world cup".[32]

Viswanathan Anand won the official FIDE 2003 Rapid Championship at the 6th Cap d'Agde event.[33] After no bids in 2004, FIDE optioned the 2005 Rapid to Cap d'Agde, but it was not held.[34] Teimour Radjabov won the 2006 7th Cap d’Agde Rapid Chess Tournament, but this had no FIDE status.[35]

The yearly Frankfurt or Mainz events hosted by the Chess Tigers (2001–2010) were considered as the traditional rapid chess championship,[36] and it often received world championship billing in the absence of an annual FIDE-recognized championship.[37] In its last two years, the 2009 Grenkeleasing World Rapid Chess Championship in Mainz was won by Levon Aronian,[38] and the 2010 Open GRENKE Rapid World Championship in Mainz was won by Gata Kamsky.[39] The Association of Chess Professionals (ACP) also held a World Rapid Cup in some of these years, and the annual Amber chess tournament (1992 to 2011) also had a rapid segment. There was also occasionally a Eurotel Trophy or Intel Grand Prix event, each of which would be of high stature.

World Blitz championships before 2012

The first unofficial Speed Chess Championship of the World (or World Blitz Championship) was held in Herceg Novi on 8 April 1970. This was shortly after the first USSR versus the rest of the world match (in Belgrade), in which ten of these players also competed. Eleven Grandmasters and one International Master played a double round-robin tournament. Bobby Fischer won first place, with a score of 19 points out of a possible 22. Fischer scored seventeen wins, four draws, and one loss (to Viktor Korchnoi). Mikhail Tal was a distant second, 4½ points behind.[40] Fischer won both games against each of Tal, Tigran Petrosian, and Vasily Smyslov; all of them were past World Champions.

By 1971, the Russian and Moscow five-minute championships had been going several years, with Tal, Bronstein, and Petrosian all having success. That year, Fischer played in a blitz tournament organised by the Manhattan Chess Club, and scored 21½/22.[41] There were also strong tournaments in Bugojno (in 1978), which was won by Karpov; and Nikšić (in 1983), which was won by Kasparov.[42]

In 1987, the S.W.I.F.T. super-tournament was held in Brussels, Belgium; first prize was shared by Garry Kasparov and Ljubomir Ljubojević.[43][44] The first FIDE-sponsored World Blitz Championship was won by Mikhail Tal in 1988.[42]

In 1992, FIDE held the Women's World Rapid and Blitz Championship in Budapest, Hungary. Both Rapid and Blitz Championships were won by Susan Polgar.[30]

In 2000, Anand won the Plus GSM World Blitz Chess Cup,[45] which has since been referred to as a world championship,[46][47] albeit inconsistently.

The second FIDE-recognized World Blitz Championship was won by Alexander Grischuk in 2006 in Rishon Lezion, Israel;[48][42] the third World Blitz Championship was won by Vassily Ivanchuk in 2007.[42] The 4th World Blitz Championship was held in Almaty in 2008, and it was won by Leinier Dominguez Pérez of Cuba.[49][42]

In 2009 and 2010, there was an event called the World Blitz Championship, held after the Tal Memorial in Moscow in November. It was won by Magnus Carlsen (in 2009)[50] and Levon Aronian (in 2010),[51] with the Women's Championship being won by Kateryna Lagno (in 2010).[52] There is no record of a 2009 blitz event in the FIDE Calendar for that year;[53] however, the October 2009 FIDE Congress discussed whether it should be a "proper" Championship (given the qualification scheme), and it left the decision to the corresponding internal Commission.[54] For 2010, it was organized in conjunction with FIDE from the beginning.[51] However, in neither case was an arbiter's report presented to the next FIDE Congress or General Assembly, as would be expected for a World Championship, and indeed occurred previously with the 2008 Blitz Championship.[55] The 2012 Arbiter's report refers to 7th World Blitz Championship thus seeming to imply that 2009 and 2010 events were indeed Championships;[56] although this report can be faulted for referring to the rapid championship of 2012 as being the 1st World Rapid Championship, which at the very least forgets Anand's official Rapid Championship in 2003. The balance of the evidence favors these Blitz Championships as being counted as official.

In 2011, there was no official blitz championship held, but FIDE was involved with the Sport Accord Mind Games blitz won by Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, with Hou Yifan winning the women's division.[57]

World Championships since 2012

 
Magnus Carlsen (left) playing GM Dennis Wagner (right)[58] at the 2015 FIDE World Chess Rapid and Blitz Championship in Berlin, at which Carlsen retained the title World Rapid Chess Champion
 
Blitz World Champion Alexander Grischuk (right) in Berlin, 2015, with runners-up Vladimir Kramnik (center) and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (left)

Since 2012, FIDE have held joint World Rapid and Blitz Championships most years, with some years Women's World Rapid and Blitz Championships also being held.

In 2012, the World Rapid and Blitz Championships were held at Batumi, Georgia and Astana, Kazakhstan (Women's Championships)[59] Sergey Karjakin won the Rapid Championship.[60] Alexander Grischuk won the Blitz Championship.[61] Antoaneta Stefanova won the Women's Rapid Championship.[62] Valentina Gunina won the Women's Blitz Championship.[62]

In 2013, the World Rapid and Blitz Championships were held at Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.[59] Shakhriyar Mamedyarov won the Rapid Championship.[63] Lê Quang Liêm won the Blitz Championship.[64]

In 2014, the World Rapid and Blitz Championships were held at Dubai, UAE and Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia (Women's Championships).[59] Magnus Carlsen won both Rapid and Blitz Championships.[65][66] Kateryna Lagno won the Women's Rapid Championship.[67] Anna Muzychuk won the Women's Blitz Championship.[68]

In 2015, the World Rapid and Blitz Championships were held in Berlin, Germany. Magnus Carlsen won the Rapid Championship.[69] He also received the privilege of playing at a dedicated Board 1 the whole time, not having to move while others did. The given reason was that Norwegian television was sponsoring the event, and moving the heavy cameras around would be too much hassle.[70] After his first-round draw, he should not have been on Board 1 until Round 8 when he caught the leaders.[71] Carlsen himself later called this "weird" that Board 1 would be reserved for him.[72] Alexander Grischuk won the Blitz Championship.[73]

In 2015, FIDE did not receive the expected 80,000 euros from Agon's organization of the event, causing a budget shortfall of 55,000 euros.[74][75] It was later announced that approximately 200,000 euros were lost on the event.[76]

In 2016, the World Rapid Championships were held at the Ali Bin Hamad Al Attiya Arena in Doha, Qatar. Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine won the 2016 World Rapid Championship, while Carlsen, after defending his title with difficulty in 2015, came in third place. In the Blitz Championship, Sergey Karjakin of Russia and contender in the recently held World Chess Championship 2016 won the championship title albeit due to a better tiebreak over the second place Carlsen. Karjakin defeated Carlsen in their individual encounter. Carlsen was once again reserved board 1 for both championships. Anna Muzychuk also from Ukraine, won both the 2016 Women World Rapid and Blitz Championshipship.

At the FIDE Presidential Board meeting at the end of March 2016, they gave Agon six months to find an organizer for the 2017 event.[77] At the Baku General Assembly in September, it was announced they had extended this deadline until the end of 2016.[78] The issue of the non-payment of the players for the IMSA Mind Games was also brought up.[78]

Champions tables for official events

See also: World Rapid Chess Championship and World Blitz Chess Championship

Views on fast chess

Many top chess players do not take rapid, blitz, and bullet chess as seriously as chess with standard time controls. Some quotes from top chess players may serve to illustrate this:

  • "Rapid and blitz chess is first of all for enjoyment." — Magnus Carlsen, although it was noted that Carlsen was "seriously preparing" for the event.[92]
  • "Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapid play in favour of serious chess." — Vladimir Kramnik[93]
  • "Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929." — Mikhail Botvinnik[93]
  • "He who analyses blitz is stupid." — Rashid Nezhmetdinov[93]
  • "Blitz chess kills your ideas." — Bobby Fischer[93]
  • "To be honest, I consider [bullet chess] a bit moronic, and therefore I never play it." — Vladimir Kramnik[94]
  • "Blitz – it's just a pleasure." — Vladimir Kramnik[95]
  • "I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol." — Nigel Short[96]
  • "Blitz is simply a waste of time." — Vladimir Malakhov[97]
  • "[Blitz] is just getting positions where you can move fast. I mean, it's not chess." — Hikaru Nakamura[98]
  • "Blitz is the opposite [of classical chess], you don't care at all. You can be drunk, you can dance all night, whatever happens you just need to be lucky and it will work." - Daniil Dubov[99]

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References

Further reading

External links

  • USCF rules
  • “Fast Chess” by Edward Winter
  • FIDE rapid play and blitz rules
  • Online Chess Clock / Chess Timer Example, used for Fast Chess
  • Videostream: World Blitz and Rapid Chess Championship 2015 in Berlin, Germany

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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 Spectators watch as a street chess player Russian Paul 1 left plays bullet chess with Jonathan Corbblah in Union Square Manhattan The top ranked 2021 world rapid chess player is Magnus Carlsen from Norway who is also the top ranked classical chess player 2 The top ranked blitz chess player at the beginning of 2022 is Hikaru Nakamura 3 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 4 Contents 1 FIDE rules 2 Overview 2 1 Rapid FIDE quick USCF or active 2 2 Blitz 2 3 Bullet 2 4 Armageddon 2 5 Other terms 3 History and rules 3 1 USCF rules for Quick and Blitz chess 4 World championships 4 1 World Rapid championships before 2012 4 2 World Blitz championships before 2012 4 3 World Championships since 2012 4 4 Champions tables for official events 5 Views on fast chess 6 See also 7 Notes 8 References 9 Further reading 10 External linksFIDE rules EditThe World Chess Federation FIDE divides time controls for chess into classical time controls and the fast chess time controls As of July 2014 update for master level players with an Elo of 2200 or higher the regulations state that at least 120 minutes per player based on a 60 move game must be allocated for a game to be rated on the classical list 5 for lower rated players this can be reduced to as little as 60 minutes 5 Games played faster than these time controls can be rated for rapid and blitz if they comply with the time controls for those categories 6 Players of fast and blitz chess are exempt from the requirement to record their moves onto a scoresheet A 2 The arbiter or their assistant is responsible for the recording in competitions A 3 1 2 B 3 1 2 Electronic recording is preferred 7 Overview EditA fast chess game can be further divided into several categories which are primarily distinguished by the selection of time controls Games may be played with or without time increments per move Rapid FIDE quick USCF or active Edit Time controls for each player in a game of rapid chess are according to FIDE more than 10 minutes but less than 60 minutes 6 Rapid chess can be played with or without time increments for each move When time increments are used a player can automatically gain for instance ten more seconds on the clock after each move When time increments are used the total time per player for a 60 move game must be more than 10 minutes but less than 60 minutes 6 Rapid chess was called active chess by FIDE between 1987 and 1989 8 For the FIDE World Rapid Championship each player has 15 minutes plus 10 seconds additional time per move starting from move 1 9 Blitz Edit Time controls for each player in a game of blitz chess are according to FIDE 10 minutes or less per player 6 This can be played with or without an increment or delay per move made possible by the adoption of digital clocks Three minutes with a two second increment is preferred In the case of time increments the total time per player for a 60 move game must be 10 minutes or less hence averaging 10 seconds or less per move 6 For the FIDE World Blitz Championship each player has 3 minutes plus 2 additional seconds per move starting from move 1 9 Bullet Edit A variant of blitz chess bullet chess games have less than three minutes per player based on a 40 move game 10 11 some chess servers rate one minute per player games separately 12 Lower time controls are called hyperbullet and ultrabullet for 30 second per player and 15 second per player games respectively 13 14 Other common time control options for bullet games include two minutes with one second increment one minute with a two second increment or one minute with one second increment The term lightning can also be applied to this variant 15 The use of increment in bullet chess is primarily to avoid issues with latency as well as so called dirty flagging Online bullet chess avoids practical problems associated with live bullet chess particularly players accidentally knocking over the pieces Playing online also allows premoving or committing to a move before the opponent has taken their turn 16 Armageddon Edit A variant of blitz chess where a drawn game is counted as a win for Black This guarantees the game ends decisively so it can be used as a final tiebreaker game It is used in tournaments such as Chess World Cup as a tiebreaker 17 To compensate for giving Black draw odds White has more time on the clock Common times are six minutes for White and five minutes for Black or five minutes for White and four minutes for Black This can also be played with a small increment 18 Some tournaments utilise a bidding system for individual players of each match to decide how little time they would be willing to play with as black The player with the lowest bid for each match receives the black pieces with draw odds This system minimises the perceived unfairness of Armageddon time controls that are decided in advance before a tournament with colours randomly allocated 19 20 21 22 Such an idea is reminiscent of the logical use case of fair cake cutting Other terms Edit Lightning An alternative term for either blitz chess 23 24 or for extremely fast chess It can also refer to games with a fixed amount of time e g ten seconds for each move or to one minute games History and rules EditBefore the advent of digital clocks five minutes per side was the standard for blitz or speed chess Before the introduction of chess clocks chess club rapid transit tournaments had referees who called out every ten seconds clarification needed The Washington Divan 2445 15th St NW had regular weekly games and used a special clock that beeped every ten seconds to indicate the time to move Players had to use their full ten seconds and move on the bell citation needed In 1988 Walter Browne formed the World Blitz Chess Association and its magazine Blitz Chess which folded in 2003 25 In some chess tournaments and matches the final standings of the contestants are decided by a series of games with ever shortening control times as tie breaks In this case two games may be played with each time control as playing with black or white pieces is not equally liked among players The short time controls in fast chess reduce the amount of time available to consider each move and may result in a frantic game especially as time runs out A player whose time runs out automatically loses unless the opposing player has insufficient material to checkmate in which case the game is a draw Losing on time is possible at even the longer traditional time controls but is more common in blitz and rapid versions Play is governed by the FIDE Laws of Chess except as modified by a specific tournament However in case of a dispute during a tournament either player may stop the clock and call the arbiter to make a final and binding judgment Chess boxing uses a fast version for the chess component of the sport granting 9 minutes for each side with no increment 26 USCF rules for Quick and Blitz chess Edit The rules for fast chess differ between FIDE and the USCF With the USCF a game with more than 10 minutes affects the Quick rating and the upper bounds for this rating is capped at 65 minutes per player 27 As 30 minute to 65 minute per player time controls are also under the Regular rating system these games affect both the Quick and Regular ratings 27 and are known as dual rated games However the K factor a statistic used for ratings is reduced by comparison meaning that players will either lose or gain or rarely both fewer rating points compared to a solely Quick or Regular game Any time control over 65 minutes counts under the Regular rating only 27 All of these time controls include the delay added to the time control such as a 60 minute game with a 5 second delay which is still considered to be a 60 minute game not a 65 minute game As of March 2013 the USCF has also added a separate Blitz class rating for any time control between 5 and 10 minutes per player 27 It is not possible for a game to be dual rated as both Blitz and Quick Unlike Quick chess 5 minutes can also mean game 3 2 three minutes with a two second increment World championships EditMain articles World Rapid Chess Championship and World Blitz Chess Championship Both official and unofficial FIDE sponsored world championships for fast chess have been held since the 1970s World Rapid championships before 2012 Edit In 1987 Garry Kasparov the World Champion of classical chess at the time and Nigel Short played a 6 game exhibition Rapid match Speed Chess Challenge at the London Hippodrome won by Kasparov 4 2 28 29 The 1988 victory by Anatoly Karpov in Mazatlan was officially called the World Active Championship but FIDE changed the word active to rapid soon after 8 In 1992 FIDE held the Women s World Rapid and Blitz Championship in Budapest Hungary Both Rapid and Blitz Championships were won by Susan Polgar 30 The 2001 victory by Garry Kasparov in the FIDE World Cup of Rapid Chess organized by the French Chess Federation in Cannes was held contemporaneously to the Melody Amber rapids thus splitting the top players between the two events 31 and it is sometimes considered to be official although it was never named as a championship but rather a world cup 32 Viswanathan Anand won the official FIDE 2003 Rapid Championship at the 6th Cap d Agde event 33 After no bids in 2004 FIDE optioned the 2005 Rapid to Cap d Agde but it was not held 34 Teimour Radjabov won the 2006 7th Cap d Agde Rapid Chess Tournament but this had no FIDE status 35 The yearly Frankfurt or Mainz events hosted by the Chess Tigers 2001 2010 were considered as the traditional rapid chess championship 36 and it often received world championship billing in the absence of an annual FIDE recognized championship 37 In its last two years the 2009 Grenkeleasing World Rapid Chess Championship in Mainz was won by Levon Aronian 38 and the 2010 Open GRENKE Rapid World Championship in Mainz was won by Gata Kamsky 39 The Association of Chess Professionals ACP also held a World Rapid Cup in some of these years and the annual Amber chess tournament 1992 to 2011 also had a rapid segment There was also occasionally a Eurotel Trophy or Intel Grand Prix event each of which would be of high stature World Blitz championships before 2012 Edit The first unofficial Speed Chess Championship of the World or World Blitz Championship was held in Herceg Novi on 8 April 1970 This was shortly after the first USSR versus the rest of the world match in Belgrade in which ten of these players also competed Eleven Grandmasters and one International Master played a double round robin tournament Bobby Fischer won first place with a score of 19 points out of a possible 22 Fischer scored seventeen wins four draws and one loss to Viktor Korchnoi Mikhail Tal was a distant second 4 points behind 40 Fischer won both games against each of Tal Tigran Petrosian and Vasily Smyslov all of them were past World Champions By 1971 the Russian and Moscow five minute championships had been going several years with Tal Bronstein and Petrosian all having success That year Fischer played in a blitz tournament organised by the Manhattan Chess Club and scored 21 22 41 There were also strong tournaments in Bugojno in 1978 which was won by Karpov and Niksic in 1983 which was won by Kasparov 42 In 1987 the S W I F T super tournament was held in Brussels Belgium first prize was shared by Garry Kasparov and Ljubomir Ljubojevic 43 44 The first FIDE sponsored World Blitz Championship was won by Mikhail Tal in 1988 42 In 1992 FIDE held the Women s World Rapid and Blitz Championship in Budapest Hungary Both Rapid and Blitz Championships were won by Susan Polgar 30 In 2000 Anand won the Plus GSM World Blitz Chess Cup 45 which has since been referred to as a world championship 46 47 albeit inconsistently The second FIDE recognized World Blitz Championship was won by Alexander Grischuk in 2006 in Rishon Lezion Israel 48 42 the third World Blitz Championship was won by Vassily Ivanchuk in 2007 42 The 4th World Blitz Championship was held in Almaty in 2008 and it was won by Leinier Dominguez Perez of Cuba 49 42 In 2009 and 2010 there was an event called the World Blitz Championship held after the Tal Memorial in Moscow in November It was won by Magnus Carlsen in 2009 50 and Levon Aronian in 2010 51 with the Women s Championship being won by Kateryna Lagno in 2010 52 There is no record of a 2009 blitz event in the FIDE Calendar for that year 53 however the October 2009 FIDE Congress discussed whether it should be a proper Championship given the qualification scheme and it left the decision to the corresponding internal Commission 54 For 2010 it was organized in conjunction with FIDE from the beginning 51 However in neither case was an arbiter s report presented to the next FIDE Congress or General Assembly as would be expected for a World Championship and indeed occurred previously with the 2008 Blitz Championship 55 The 2012 Arbiter s report refers to 7th World Blitz Championship thus seeming to imply that 2009 and 2010 events were indeed Championships 56 although this report can be faulted for referring to the rapid championship of 2012 as being the 1st World Rapid Championship which at the very least forgets Anand s official Rapid Championship in 2003 The balance of the evidence favors these Blitz Championships as being counted as official In 2011 there was no official blitz championship held but FIDE was involved with the Sport Accord Mind Games blitz won by Maxime Vachier Lagrave with Hou Yifan winning the women s division 57 World Championships since 2012 Edit Magnus Carlsen left playing GM Dennis Wagner right 58 at the 2015 FIDE World Chess Rapid and Blitz Championship in Berlin at which Carlsen retained the title World Rapid Chess Champion Blitz World Champion Alexander Grischuk right in Berlin 2015 with runners up Vladimir Kramnik center and Maxime Vachier Lagrave left Since 2012 FIDE have held joint World Rapid and Blitz Championships most years with some years Women s World Rapid and Blitz Championships also being held In 2012 the World Rapid and Blitz Championships were held at Batumi Georgia and Astana Kazakhstan Women s Championships 59 Sergey Karjakin won the Rapid Championship 60 Alexander Grischuk won the Blitz Championship 61 Antoaneta Stefanova won the Women s Rapid Championship 62 Valentina Gunina won the Women s Blitz Championship 62 In 2013 the World Rapid and Blitz Championships were held at Khanty Mansiysk Russia 59 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov won the Rapid Championship 63 Le Quang Liem won the Blitz Championship 64 In 2014 the World Rapid and Blitz Championships were held at Dubai UAE and Khanty Mansiysk Russia Women s Championships 59 Magnus Carlsen won both Rapid and Blitz Championships 65 66 Kateryna Lagno won the Women s Rapid Championship 67 Anna Muzychuk won the Women s Blitz Championship 68 In 2015 the World Rapid and Blitz Championships were held in Berlin Germany Magnus Carlsen won the Rapid Championship 69 He also received the privilege of playing at a dedicated Board 1 the whole time not having to move while others did The given reason was that Norwegian television was sponsoring the event and moving the heavy cameras around would be too much hassle 70 After his first round draw he should not have been on Board 1 until Round 8 when he caught the leaders 71 Carlsen himself later called this weird that Board 1 would be reserved for him 72 Alexander Grischuk won the Blitz Championship 73 In 2015 FIDE did not receive the expected 80 000 euros from Agon s organization of the event causing a budget shortfall of 55 000 euros 74 75 It was later announced that approximately 200 000 euros were lost on the event 76 In 2016 the World Rapid Championships were held at the Ali Bin Hamad Al Attiya Arena in Doha Qatar Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine won the 2016 World Rapid Championship while Carlsen after defending his title with difficulty in 2015 came in third place In the Blitz Championship Sergey Karjakin of Russia and contender in the recently held World Chess Championship 2016 won the championship title albeit due to a better tiebreak over the second place Carlsen Karjakin defeated Carlsen in their individual encounter Carlsen was once again reserved board 1 for both championships Anna Muzychuk also from Ukraine won both the 2016 Women World Rapid and Blitz Championshipship At the FIDE Presidential Board meeting at the end of March 2016 they gave Agon six months to find an organizer for the 2017 event 77 At the Baku General Assembly in September it was announced they had extended this deadline until the end of 2016 78 The issue of the non payment of the players for the IMSA Mind Games was also brought up 78 Champions tables for official events Edit See also World Rapid Chess Championship and World Blitz Chess Championship World Rapid chess champions Name Year Country1 Anatoly Karpov 1988 8 Soviet Union2 Garry Kasparov 2001 79 Russia3 Viswanathan Anand 2003 33 India4 Sergey Karjakin 2012 60 Russia5 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 2013 63 Azerbaijan6 Magnus Carlsen 2014 66 Norway7 Magnus Carlsen 2015 69 Norway8 Vassily Ivanchuk 2016 80 81 Ukraine9 Viswanathan Anand 2017 India10 Daniil Dubov 2018 82 Russia11 Magnus Carlsen 2019 Norway12 Nodirbek Abdusattorov 2021 Uzbekistan13 Magnus Carlsen 2022 Norway Women s World Rapid chess champions Name Year Country1 Susan Polgar 1992 30 Hungary2 Antoaneta Stefanova 2012 62 Bulgaria3 Kateryna Lagno 2014 67 Ukraine4 Anna Muzychuk 2016 83 81 Ukraine5 Ju Wenjun 2017 China6 Ju Wenjun 2018 82 China7 Humpy Koneru 2019 India8 Alexandra Kosteniuk 2021 Russia9 Tan Zhongyi 2022 China World Blitz chess champions Name Year Country1 Robert James Fischer 1970 84 United States2 Mikhail Tal 1988 85 Soviet Union3 Alexander Grischuk 2006 86 87 Russia4 Vassily Ivanchuk 2007 88 Ukraine5 Leinier Dominguez 2008 89 Cuba6 Magnus Carlsen 2009 50 Norway7 Levon Aronian 2010 51 Armenia8 Alexander Grischuk 2012 61 Russia9 Le Quang Liem 2013 64 Vietnam10 Magnus Carlsen 2014 65 Norway11 Alexander Grischuk 2015 73 Russia12 Sergey Karjakin 2016 90 Russia13 Magnus Carlsen 2017 Norway14 Magnus Carlsen 2018 91 Norway15 Magnus Carlsen 2019 Norway16 Maxime Vachier Lagrave 2021 France17 Magnus Carlsen 2022 Norway Women s World Blitz chess champions Name Year Country1 Susan Polgar 1992 30 Hungary2 Kateryna Lagno 2010 52 Ukraine3 Valentina Gunina 2012 62 Russia4 Anna Muzychuk 2014 68 Slovenia5 Anna Muzychuk 2016 90 Ukraine6 Nana Dzagnidze 2017 Georgia7 Kateryna Lagno 2018 91 Russia8 Kateryna Lagno 2019 Russia9 Bibisara Assaubayeva 2021 Kazakhstan10 Bibisara Assaubayeva 2022 KazakhstanViews on fast chess EditThis section may be unbalanced towards certain viewpoints Please improve the article by adding information on neglected viewpoints or discuss the issue on the talk page October 2020 Many top chess players do not take rapid blitz and bullet chess as seriously as chess with standard time controls Some quotes from top chess players may serve to illustrate this Rapid and blitz chess is first of all for enjoyment Magnus Carlsen although it was noted that Carlsen was seriously preparing for the event 92 Playing rapid chess one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess That is why if a player has big aims he should limit his rapid play in favour of serious chess Vladimir Kramnik 93 Yes I have played a blitz game once It was on a train in 1929 Mikhail Botvinnik 93 He who analyses blitz is stupid Rashid Nezhmetdinov 93 Blitz chess kills your ideas Bobby Fischer 93 To be honest I consider bullet chess a bit moronic and therefore I never play it Vladimir Kramnik 94 Blitz it s just a pleasure Vladimir Kramnik 95 I play way too much blitz chess It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol Nigel Short 96 Blitz is simply a waste of time Vladimir Malakhov 97 Blitz is just getting positions where you can move fast I mean it s not chess Hikaru Nakamura 98 Blitz is the opposite of classical chess you don t care at all You can be drunk you can dance all night whatever happens you just need to be lucky and it will work Daniil Dubov 99 See also EditWorld Rapid Chess Championship World Blitz Chess ChampionshipNotes Edit Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine I Finally Beat Russian Paul The Strongest Chess Hustler in NYC YouTube FIDE Top players and Statistics ratings fide com Retrieved 31 August 2021 FIDE Online FIDE Top players Blitz Top 100 Players June 2021 FIDE Top players and Statistics ratings fide com Retrieved 31 August 2021 a b FIDE 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