Chess Blitz – is blazing game, where an extremely short time control is used – 5 minutes to each one on the whole game of chess. Loses this one, who exceed a time limit first or take mate. 

The World Championship will be conducted by Swiss system. Results will be counted by international FIDE system. Games of chess on the tournament will be played by classical time control – 5 minutes to each player during the whole game, without excess.

“Blitz”:

In contrast to chess competitions with classical time control (from 1,5 hours for the game of chess to the each player), this form of chess art is more spectacle and dynamic. Rivals have only 5 (and sometimes less than 5!) minutes for the whole game of chess. The whole competition meets a tight schedule (2,5-4 hours), fancies can see for theirselves, how quickly and precisely their idols count difficult variants, take decisions at the chess-board in conditions of time limit.
Intrigue keeps spectators until “the final gong”

From the history:
The idea to discover the greatest world chess-player in blitz attracted organizators of great chess tournaments long time ago. Unofficial “kings of blitz” were Miguel Nidorf (Argentina), David Bronshtain, Leonid Shtain, Michail Tal (all from USSR) and some other outstanding grand masters until the moment, when world championships began to conduct. The first unofficial world championship, where the strongest grand masters had played, was hold in the Yugoslavian city Hercog-Novi in 1970. Legendary Robert James Fisher won among 12 competitors, Michail Tal was the second, Victor Korchnoy – the third. But, you know, the tournament was unofficial. Then it was hold a lot of blitz-tournaments, which was date for the ending of official international classical chess competitions. The most outstanding of them: Bugoino (Yugoslavia, 1978, the first place – Anatoliy Karpov), Nikshich (Yugoslavia, 1983, the first place – Harry Kasparov). 

The International Chess Federation (FIDE) decided to discover the strongest blitz-player in the world in 1988. It was convenient that in this time there was the ending of classical chess championship in Canadian city St. Jhon, where all great chess-players took part. Harry Kasparov and Anatoliy Karpov especially came to Canada to play in the first world championship. The championship was conducted by Olympic system and there were a lot of surprises. Avowed favorites Kasparov and Karpov were out even until semifinals, Michail Tal and Rafael Vaganian (both from USSR) played in the final. “Wizard from Riga” Tal dominated in their duel and won before the appointed time – 3,5-0,5. So, classical chess ex world champion Michail Tal became the first blitz world champion.
We have no doubts, that future championship will give a lot of memorizing, perfect, designing moments to all chess fancies not only in Kazakhstan, but in the whole world. It will be possible to watch the events on 8 chess-boards on-line and live.

For more information, please, contact Aliya Sagingalieva + 7 727 266 39 00, + 7 705 181 83 95