World Blitz Championship - Live!

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12/31/2024 – The World Blitz Championships are taking place in New York on 30-31 December. Over 300 elite players, including Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana and Ju Wenjun, compete in iconic Wall Street venues. The tournaments, open and women's, are played with a time control of 3 minutes for the game plus 2-second increments per move. | Follow the games live with expert commentary starting at 20.00 CET (14.00 ET, 0.30 IST)

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Blitz - Knockout stage

The rapid tournament takes place on 26-28 December. Players will get a rest day on Sunday, while the blitz event will be played on 30-31 December.

Format - Rapid

The tournaments will be played under the Swiss System

  • The Open Rapid consists of 13 rounds
  • The Women's Rapid consists of 11 rounds

Format - Blitz

A 2-stage format will be used for the first time in both events. Following a Swiss open, 8 players will qualify to the deciding knockout stage.

  • The Open Blitz consists of 13 rounds
  • The Women's Blitz consists of 11 rounds
  • Each confrontation in the knockout stage is a 4-game match

Time control

  • Rapid: 15 minutes + 10-second increments per move, starting from move 1
  • Blitz: 3 minutes + 2-second increments per move, starting from move 1

Live games and commentary

Open

World Blitz Chess Championship 2024

Women's

World Blitz Chess Championship 2024

Commentary by GMs Maurice Ashley and Evgenij Miroshnichenko

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Video

60m The Two Knights

This entry into the 60 minutes series concentrates on the Modern variation of the Italian game where White opens the centre early : 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bc4 Nf6 4 d4 exd4 5 e5!. This line can be reached by various move orders, most frequently from the Scotch 3 d4 exd4 4 Bc4. It's a sharp variation and Grandmasters such as Evgeny Sveshnikov have used it frequently,with very good results. It's a perfect line for club players to adopt which is relatively easy to learn and which contains many traps. All the main responses are covered here, including 5...d5, 5...Ng4 and 5...Ne4 and the conclusion is that is is difficult for Black to equalize in a straightforward way. Problems are being posed, which over the board might prove tough to solve.