World Rapid and Blitz Team Chess Championships
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The FIDE World Rapid Team Championship is a team tournament in chess played under rapid time controls and organized by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in collaboration with WR Logistics GmbH. The tournament will take place in Dusseldorf, Germany, from August 26 to 28, 2023.[1].
Overview
The FIDE World Rapid Team Championship follows the Swiss system with 12 rounds. The tournament rules ensure inclusivity, diversity, and fair representation by requiring each team to include at least one female player, and at least one player in each team, who has not achieved a FIDE Standard, Rapid, or Blitz Rating of 2000 Elo points or be unrated[2].
Participants
Participants of the championship include former world champions, such as Viswanathan Anand, Vladimir Kramnik, Hou Yifan, Mariya Muzychuk and Alexandra Kosteniuk, as well as World Championships runners-ups, World Cup winners, and former world champions in rapid and blitz chess[3].
| Achievement | Player | Team | Rating, Rapid (August 1, 2023)[4] |
|---|---|---|---|
| Former world champions in classical chess[5] | Viswanathan Anand | Freedom | 2751 |
| Vladimir Kramnik | Chess pensioners | 2739 | |
| Hou Yifan | WR Chess | 2537 | |
| Alexandra Kosteniuk | WR Chess | 2523 | |
| Mariya Muzychuk | Ashdod Elit Chess Club | 2470 | |
| World Championships runners-up[5] | Ian Nepomniachtchi | WR Chess | 2762 |
| Fabiano Caruana | Kompetenzakademie Allstars | 2763 | |
| Boris Gelfand | Rishon LeZion Chess Club | 2619 | |
| World Cup winners[6] | Levon Aronian | Kompetenzakademie Allstars | 2763 |
| Peter Svidler | Chess pensioners | 2737 | |
| Jan-Krzysztof Duda | WR Chess | 2760 | |
| 2022 Women’s World Blitz Champion[7] | Bibisara Assaubayeva | Uzbekistan | 2432 |
| Former world champions in rapid[8] | Nodirbek Abdusattorov | WR Chess | 2724 |
| Daniil Dubov | Freedom | 2723 | |
| Former world champions in blitz[7] | Leinier Dominguez | Chess pensioners | 2705 |
| Kateryna Lagno | ASV AlphaEchecs LINZ | 2483 |
Approximately 300 participants worldwide, including over 15 Olympic champions, form 41 teams to compete[9].
Favorites and Standouts
FIDE points out the following teams as some of the strongest and clear favorites, due to the squad experience and average team rating[10]:
- Freedom (Richard Rapport, Viswanathan Anand, Daniil Dubov, Santosh Gujrathi Vidit, Evgeniy Najer, Polina Shuvalova, Alexander Shapiro)[9];
- WR Chess (Ian Nepomniachtchi, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Wesley So, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Vincent Keymer, Praggnanandhaa R, Hou Yifan, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Wadim Rosenstein)[9];
- Kompetenzakademie Allstars (Fabiano Caruana, Levon Aronian, Gukesh D, Sebastian Siebrecht, Nino Batsiashvili, Keti Tsatsalashvili, Rainer Becker, Manfred Schneider)[9];
- Chess Pensioners (Vladimir Kramnik, Peter Svidler, Leinier Dominguez, Darmen Sadvakasov, Jovanka Houska, Christoph Barati, Dennis Koenig, Miron Ananiev, Yaroslav Ananiev)[9].
Format and Rules
The FIDE World Rapid Team Championship adopts a team-based Swiss tournament format. Teams, consisting of six to nine players, are set to compete against each other in 15-minute games with an increment of 10 seconds per move. The scoring system awards teams with 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss in each round. The team with the highest amount of match points at the end of the tournament will be crowned as the World Team Rapid Champion[2]
Prize fund
The championship offers a total prize fund of €250,000. In case of a tie, the prize money will be shared equally among the tied teams[10][11][12].
| Place | Team prize |
|---|---|
| 1st | €100,000 |
| 2nd | €60,000 |
| 3rd | €40,000 |
| 4th | €25,000 |
| 5th | €12,500 |
| 1st "Under 2400" | €12,500 |
| Total | €250,000 |
Schedule
The tournament spans over three days[4].
| Date | Event | Start time |
|---|---|---|
| August 26 | Technical meeting | 10:30 |
| Opening ceremony | 13:00 | |
| Round 1 | 13:30 | |
| Round 2 | 15:30 | |
| Round 3 | 17:30 | |
| Round 4 | 19:30 | |
| August 27 | Round 5 | 13:30 |
| Round 6 | 15:30 | |
| Round 7 | 17:30 | |
| Round 8 | 19:30 | |
| August 28 | Round 9 | 13:30 |
| Round 10 | 15:30 | |
| Round 11 | 17:30 | |
| Round 12 | 19:30 | |
| Closing ceremony | 21:00 |
References
- ^ International Chess Federation (FIDE), 2023. Inaugural World Rapid Team Championship: Registration open for all. Available at: https://www.fide.com/news/2354]
- ^ a b International Chess Federation (FIDE), n.d. Regulations for the FIDE World Rapid Team Championship 2023. Available at: https://handbook.fide.com/files/handbook/WRTC2023Regulations.pdf [Accessed on August 05, 2023]
- ^ ChessBase, 2023. Star-studded World Team Rapid Chess Championship. Available at: https://en.chessbase.com/post/star-studded-world-team-rapid-chess-championship
- ^ a b International Chess Federation (FIDE), n.d. Top chess players. Available at: https://ratings.fide.com/ [Accessed on August 1, 2023].
- ^ a b Green, N., 2023. All The World Chess Champions. Available at: https://www.chess.com/article/view/world-chess-champions
- ^ McGourty, C., 2021. Jan-Krzysztof Duda wins the FIDE World Cup. Available at: https://chess24.com/en/read/news/jan-krzysztof-duda-wins-the-fide-world-cup
- ^ a b Harding, T., 2016. A Brief History of Fast Chess. Available at: https://web.archive.org/web/20170103172317/https://worldchess.com/2016/12/25/a-brief-history-of-fast-chess/
- ^ International Chess Federation (FIDE), 2016. The winners of FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Championships. Available at: https://old.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/9975-the-winners-of-fide-world-rapid-a-blitz-championships.html
- ^ a b c d e Chess-Results.com, n.d. 2023 World Rapid Team Championship. Available at: https://chess-results.com/tnr802387.aspx [Accessed on August 16, 2023]
- ^ a b International Chess Federation (FIDE), 2023. Düsseldorf hosts the inaugural World Team Rapid Championship. [Online] Available at: https://www.fide.com/news/2548
- ^ Schach in Deutschland, 2023. FIDE World Rapid Team Championship in Düsseldorf: Freiwillige gesucht! - Deutscher Schachbund. Available at: https://www.schachbund.de/news/fide-world-rapid-team-championship-in-duesseldorf-freiwillige-gesucht.html [Accessed on August 16, 2023]
- ^ English Chess Federation, 2023. World Rapid Team Championship. Available at: https://www.englishchess.org.uk/new-world-rapid-team-championship [Accessed on August 16, 2023]