Davion Mars, on Sunday last, won the 2020 national Rapid chess championships which was contested at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence, East Bank Demerara. The classical time-control portion of the match ended with a tied score of 6-6, after 3 victories of Ju, 3 victories of Goryachkina, and 6 draws. South African Bagwandeen hit the podium for the second time in two weeks after winning the December open last week. In 2012, FIDE inaugurated the World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championships. Joining him in the top 4 were Bareev, Grischuk, and Judit Polgar, who beat out Peter Svidler in tiebreaks. Delivered every morning. The 2020 edition of the World Youth Chess Championships took place in the Tornelo online platform for the first time, comprising … After a slow opening round on Tuesday evening, the Guyanese were able to bounce back a short while later in round two of the 10 min+3 sec increment clashes. Rakshitta, Gukesh and Nihal win gold at World Cadets Chess Championships. 14 of the world's top 15 players were in attendance, including the reigning world champion Vladimir Kramnik and the world's No. The final match initially consisted of four rapid games, with the same tiebreaks; in 2013, the final was shortened back to two rapid games.[47]. [36] In a homage to the Masters Tournament, the winner of the championship is traditionally awarded a winner's black jacket. News/Events spoiler. [10], Kasparov defeated Bareev in Game 2 of the final match to win the tournament. India’s best-ever women’s chess player, Humpy, was crowned the world women’s rapid champion in Moscow at the same venue where Magnus Carlsen won the men’s title in the space of a few minutes. Since 2012, FIDE has held an annual joint rapid and blitz chess tournament and billed it as the World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championships. It could go either way. Log in for full access to stabroeknews.com. [12] Included in the field were the reigning FIDE and Classical world chess champions, Ruslan Ponomariov and Vladimir Kramnik. Four of those medals are gold and represent world titles. Meanwhile, former junior chess champion for both Standard and Rapid chess in 2019, Andre Jagnandan, secured 6.5 points to gain bronze; he got six wins, one draw in round three to Neto, and two losses to Mars in round four and Uddhav in round six. With one tournament left for the year, we look forward to closing on a positive note.”. 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The field was divided into two groups of eight players each, from which eight players total would progress to the knockout stages; ties in standings were resolved by a sudden-death playoff. Third seed WIM Prianka Nuttaki with a good 4/5 start led the Under 18 Girls field after five rounds in the ASIAN CONTINENTAL SELECTION, FIDE ONLINE WORLD UNDER 10-18 RAPID CHAMPIONSHIPS 2020. In order to promote viewership, time controls were set at 15 minutes per player, rather than the pre-2012 standard of 25 minutes. [14], Kramnik, the reigning classical world champion and tournament's No. 1 Armageddon game used to settle the outcome. Will Magnus defend it with ease? 1 Blitz tiebreaks used to settle the outcome. Despite the ACP Cup's status as a non-FIDE event, FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov was present at the inaugural edition of the tournament and took part in the opening ceremony. Prior to 2012, the FIDEgave such recognition to a limited number of tournaments, with non-FIDE recognized tournaments annually naming a world rapid champion of their own. [16] The style has since been changed to a Swiss tournament with a field of over 100 grandmasters. Starting in 1994, the Chess Classic was an annual series of tournaments hosted by the Chess Tigers in Mainz, Germany. [3], Prior to 2012, FIDE sporadically sanctioned a world rapid chess championship. Mars ended with 7.5 points, courtesy of seven wins and one draw in the nine-round event. Following an inaccuracy from Kramnik (17... a5? The political controversy surrounding the event and the naming of a separate "active chess champion" led to the parallel rapid championship being dropped for future years. In the online international championship for juniors under the age of 18, Team USA collected eight total medals to finish as the most-decorated delegation from 114 participating national federations. The World Chess Championship 2021 will be a chess match between the reigning World Chess Champion, Magnus Carlsen, and a challenger to determine the World Chess Champion.It will be held under the auspices of FIDE, the world chess federation.The match was originally scheduled for the latter half of 2020, but has been postponed until 2021 because of the COVID-19 … During the World Cup 2013, these time controls were also used for the rapid tiebreak stages. share. Chennai: Indian Grandmaster P Harikrishna slipped to 10th spot after managing just one win and three draws on day two of the Champions Chess Tour Airthings Masters online chess championship. FIDE also holds the W… Registration can be done via phone call or Whatsapp to Rashad on 658-3004. Anna Ushenina is a Ukrainian grandmaster who won the Women’s World Championship in 2012. 2020 Women’s World Chess Championship The 2020 Women’s World Chess Championship between champion China’s Ju Wenjun and her challenger, Russia’s Aleksandra Goryachkina, took place in January 2020. Since 2012, FIDE has held an annual joint rapid and blitz chess tournament and billed it as the World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championships. Murali 24/12/2020. Hosted by the Caisse Centrale d'Activités Sociales des Electriciens et Gaziers de France (CCAS) on the Mediterranean coast, the 2003 tournament included eleven of the world's 12 top-ranked players along with five wild-cards. save. The first official high-profile rapid match took place in 1987, when then-world champion Garry Kasparov defeated Nigel Short in the "London Docklands Speed Chess Challenge" at the London Hippodrome. The Professional Chess Association, Kasparov's answer to FIDE, subsequently organized two Grand Prix cycles of rapid chess before folding in 1996. The event features ten separate 16-player knockout tournaments for Open and Girls sections U10-U18 and, as of Sunday, Americans remain alive in … The federation’s Director of Tournaments, Rashad Hussain, in commenting on the success of the tournament said: “It was a fast-paced tournament, we had a competitive run at the top for the title with four persons taking the lead at different points of the tournament. At stake was a share of the €500,000 prize fund, the largest for any chess event hosted in the Czech Republic, and the EuroTel Trophy. Click to see spoiler. On 24 January, 4 games of rapid chess were used as a tie-breaker; and Ju Wenjun retained the title with 1 win and 3 draws. GM Vincent Keymer was the heavy favourite in the U16 section. 18. He won six of his nine games and drew two games to the eventual champion Mars in round two and the highest-rated player in the tournament, Roberto Neto. Koneru Humpy's long wait finally ended after she beat Lei Tingjie in the Armageddon to win the Women's World Rapid Chess Championship in Moscow. In the other half of the bracket, Viswanathan Anand defeated Peter Svidler in a sudden-death blitz game after three drawn games to join him. 2. The following year the field was expanded further to include all ten of the top 10-rated Grandmasters in the world, and was dubbed a Category 21 tournament with an average Elo rating of 2767. Who will win the World Chess Championship 2020? 1 seed Kasparov was upset by Vassily Ivanchuk in a sudden-death game after the rapid and blitz games did not produce a winner; Ivanchuk would subsequently lose to Indian grandmaster Viswanathan Anand in the semifinals, bowing out with a loss in the second blitz tiebreak game after both rapid games ended in a draw. The eventual champion lost to Joshua Gopaul in round six and drew with Uddhav Bagwandeen in round two. Each match consisted of two rapid games, with the winner progressing to the next round. Nepomniachtchi & Goryachkina win 2020 Russian Championships Ian Nepomniachtchi's 10-move draw against Maksim Chigaev turned out to be enough for victory in the Russian Championship Superfinal after his rival Sergey Karjakin lost a fantastic game to Daniil Dubov and finished half a point behind. Registrations will be handled by the National Chess Federations through the registration forms that you can find at the official website, www.world2020.ge. Na3), Anand was able to use his two knights to infiltrate Kramnik's defence, eventually forcing a queen sac to win the game and the match. Time controls were set at 20 minutes per player, with an increment of five seconds. The FIDE World Amateur Championships are part of the “Cretan Chess Festival 2020”, together with the European School Chess Championships (also 2-12 April 2020) and the FIDE World Youth/Cadet Blitz & Rapid Championships (12-16 April 2020) in Crete. Fourteen (14) Malaysian youngsters took part in Asian qualifying rounds of the the first ever FIDE Online World Cadets & Youth Rapid Chess Championship 2020. Alireza Firouzja competed under the flag of FIDE in this tournament after the Iranian federation withdrew all Iranian players so that they would not have to face players from Israel. 39 points. But he suffered a huge upset at the hands of Jose Cardoso (the eventual bronze medalist) and failed to place in the top three. The championship, which attracted 25 players, also served as preparation for a 14-member Barbados team competing in the inaugural FIDE Online World Cadets and Youth Rapid Chess Championships. Prior to 2012, the FIDE gave such recognition to a limited number of tournaments, with non-FIDE recognized tournaments annually naming a world rapid champion of their own. [7], In 2001, the French Chess Federation organized the 16-player World Cup of Rapid Chess at Cannes, with support from FIDE. [9] In group B, Belgian grandmaster Mikhail Gurevich got off to a fast start with 3 wins in 4 games to finish atop the group with 5/7. Player of the year was an incredibly close vote between World Champion Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura. Priyanka, Iniyan, Pranav, Aakash in lead @ ASIAN CONTINENTAL SELECTION, FIDE ONLINE WORLD UNDER 10-18 RAPID CHAMPIONSHIPS 2020. Prime Sports, International and National Sport, Chess, Chennai, December 24:- Three Indian players — one girl and two boys — won gold and another boy clinched the bronze medal at the recently concluded FIDE Online World Cadets and Youth Rapid Chess Championships. 1 seed, dispatched Polgar and Grischuk with little difficulty to reach the final. With the addition of Karpov to the field in 1999, the format was temporarily changed to a pure round-robin, with the 1st-place finisher winning the championship. Humpy Koneru from India is the current women's rapid world champion. [35], In 2001 the event moved to Mainz, and shifted from a round-robin to a matchplay format - the defending champion Vishwanathan Anand defended his title in an eight-game match against the winner of the previous year's Ordix Open, the open rapid tournament. The World Rapid Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under rapid time controls. In late 2019 and early 2020, Firouzja electrified the chess world with his second place finish in the World Rapid Championship (one point behind World Champion Magnus Carlsen) and his amazing 5/7 start at the 2020 Tata Steel tournament. The brainchild of Hans-Walter Schmitt, the Chess Classic featured top-ranked players playing rapid and FischeRandom chess games against computers as well as each other. [15], On May 31, 2012, FIDE announced the inaugural World Rapid & Blitz Championships, set to take place in Astana, Kazakhstan from July 1 to 11. hide. From 2007 to 2010, the tournament was held on an annual basis, with the 5th edition of the cup held in 2013. The US Chess Federation has reigned in FIDE’s World Cadets and Youth Rapid Chess Championships. The World Rapid Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under rapid time controls. The 2012 tournament consisted of a qualifying round, followed by the rapid and blitz events held consecutively over 5 days. The winners of the 2020 FIDE World Youth Rapid Chess Championships have been decided! During the World Active Chess Championship the following year, time controls were set at 30 minutes per player per game. [2] The FIDE would re-use these time controls and the "rapid chess" moniker for the 2003 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship, held in Cap d'Agde. In the junior division, former junior champion (2018), Joshua Gopaul, was the definitive champion with six points; Jessica Callender, who scored five out of nine points, lost to Gopaul (round four) in the process. Rakshitta, Gukesh & Nihal win gold at World Cadets Chess Championships Wed, Dec 23 2020 12:47:20 PM Chennai, Dec 23 (IANS): Three Indian players -- one girl and two boys -- won gold and another boy clinched the bronze medal at the recently concluded FIDE Online World Cadets & Youth Rapid Chess Championships. Ushenina nearly always opens games with 1.d4 and plays the Sicilian as Black against 1.e4. Though it was an open event, players were categorized separately based on their ratings and the categories were as follows; a. The final tournament for the year will take place on Old Year’s Day; it will be the 2020 National Blitz Chess Championships with nine rounds expected to be completed at an eighth-minute time limit per player for each game. World champion Magnus Carlsen bounced back to the top. The championship was originally structured as a 16-player round-robin tournament, set to coincide with the first release of FIDE's rapid and blitz ratings in July 2012; invited were the top 10 players in the FIDE ratings list, the three medalists of the qualification competition, and three wild-card nominees by the organization committee and FIDE. gave the Indian a winning advantage. The registration deadline is November 15th, 22:00 CET, 2020. Neto finished fourth with Rai Sharma securing the fifth position. What does that make me, the Passive World Champion?". October 2020 will mark an extraordinary chapter in American chess history; due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the St. Louis Chess Club will host the 2020 U.S. [46] A subsequent agreement between FIDE and the ACP ensured that ACP would be able to use the title "World" when promoting and referring to the tournament. There were victories for three Barbados players on the opening day of competition in the Americas division of the inaugural FIDE Online World Cadets and Youth Rapid Chess Championships. From 1996 to 1998, the Rapid Chess Championship at Frankfurt was organized as a double-round robin, followed by a match between the 1st and 2nd-place finishers for the championship. In the endgame, Kasparov and Bareev were left with a seemingly closed position - four pawns and a King apiece. Under rapid chess time controls, each player was allowed 25 minutes with an additional 10 seconds after each move. In fact, Nakamura even received more first-place votes than Carlsen (1640-1567), but Carlsen picked up far more second-place votes and is the 2020 Chess.com Player of the Year. 0 comments. The final stage of FIDE’s online World Cadets and Youth Rapid Chess Championship has begun and will progress through knockout brackets until world champions are declared on Tuesday, December 22.. The finalists of the tournament were determined by a series of knock-out matches, with each match consisting of two games played at rapid time controls (25 minutes per player). FIDE also holds the Women's World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship. Jaenisch Variation (C42) - 1-0", "Anatoly Karpov vs Viswanathan Anand - Eurotel Trophy (2002) - Semi-Slav Defense: Stoltz Variation (D45) - ½-½", "ChessBase News - 3rd ACP World Rapid Cup in Odessa", "FIDE Report - Peter Leko of Hungary wins the 1st ACP World Rapid Cup", "ChessBase News - ACP 2003: Grischuk prevails", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=World_Rapid_Chess_Championship&oldid=998103316, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Rakshitta, Gukesh & Nihal win gold at World Cadets Chess C’ships,Chennai, Dec 23 (IANS) Three Indian players — one girl and two boys — won gold and another boy clinched the bronze medal at the recently concluded FIDE Online World Cadets & Youth Rapid Chess Championships. The tournament consisted of a round-robin stage (2 groups of eight players each), followed by a set of knockout matches to determine the winner. [6] Garry Kasparov, the current world champion, declined to participate in the event and derided the concept of an active chess champion afterwards - he was quoted as saying, "Active Chess? The concept of rapid chess (then called "active chess") made its debut at a 1987 FIDE Congress meeting in Seville, Spain. The top three finishers in the standings are awarded gold, silver, and bronze medals respectively; tiebreaks are determined by ARO (average rating of opponent).[17]. Following him into the knockout stage were the two Frenchmen, Bacrot and Tkachiev, and Michael Adams. Presented under the auspices of Online World Chess, the 2002 EuroTel Knockout Tournament was a 32-player single-elimination tournament hosted in Prague from 27 April to 5 May 2002. In 2007, with Anand still the rapid champion after six successful title defenses, the event reverted to a double-round robin tournament, with the top two finishers in the semi-finals advancing to the finals. Ju Wenjun and Aleksandra each won 3 games and drew 6 games in the exciting match of 12 Classical Chess games, which ended in a tie. Taking the final spot was Veselin Topalov, who defeated Boris Gelfand in a sudden-death playoff. Third place went to Nellisha Johnson, who scored 4.5 points; she lost to both Callender (round 3) and Gopaul (round nine). The current time controls for the rapid championship are set at 15 minutes per player, with a 10-second increment. 2016 Final Ranking after 12 Rounds", "Double gold for Ukraine in FIDE World Rapid Championship", "King Salman World Rapid Championship 2017 Women", "King Salman World Rapid Championship 2018 Open", "NYTimes.com - Anand Wins Rapid Championship at Mainz; Navara Wins Open", "Chess.com - Aronian Wins Rapid World Championship", "CB News: Mainz 2009 – Schmitt: 'I suffer vicariously with Anand, "Viswanathan Anand's Tournament, Match, and Exhibition Record (1983-)", "Frankfurt puts everything which has gone before in the shade", "CB News: Chess Classic Mainz – End of an Era", "Viswanathan Anand vs Anatoly Karpov - Eurotel Trophy (2002) - Russian Game: Classical Attack. The remaining participants were chosen on a wild-card basis at the organizers' discretion. She is also the 2020 winner of the Women’s Speed Chess Championship, which was held on Chess.com. However, the position of Kasparov's king gave him a slight advantage, and with only two seconds left on his clock, Bareev could not find the drawing line and was forced to resign.[11]. A total of 73 participants played it out at the Sampson Siasia stadium in Yenagoa, the capital city of Bayelsa state. Starting in 2007, the Association of Chess Professionals (ACP) sponsored an annual event billed as the ACP World Rapid Cup. You can also find there the complete regulations for the FIDE Online World Cadets & Youth Rapid Chess Championship.. report. World Cadets & Youth Rapid Chess Championship 2020 – CONGRATULATIONS to Anderson Ang and Poh Yu Tian. The winner of each age group will be the official representative to the Selection Stage of FIDE Online Rapid Chess Championships. Notable participants included:[5], The event was won by Anatoly Karpov, who edged out GM Viktor Gavrikov on tiebreak points after their 1st-place playoff ended in a 5-5 tie. Win or lose, there won’t be anything easy about it. She goes by Enki007 on Chess.com. 1. A FREE roundup of top news from Guyana you might otherwise miss. [4], In 1988, FIDE organized the inaugural World Active Chess Championship, a 61-player rapid chess tournament in Mazatlan, Mexico hosted by the Mazatlan Hoteliers Association. You can also post comments, and manage your email subscription. 1-ranked player Garry Kasparov. Early Years And Career Only one active session is allowed per subscriber. Winners will also be invited to a special group training lead by Team Canada Head Coach GM Gergely Szabo and other Masters in November 2020. The winners of the 2020 FIDE World Youth Rapid Chess Championships have been decided! Eight (8) boys and six (6) girls represented Malaysia in the various ASIAN Zone age categories – U10, U12, … Report on November edition of BYSCA monthly chess championship on the 14th of November 2020. 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