People can now play speed chess with opponents on the other side of the world. They can follow tournaments online: The London Chess Classic, a tournament that takes place each December, can attract nearly half a million followers. The Carlsen-Anand game will be followed by millions.
- Schedule:
- Full pairings:
- R 01 (March 17, 2020) Radjabov – Caruana. Ding Liren - Wang Hao.
- R 04 (March 21, 2020) Caruana - Nepomniachtchi. Wang Hao - Alekseenko.
- R 05 (March 22, 2020) Giri - Caruana.
- R 06 (March 23, 2020) Grischuk - Caruana.
- R 07 (March 25, 2020) Caruana - Wang.
- R 08 (March 26, 2020) Caruana - Radjabov.
Anand will skip four to five tournaments this year including the Grand Chess Tour. He could not qualify for the Candidates 2020 and had a below-par outing at the Tata Steel Masters in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands last month, finishing joint sixth spot with Anish Giri, Jan-Krzysztof Duda and Alireza Firouzja.
FIDE Blitz Ratings, January 2020 (Top 20)
| # | Name | Rating |
|---|
| 1 | Nakamura, Hikaru | 2900 |
| 2 | Carlsen, Magnus | 2887 |
| 3 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | 2822 |
| 4 | So, Wesley | 2816 |
Bullet chess refers to games played with time controls that are faster than 3 minutes per player. The most popular forms of bullet chess are 1|0 (one minute with no increment per player) or 2|1 (two minutes with a one-second increment per player).
Carlsen is now widely regarded as the best chess player of all time. He has been the top player in the world since 2011, and the reigning world champion ever since that victory over Anand. He has achieved history's highest Elo rating, the system used to evaluate a player's skill.
A great player at standard time controls, Nakamura's star shines even brighter in rapid and blitz. As of August 2020, he is the highest-rated blitz player in the world with a 2900 FIDE blitz rating and the fourth-highest rated rapid player with a 2836 rating.
Today, the very top chess players in the world can make good livings from the game. Magnus Carlsen and Vishy Anand, who will play this month's world chess championship in Russia, made more than $1 million each of the past two years from chess winnings alone. The other top grandmasters in the world do pretty well, too.
Magnus Carlsen net worth: Magnus Carlsen is a Norwegian chess player who has a net worth of $8 million. Magnus Carlsen was born in Tonsberg, Vestfold, Norway in November 1990. He is a chess grandmaster, the #1 ranked player in the world, and a World Chess Champion in rapid and classical.
