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The 2021 World Rapid & Blitz Championship and Women's Rapid & Blitz Championship are elite events organized by FIDE to determine the best players in fast time controls in the world. The championship gathers national champions and grandmaster-level players from around the globe to compete in two Swiss tournaments for their piece of the $1,000,000.00 prize fund. The event runs from December 26 through December 30, starting at 1:00 a.m. PST/10:00 CET.

You can watch the live broadcast of the event on Chess.com/TV or on our Twitch and YouTube channels, with legendary GM Jon Ludvig Hammer providing expert commentary. You can also keep up with the event by going to our Events page.

The best players in the world gather to compete for the title of rapid, blitz, women's rapid, and women's blitz world champion. Both the current world champion GM Magnus Carlsen and challenger GM Ian Nepomniachtchi are expected to play in this event. We will add the list of confirmed players once it is available.

Below you can find the requirements to enter the competition.

Open

Women's

We will publish the event's standings here.

The opening ceremony of the event happens on December 25, while games start on December 26 and end on December 30.

Pairings And Seeding

Rapid

Blitz

Tiebreaks

First-place Tiebreaks

The 2021 World Rapid & Blitz and Women's World Rapid & Blitz have a $1,000,000.00 prize fund, distributed according to the tables below:

Open

Women's

This year, the World Blitz & Rapid Championship and Women's World Blitz & Rapid happen once again in Nur-Sultan, the capital of Kazakhstan. The city hosted the inaugural World Rapid & Blitz Championship in 2012 when GM Sergey Karjakin took first place in the Rapid event.

Open Champions (Since 2012)

Women's Champions (Since 2012)

See the article here:
2021 FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Championship: All The Information - Chess.com