| World Rapid Championship (2019) |
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The 2019 King Salman FIDE World Rapid Championship was a 15-round Swiss open held at Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, Russia, 26-28 December, with the participation of 158 GM's, including defending champion Daniil Dubov. The prize fund was $350,000, with $60,000 to the winner. Time control: 15 minutes per player for all moves, with 10 seconds added per move from move one. If there was a tie for 1st place, the top two players according to the first eligible tie-break criterion would compete in a play-off match consisting of two 3+2 blitz games. If the score was still level, the players would play a sudden death or Armageddon game (in which the player with the white pieces would get 5 minutes to Black's 4, with a 2-second increment after move 60, while a draw counted as a win for Black). No players with baseball caps, t-shirts, jeans, shorts, sneakers or inappropriate dress were allowed in the playing area. No penalty was imposed on a player if he was late for any of his games. Chief arbiter: Panagiotis Nikolopoulos. Magnus Carlsen took his 3rd title with 11.5/15. Official site: https://wrbc2019.com/
Regulations: https://handbook.fide.com/files/han...
Chess-Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr499127....
Chess.com: https://www.chess.com/news/view/car...
ChessBase: https://en.chessbase.com/post/rapid...
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FIDE: https://ratings.fide.com/tournament... Previous: World Rapid Championship (2018). Next: World Rapid Championship (2021). See also World Rapid Championship (Women) (2019), World Blitz Championship (2019) and World Blitz Championship (Women) (2019)
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Year | Event/Locale | Opening |
| 1. Carlsen vs A Utegaliyev |
  | 1-0 | 26 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | B01 Scandinavian |
| 2. Nakamura vs K Sychev |
| 1-0 | 48 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | C70 Ruy Lopez |
| 3. Grischuk vs Bluebaum |
| 1-0 | 50 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | C11 French |
| 4. V Fedoseev vs Potkin |
| 1-0 | 50 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | D85 Grunfeld |
| 5. Dubov vs K Piorun |
| 1-0 | 44 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | A21 English |
| 6. Duda vs M Vavulin |
| 1-0 | 54 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | A25 English |
| 7. D Andreikin vs S Novikov |
| 1-0 | 45 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | B43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3 |
| 8. H Wang vs A Rychagov |
| 1-0 | 35 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | C10 French |
| 9. Y Yu vs B Gundavaa |
| 1-0 | 33 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | B90 Sicilian, Najdorf |
| 10. Le Quang Liem vs R Khusnutdinov |
| 1-0 | 38 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | E60 King's Indian Defense |
| 11. M Matlakov vs Sakaev |
| 1-0 | 46 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | A11 English, Caro-Kann Defensive System |
| 12. M Atabayev vs Wojtaszek |
| 1-0 | 34 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | B51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack |
| 13. E Safarli vs R Shcherbakov |
| 1-0 | 34 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | B25 Sicilian, Closed |
| 14. Jobava vs G Gajewski |
| 1-0 | 32 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | A01 Nimzovich-Larsen Attack |
| 15. K Alekseenko vs P Zarnicki |
| 1-0 | 30 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | C24 Bishop's Opening |
| 16. B Socko vs Pigusov |
| 1-0 | 32 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | E06 Catalan, Closed, 5.Nf3 |
| 17. P Ponkratov vs J Christiansen |
| 1-0 | 51 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | C45 Scotch Game |
| 18. S Vokhidov vs A Rakhmanov |
| 1-0 | 66 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | C42 Petrov Defense |
| 19. Shirov vs P Potapov |
| 1-0 | 50 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | B32 Sicilian |
| 20. Shimanov vs Glek |
| 1-0 | 46 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | A20 English |
| 21. A Predke vs R Yanchenko |
| 1-0 | 39 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | C16 French, Winawer |
| 22. H Melkumyan vs K Mesropov |
| 1-0 | 50 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | C10 French |
| 23. A Sarana vs H Bharathakoti |
| 1-0 | 59 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | B62 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer |
| 24. A Samsonkin vs I Ivanisevic |
| 1-0 | 27 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | B12 Caro-Kann Defense |
| 25. B Amin vs Yagupov |
| 1-0 | 39 | 2019 | World Rapid Championship | A07 King's Indian Attack |
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| Jan-06-20 | | fabelhaft: Winning an event like this with a full point is quite impressive, and that after a couple of ”safe” draws in the last rounds, before which he had +8-0=5. The opponent that stands out as a ”weakie” is untitled Utegaliev. But he went undefeated against the five strongest opponents he faced apart from Carlsen (including Candidate Alekseenko, who he finished ahead of), which shows how difficult it is to just beat the ”weak” players in these events. |
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| Jan-06-20 | | fabelhaft: It’s as if the participants play totally unrelated events in some cases. Gareyev finished 27th, but with three rounds left he had only faced opponents in the 2300s and 2400s.
Smirin scored 9.5/15 just like Gareyev but the average rating of his opponents over the fifteen rounds was more than 250 Elo higher. Firouzja had an amazing result after playing very strong opposition, beating Karjakin, Mamedyarov and Wang Hao. More than 80 participants were rated 2600+, 35 were 2700+. |
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