Interview with Bibisara Assaubayeva, silver medalist of the World Women's Rapid Championship 2021

Interview with Bassem Amin | FIDE World Blitz Championship |

Looks like most of the 2700 chess Top 20 are having a rough go of the Blitz portion of the #RapidBlitz WC except for Aronion and Dubov.

Day 1 of the FIDE World Blitz Championships was an exciting one, full of emotions, upsets and great moves!

🔸Aronian leads with 10/12
🔸Assaubayeva tops Women’s section with 8/9
🔸Carlsen lost 3 games and is on 8½/12

Here are some of the best moments of the day. ⬇️

Press conference with Levon Aronian, FIDE World Blitz Championship leader after Day 1

Levon Aronian: "Today my preparation was sleeping. I am still a little bit jet-lagged because I came from the United States."

World Blitz 2021

World Blitz Women 2021

Alireza Firouzja vs Nodirbek Abdusattorov | World Blitz 2021

Magnus Carlsen vs Arjun Erigaisi | World no.1 vs India no.1 | World Blitz 2021

Vidit shows Caruana where he missed a win against Gelfand

"You cannot make a move with two hands!" | Mastrovasilis vs Firouzja | World Blitz 2021

It's never easy to draw a drawn position against a top GM | Kobalia vs Giri | World Blitz 2021

When you think it's mate in one, but in reality it's an illegal move!

Levon Aronian vs Alexander Grischuk | Battle of two heavyweights | World Blitz 2021

How did Anish Giri react when his opponent offered a draw in Russian

This is priceless! 😂

Given what happened in the game this was kind of understandable! https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/world-blitz-championship-2021/10/1/47

When you simply had enough.

World Blitz Chess Championship Day 1: Aronian and Assaubayeva Lead

The main story of the day was the rise of the underdog as many of the pre-tournament favorites suffered defeats and were unable to break into the top of the pack.

Read the full day-one report: https://www.chess.com/news/view/2021-world-blitz-chess-championship-day-1

"A wide-open race in the World Blitz as Carlsen suffers three defeats"
➡️ https://worldrapidandblitz.fide.com/a-wide-open-race-in-the-world-blitz-as-carlsen-suffers-three-defeats/

📷: Rafal Oleksiewicz