Before you start to go through withdrawal symptoms now that the most recent adventures of Magnus, Pragg, and Firouzja are at an end, there’s another rapid event with big name players from this weekend you might want to check out. Chess.com just completed their first Rapid Chess Championship. The finals had a double elimination format, with two-game matches at 10’+2” with bid Armageddon games in case of a 1-1 tie. There were a lot of top players involved, including Ian Nepomniachtchi, Ding Liren, Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Wesley So, and Dmitry Andreikin, just to name the players who have participated in Candidates events. The video of Saturday’s action is here, and the culminating video of Sunday’s action is here.
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