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
it would have been a debacle if Karjakin had become the 17th World Champion.
Garry Kasparov 2016
Chess is respected in culture and education, but our organization is far behind. FIDE must lead, not drag chess down.
Garry Kasparov 2014
I was pushed out of USSR by the hands of Petrosian and Karpov. But now, after 10 years, Petrosian is not longer alive and Karpov is not longer World Champion, so it seems that everything is in place now.
Viktor Kortchnoi 1986 NIC
It’s always more difficult to hold the title than to get it.
Vladimir Akopian 2012
There was a moment at the beginning when the machines were a positive, but lately we’ve being passing to the other extreme. Now it seems that a move isn’t good unless the machine says so.
Veselin Topalov 2016
