GM Magnus Carlsen claimed his fourth world fast chess crown on Wednesday and completed with a commanding rating of 10/13 within the 2022 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship.
A round-11 hiccup towards GM Vladislav Artemiev pulled Carlsen’s event into query briefly. Nevertheless, an excellent round-13 demolition of GM Parham Maghsoodloo put all of the stress on co-leaders GMs Vincent Keymer and Artemiev, who each didn’t win their ultimate video games.
A playoff was required to substantiate the ladies’s fast world champion resulting from GM Tan Zhongyi and IM Dinara Saduakassova each ending on 8.5/11. In a scintillating two-game blitz tiebreaker Tan managed to take down the native hero and add one other world title to her glowing resume.
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The ultimate day of the championship noticed Carlsen choose up proper the place he left off, first sweeping apart Keymer who, within the type of his life, was slowly floor down by the world champion in a queenless middlegame.
On boards two and three outcomes fell in favor of Carlsen, with GM Vladimir Fedoseev (7/9) succumbing to a rocketing GM Fabiano Caruana, whereas GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov (additionally on 7/9) conceded a draw towards GM Yu Yangyi with the white items.
Caruana’s win was his fourth in a row and followers started to salivate on the thought of a Carlsen-Caruana matchup because the American GM joined the chasing group one level behind the chief. The distinguished chasers after 10 rounds additionally included Artemiev and GM Daniil Dubov, who all however ended the prospect of a podium end for his or her opponents, GMs Arjun Erigaisi and Anish Giri.
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi‘s non permanent queen sacrifice towards GM Evgeny Tomashevksy made his recreation probably the most thrilling of spherical 10 though the win left him some extent and a half off the tempo in what has total been a disappointing event for the world championship challenger.
Spherical 11 noticed Carlsen pair with Artemiev, who commentators Howell and Trent recommended was a troublesome matchup for the world number-one. Stabilization out of the Bogo-Indian Protection recommended that the sport was heading for a draw, however a surprising blunder from Carlsen in a blatantly equal place gifted his opponent the complete level!
This sudden upset tore open the sphere and allowed Artemiev to affix the defeated chief on the high on 8.5/10. 5 different gamers ascended to inside half some extent of the lead throughout spherical 11: Dubov, Keymer, Fedoseev, Caruana, and GM Vidit Gujrathi. Vidit, whose begin left him on a mediocre 3.5/6, managed to attain 4.5 factors within the subsequent 5 rounds after the shaky begin, highlighting the significance of momentum and resilience throughout an occasion akin to this.
Two rounds left to play within the World Fast Championship!
Magnus Carlsen is joined by Vladislav Artemiev on 8.5/11 following Carlsen’s blunder of their spherical ten matchup! 🤯#RapidBlitz pic.twitter.com/gwOpktd889
— Chess.com (@chesscom) December 28, 2022
The penultimate spherical introduced forth a pairing that many had been ready for: the duel between the once-dubbed “Mozart of chess” and the favored U.S. Champion Caruana.
Whereas offbeat openings had benefited Carlsen in earlier video games of the event, Caruana confirmed that he’s to not be trifled with and equalized comfortably towards White’s 7.Qc1!? within the Catalan Opening. There got here a second on transfer 22 that Carlsen started shaking his head profusely, feeling that he had overpressed, although a flurry of correct strikes got here to the rescue and secured him a draw.
The one decisive outcomes on the highest eight boards had been by Keymer, who joined the leaders on 9/12, and Maghsoodoloo, who booked himself a showdown on board one within the ultimate spherical.
With all the pieces to play for amongst the three gamers on 9/12 (Carlsen, Keymer, and Artemiev) the world number-one was nonetheless the heavy favourite on condition that his adversaries had been paired towards among the most troublesome opponents within the discipline, Caruana and Vachier-Lagrave respectively.
As the one participant on 9/12 with the white items, Carlsen opted to play some of the aggressive traces potential towards Maghsoodloo’s Sicilian Protection, and after simply 18 strikes it turn into very crystal clear that he had constructed a near-decisive assault. Along with his spotlight reel over 13 rounds primarily that includes endgame squeezes, it was becoming that his most rambunctious recreation was his final.
Our Recreation of the Day, which secured the championship, is analyzed by GM Rafael Leitao under.
By the point the board-one recreation had completed, Caruana had all however dashed Artemiev’s possibilities of a maiden title after blowing him off the board. Keymer, alternatively, pressed arduous as Black towards Vachier-Lagrave and even discovered himself in a successful endgame, however the younger German GM caved below stress towards his skilled opponent and needed to accept a draw.
The conclusion of Keymer’s recreation got here with the affirmation that Carlsen had received his fourth world fast title and that he’ll nonetheless maintain a world championship title when his classical title is handed on in 2023.
For his victory, Carlsen earned a wholesome $60,000 whereas the silver and bronze medalists, Keymer and Caruana, will obtain $50,000 and $40,000 respectively.
👑 @MagnusCarlsen wins the 2022 World Fast Chess Championship!
Having led all the event, Carlsen wins his ultimate recreation to attain 10/13, and earns his FOURTH World Fast Championship! 👏🏆 pic.twitter.com/pITdBNV84j
— Chess.com (@chesscom) December 28, 2022
2022 World Fast Chess Championship | Remaining Standings (Prime 20)
| # | Fed | Title | Title | Score | Factors |
| 1 | GM | Magnus Carlsen | 2834 | 10 | |
| 2 | GM | Vincent Keymer | 2590 | 9.5 | |
| 3 | GM | Fabiano Caruana | 2747 | 9.5 | |
| 4 | GM | Daniil Dubov | 2712 | 9 | |
| 5 | GM | Arjun Erigaisi | 2628 | 9 | |
| 6 | GM | Vladimir Fedoseev | 2741 | 9 | |
| 7 | GM | Vladislav Artemiev | 2727 | 9 | |
| 8 | GM | Richard Rapport | 2802 | 9 | |
| 9 | GM | Sarin Nihal | 2628 | 8.5 | |
| 10 | GM | Nodirbek Abdusattorov | 2676 | 8.5 | |
| 11 | GM | Rauf Mamedov | 2578 | 8.5 | |
| 12 | GM | Anish Giri | 2708 | 8.5 | |
| 13 | GM | Jan-Krzysztof Duda | 2791 | 8.5 | |
| 14 | GM | Ian Nepomniachtchi | 2766 | 8.5 | |
| 15 | GM | Vidit Gujrathi | 2659 | 8.5 | |
| 16 | GM | Alexey Sarana | 2629 | 8.5 | |
| 17 | GM | Parham Maghsoodloo | 2656 | 8.5 | |
| 18 | GM | Alexander Grischuk | 2759 | 8.5 | |
| 19 | GM | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 2777 | 8.5 | |
| 20 | GM | Surya Ganguly | 2646 | 8.5 |
All World Fast Chess Championship Video games
The early phases of the ultimate day of the ladies’s occasion had been all in regards to the native Kazakh gamers, GMs Zhansaya Abdumalik and Saduakassova, who each managed to win their round-nine video games and catch the event leaders. Tan and GM Aleksandra Goryachkina, who dominated play on the second day, drew in a comparatively mundane encounter and allowed the Kazakh grandmasters, together with GM Humpy Koneru, to absorb the lead.
Abdumalik’s dispatching of day two co-leader WIM Savitha Shri was all class and swashbuckling middlegame play within the Sicilian Protection: Richter-Rauzer Variation. Robust play prompted Shri to make a one-move blunder, leaving the 15-year-old enigma rueing in what might have been.
Excessive-stakes matchups had been the secret in spherical 10 and the mettle of the leaders was examined because the 5 confronted off towards one another (barring Abdumalik who floated right down to play GM Alexandra Kosteniuk).
Attracts on boards one and three allowed a transparent chief to emerge in Saduakassova who scored her sixth win on the fly towards the top-seed Goryachkina. Gaining a small benefit out of the opening with White, the 26-year-old, Astana-based IM saved all her methods for the essential round-10 matchup and asserted herself over the sphere with one spherical to spare.
Saduakassova discovered herself with a positive pairing towards Shri within the ultimate spherical however curiously selected to take an early draw. Whereas the end result assured an equal first end, Howell identified {that a} playoff towards both Tan, Koneru, or Abdumalik weren’t notably interesting if any of them had been to win their final-round video games.
Though Abdumalik-Koneru did end in a draw, Tan did actually win her recreation towards GM Nino Batsiashvili and transfer into equal first on 8.5/11, forcing a tiebreak between the previous world champion and the Kazakh hero. Regardless of their unbeaten runs in the primary occasion, the pair’s first playoff recreation was a nervy one. After constructing a bonus off the again of a number of blunders by Black, Tan missed three alternatives to place the sport to mattress and as a substitute opted for a repetition.
A topsy-turvy second recreation produced a drawish rook endgame that appeared barely simpler for White to play till Saduakassova made performed the passive 26.Rbc3. Tan instantly went on the assault and by no means appeared again, recognizing a championship-winning trick to liquidate right into a successful king and pawn ending on transfer 37.
For her historic victory, Tan will obtain $40,000 as the primary prize whereas silver and bronze medalists, Saduakassova and Shri, will obtain $30,000 and $20,000 every.
Congratulations to Tan Zhongyi on successful the Ladies’s World Fast Championship! 🎉👏
She received an unbelievable championship play-off match towards Dinara Saduakassova to turn into girls’s world fast champion! 🏆🇨🇳 pic.twitter.com/sxT4YCJsE0
— Chess.com (@chesscom) December 28, 2022
2022 Ladies’s World Fast Chess Championship | Remaining Standings (Prime 20)
| # | Fed | Title | Title | Score | Rating |
| 1 | GM | Tan Zhongyi | 2518 | 8.5 | |
| 2 | IM | Dinara Saduakassova | 2434 | 8.5 | |
| 3 | WIM | Savitha Shri B | 2411 | 8 | |
| 4 | GM | Aleksandra Goryachkina | 2584 | 8 | |
| 5 | GM | Zhansaya Abdumalik | 2496 | 8 | |
| 6 | GM | Humpy Koneru | 2572 | 8 | |
| 7 | GM | Alina Bivol | 2364 | 7.5 | |
| 8 | GM | Bela Khotenashvili | 2485 | 7.5 | |
| 9 | GM | Alexandra Kosteniuk | 2520 | 7.5 | |
| 10 | GM | Amina Kairbekova | 2209 | 7.5 | |
| 11 | GM | Nino Batsiashvili | 2493 | 7 | |
| 12 | GM | Elina Danielian | 2431 | 7 | |
| 13 | GM | Valentina Gunina | 2476 | 7 | |
| 14 | GM | Qianyun Gong | 2299 | 7 | |
| 15 | GM | Leya Garifullina | 2357 | 7 | |
| 16 | GM | Turmunkh Munkhzul | 2318 | 7 | |
| 17 | GM | Gulnar Mammadova | 2376 | 7 | |
| 18 | GM | Aleksandra Maltsevkaya | 2400 | 7 | |
| 19 | GM | Antoaneta Stefanova | 2442 | 7 | |
| 20 | GM | Nana Dzagnidze | 2517 | 7 | |
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The 2022 FIDE World Fast Championship is an elite over-the-board occasion that includes the very best velocity chess gamers on this planet. Masters and nationwide champions from across the globe collect to compete in a Swiss event for his or her share of the $350,000 prize fund.
Classical world champion Carlsen, adopted by velocity chess legends Nakamura, Duda, and Vachier-Lagrave head the sphere and shall be challenged by quite a few different 2700+ gamers.
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