FIDE World Speedy and Blitz Group Championships 2025: All it is advisable to know in regards to the occasion

The 2025 FIDE World Speedy and Blitz Group Championships are all set to happen in London from 10-16 June. The occasion will convey collectively prime chess gamers from world wide to compete in two thrilling codecs – Speedy and Blitz. Followers can count on some thrilling matches because the world’s prime gamers are additionally taking part within the occasion.

Venue and format

The event is being held at Novotel London West in Hammersmith, West London. The championships are divided into two occasions – Speedy (11–13 June), which might be a 12-round Swiss event and Blitz (14–15 June), a round-robin pool adopted by a knockout stage.

Gamers can have quarter-hour per recreation with a 10-second increment per transfer within the Speedy part, and three minutes per recreation with a 2-second increment per transfer within the Blitz part.

What’s the prize pool?

A complete prize fund of €500,000 (Rs 4 crore) is up for grabs with €310,000 (Rs 3 crore) for the Speedy occasion and €190,000 (Rs 1.8 crore) for the Blitz occasion.

Group composition

The World Speedy and Blitz Group Championships is a crew occasion. Right here’s how the crew composition ought to look.

• Groups should have 6 to 9 gamers

• Every crew should embrace 1 feminine participant and 1 beginner participant

• Every match is performed on six boards

• Groups can embrace gamers from completely different federations and golf equipment

Who’s enjoying?

A complete of 54 groups are taking part, with 116 Grandmasters amongst them. The massive favourites are WR Chess Group, winners of each the 2023 Speedy and 2024 Blitz titles.

WR Chess is led by GM Jan Gustafsson and options prime stars like
Hikaru Nakamura
, Alireza Firouzja, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Wesley So, and Jan-Krzysztof Duda. Former girls’s world champions Hou Yifan and Alexandra Kosteniuk are additionally a part of the crew. The crew’s beginner board might be taken by Wadim Rosenstein, who can also be the proprietor of the crew.

So far as India is anxious, five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand is participating as a part of the Freedom crew. GM Arjun Erigaisi, GM Nihal Sarin, GM Vidit Gujrathi, GM Pentala Harikrishna, GM Pranav Venkatesh, GM Leon Luke Mendonca, GM Srinath Narayanan, IM Divya Deshmukh, Atharvaa P Tayade, Sarbartho Mani and Aryaman Ganguly are different Indians within the event.

Tips on how to watch?

The matches might be streamed dwell with commentary by GMs Daniel King and Jovanka Houska on FIDE’s YouTube channel. Followers who wish to watch in individual should buy tickets at tickets.fide.com.