Timed games of between 10-29 minutes. Also named active chess by FIDE in the 1980s. The timing was used for the first Rapid World Championship won by Karpov in 1988.
Popularized by the Troffe Immopar, followed by the INTEL Gran-Prix in the 1990s, it is used with electronic clocks as a tie-break at the World Championships since 1997.
In 2014, FIDE introduced the FIDE Rapid ranking. By 2017, the top players are: Magnus Carlsen 2896, Vassily Ivanchuk 2827, 3. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 2825, 4. Alexander Grichuk 2822, 5. Ian Nepomniachtchi 2819.
Since 2012, FIDE is organizing yearly the World Championship, the last winner was Vassily Ivanchuk in 2016.
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Quotes of the Day
Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.
Savielly Tartakower
He has weaknesses, as everyone does, but far fewer than those around him.
Veselin Topalov 2016
I think I am certainly more talented than many other people. But I don’t know what talent consists of.
Magnus Carlsen 2014
Everything is very concrete nowadays. The computer often gives unnatural moves which are correct, but sometimes hard to remember. You know a line is correct, but then your forget something and lose terribly.
Daniel Stellwagen 2010
One of the most important things in chess is pattern recognition: the ability to recognise typical themes and images on the board, characteristics of a position and their consequences.
Magnus Carlsen 2010
