FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Team Championships 2025 - Games and Results

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The FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Team Championships took place in London Tue 10th to Mon 16th Jun 2025. Players included Firouzja, Aronian, MVL, Nakamura, Abdusattorov, Anand, 420 players of varying strengths playing for teams. Each team of 6 in each match required one recreational player and one woman player. 6th seeds Team MGD1 (Erigaisi, Harikrishna, Anton Guijarro, Pranav, Mendonca, Tsolakidou and Atharvaa P Tayade) won the rapid ahead of Hexamind (Aronian, Giri, Murzin, Domginguez, Vidit, Divya, Panarin and Muradyan) and Freedom (Anand, Mamedov, Sevian, Le, Sarana, Martirosyan, Muzychuk, Injac and Mani) with top seeds WR Chess (Firouzja, MVL, Nakamura, Duda, So, Hou Yifan, Kosteniuk and Rosenstein. Nepomniachtchi couldn't get a visa in time for the rapid but appeared for the blitz) finishing 5th. In the blitz WR Chess Team won beating Kazchess (Grischuk, Rapport, Esipenko, Maghsoodloo, Sadvakasov, Ansat, Kamalidenova, Kaliakhmet, Aiten) in the final. Hexamind finished 3rd beating Uzbekistan (Abdusattorov, Sindarov, Yakubboev, Kasimdzhanov, Vokhidov, Khamdamova, Tokhirjonova and Imomkuzieva) in a playoff. There was controversy in the blitz quarterfinals when Team Germany and Friends beat WR Chess 4-2 with Nepomniachtchi, Nakamura, and Firouzja all losing. Most of the WR Chess team were late to the board and they blamed confusion over the start time, after a lengthy appeal the result was annulled and WR Chess went on to easy wins the second time around.

Source: https://theweekinchess.com/chessnews/ev ... ships-2025