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Magnus Carlsen back in FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Championships 2025

One year ago, the world № 1, Magnus Carlsen, and the global chess body, FIDE, were at loggerheads after the Norwegian was penalised for wearing jeans at the World Rapid Championship in New York. Next week in Doha, Qatar, jeans will be allowed, the title rules have been clarified, and Carlsen will again be the clear favourite to win the Rapid, although the Blitz is more open.
World Champion Gukesh D has also confirmed his attendance. His participation is expected to generate considerable interest from the public. Many seasoned elite players, such as 2024 World Blitz co-champion Ian Nepomniachtchi, Fabiano Caruana, Anish Giri, Wesley So, and Levon Aronian, have also confirmed their participation. Challenging them will be a new generation of contenders seeking to disrupt established hierarchies: Vincent Keymer, Arjun Erigaisi, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Praggnanandhaa R, Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus, Ediz Gürel, to name just a few.

FIDE World Rapid Championship 2025 Participants

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg
1	1	GM	Carlsen, Magnus	NOR	2824
2	2	GM	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	FID	2762
3	3	GM	Aronian, Levon	USA	2756
4	4	GM	Caruana, Fabiano	USA	2751
5	5	GM	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	FRA	2730
6	6	GM	Artemiev, Vladislav	FID	2727
7	7	GM	Abdusattorov, Nodirbek	UZB	2717
8	8	GM	Erigaisi, Arjun	IND	2714
9	9	GM	Duda, Jan-Krzysztof	POL	2711
10	10	GM	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	AZE	2707
11	11	GM	Sindarov, Javokhir	UZB	2704
12	12	GM	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	USA	2703
13	13	GM	Rapport, Richard	HUN	2702
14	14	GM	So, Wesley	USA	2702
15	15	GM	Gukesh, D	IND	2692
16	16	GM	Dubov, Daniil	FID	2686
17	17	GM	Giri, Anish	NED	2685
18	18	GM	Yu, Yangyi	CHN	2680
19	19	GM	Grischuk, Alexander	FID	2677
20	20	GM	Andreikin, Dmitry	FID	2671
21	21	GM	Maghsoodloo, Parham	IRI	2669
22	22	GM	Santos Latasa, Jaime	ESP	2667
23	23	GM	Nihal, Sarin	IND	2664
24	24	GM	Praggnanandhaa, R	IND	2663
25	25	GM	Radjabov, Teimour	AZE	2661
26	26	GM	Sevian, Samuel	USA	2658
27	27	GM	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	POL	2657
28	28	GM	Robson, Ray	USA	2652
29	29	GM	Esipenko, Andrey	FID	2649
30	30	GM	Le, Quang Liem	VIE	2646
31	31	GM	Jobava, Baadur	GEO	2645
32	32	GM	Murzin, Volodar	FID	2642
33	33	GM	Bortnyk, Olexandr	UKR	2641
34	34	GM	Martinez Alcantara, Jose Eduardo	MEX	2641
35	35	GM	Sarana, Alexey	SRB	2641
36	36	GM	Keymer, Vincent	GER	2640
37	37	GM	Grandelius, Nils	SWE	2639
38	38	GM	Ponomariov, Ruslan	UKR	2639
39	39	GM	Martirosyan, Haik M.	ARM	2635
40	40	GM	Van Foreest, Jorden	NED	2635
41	41	GM	Ivanchuk, Vasyl	UKR	2630
42	42	GM	Safarli, Eltaj	AZE	2626
43	43	GM	Harikrishna, Pentala	IND	2623
44	44	GM	Salem, A.R. Saleh	UAE	2621
45	45	GM	Anton Guijarro, David	ESP	2619
46	46	GM	Svane, Rasmus	GER	2619
47	47	GM	Lu, Shanglei	CHN	2616
48	48	GM	Niemann, Hans Moke	USA	2612
49	49	GM	Alekseenko, Kirill	AUT	2611
50	50	GM	Sadhwani, Raunak	IND	2611
51	51	GM	Sargsyan, Shant	ARM	2611
52	52	GM	Mamedov, Rauf	AZE	2610
53	53	GM	Moussard, Jules	FRA	2609
54	54	GM	Iturrizaga Bonelli, Eduardo	ESP	2605
55	55	GM	Motylev, Alexander	ROU	2603
56	56	GM	Matlakov, Maxim	FID	2602
57	57	GM	Chigaev, Maksim	ESP	2598
58	58	GM	Pranav, V	IND	2595
59	59	GM	Amin, Bassem	EGY	2593
60	60	GM	Kozak, Adam	HUN	2593
61	61	GM	Dardha, Daniel	BEL	2592
62	62	GM	Aravindh, Chithambaram VR.	IND	2590
63	63	GM	Bu, Xiangzhi	CHN	2587
64	64	GM	Indjic, Aleksandar	SRB	2587
65	65	GM	Henriquez Villagra, Cristobal	CHI	2586
66	66	GM	Ganguly, Surya Shekhar	IND	2585
67	67	GM	Narayanan, S L	IND	2582
68	68	GM	Donchenko, Alexander	GER	2581
69	69	GM	Maksimovic, Bojan	BIH	2581
70	70	GM	Theodorou, Nikolas	GRE	2581
71	71	GM	Akobian, Varuzhan	USA	2579
72	72	GM	Tabatabaei, M. Amin	IRI	2579
73	73	GM	Pichot, Alan	ESP	2577
74	74	GM	Lazavik, Denis	FID	2576
75	75	GM	Naiditsch, Arkadij	BUL	2574
76	76	GM	Bai, Jinshi	CHN	2571
77	77	GM	Bjerre, Jonas Buhl	DEN	2570
78	78	GM	Paravyan, David	FID	2570
79	79	GM	Najer, Evgeniy	FID	2560
80	80	GM	Yilmaz, Mustafa	TUR	2560
81	81	GM	Abasov, Nijat	AZE	2559
82	82	GM	Quparadze, Giga	GEO	2558
83	83	GM	Yakubboev, Nodirbek	UZB	2558
84	84	GM	Hong, Andrew	USA	2556
85	85	GM	Idani, Pouya	IRI	2556
86	86	GM	Shimanov, Aleksandr	FID	2554
87	87	GM	Chanda, Sandipan	IND	2553
88	88	GM	Ibarra Jerez, Jose Carlos	ESP	2553
89	89	GM	Kadric, Denis	MNE	2552
90	90	GM	Volokitin, Andrei	UKR	2551
91	91	GM	Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son	VIE	2550
92	92	GM	Sasikiran, Krishnan	IND	2548
93	93	GM	Muradli, Mahammad	AZE	2546
94	94	GM	Gavrilescu, David	ROU	2544
95	95	GM	Jumabayev, Rinat	KAZ	2543
96	96	GM	Petrov, Nikita	MNE	2543
97	97	GM	Puranik, Abhimanyu	IND	2542
98	98	GM	Nesterov, Arseniy	FID	2540
99	99	GM	Hakobyan, Aram	ARM	2539
100	100	GM	Zemlyanskii, Ivan	FID	2539
101	101	GM	Nogerbek, Kazybek	KAZ	2538
102	102	IM	Droin, Augustin	FRA	2538
103	103	GM	Warmerdam, Max	NED	2537
104	104	GM	Vokhidov, Shamsiddin	UZB	2536
105	105	GM	Grebnev, Aleksey	FID	2529
106	106	GM	Makhnev, Denis	KAZ	2529
107	107	GM	Makarian, Rudik	FID	2524
108	108	IM	Sahidi, Samir	SVK	2524
109	109	GM	Rakhmanov, Aleksandr	FID	2522
110	110	GM	Can, Emre	TUR	2521
111	111	GM	Pranesh, M	IND	2520
112	112	GM	Kobalia, Mikhail	FID	2518
113	113	GM	Pantsulaia, Levan	GEO	2518
114	114	GM	Hovhannisyan, Robert	ARM	2517
115	115	GM	Le, Tuan Minh	VIE	2516
116	116	GM	Urkedal, Frode Olav Olsen	NOR	2515
117	117	GM	Ponkratov, Pavel	FID	2511
118	118	GM	Tin, Jingyao	SGP	2510
119	119	GM	Jacobson, Brandon	USA	2507
120	120	GM	Kosakowski, Jakub	POL	2506
121	121	GM	Sanal, Vahap	TUR	2504
122	122	GM	Adhiban, B.	IND	2503
123	123	GM	Gurel, Ediz	TUR	2502
124	124	GM	Alexakis, Dimitris	GRE	2501
125	125	GM	Lodici, Lorenzo	ITA	2499
126	126	GM	Daneshvar, Bardiya	IRI	2498
127	127	GM	Mendonca, Leon Luke	IND	2498
128	128	GM	Murshed, Niaz	BAN	2496
129	129	GM	Vakhidov, Jakhongir	UZB	2494
130	130	IM	Altini, Nicola	ITA	2494
131	131	GM	Zhang, Zhong	CHN	2493
132	132	GM	Halkias, Stelios	GRE	2492
133	133	IM	Materia, Marco	FRA	2490
134	134	GM	Drygalov, Sergey	FID	2489
135	135	IM	Oro, Faustino	ARG	2489
136	136	GM	Mitrabha, Guha	IND	2487
137	137	GM	Vetokhin, Savva	FID	2486
138	138	GM	Dudin, Gleb	HUN	2483
139	139	GM	Amar, Elham	NOR	2482
140	140	GM	Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn	CAN	2478
141	141	GM	Bharath, Subramaniyam H	IND	2475
142	142	IM	Peyrer, Konstantin	AUT	2470
143	143	GM	Christiansen, Johan-Sebastian	NOR	2469
144	144	IM	Samadov, Read	AZE	2469
145	145	GM	Karthik, Venkataraman	IND	2467
146	146	GM	Madaminov, Mukhiddin	UZB	2465
147	147	GM	Stefansson, Vignir Vatnar	ISL	2463
148	148	GM	Uskov, Artem	FID	2463
149	149	GM	Tsaruk, Maksim	FID	2462
150	150	GM	Gholami Orimi, Mahdi	IRI	2461
151	151	IM	Saraci, Nderim	KOS	2460
152	152	GM	Bilguun, Sumiya	MGL	2456
153	153	IM	Isanzhulov, Arystan	KAZ	2456
154	154	GM	Xiao, Tong(QD)	CHN	2453
155	155	GM	Lobanov, Sergei	FID	2452
156	156	GM	Iniyan, Pa	IND	2450
157	157	GM	Erdogmus, Yagiz Kaan	TUR	2446
158	158	GM	Samunenkov, Ihor	UKR	2443
159	159	GM	Salinas Herrera, Pablo	CHI	2442
160	160	GM	Aditya, Mittal	IND	2440
161	161	IM	Agmanov, Zhandos	KAZ	2436
162	162	IM	Begmuratov, Khumoyun	UZB	2435
163	163	IM	Gan-Erdene, Sugar	MGL	2434
164	164	GM	Suleymenov, Alisher	KAZ	2432
165	165	GM	Gokerkan, Cem Kaan	TUR	2428
166	166	GM	Raja, Rithvik R	IND	2428
167	167	IM	Chasin, Nico	USA	2427
168	168	GM	Sankalp, Gupta	IND	2425
169	169	FM	Haug, Havard	NOR	2424
170	170	IM	Davtyan, Artur	ARM	2422
171	171	IM	Klukin, Kirill	SRB	2421
172	172	IM	Khubukshanov, Erdem	FID	2419
173	173	IM	Galaviz Medina, Sion Radamantys	MEX	2418
174	174	GM	Gharibyan, Mamikon	ARM	2414
175	175	GM	Siddharth, Jagadeesh	SGP	2413
176	176	IM	Ibrahimli, Murad	AZE	2411
177	177	IM	Suyarov, Mukhammadzokhid	UZB	2411
178	178	GM	Nikitenko, Mihail	FID	2407
179	179	GM	Movahed, Sina	IRI	2405
180	180	IM	Orozbaev, Eldiyar	KGZ	2405
181	181	IM	Rakotomaharo, Fy Antenaina	MAD	2404
182	182	GM	Raja, Harshit	IND	2396
183	183	IM	Zverev, Lev	FID	2394
184	184	GM	Balakrishnan, Praveen	USA	2393
185	185	IM	Stribuk, Artiom	FID	2393
186	186	IM	Ansat, Aldiyar	KAZ	2392
187	187	IM	Goutham, Krishna H	IND	2392
188	188	IM	Shogdzhiev, Roman	FID	2388
189	189	FM	Averin, Nikolay	FID	2387
190	190	IM	Bai, Adelard	TPE	2385
191	191	GM	Ohanyan, Emin	ARM	2384
192	192	IM	Piliposyan, Robert	ARM	2382
193	193	IM	Grafl, Florian Dr.	GER	2379
194	194	IM	Morris, James	AUS	2377
195	195	IM	Sapenov, Daniyal	KAZ	2375
196	196	IM	Suleimen, Ergali	KAZ	2372
197	197		Nainys, Zanas	LTU	2372
198	198	IM	Gaehwiler, Gabriel	SUI	2365
199	199	IM	Wafa, Hamed	EGY	2365
200	200	IM	Tran, Thanh Tu	JPN	2364
201	201	IM	Ezat, Mohamed	EGY	2358
202	202	IM	Krallis, Christos	GRE	2355
203	203	IM	Meng, Yihan	CHN	2355
204	204	IM	Nurgaliyev, Sauat	KAZ	2350
205	205	IM	Aziz, Husain	QAT	2334
206	206	IM	George Samir, David	EGY	2334
207	207	FM	Cunha, Lucas Aguiar	BRA	2334
208	208	IM	Dau, Khuong Duy	VIE	2331
209	209	FM	Fandi, Mazen.	SYR	2326
210	210	IM	Sharan, Rao	IND	2320
211	211	FM	Musovic, Armin	MNE	2318
212	212	IM	Tissir, Mohamed	MAR	2310
213	213	GM	Mamedov, Edgar	KAZ	2302
214	214	IM	Ahmad, Khagan	AZE	2302
215	215	GM	Harikrishnan.A.Ra, .	IND	2293
216	216	FM	Medhus, Vitus Bondo	DEN	2283
217	217	FM	Smirnov, Mark	KAZ	2274
218	218	IM	Berend, Fred	LUX	2264
219	219	IM	Abdilkhair, Abilmansur	KAZ	2262
220	220	FM	Ammar, Sedrani	UAE	2237
221	221		Muntean, Victor	SWE	2229
222	222	FM	Assylov, Miras	KAZ	2223
223	223	FM	Kuandykuly, Danis	KAZ	2219
224	224	IM	Harshavardhan, G B	IND	2216
225	225	FM	Sklokin, Sergey	FID	2187
226	226	FM	Chekh Adm Khedr, Aram	SYR	2177
227	227	IM	Al Hosani, Omran	UAE	2174
228	228		Anwoir, Tarik	MAR	2172
229	229	CM	Anand, Tsogtbileg	MGL	2152
230	230		Fates, Omer Salah	LBA	2149
231	231		Boulrens, Ala Eddine	ALG	2140
232	232		Phuyal, Aashish	NEP	2117
233	233	FM	Alhassadi, Yousef A.	LBA	2114
234	234	FM	Alrehaili, Ahmed Abdullah S	KSA	2107
235	235	CM	Bodemar, Jonathan	THA	2094
236	236		Dinham, James	RSA	2091
237	237	CM	Damaj, Mohammed	PLE	2081
238	238		Taher, Rami	LBA	2077
239	239	FM	Al Mashikhi, Salim Aliyan	OMA	2021
240	240	CM	Dahal, Sushrut	NEP	2019
241	241		Blackwood, Ryan	CAY	2019
242	242	FM	Ashwath, Kaushik	SGP	2009
243	243		Khayat, Emad	KSA	1954
244	244		Rami, Talab	SYR	1933
245	245	AIM	Alsaqer, Meshal	KUW	1918
246	246		Alkhuriji, Abdulaziz N	KSA	1892
247	247		Aljamaat, Khaled	QAT	1803
248	248	CM	Al-Kuwari, Hamad	QAT	1777

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