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World Rapid Championship (2022) Name: World Rapid Championship Event Date: December 26 - 28, 2022 Site: Almaty, Kazakhstan Format: 13-rounds Swiss Time Control: 15 minutes for the entire game with a 10-second increment beginning from move one. Official Website: https://worldrapidandblitz2022.fide...  page 1 of 44; games 1-25 of 1,084  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. M A Tabatabaei vs Nakamura   ½-½ 54 2022 World Rapid Championship E47 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 2. Rapport vs J Vakhidov   1-0 74 2022 World Rapid Championship B30 Sicilian 3. S Ter-Sahakyan vs Carlsen   0-1 42 2022 World Rapid Championship C18 French, Winawer 4. Duda vs P Idani   1-0 51 2022 World Rapid Championship E11 Bogo-Indian Defense 5. V Kovalev vs Vachier-Lagrave   ½-½ 43 2022 World Rapid Championship B52 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack 6. Nepomniachtchi vs L Pantsulaia 1-0 31 2022 World Rapid Championship B28 Sicilian, O'Kelly Variation 7. M Yilmaz vs Grischuk   ½-½ 48 2022 World Rapid Championship D37 Queen's Gambit Declined 8. Caruana vs Lintchevski   1-0 58 2022 World Rapid Championship D27 Queen's Gambit Accepted, Classical 9. N Petrov vs Mamedyarov   ½-½ 29 2022 World Rapid Championship E48 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 d5 10. Y Yu vs S Narayanan   1-0 37 2022 World Rapid Championship D78 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.O-O c6 11. J Christiansen vs V Fedoseev   0-1 37 2022 World Rapid Championship C02 French, Advance 12. V Artemiev vs V Durarbayli   1-0 58 2022 World Rapid Championship D45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 13. Makhnev vs Brunello   0-1 92 2022 World Rapid Championship E10 Queen's Pawn Game 14. Dubov vs D Dardha   1-0 43 2022 World Rapid Championship A07 King's Indian Attack 15. A Suleymanli vs Giri   0-1 41 2022 World Rapid Championship A28 English 16. A Esipenko vs V Asadli   1-0 36 2022 World Rapid Championship B45 Sicilian, Taimanov 17. A Nesterov vs J van Foreest   0-1 36 2022 World Rapid Championship D47 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 18. Jobava vs V Ivic   0-1 46 2022 World Rapid Championship B22 Sicilian, Alapin 19. K Sychev vs F Vallejo Pons   ½-½ 52 2022 World Rapid Championship A10 English 20. N Abdusattorov vs D Kadric 1-0 24 2022 World Rapid Championship A10 English 21. S Vokhidov vs M Matlakov   ½-½ 65 2022 World Rapid Championship C82 Ruy Lopez, Open 22. V S Gujrathi vs B Cheng   1-0 35 2022 World Rapid Championship D35 Queen's Gambit Declined 23. A Rosell vs Shankland   0-1 66 2022 World Rapid Championship E04 Catalan, Open, 5.Nf3 24. P Maghsoodloo vs S Bilguun   1-0 48 2022 World Rapid Championship D02 Queen's Pawn Game 25. F Svane vs I Cheparinov   ½-½ 76 2022 World Rapid Championship B90 Sicilian, Najdorf  page 1 of 44; games 1-25 of 1,084    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)   < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 2 OF 2 ·  Later Kibitzing> Dec-27-22    MissScarlett: <Eric Hansen @hansenchess i just found out today, on the day of our flight, that I booked all of our trips to Astana, Kazakhstan instead of Almaty, where the World Blitz is actually being held 😓 gonna need some luck in getting these tickets changed 8:18 PM · Dec 22, 2022> https://twitter.com/hansenchess/sta... Dec-27-22    MissScarlett: Niemann doing well through 7 rounds (+ 3 =4) - a match-up between him and Magnus or Naka is a distinct possibility. Go Hans! Dec-28-22    Atterdag: After round 9. Carlsen once again demonstrating his supremacy. Now he shall face the young German Vincent Keymer who has done very well so far. He has not shone going into endgames and he has won them in Carlsen-style! Evidently, the tournament is still open - nothing is decided yet. Dec-28-22    Sally Simpson: <Evidently, the tournament is still open - nothing is decided yet.> If Carlsen becomes the World Rapid Champion he will resign the title in January stating world titles are a yoke around his neck. Dec-28-22    MissScarlett: Will there be a Naka-Niemann showdown? Dec-28-22    Dionysius1: Hi <Sally Simpson> I hope so - it would be a terrible sport/activity that placed a lifelong obligation on a world champ to defend. Dec-28-22    chancho: Carlsrn 2022 World Rapid Champion. Congrats. Dec-28-22    chancho: Carlsen. Dec-28-22    Messiah: Justin won. :-( Dec-28-22    Sally Simpson: Hans lost his last three games finishing with 6pts and coming in 100th. Nakamura rate 3rd before the start came 44th. Naka was actually unbeaten with two wins and 11 draws. (7½ pts.) https://worldrapidandblitz2022.fide... Dec-28-22    saffuna: Carlsen blundered a piece, or eventually the exchange, versus Artemiev, bringing him back toward the pack. Still managed to win in the final round. Carlsen is not the best at hiding his emotions, at least in this case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baR... Dec-28-22    stone free or die: Wonder what happened to Hans, who flamed out on the last day. As for Carlsen's blunder, I'd cue up the video at a different place than <saff>, just before Artemiev plays f4 distracting (deflecting) Black's queen: https://youtu.be/baRQY0KvB1g?t=548 Come for the smirk of realization, stay for the head bob of despair... guess Magnus is human after all. (<Messiah> will put this on infinite loop, no doubt) Artemiev seemed to deliberately be slow-playing the game for some question - maybe to throw Carlsen off? Dec-28-22    saffuna: <Artemiev seemed to deliberately be slow-playing the game for some question - maybe to throw Carlsen off?> I'd say to make sure he didn't mess up after the gift. Dec-28-22    stone free or die: No, no, <saff>. Watch how slow he played from the very opening move. * * * * * Here's another game from the tournament where the final position is replayed 3(!) times. A harsh learning lesson for the 12-year old, for sure. Dec-28-22    stone free or die: (Artemiev was playing, in comparison, at the speed of light after the blunder. Well for a few moves anyways, then he slowed down to normal play speed) Dec-29-22    zaxcvd: <wonder what happened to Hans, who flamed out on the last day.> ...timed out trying to connect to SF....trying again..... Dec-29-22    Atterdag: The funny thing about Mr Niemann is the fact that he would have gone more or less into oblivion had Carlsen not drawn all attention to him and hightlighted his presence in the chess world. This could have been an entertaining irony if it had not become another sad story in the moral decline of the former world champion known as Magnus Carlsen. His actions in 2022 have not been worthy of a world champion. His far too late announced resignation of the title cannot and should not be forgiven. He made a farce out of the Candidates, he disgraced the title, and he acted shamefully towards Niemann, just because Niemann appeared as a travesty of Carlsen's own personality throughout his career. He couldn't bear losing a completely indifferent game to a wicked parody of himself. Perhaps Carlsen is the strongest, most interesting chess player who has ever lived. But on a moral, human scale, he has presented himself as a very small man with a childish, vindictive, ill-mannered behavior. Dec-29-22    stone free or die: <<Atterdag> His actions in 2022 have not been worthy of a world champion. His far too late announced resignation of the title cannot and should not be forgiven. He made a farce out of the Candidates, he disgraced the title, and he acted shamefully towards Niemann, just because Niemann appeared as a travesty of Carlsen's own personality throughout his career. He couldn't bear losing a completely indifferent game to a wicked parody of himself. > Well, to pile it on just a little more - he was a bit of a nerd pacing around the playing area after winning his final rapid yesterday, waiting to see if either Artemiev or Keymer would tie him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnN... Slightly distracting for the other players - but he's Magnus after all. Dec-29-22    stone free or die: BTW- that <Chessbase India> video brings up this word of the day: <hagiography> https://www.merriam-webster.com/dic... Dec-29-22    MissScarlett: <Magnus Carlsen arrives 2.30 mins late for a 3 minute game> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cs... <"It was my fault obviously, but we were stuck in traffic so it took an eternity. That was quite frustrating. I just made it. It was nice to see that the round was delayed, but it was a shock to see I had 30 seconds left."> https://twitter.com/TarjeiJS/status... Surprised to learn his opponent was Kovalev. At first sight, I thought it was Bogoljubov. Dec-29-22    stone free or die: Watching Niemann on the last day - it was pretty clear something besides chess was on his mind. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iPQTi... According to Carlsen, he must've been connected to SF, because he was so unconcerned with his position on the board, and didn't even grimace once losing in 12 moves against Vokhidov. Musta been taking the moves for the wrong color. Dec-29-22    Messiah: Statistics time! Shortest draw: G Sargissian vs M Petrosyan, 2022 Shortest White win: Shimanov vs A Uskov, 2022 Shortest Black win: Niemann vs S Vokhidov, 2022 Longest draw: A Donchenko vs D Lazavik, 2022 Longest White win: M Petrosyan vs Abilmansur Abdilkhair, 2022 Longest Black win: T Harutyunian vs Daniyal Sapenov, 2022 Lowest rated game: N M Nissinen vs E Suleimen, 2022 Highest rated game: Carlsen vs Caruana, 2022 Knight+bishop sacrifice: Ganguly vs R Makarian, 2022 Queen sacrifice: Sacrifice Explorer White's average rating: 2533 White's performance: 2559 (54% vs 2530) Black's average rating: 2530 Black's performance: 2504 (46% vs 2533) And there was no King's Gambit. :'( Dec-29-22    zaxcvd: <His actions in 2022 have not been worthy of a world champion.> ideally people should entertain a logical point of view of what a world champion or anything should be and stop projecting dubious expectations on said title. A world champion - beats all the other contenders - nothing less nothing more. Ideally in a free world the WC should be able to SAY anything and not be stripped of his title/or allowed to compete but we dont live in that world as a certain contender found out. Dec-29-22    dernier loup de T: Le titre officiel de champion du monde a toujours été, depuis qu'il existe, c'est-à-dire depuis 1886, une question avant tout de prestige, et, plus récemment, surtout d'argent. Ce qui compte aux échecs, c'est de montrer sa supériorité éventuelle par ses performances, ce que Magnus Carlsen fait, comme continue à en témoigner notamment son classement Elo; et cela contrairement par exemple à Robert Fischer après son obtention du titre en 1972. Et tout le reste est mauvaise littérature, potinages vains ou haineux bavardages sans importance ni intérêt. Jan-08-23    HeMateMe: Artemiev won their game but MC won the tournament AND the 3/2 blitz tournament. search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 2 OF 2 ·  Later Kibitzing> NOTE: Create an account today to post replies and access other powerful features which are available only to registered users. Becoming a member is free, anonymous, and takes less than 1 minute! If you already have a username, then simply login login under your username now to join the discussion. Please observe our posting guidelines: No obscene, racist, sexist, or profane language. No spamming, advertising, duplicate, or gibberish posts. No vitriolic or systematic personal attacks against other members. Nothing in violation of United States law. No cyberstalking or malicious posting of negative or private information (doxing/doxxing) of members. No trolling. 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