Magnus Carlsen Becomes Four-Time World Rapid Champion
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Norwegian Magnus Carlsen won the World Rapid Chess Championship in Almaty. The 32-year-old grandmaster is the current world champion in classical chess, today’s victory made him a four-time world champion in rapid. Magnus Carlsen scored 10 points.
The second was the representative of Germany Vincent Kaimer (9.5), the 3rd place was taken by the American Fabiano Caruana (9.5; lost to the German in additional indicators). The best of the Russians was Daniil Dubov, who took 4th place (9).
Since 2013, Magnus Carlsen has been the world champion in classical chess, in 2014-2016, 2019, 2022 – the world rapid champion, in 2014-2015, 2017-2019 – the world blitz champion.
On December 29-30, Almaty will host the World Blitz Championship.
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