Talk:World Rapid Chess Championship

Tie breaker in 2021
SEveral sites I have visited suggest that the 2021 tiebreaker was a bit strange - 4 players on the same points, but only two enter a playoff; the playoff excludes the other two (one excluded was the previous champion!). That another round or two would have made it more valid. But as sources they are probably quite wobbly. Can we use them in this article anyway? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.96.70.237 (talk) 08:17, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Frankfurt/Mainz World Rapid Chess Championship sources
The awesome "the week in chess" may help here as a source, only I don't have the time to include them in the main article.


 * For 1996 I got this: https://www.theweekinchess.com/html/twic90.html
 * 1997 https://www.theweekinchess.com/html/twic138.html
 * 1998 https://www.theweekinchess.com/html/twic189.html#2

--Pier4r (talk) 17:00, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championships (since 2012)
This section appears to be duplicated in World Blitz Chess Championship. The sections need to be merged somehow. Espresso Addict (talk) 02:31, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Is it a viable option to just combine the World Rapid Chess Championship and World Blitz Chess Championship pages? AdequateNBAfan (talk) 05:24, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

Results for Individual Years
The format FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2021 could provide a good template to record results from the World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championships. AdequateNBAfan (talk) 05:27, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

Merge proposal
I think we should merge the World Rapid Chess Championship and World Blitz Chess Championship pages into World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship which is more consistent with the modern FIDE branding and format of the event. I would suggest that a new page is created under that name and that the current pages redirect there. I have done a quick mockup. I would be grateful for comment from more experienced users. Greg820 (talk) 21:47, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello Greg, thanks for providing a mock-up. I am by no means an experienced user, but here are my general thoughts.

I'm a little conflicted with what to do for the Early iterations, the "FIDE-recognized events" section in the Rapid page (a lot of interesting historical details removed) and the "Other events" section in the Blitz page (removed entirely). Does it make sense for kind of a monster section compiling all of these (or two, one for historical rapid events and one for historical blitz events) to be at the end, after the FIDE-sanctioned current iteration of the World Rapid & Blitz Championship? I think it's completely fair for the World Blitz Championship (2006-2010) to come before the Rapid & Blitz (since 2012) section.

Very small things: (1) Tables should match in formatting. I have no preference one way or another between the two formats. (2) First paragraph text, Magnus Carlsen should be replaced with MVL as the current World Blitz Champion.

Thoughts from others would be welcome as well! AdequateNBAfan (talk) 08:50, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

2022
Someone should add the 2022 tournament to this article. I'm not sure of all the details, but some of them are referenced at:

https://www.chess.com/news/view/2022-rapid-chess-championship-finals-day-4

- 2603:9000:E408:4800:7C00:F5AD:2D5A:25A8 (talk) 01:02, 31 October 2022 (UTC)