Rapid chess
The rapid chess is a form of chess in which the players a reflection of more than 10 but less than 60 minutes for all the moves available. The rules of the game, which are set by the international chess federation FIDE , differ slightly from standard chess .
Rapid chess occupies a middle position between normal tournament chess and blitz chess when it comes to thinking time. The time consumption per player is measured with a chess clock in all three forms of chess . While in blitz chess each player usually has five minutes for all moves , in normal chess usually two hours are available for the first 40 moves alone.
If the world leaders play with digital chess clocks, the "Fischer game mode" is usually used today, with around 25 minutes to think about the game and an additional time credit of 10 seconds per move.
Furthermore, some special rules apply in rapid chess that are not valid in normal chess: For example, the otherwise obligatory recording of moves is not necessary .
Rapid chess is a relatively new development and became popular around the mid-1980s. Normal chess and blitz chess had existed for much longer. While normal chess is not very attractive for most spectators due to its slowness and blitz chess considerably reduces the quality of the game, rapid chess offers a synthesis of the advantages of both other forms.
In 2012 FIDE organized a world rapid chess championship for the first time , which was held in Astana . A one-round tournament with 16 participants was played, the thinking time was 15 minutes plus 10 seconds per move. The winner was Sergei Karjakin with 11.5 points. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov won the second edition of the World Rapid Championship 2013 in Khanty-Mansiysk . Magnus Carlsen won the title in Dubai in 2014 and in Berlin in 2015 . In 2016 Vasyl Ivanchuk became world rapid champion in Doha ( Qatar ). In December 2017, Viswanathan Anand won this title in Riyadh .
See also
Web links
- FIDE Rules, Appendix B ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) - Rapid chess