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
” Oh, those exclamation points! How they erode the innocent soul of the amateur, removing all hope of allowing him to examine another player’s ideas critically!”
Tigran Petrosian
In the past twenty years Kramnik has played a few thousand games, and if you show me a position from one of them, in 90 percent of the time I will be able to tell you which game it is from.
Vishy Anand 2008
If the FIDe elections were not decided by the votes of the delegates but by the world’s chess society as a whole, there would not even be a competition.
Anatoly Karpov NIC 2010
To Put It Mildly, I Have Not a Bit of Respect For Topalov
Vladimir Kramnik 2015
Vugar Gashimov deserves to be immortalized!
Mahir Mamedov 2014
