FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship 2025 LIVE (Boards 31+)

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The FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships 2025 are taking place in Doha, Qatar, from December 26 to 30, 2025. The event will be daily live on Chessdom.com with live games, interviews, video coverage, and more. The World Rapid and Blitz 2025 is held at the Qatar University Sports and Events Complex, featuring both Open and Women’s sections in Rapid and Blitz formats, with a massive prize fund exceeding €1,000,000. The FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship 2025 has 2 phases. The first stage is a 19-round Swiss system tournament with a time control of 3 min + 2 sec/move. The second stage is a 4-player knockout tournament with a time control of 3 min + 2 sec/move.

The top-seeded players are GM Magnus Carlsen (2881), GM Alireza Firouzja (2813), GM Ian Nepomniachtchi (2801), GM Daniil Dubov (2795), GM Wesley So (2790), GM Levon Aronian (2774), GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov (2768), GM Fabiano Caruana (2751), GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda (2750), GM Arjun Erigaisi (2749), GM Olexandr Bortnyk (2748), GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (2745), GM Hans Moke Niemann (2734), GM Vladislav Artemiev (2733), GM Xiangzhi Bu (2719), GM Dmitry Andreikin (2714), GM Samuel Sevian (2714), GM Alexey Sarana (2704), GM Yangyi Yu (2704), GM R Praggnanandhaa (2703). Scroll down for the full participants list.

Categories: FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship 2025 (Boards 1-30) / FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship 2025 (Boards 31+) / FIDE World Rapid Women Chess Championship 2025 / FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship 2025 (Boards 1-30) / FIDE World Blitz Women Chess Championship 2025 / FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship 2025 – Knockout Stage / FIDE World Women Blitz Chess Championship 2025 – Knockout Stage

FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship 2025 Participants

No.		Name	FED	Rtg
1	GM	Carlsen, Magnus	NOR	2881
2	GM	Firouzja, Alireza	FRA	2813
3	GM	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	FID	2801
4	GM	Dubov, Daniil	FID	2795
5	GM	So, Wesley	USA	2790
6	GM	Aronian, Levon	USA	2774
7	GM	Abdusattorov, Nodirbek	UZB	2768
8	GM	Caruana, Fabiano	USA	2751
9	GM	Duda, Jan-Krzysztof	POL	2750
10	GM	Erigaisi, Arjun	IND	2749
11	GM	Bortnyk, Olexandr	UKR	2748
12	GM	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	FRA	2745
13	GM	Niemann, Hans Moke	USA	2734
14	GM	Artemiev, Vladislav	FID	2733
15	GM	Bu, Xiangzhi	CHN	2719
16	GM	Andreikin, Dmitry	FID	2714
17	GM	Sevian, Samuel	USA	2714
18	GM	Sarana, Alexey	SRB	2704
19	GM	Yu, Yangyi	CHN	2704
20	GM	Praggnanandhaa, R	IND	2703
21	GM	Giri, Anish	NED	2701
22	GM	Martinez Alcantara, Jose Eduardo	MEX	2696
23	GM	Le, Quang Liem	VIE	2695
24	GM	Maghsoodloo, Parham	IRI	2690
25	GM	Nihal, Sarin	IND	2681
26	GM	Martirosyan, Haik M.	ARM	2679
27	GM	Indjic, Aleksandar	SRB	2669
28	GM	Grischuk, Alexander	FID	2665
29	GM	Esipenko, Andrey	FID	2659
30	GM	Lu, Shanglei	CHN	2657
31	GM	Van Foreest, Jorden	NED	2657
32	GM	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	AZE	2656
33	GM	Salem, A.R. Saleh	UAE	2651
34	GM	Jobava, Baadur	GEO	2649
35	GM	Sadhwani, Raunak	IND	2649
36	GM	Murzin, Volodar	FID	2647
37	GM	Radjabov, Teimour	AZE	2646
38	GM	Svane, Rasmus	GER	2638
39	GM	Robson, Ray	USA	2632
40	GM	Sindarov, Javokhir	UZB	2632
41	GM	Harikrishna, Pentala	IND	2631
42	GM	Ivanchuk, Vasyl	UKR	2631
43	GM	Iturrizaga Bonelli, Eduardo	ESP	2630
44	GM	Moussard, Jules	FRA	2629
45	GM	Pichot, Alan	ESP	2629
46	GM	Rapport, Richard	HUN	2629
47	GM	Gukesh, D	IND	2628
48	GM	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	USA	2627
49	GM	Aravindh, Chithambaram VR.	IND	2625
50	GM	Safarli, Eltaj	AZE	2623
51	GM	Alekseenko, Kirill	AUT	2620
52	GM	Narayanan, S L	IND	2619
53	GM	Lazavik, Denis	FID	2617
54	GM	Mamedov, Rauf	AZE	2612
55	GM	Santos Latasa, Jaime	ESP	2611
56	GM	Amar, Elham	NOR	2610
57	GM	Pranav, V	IND	2606
58	GM	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	POL	2605
59	GM	Makarian, Rudik	FID	2601
60	GM	Le, Tuan Minh	VIE	2600
61	GM	Dardha, Daniel	BEL	2599
62	GM	Keymer, Vincent	GER	2599
63	GM	Stefansson, Vignir Vatnar	ISL	2599
64	GM	Sargsyan, Shant	ARM	2595
65	GM	Mitrabha, Guha	IND	2592
66	GM	Matlakov, Maxim	FID	2591
67	GM	Ibarra Jerez, Jose Carlos	ESP	2590
68	GM	Amin, Bassem	EGY	2589
69	GM	Ponomariov, Ruslan	UKR	2589
70	GM	Christiansen, Johan-Sebastian	NOR	2588
71	GM	Donchenko, Alexander	GER	2584
72	GM	Petrov, Nikita	MNE	2584
73	GM	Shimanov, Aleksandr	FID	2583
74	GM	Hakobyan, Aram	ARM	2581
75	GM	Vokhidov, Shamsiddin	UZB	2578
76	GM	Naiditsch, Arkadij	BUL	2577
77	GM	Grandelius, Nils	SWE	2573
78	GM	Kevlishvili, Robby	NED	2572
79	GM	Pantsulaia, Levan	GEO	2572
80	GM	Hovhannisyan, Robert	ARM	2571
81	GM	Quparadze, Giga	GEO	2571
82	GM	Zemlyanskii, Ivan	FID	2570
83	GM	Muradli, Mahammad	AZE	2569
84	GM	Uskov, Artem	FID	2569
85	GM	Idani, Pouya	IRI	2568
86	GM	Sychev, Klementy	FID	2568
87	GM	Tabatabaei, M. Amin	IRI	2565
88	GM	Theodorou, Nikolas	GRE	2564
89	GM	Yakubboev, Nodirbek	UZB	2564
90	GM	Adhiban, B.	IND	2563
91	GM	Sanal, Vahap	TUR	2563
92	FM	Haug, Havard	NOR	2561
93	GM	Anton Guijarro, David	ESP	2560
94	GM	Abasov, Nijat	AZE	2555
95	GM	Vakhidov, Jakhongir	UZB	2554
96	GM	Pranesh, M	IND	2553
97	GM	Warmerdam, Max	NED	2552
98	GM	Chigaev, Maksim	ESP	2542
99	GM	Ponkratov, Pavel	FID	2542
100	GM	Salinas Herrera, Pablo	CHI	2541
101	GM	Bai, Jinshi	CHN	2537
102	GM	Puranik, Abhimanyu	IND	2537
103	GM	Kadric, Denis	MNE	2535
104	GM	Zhang, Zhong	CHN	2535
105	IM	Peyrer, Konstantin	AUT	2533
106	GM	Makhnev, Denis	KAZ	2532
107	GM	Akobian, Varuzhan	USA	2531
108	GM	Henriquez Villagra, Cristobal	CHI	2531
109	GM	Nesterov, Arseniy	FID	2531
110	GM	Nogerbek, Kazybek	KAZ	2529
111	GM	Paravyan, David	FID	2528
112	GM	Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son	VIE	2527
113	GM	Dlugy, Maxim	USA	2525
114	GM	Sasikiran, Krishnan	IND	2525
115	GM	Motylev, Alexander	ROU	2524
116	GM	Gholami Orimi, Mahdi	IRI	2521
117	GM	Rakhmanov, Aleksandr	FID	2520
118	GM	Yilmaz, Mustafa	TUR	2518
119	GM	Alexakis, Dimitris	GRE	2516
120	GM	Kozak, Adam	HUN	2516
121	GM	Kosakowski, Jakub	POL	2515
122	GM	Bharath, Subramaniyam H	IND	2514
123	GM	Madaminov, Mukhiddin	UZB	2514
124	GM	Bjerre, Jonas Buhl	DEN	2511
125	GM	Lodici, Lorenzo	ITA	2511
126	GM	Jumabayev, Rinat	KAZ	2510
127	IM	Ansat, Aldiyar	KAZ	2510
128	IM	Materia, Marco	FRA	2510
129	IM	Saraci, Nderim	KOS	2509
130	GM	Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn	CAN	2506
131	GM	Gurel, Ediz	TUR	2503
132	GM	Volokitin, Andrei	UKR	2503
133	IM	Oro, Faustino	ARG	2503
134	GM	Can, Emre	TUR	2502
135	GM	Grebnev, Aleksey	FID	2502
136	GM	Lobanov, Sergei	FID	2500
137	IM	Suyarov, Mukhammadzokhid	UZB	2499
138	GM	Erdogmus, Yagiz Kaan	TUR	2497
139	GM	Vetokhin, Savva	FID	2497
140	GM	Gavrilescu, David	ROU	2496
141	GM	Daneshvar, Bardiya	IRI	2495
142	GM	Hong, Andrew	USA	2495
143	GM	Jacobson, Brandon	USA	2493
144	GM	Tin, Jingyao	SGP	2488
145	GM	Samunenkov, Ihor	UKR	2487
146	GM	Ganguly, Surya Shekhar	IND	2486
147	IM	Sahidi, Samir	SVK	2486
148	GM	Halkias, Stelios	GRE	2485
149	GM	Maksimovic, Bojan	BIH	2485
150	GM	Mendonca, Leon Luke	IND	2483
151	IM	Zverev, Lev	FID	2479
152	GM	Drygalov, Sergey	FID	2478
153	IM	Sapenov, Daniyal	KAZ	2478
154	GM	Movahed, Sina	IRI	2475
155	GM	Karthik, Venkataraman	IND	2472
156	GM	Dudin, Gleb	HUN	2470
157	GM	Tsaruk, Maksim	FID	2470
158	GM	Kobalia, Mikhail	FID	2469
159	IM	Gaehwiler, Gabriel	SUI	2468
160	IM	Chasin, Nico	USA	2464
161	IM	Droin, Augustin	FRA	2464
162	IM	Samadov, Read	AZE	2456
163	GM	Raja, Harshit	IND	2455
164	GM	Sankalp, Gupta	IND	2453
165	IM	Krallis, Christos	GRE	2453
166	IM	Morris, James	AUS	2446
167	GM	Balakrishnan, Praveen	USA	2445
168	GM	Iniyan, Pa	IND	2444
169	IM	Gan-Erdene, Sugar	MGL	2444
170	GM	Murshed, Niaz	BAN	2442
171	GM	Chanda, Sandipan	IND	2441
172	IM	Klukin, Kirill	SRB	2440
173	IM	Dau, Khuong Duy	VIE	2438
174	IM	Rakotomaharo, Fy Antenaina	MAD	2433
175	GM	Aditya, Mittal	IND	2431
176	FM	Cunha, Lucas Aguiar	BRA	2431
177	IM	Ahmad, Khagan	AZE	2421
178	GM	Urkedal, Frode Olav Olsen	NOR	2419
179	GM	Harikrishnan.A.Ra, .	IND	2417
180	IM	Khubukshanov, Erdem	FID	2415
181	GM	Xiao, Tong(QD)	CHN	2414
182	GM	Ohanyan, Emin	ARM	2411
183	FM	Averin, Nikolay	FID	2411
184	IM	Orozbaev, Eldiyar	KGZ	2409
185	IM	Agmanov, Zhandos	KAZ	2408
186	GM	Raja, Rithvik R	IND	2406
187	IM	Begmuratov, Khumoyun	UZB	2406
188	IM	Galaviz Medina, Sion Radamantys	MEX	2405
189	IM	Piliposyan, Robert	ARM	2404
190	IM	Isanzhulov, Arystan	KAZ	2403
191	FM	Sklokin, Sergey	FID	2400
192	GM	Bilguun, Sumiya	MGL	2399
193	IM	Tran, Thanh Tu	JPN	2399
194	GM	Nikitenko, Mihail	FID	2396
195	GM	Gokerkan, Cem Kaan	TUR	2394
196	GM	Pranav, Anand	IND	2393
197	IM	Davtyan, Artur	ARM	2393
198	GM	Mamedov, Edgar	KAZ	2388
199	IM	Stribuk, Artiom	FID	2385
200	IM	Shogdzhiev, Roman	FID	2384
201	GM	Siddharth, Jagadeesh	SGP	2376
202	IM	Suleimen, Ergali	KAZ	2373
203	GM	Gharibyan, Mamikon	ARM	2365
204	IM	Ibrahimli, Murad	AZE	2361
205	IM	Bai, Adelard	TPE	2358
206	IM	Altini, Nicola	ITA	2356
207	IM	Ezat, Mohamed	EGY	2352
208	IM	Grafl, Florian Dr.	GER	2345
209	GM	Gorovets, Andrey	FID	2342
210	IM	Aziz, Husain	QAT	2342
211	IM	Goutham, Krishna H	IND	2336
212	IM	Nurgaliyev, Sauat	KAZ	2329
213	IM	Wafa, Hamed	EGY	2320
214	GM	Suleymenov, Alisher	KAZ	2317
215	FM	Smirnov, Mark	KAZ	2316
216	FM	Medhus, Vitus Bondo	DEN	2301
217	IM	Harshavardhan, G B	IND	2289
218	IM	Tissir, Mohamed	MAR	2287
219	IM	Meng, Yihan	CHN	2277
220	FM	Musovic, Armin	MNE	2274
221	IM	Abdilkhair, Abilmansur	KAZ	2267
222		Muntean, Victor	SWE	2259
223	IM	Sharan, Rao	IND	2255
224	FM	Assylov, Miras	KAZ	2250
225	IM	Al Hosani, Omran	UAE	2229
226	FM	Ammar, Sedrani	UAE	2228
227		Nainys, Zanas	LTU	2228
228	FM	Al Mashikhi, Salim Aliyan	OMA	2186
229	FM	Fandi, Mazen.	SYR	2180
230	FM	Kuandykuly, Danis	KAZ	2177
231	IM	Berend, Fred	LUX	2136
232		Anwoir, Tarik	MAR	2116
233	FM	Alrehaili, Ahmed Abdullah S	KSA	2109
234	IM	George Samir, David	EGY	2104
235	FM	Ashwath, Kaushik	SGP	2101
236		Boulrens, Ala Eddine	ALG	2100
237		Phuyal, Aashish	NEP	2087
238	FM	Alhassadi, Yousef A.	LBA	2078
239	FM	Chekh Adm Khedr, Aram	SYR	2075
240		Rami, Talab	SYR	2054
241	CM	Bodemar, Jonathan	THA	2046
242	CM	Damaj, Mohammed	PLE	2034
243		Fates, Omer Salah	LBA	2020
244	CM	Dahal, Sushrut	NEP	1990
245	CM	Anand, Tsogtbileg	MGL	1982
246		Alkhuriji, Abdulaziz N	KSA	1972
247		Dinham, James	RSA	1962
248		Blackwood, Ryan	CAY	1951
249		Khayat, Emad	KSA	1882
250	CM	Al-Kuwari, Hamad	QAT	1839
251	AIM	Alsaqer, Meshal	KUW	1814
252		Aljamaat, Khaled	QAT	1714
253		Al-Janahi, Ibrahim	QAT	1639

FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship 2025 LIVE (Boards 31+)

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