9 December 2022

World Rapid and Blitz Championships: FIDE Publishes Lists of Participants

The event is taking place in Almaty on 25-31 December.

Photo credit: advantour.com
Photo credit: advantour.com


Almaty, Kazakhstan, is to host the World Rapid and Blitz Championships from December 25 to 31. The International Chess Federation has published the lists of participants.

These competitions are traditionally known for participation of the world's strongest chess players. World Champion Magnus Carlsen (Norway), Hikaru Nakamura (USA), Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Poland), Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France), the Russians Ian Nepomniachtchi and Alexander Grischuk, Fabiano Caruana (USA), Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan), the Russians Alexandra Kosteniuk, Kateryna Lagno, Aleksandra Goryachkina, Tan Zhongyi (China), and other famous chess players are expected to play in this year's tournaments. 

Dmitry Andreikin, Vladislav Artemiev, Andrey Esipenko, Maxim Matlakov, Evgeny Tomashevsky, Valentina Gunina, and Polina Shuvalova are yet other Russian grandmasters on the starting list. The Russians will play under the FIDE flag.

Starting lists