Chess: Magnus Carlsen captures double world crown in Rapid and Blitz
The world No 1 led all the way in the 15-minute Rapid, scoring 10/13 with some classic wins, but the incident-packed Blitz, where he totalled 16/21, was much closerMagnus Carlsen scored another triumph this week when the 32-year-old No 1 won the World Rapid and World Blitz titles ahead of more than 170 rivals in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The Norwegian’s 10/13 Rapid total was half a point ahead of Germany’s Vincent Keymer in second place and the US champion, Fabiano Caruana, in third, while in Blitz he totalled 16/21, a full point ahead of Hikaru Nakamura of the US, who took silver on tie-break from Armenia’s Haik Martirosyan.Carlsen has now been the dominant player in World Rapids for more than a decade, showing an impressively high quality of chess at a fast time limit. Rapid is 15 minutes per player for the entire game, plus a 10 seconds per move increment, while Blitz is three minutes per player per game, plus a two seconds per move increment. Continue reading…
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