FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Team 2025 participants feature 104 Grandmasters (including 5 from the World top 10 – Hikaru Nakamura, Arjun Erigaisi, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Alireza Firouzja, Ian Nepomniachtchi) 63 IMs, and a total of 316 titled players. See the full participants list here

Live games will be daily on Chessdom. The FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Team 2025 is on of the Major events in The Chess Calendar for the month of June.

This is the official FIDE video broadcast of the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Team 2025. The Rapid part is Swiss, 12 rounds The time control: 15 minutes for the first with an increment of 10 seconds per move starting from move 1. Rapid Live 1-10 / Rapid Live 11-20 / Rapid Live 21+

Results: Round 1

Magnus Carlsen won the encounter with a total score 4-2. But the score does not tell the whole story! Carlsen took the lead in game 3, after defeating Nakamura with white. Hikaru had a shot in the next game, but in a rare turn of events resigned in a winning position, missing 33. Rfg3! Replay the game here

New: If you are looking for more action by Carlsen and Nakamura, do not forget to check out the complete Magnus Carlsen calendar and the complete Hikaru Nakamura calendar, which are now integral parts of The Chessdom Chess Calendar

Nakamura resigns in a winning position against Carlsen video

Alexander Grischuk says that freestyle chess removes this “this idiotic 6 hours preparation for the game.” He adds, “Classical is my least preferred format, it is either blitz, rapid of freestyle”.

Alexander Grischuk about Grenke and Freestyle

Gotham Chess crossed 1 billion views with 3,1M subscribers back in March 2023. This feat took him close to five years of videos. One and a half years later he has crossed the 3 billion mark

Gotham Chess has recently joined the Take Take Take app and is expected to cover the World Championship Gukesh – Ding Liren with videos. His Youtube channel will be one of the major sources of videos during the match, together with Agadmator and Chessbase India. More on Ding – Gukesh: Preview / Schedule / Where to watch / Venue / Live / Promo video

Countdown
33 days remaining Ding Liren considers the favorite for the World Chess Championship 2024
32 days remaining Gukesh about the World Chess Championship chances
31 days remaining Anish Giri about the World Chess Championship
30 days remaining Happy birthday to Ding Liren

Promo video of the World Chess Championship 2024

I’m grandmaster Matthew Sadler, a 2-times British Champion, and ranked in the world’s top 50 for many years. I’m also a prolific author. My latest book “Re-Engineering the Chess Classics” appeared in May 2023. It uses the techniques described in “The Silicon Road to Chess Improvement” to analyse afresh thirty-five of the most fascinating and complex chess games ever played by World Champions and other top grandmasters.

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With a knight up in the endgame, Aman Hambleton asks, “Are we playing this on?” He continues with a very low time on the clock and series of pre-moves to promote a queen. With just 12,5 sec on the clock, Hambleton has one knight, one queen and five pawns – just enough to promote each pawn to a different piece on the board. And this is what Hambleton does! With 4,1 secs on the clock he has two knights, two bishops, two rooks, and a queen.

Amam Hambleton continues to checkmate The_Machine04 with his pieces in the starting position! With just 0,9 sec on the clock! A game that Aman calls “My Mona Lisa”

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Amam Hambleton checkmate vs The_Machine04

It’s a lovely opsitional squeeze from Leela starting from an opening position that suits its style down to the ground. An early (book) advance of the g-pawn in a Budapest Gambit secures Leela the f4-square for its pieces in perpetuity. Leela uses this asset beautifully to extract more and more concessions from Ethereal culminating in a tale of 2 rook’s pawns in a 2 bishops against 2 knights endgame: Leela’s rook’s pawn on h6 is invulnerable and crippling, Ethereal’s a4-pawn is weak and open to attack! The game is viewable here: https://tcec-chess.com/#div=sw&game=396&season=27

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Ding Liren himself considers Gukesh the favorite for the World Chess Championship 2024. He confessed this in a video interview for Anna Burtasova.

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