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World Blitz Chess Championship 2024
The 2024 World Blitz Chess Championship was the 4th edition of the annual chess tournament held by FIDE to determine the world champion in chess played under blitz time controls. Since 2012, FIDE has held the World World Rapid Chess Championship 2023, Rapid and Blitz Championships at a joint tournament. The tournament was held in New York City, United States, from 30 to 31 December 2024. After three drawn tiebreak games in the finals of the Open section, Magnus Carlsen proposed and Ian Nepomniachtchi agreed to share first place. FIDE controversially allowed the agreement and changed the rules of the tournament to permit them to do so. After two drawn tiebreak games, the Women's section was won by Ju Wenjun. Details The tournament was open for players with a rating of 2550 and above, as well as reigning national champions. The total prize fund was $450,000. The tournament followed a Swiss-system tournament, Swiss system consisting of 13 rounds for the Open section and 11 rounds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buchholz System
The Buchholz system (also spelled Buchholtz) is a ranking or scoring system developed by Bruno Buchholz (died 1958) in 1932, for Swiss system tournaments. It was originally developed as an auxiliary scoring method, but more recently it has been used as a tie-breaking system. It was probably first used in the 1932 Bitterfeld tournament. It was designed to replace the Neustadtl score. The method is to give each player a raw score of one point for each win and a half point for each draw. When used as an alternative scoring system, each player's Buchholz score is calculated by adding the raw scores of each of the opponents they played and multiplying this total by the player's raw score. When used for tie-breaking among players with the same raw score, no multiplying is necessary and the sum of the raw scores of the opponents played is used to break ties. When used as a tie-break system, it is equivalent to the Solkoff system. The major criticism of this system is that tie-break s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bibisara Assaubayeva
Bibisara Assaubayeva ( Kazakh: Бибісара Асаубаева, Bibısara Asaubaeva; born 26 February 2004) is a Kazakhstani chess player. Assaubayeva holds the titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster. She is a two-time Women's World Blitz Chess Champion. She was given the award of Outstanding Female Chess Player of 2021 in Asia by FIDE when being still a teenager. She entered the Guinness World Records book in 2022, for her achievement as the youngest women's World Blitz Chess Champion, which she became in 2021 and retained in 2022. At the 2025 Sharjah Masters tournament, Assaubayeva qualified for the grandmaster title. Biography Born in Taraz, Kazakhstan, Assaubayeva played her first chess game at the age of four, taught by her grandfather. She won her first city championship when she was six years old. She achieved the title of Woman FIDE Master in 2011, at the age of 7, when she won the World Youth Championships in Caldas Novas, Brazil in the Girls U8 se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carissa Yip
Carissa Shiwen Yip (born September 10, 2003) is an American chess player and the winner of the 2021, 2023, and 2024 U.S. Women's Chess Championship. In September 2019, she was the top rated female player in the United States and the youngest female chess player to defeat a grandmaster, which she did at age ten. In October 2019, she became the youngest American woman in history to qualify for the title of International Master until surpassed by Alice Lee in June 2023. Early life and chess career Carissa Shiwen Yip was born on September 10, 2003, in Boston. Her father Percy Yip (; Pinyin: Yè Péizhào) was from Hong Kong, and her mother Irene Yip (née Cheng, ; Pinyin: Chéng Huálín) was from mainland China. Taught chess moves at age six by her father, within six months she was able to beat him. Soon, she became the best eight-year-old girl chess player in the country. In 2013, at the age of ten, she became the youngest female player to qualify for the USCF title of Expert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentina Gunina
Valentina Evgenyevna Gunina (; born 4 February 1989) is a Russian chess grandmaster. She is the two-time Women's World Blitz Chess Champion (2012 and 2023), has won the Women's European Individual Chess Championship three times (2012, 2014, 2018), and has won the Russian Women's Championship five times (2011, 2013, 2014, 2021, 2022). She was a member of the gold medal-winning Russian team at the Women's Chess Olympiads of 2010, 2012, 2014, at the Women's European Team Chess Championships of 2007, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019 and at the Women's World Team Chess Championship of 2017. Gunina won the 2016 London Chess Classic Super Rapidplay Open in one of the best performances or victories for a woman at a top-level chess tournament, defeating several top 100 grandmasters along the way. Career Gunina won the gold medal in the 2000 European under-12 girls championship, 2003 world U14 girls championship, 2004 European U16 girls championship and in the 2007 world U18 girls champi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kateryna Lagno
Kateryna Oleksandrivna Lagno (born 27 December 1989) is a Russian (formerly Ukrainian) chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, she earned the title Woman Grandmaster (WGM) at the age of 12 years, four months and two days. In 2007, she was awarded the grandmaster title. She is a twice European Women's Champion and won two team gold medals at the Women's Chess Olympiad, in 2006 and 2014, playing for Ukraine and Russia respectively. She also won team gold at the Women's World Team Championship in 2013 playing for the Ukrainian team and in 2017 and 2021 playing for the Russian team. Lagno won the Women's European Team Championship in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, playing for the Ukrainian team in 2013 and for the Russian team in all following championships. Lagno was the Women's Vice World Champion in 2018, Women's World Rapid Champion in 2014 and Women's World Blitz Champion in 2010, 2018 and 2019. Chess career 1999–2005 At junior level, she won the Girls Under 10 section ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lei Tingjie
Lei Tingjie (, born 3 March 1997) is a Chinese chess player who holds the title of Grandmaster. She was the 2021 Women's Grand Swiss champion, the 2017 Chinese women's national champion and the 2022–23 Women's Candidates winner. Lei earned the Grandmaster title in 2017 at age 19, and was the sixth woman to obtain the title as a teenager. Career In 2014, Lei won the 4th China Women Masters Tournament in Wuxi on tie-break from Ju Wenjun and was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) by FIDE. In 2015, she won the women's open event of the Moscow Open, ahead of World Junior Girls Champion Aleksandra Goryachkina. Lei competed in the Women's World Chess Championship 2015, where she was knocked out in the second round by top seed Humpy Koneru. In December 2015, Lei tied for 1st–5th with Alexander Zubarev, Olexandr Bortnyk, Jure Škoberne, and Maximilian Neef in the 32nd Böblingen International Open scoring 7/9 points. In 2016, she played on the gold medal-winn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaishali Rameshbabu
Vaishali Rameshbabu (born 21 June 2001) is an Indian chess grandmaster. She emerged victorious in the Women's Grand Swiss Tournament 2023, securing qualification for the Women's Candidates Tournament 2024. She won the bronze medal at Women's World Blitz Chess Championship 2024. She is the elder sister of chess grandmaster Praggnanandhaa. Personal life Vaishali was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu on 21 June 2001. Her father, Rameshbabu, works as a branch manager at TNSC Bank, and her mother, Nagalakshmi, is a homemaker. Her younger brother R Praggnanandhaa is also a chess grandmaster. Career Vaishali won the Girls' World Youth Chess Championship for Under-12s in 2012 and Under-14s in 2015. In 2013, at age 12, she defeated future World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen in a simul competition that Carlsen held while in her hometown of Chennai for the World Chess Championship 2013. In 2016, she received the Woman International Master (WIM) title, and in October 2016, she was rank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Naroditsky
Daniel Naroditsky (born November 9, 1995), often referred to as Danya, is an American chess grandmaster, author, and commentator. Chess career Born in San Mateo, California, Naroditsky learned chess at age six from his father. He was soon taking serious chess lessons. Naroditsky won the 2007 Northern California K–12 Chess Championship, the youngest player ever to do so. In 2007, Naroditsky won the Under 12 section of the World Youth Chess Championship with 9½/11, tying with Illya Nyzhnyk but winning the gold medal on tiebreaks. At the 2010 U.S. Open, Naroditsky scored 7½/9 to share second place with Alexander Shabalov, Varuzhan Akobian, and Julio Sadorra, but behind Alejandro Ramírez. This qualified him for the 2011 U.S. Championship, as Ramirez was not eligible to compete. Naroditsky competed in the 2011, 2012, and 2013 U.S. Junior Championships, winning clear first place in 2013 with 6.5/9, ahead of Samuel Sevian and Luke Harmon-Vellotti. The 2013 victory qualif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volodar Murzin
Volodar Arturovich Murzin (; born 18 July 2006) is a Russian chess grandmaster and current World Rapid Chess Champion. Originally from Nizhny Tagil, Murzin lives in Khimki. Murzin won the 2024 World Rapid Chess Championship in Wall Street, New York, with a score of 10/13. Career 2010s In 2017, Murzin achieved his first master title becoming a Fide Master at the age of 11. Murzin won the U12 title at the European Youth Chess Championship 2018, with a draw against Jakub Chyzy in the final round. In 2019, Murzin achieved his second title and became an International Master in chess. He has made the achievement after only 2 years since becoming a Fide Master. 2020s On December 08, 2020, Murzin won the 2020 Russian Championship (Juniors). This was his first National Championship title. In the Chess World Cup 2021, where he was seeded 151st, he reached the second round shortly before his 15th birthday, losing to 23rd-seeded Vladislav Artemiev by one point in a tiebreaker. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan-Krzysztof Duda
Jan-Krzysztof Duda (; born 26 April 1998) is a Polish Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster. A Chess prodigy, prodigy, he achieved the grandmaster title in 2013 at the age of 15 years and . he is ranked No. 1 in Poland and No. 17 in the FIDE world rankings, world. His personal best Elo rating system, rating of 2760 makes him the highest ranked Polish player of all time. Duda won the Polish Chess Championship, Polish Championship in 2018 and the Chess World Cup 2021, Chess World Cup in 2021. He is a bronze medallist at the European Team Chess Championship in 2021 and he also competed in the Candidates Tournament 2022 finishing seventh. He was awarded the Cross of Merit (Poland), Golden Cross of Merit for his achievements in chess. Chess career 2007–2008 In 2007, Duda placed first in the U8 Polish Youth Championship chess tournament. In 2008, Duda won the World Youth Chess Championship in the under-10 category and as a result he was awarded the title of FIDE Master. The sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alireza Firouzja
Alireza Firouzja (, ; born 18 June 2003) is an Iranian and French Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster. Firouzja is the youngest player to have surpassed a FIDE Elo rating system, rating of 2800, beating the previous record set by Magnus Carlsen by more than five months. A chess prodigy, Firouzja won the Iranian Chess Championship at age 12 and earned the Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster title at 14. At 16, Firouzja became the second-youngest 2700-rated player. In 2021, at 18, he won the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2021, FIDE Grand Swiss tournament and an individual gold medal at the European Team Chess Championship. In 2022, Firouzja won the Grand Chess Tour 2022, Grand Chess Tour. He qualified for the Candidates Tournament in Candidates Tournament 2022, 2022 and Candidates Tournament 2024, 2024. Firouzja left the Iranian Chess Federation in 2019 because of the country's Boycotts of Israel in sports, longstanding policy against competing with Israeli players. Firouzja played ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
