12/17/2017 – Live from Katowice, Poland, December 16th and 17th. This Swiss system rapid tournament features 11 rounds, in which players have 15 minutes plus a 10-second increment for the entire game. Over 1,000 players are participating in all, and the prize fund is €21,000, with €4,000 for 1st place. After day one, Igor Kovalenko, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Vladimir Potkin and Marcin Dziuba were leading with 6 points, but on day two, Russian IM Maxim Vavulin was perfect and ended in sole first with 10 / 11.

10/28/2017 – Last weekend, in Monte-Carlo, the European Women's Rapid Chess Championship was held. Anna Muzychuk, already World Champion in this discipline, won. The Blitz Championship followed, and there the Russian Chess Federation celebrated a threefold success as Alexandra Kosteniuk, Kateryna Lagno and Valentina Gunina finished in the top three spots. | Photo: Nadja Wittman

12/16/2013 – It has been a massive amount of top-notch international rapid chess with the London Chess Classic, the Beijing Mind Games, and not to be outdone: the European Bitz and Rapid championships, held in Warsaw, Poland. What the European lacked in top-ten players, they made up for in sheer numbers with no fewer than 437 players in the blitz championship and 747 in the rapid. Even Santa played.