Tokyo, 26 December, /AJMEDIA/
Azerbaijani chess players will test their strength at the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships to be held in Warsaw, Poland.
The tournament will bring together over 250 players, including top chess players as five-time Classical World Champion and the reigning Rapid and Blitz World Champion Magnus Carlsen (Norway), followed by the number 2 in the FIDE rankings Alireza Firouzja, who has recently become the youngest ever 2800-rated player, as well as Ian Nepomniachtchi, Fabiano Caruana, Sergey Karjakin, Hikaru Nakamura and Alexander Grischuk.
The total prize fund of the event is $1,000,000, with $700,000 going to the open tournaments and $300,000 to the women’s events.
