The FIDE World Rapid Team Championship 2024 is a 12-round Swiss for teams, held from the 2nd to the 4th of August in Astana, Kazakhstan, featuring Magnus Carlsen, Ding Liren, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Ju Wenjun and many more.
Time control is 15 minutes for the entire game, with a 10-second increment from move 1.
Matches are played on 6 boards. Each team is required to have at least 1 female player and 1 amateur player.
For each match the winning team gets 2 points, in case of a draw both teams get 1 point and the losing team gets 0 points.
The team with the highest overall score is crowned World Rapid Team Champion.
[Event “Blitz KO”]
[Site “Astana, Kazakhstan”]
[Date “2024.08.05”]
[Round “1.1”]
[White “Carlsen, Magnus”]
[Black “Bilguun, Sumiya”]
[Result “*”]
[WhiteElo “2888”]
[BlackElo “2413”]
[Variant “Standard”]
[TimeControl “10800+2”]
[ECO “D00”]
[Opening “Queen’s Pawn Game: Accelerated London System”]
[Termination “Unterminated”]
[Annotator “lichess.org”]
1. d4 d5 2. Bf4 { D00 Queen’s Pawn Game: Accelerated London System } Nf6 3. e3 e6 4. Nf3 Bd6 5. Nbd2 O-O 6. c3 c5 7. Bg3 Qc7 8. Ne5 Nc6 9. f4 b6 10. Bd3 Bb7 11. Bh4 Ne8 12. Qg4 f5 13. Qh3 Nf6 14. Bxf6 Rxf6 15. g4 Rh6 16. Qg3 Bxe5 17. fxe5 fxg4 18. Qxg4 Rf8 19. h4 a6 20. Ke2 b5 21. Raf1 Rxf1 22. Rxf1 Qe7 23. Nf3 b4 24. Ng5 bxc3 25. Rf7 Qxf7 26. Nxf7 Kxf7 27. bxc3 c4 28. Bc2 Ne7 29. h5 Bc6 30. Kd2 Kf8 31. Bd1 Be8 32. Qf4+ Kg8 33. Qg5 Kf7 34. Kc1 Nf5 35. Bg4 Ne7 36. Kb2 Bd7 37. Ka3 Nc6 38. e4 Ne7 39. exd5 Nxd5 40. Qd8 Be8 41. Qc8 Nxc3 42. Qxc4 Nb5+ 43. Kb4 Ke7 44. a4 Bxh5 45. Qc5+ Kf7 46. Bxh5+ Rxh5 47. axb5 axb5 48. Qc7+ Kg6 49. Qe7 Kf5 50. Qf7+ Ke4 51. Qxh5 Kd5 *
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