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World Blitz Champion	Women's World Blitz Champion
9½/21	9/17
Born 18 September 2004 17 years old	Born 23 April 1984 31 years old
Rating: 2593 (World No. 132)	Rating: 2515 (World No. 6)
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The World Blitz Chess Championship 2021 is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under rapid time controls. Since 2012, FIDE has held the World Rapid and Blitz Championships at a joint tournament. Originally planned to be held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, new coronavirus restrictions introduced by the Kazakh government prompted FIDE to change the location of the tournament to Warsaw, Poland.

The event took place at the Narodowy Stadium in Warsaw between 29-30 December 2021, using a Swiss-system with 21 rounds for the open tournament and 17 rounds for the women's tournament. Players eligible to participate must either be rated at least 2550 Elo in a FIDE rating list during 2021, or be a reigning national champion. Time controls for the tournament are 3+2, meaning each player initially starts with 3 minutes and gains 2 seconds increment with each move.

Participants

179 players took part in the open tournament, and 105 in the women's tournament.

Code	Federation	Open	Women's	Total
ALG	Algeria	1	0	1
ARG	Argentina	1	1	2
ARM	Armenia	9	2	11
AUT	Austria	2	0	2
AZE	Azerbaijan	7	5	12
BIH	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1	0	1
BRA	Brazil	1	2	3
BUL	Bulgaria	1	2	3
CFR	Russia	28	19	47
CRO	Croatia	1	0	1
CZE	Czechia	3	1	4
DEN	Denmark	1	0	1
ECU	Ecuador	0	1	1
EGY	Egypt	3	0	3
ENG	England	1	0	1
ESP	Spain	4	2	6
FID	none	1	0	1
FRA	France	2	1	3
GEO	Georgia	3	2	5
GER	Germany	7	3	10
GRE	Greece	3	1	4
HUN	Hungary	4	0	4
IND	India	12	4	16
IRI	Iran	2	1	3
IRQ	Iraq	1	0	1
ISR	Israel	3	2	5
ITA	Italy	2	0	2
KAZ	Kazakhstan	1	6	7
KGZ	Kyrgyzstan	1	1	2
KOS	Kosovo	1	0	1
LBA	Libya	1	0	1
LTU	Lithuania	0	1	1
LUX	Luxembourg	0	1	1
MDA	Moldova	1	0	1
MGL	Mongolia	0	1	1
NED	Netherlands	3	1	4
NOR	Norway	4	0	4
POL	Poland (host)	27	21	48
ROU	Romania	3	2	5
SLO	Slovenia	0	1	1
SRB	Serbia	2	1	3
SVK	Slovakia	1	0	1
SWE	Sweden	1	0	1
TJK	Tajikistan	1	0	1
TUR	Turkey	1	1	2
UAE	United Arab Emirates	1	0	1
UKR	Ukraine	9	9	18
USA	United States	7	1	8
UZB	Uzbekistan	4	0	4
VEN	Venezuela	1	0	1
YEM	Yemen	1	0	1

Prize Fund

The prize fund for both the open's and women's tournament is shown below. In case of a tie (except for first place) all prize money is shared between the players. Players outside the brackets do not receive any prize money. All amounts are in USD.

Open tournament:

1^st place: $60,000

2^nd place: $50,000

3^rd place: $40,000

4^th place: $30,000

5^th place: $25,000

6^th place: $22,000

7^th place: $18,000

8^th place: $14,000

9^th place: $11,000

10^th place: $8,000

11^th-16^th places: $5,000

17^th-25^th places: $3,000

26^th-35^th places: $1,500

Total: $350,000

Women's tournament:

1^st place: $40,000

2^nd place: $30,000

3^rd place: $20,000

4^th place: $15,000

5^th place: $10,000

6^th place: $7,000

7^th place: $6,000

8^th place: $5,000

9^th place: $4,000

10^th place: $3,000

11^th-15^th places: $2,000

Total: $150,000

Schedule

The opening ceremony took place on Saturday 25 December. Start times are approximate as all matches in the previous round must finish before the next round can commence. All times are CET.

Open round	Women's round	Date	Time
1	1	Wednesday 29 December	15:00
2	2		15:30
3	3		16:00
4	4		16:30
5	5		17:00
6	6		17:30
7	7		18:00
8	8		18:30
9	9		19:00
10			19:30
11			20:00
12			20:30
13	10	Thursday 30 December	14:00
14	11		14:30
15	12		15:00
16	13		15:30
17	14		16:00
18	15		16:30
19	16		17:00
20	17		17:30
21			18:00

Open tournament results

The following table lists all participants, with the results from the 21 rounds. They are ranked according to the results, taking into account the tie-breaks.

Notation: "1 (W 116)" indicates a win (1 point) with white pieces (W) against player of rank 116 (Victor Mikhalevski). The first tiebreak (labeled BC1) is the Buchholz Cut 1 score, the second tiebreak (labeled BS) is the Buchholz score, and the third tiebreak (labelled AROC1) is the average rating of opponents cut 1.

Rank	Name	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	Total	BC1	BS	AROC1
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Women's tournament results

The following table lists all participants, with the results from the 17 rounds. They are ranked according to the results, taking into account the tie-breaks.

Notation: "1 (B 83)" indicates a win (1 point) with black pieces (B) against player of rank 83 (Mihaela Sandu). The first tiebreak (labeled BC1) is the Buchholz Cut 1 score, the second tiebreak (labeled BS) is the Buchholz score, and the third tiebreak (labelled AROC1) is the average rating of opponents cut 1.

Rank	Name	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Total	BC1	BS	AROC1
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