FIDE World Speedy & Blitz Chess Championships 2024: Schedule, venue and every little thing else you’ll want to know

Solely a few weeks in the past Dommaraju Gukesh
clinched a historic World Chess Championship title in Singapore. Now, it’s time for the 2024 FIDE World Speedy and Blitz Championships, to find out the champion of the 2 faster codecs of chess. Whereas Gukesh
will give this match a miss, there are a number of different Indians in motion, together with Arjun Erigaisi, R Praggnanandhaa, Divya Deskhmukh and Koneru Humpy.

From the format to the schedule, key gamers and extra, right here’s all you’ll want to know in regards to the World Speedy and Blitz Chess Championships.

What’s the format of the FIDE World Speedy and Blitz Chess Championships?

Each the World Speedy and Blitz Championships may have 13 rounds within the open part and 11 rounds within the ladies’s part. The Speedy Championships observe a Swiss system. Which means the gamers don’t get ousted after losses, and as a substitute, they might be paired once more in every spherical, the place they are going to tackle opponents with comparable scores.

The participant who scores most factors in every of the 2 classes is set the winner. Whereas the Blitz Championships have the identical variety of rounds because the Speedy match, there’s a Stage 2 after the completion of the rounds. The highest eight gamers after every spherical make it to Stage 2, which is a knockout spherical, which is able to ultimately decide a winner when there are simply two gamers remaining.

So far as time controls are involved, in fast format, every participant may have a time management of quarter-hour, with a 10-second increment per transfer. For Blitz, each participant may have a time management for 3 minutes with two-second increment.

Who’re the Indians competing on the 2024 FIDE World Speedy and Blitz Championships

Arjun Erigaisi will lead a powerful Indian contingent on the 2024 FIDE World Speedy and Blitz Championships in New York. Erigaisi
acquired his US visa solely a few days in the past. R Praggananandhaa is one other Indian who’s a powerful title contender within the open part. Koneru Humpy, Duvya Deshmukh, Vantija Agarwal, D Harika and others headline the ladies’s part. Viswanathan Anand has received the World Speedy Championships twice whereas Koneru Humpy has received the identical match as soon as.

Let’s now check out the whole Indian lineup for the 2024 FIDE World Speedy and Blitz Championships

India Open crew: Arjun Erigaisi, Raunak Sadhwani, R Praggnanandhaa, Aravindh Chithambaram, Sandipan Chanda,  Harsha Bharathakoti, Pranav, Bharath Subramaniyam, Karthik Venkataraman, Diptayan Ghosh.

India Girls crew: Koneru Humpy, Divya Deshmukh, D Harika, Vantika Agrawal, R Vaishali, Sahithi Varshini, Priyanka Nutakki, Padmini Rout.

2024 FIDE World Speedy and Blitz Championships schedule (All instances IST)

World Speedy Championship schedule

26 December/27 December

11/30 pm: Opening

12.30 am: Spherical 1

1.50 am: Spherical 2

3.10 am: Spherical 3

4.30 am: Spherical 4

5.50 am: Spherical 5

28 December

12.30 am: Spherical 6

1.50 am: Spherical 7

3.10 am: Spherical 8

4.30 am: Spherical 9

29 December

12.30 am: Spherical 10

1.50 am: Spherical 11

3.10 am: Spherical 12

4.30 am: Spherical 13

World Blitz Championship schedule

31 December

12.30 am: Spherical 1

1.00 am: Spherical 2

1.30 am: Spherical 3

2.00 am: Spherical 4

2.30 am: Spherical 5

3.00 am: Spherical 6

3.30 am: Spherical 7

4.00 am: Spherical 8

4.30 am: Spherical 9

5.00 am: Spherical 10

5.30 am: Spherical 11

6.00 am: Spherical 12

6.30 am: Spherical 13

1 January, 2025

12.30 am: Quarterfinals

2.00 am: Semifinals

3.30 am: Remaining

Girls’s World Speedy Championships schedule

26/27 December

11.30 pm: Opening

12.45 am: Spherical 1

2.05 am: Spherical 2

3.25 am: Spherical 3

4.45 am: Spherical 4

28 December

12.45 am: Spherical 5

2.05 am: Spherical 6

3.25 am: Spherical 7

4.45 am: Spherical 8

29 December

12.45 am: Spherical 9

2.05 am: Spherical 10

3.25 am: Spherical 11

Girls’s World Blitz Championships schedule

31 December

12.45 am: Spherical 1

1.15 am: Spherical 2

1.45 am: Spherical 3

2.15 am: Spherical 4

2.45 am: Spherical 5

3.15 am: Spherical 6

3.45 am: Spherical 7

4.15 am: Spherical 8

4.45 am: Spherical 9

5.15 am: Spherical 10

5.45 am: Spherical 11

12:30 am: Quarterfinals

2:00 am: Semifinals

3:30 am: Remaining

The place and the place will the 2024 FIDE World Speedy and Blitz Championship happen? 

The 2024 FIDE World Speedy and Blitz Championship happen will happen from 26 December to 31 December at Wall Road, New York.

How can I watch the 2024 FIDE World Speedy and Blitz Championship

Followers can watch the 2024 FIDE World Speedy and Blitz Championship video games on the official FIDE YouTube channel. Nevertheless, there received’t be any telecast of the video games on TV.