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

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    Round 8

    Standings
    Rank Team BP MP
    1 WR Chess 36.5 16
    2 Freedom 31 13
    3 Team MGD1 30.5 11
    4 Six-pack 28.5 11
    5 Ashdod Elit Chess Club 28.5 11
    6 ASV AlphaEchecs Linz 32 10
    7 Armenia 30 10
    8 Kompetenzakademie Allstars 29 10
    9 Germany and Friends 27 10
    10 Columbus Energy KingsOfChess Kraków 28.5 9
    11 Rishon LeZion Chess Club 27 9
    12 Düsseldorfer Schachklub 1914/25 e.V 27 9
    13 Berlin Chess Federation 24.5 9
    14 Team Chessemy.com 24 9
    15 Chessbrah OFM 28.5 8
    16 Africa 24 8
    17 Chess Pensioners 24 8
    18 Blerickse Schaakvereniging 23 8
    19 Deutsche Schachjugend 1 22 8
    20 Ukrainian Amators 19 8
    21 Wensing & Pöbel 19 8
    22 FIDE Management Board 25 7
    23 Heilbronn Hustlers 24 7
    24 Schachverein Hemer 23.5 7
    25 The Sharks 23.5 7
    26 Doppelbauer Kiel 22.5 7
    27 Aachener Schachverein von 1856 21 7
    28 École Polytechnique Française de Lausanne 22.5 6
    29 Chess Wizzards 22 6
    30 Neustadt Weinstraße 21 6
    31 Kenya Commercial Bank Chess Club 18.5 6
    32 MagdeBurg and Friends 16.5 6
    33 PhileKhoob Chess Club 20 5
    34 Mitropa Chess Association 19 4
    35 Deutsche Schachjugend 2 8.5 2
    36 Unischach Bayreuth 12 1