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FIDE Rankings

September 2023

#	Player	Country	Elo
1	Magnus Carlsen	🇳🇴	2839
2	Fabiano Caruana	🇺🇸	2786
3	Hikaru Nakamura	🇺🇸	2780
4	Ding Liren 🏆	🇨🇳	2780
5	Alireza Firouzja	🇫🇷	2777
6	Ian Nepomniachtchi	🇷🇺	2771
7	Anish Giri	🇳🇱	2760
8	Gukesh D	🇮🇳	2758
9	Viswanathan Anand	🇮🇳	2754
10	Wesley So	🇺🇸	2753

Tournaments

Speed Chess Championship 2023

September 4 - September 22

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Format

The World Rapid Team Championship 2023 is a 12-round Swiss tournament featuring 43 teams. Each team is composed of at least six and not more than nine players, and it must include at least one female and one recreational player, who never achieved FIDE rating of 2000. Each match is played on six boards, with at least one female and one recreational player in every match.

The time control is 15 minutes for the entire game, with an increment of 10 seconds from the first move. Matches are scored by match points, with 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss. The team with the most match points will become the champion.

Participants

More than 300 players are participating, including Fabiano Caruana, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Richard Rapport, Viswanathan Anand, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Wesley So, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Praggnanandhaa R, Gukesh D, Arjun Erigaisi, Hou Yifan, and many more. You can check the complete line-up here

Schedule

26 August
- Round 1: 11:30 UTC
- Round 2: 13:30 UTC
- Round 3: 15:30 UTC
- Round 4: 17:30 UTC
27 August
- Round 5: 11:30 UTC
- Round 6: 13:30 UTC
- Round 7: 15:30 UTC
- Round 8: 17:30 UTC
28 August
- Round 9: 11:30 UTC
- Round 10: 13:30 UTC
- Round 11: 15:30 UTC
- Round 12: 17:30 UTC