Congratulations to 17-year-old Bibisara Assaubayeva on winning the Women's World Blitz Championship with a round to spare!

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/world-blitz-championship-women-2021/16/1/1

Firouzja wins and catches Dubov in the lead going into the final round! https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/world-blitz-championship-2021/20/1/2

Alireza Firouzja defeats the tournament leader GM Daniil Dubov!

It's happened! We have a crazy 6-way tie for the lead going into the final round, with Magnus just half a point behind

Alireza Firouzja takes down the leader Daniil Dubov. And it's a 6-way tie for first going into the last round!

Magnus Carlsen picks up a first win over Ian Nepomniachtchi since Dubai: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/world-blitz-championship-2021/20/1/1

A beautiful checkmate by Tari against Chigaev shown on NRK.
https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/world-blitz-championship-2021/20/1/42

With one round to go, we have six players with 14/20!

Who do you think will win the event?

Aronian,Dubov, Artemiev, Duda, Vachier-Lagrave, and Firouzja, all tied for first with 14 points!

And in the last round, we will see
Vachier-Lagrave - Carlsen
Duda - Artemiev
Firouzja - Aronian
Dubov - Giri

📷 by Anna Shtourman

We've got an absolute thriller coming up now! If the players end tied we've got more tiebreak fun ahead

Dubov-Giri is a quick draw, so Daniil is the clubhouse leader on 14.5!

'Thug life' Grischuk vs 'Endgame God' Magnus | World Blitz 2021

Leko: "This is World Championship match prep"
https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/world-blitz-championship-2021/21/1/4

Interview with Bibisara Assaubayeva , 2021 FIDE World Women's Blitz Champion

"Before the tournament, I thought taking 10th place would be good because I think I am not too strong in blitz."

An applause is heard on the broadcast, as Duda wins and should likely have secured at least a playoff!

Madness as MVL, Duda and Firouzja all win and tie for 1st place, and it's looking as though Alireza may miss out on the playoff (but will win a bronze medal)!

A roller-coaster game ends with a win for Vachier-Lagrave, which means this is Carlsen worst performance in a World Blitz Championship ever.

Three decisive results in a matter of few seconds!

Alireza Firouzja, Duda and Vachier_Lagrave win their games!

Alireza Firouzja won his last 5 games, but it seems it wasn't quite enough!

3 results, 30 seconds 🤯

Vachier_Lagrave plays lights out with the white pieces, knocking out Magnus Carlsen, Alireza Firouzja takes it over Aronian, and Duda moves on versus Artemiev in the #RapidBlitz!

Carlsen: "This is not close to be good enough." and "I have to just realise that I wasn't even close to be good enough this time. It's disappointing. What to say? Some days it just doesn't work, and that was the case today."