FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship 2025 LIVE (Boards 31+)
The FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships 2025 are taking place in Doha, Qatar, from December 26 to 30, 2025. The event will be daily live on Chessdom.com with live games, interviews, video coverage, and more. The World Rapid and Blitz 2025 is held at the Qatar University Sports and Events Complex, featuring both Open and Women’s sections in Rapid and Blitz formats, with a massive prize fund exceeding €1,000,000. The FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship 2025 is a 13-round Swiss system tournament with a time control of 15 min + 10 sec/move.
The top-seeded players are GM Magnus Carlsen (2824), GM Ian Nepomniachtchi (2762), GM Levon Aronian (2756), GM Alireza Firouzja (2754), GM Fabiano Caruana (2751), GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (2730), GM Vladislav Artemiev (2727), GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov (2717), GM Arjun Erigaisi (2714), GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda (2711), GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (2707), GM Javokhir Sindarov (2704), GM Leinier Dominguez Perez (2703), GM Richard Rapport (2702), GM Wesley So (2702), GM D Gukesh (2692), GM Daniil Dubov (2686), GM Anish Giri (2685), GM Yangyi Yu (2680), GM Alexander Grischuk (2677). Scroll down for the full participants list.
Categories: FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship 2025 (Boards 1-30) / FIDE World Rapid Women Chess Championship 2025 / FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship 2025 (Boards 1-30) / FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship 2025 (Boards 31+) / FIDE World Blitz Women Chess Championship 2025 / FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship 2025 – Knockout Stage / FIDE World Women Blitz Chess Championship 2025 – Knockout Stage
FIDE World Rapid Chess 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 | Firouzja, Alireza | FRA | 2754 |
| 5 | 5 | GM | Caruana, Fabiano | USA | 2751 |
| 6 | 6 | GM | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | FRA | 2730 |
| 7 | 7 | GM | Artemiev, Vladislav | FID | 2727 |
| 8 | 8 | GM | Abdusattorov, Nodirbek | UZB | 2717 |
| 9 | 9 | GM | Erigaisi, Arjun | IND | 2714 |
| 10 | 10 | GM | Duda, Jan-Krzysztof | POL | 2711 |
| 11 | 11 | GM | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | AZE | 2707 |
| 12 | 12 | GM | Sindarov, Javokhir | UZB | 2704 |
| 13 | 13 | GM | Dominguez Perez, Leinier | USA | 2703 |
| 14 | 14 | GM | Rapport, Richard | HUN | 2702 |
| 15 | 15 | GM | So, Wesley | USA | 2702 |
| 16 | 16 | GM | Gukesh, D | IND | 2692 |
| 17 | 17 | GM | Dubov, Daniil | FID | 2686 |
| 18 | 18 | GM | Giri, Anish | NED | 2685 |
| 19 | 19 | GM | Yu, Yangyi | CHN | 2680 |
| 20 | 20 | GM | Grischuk, Alexander | FID | 2677 |
| 21 | 21 | GM | Andreikin, Dmitry | FID | 2671 |
| 22 | 22 | GM | Maghsoodloo, Parham | IRI | 2669 |
| 23 | 23 | GM | Santos Latasa, Jaime | ESP | 2667 |
| 24 | 24 | GM | Nihal, Sarin | IND | 2664 |
| 25 | 25 | GM | Praggnanandhaa, R | IND | 2663 |
| 26 | 26 | GM | Radjabov, Teimour | AZE | 2661 |
| 27 | 27 | GM | Sevian, Samuel | USA | 2658 |
| 28 | 28 | GM | Wojtaszek, Radoslaw | POL | 2657 |
| 29 | 29 | GM | Robson, Ray | USA | 2652 |
| 30 | 30 | GM | Esipenko, Andrey | FID | 2649 |
| 31 | 31 | GM | Le, Quang Liem | VIE | 2646 |
| 32 | 32 | GM | Jobava, Baadur | GEO | 2645 |
| 33 | 33 | GM | Murzin, Volodar | FID | 2642 |
| 34 | 34 | GM | Bortnyk, Olexandr | UKR | 2641 |
| 35 | 35 | GM | Martinez Alcantara, Jose Eduardo | MEX | 2641 |
| 36 | 36 | GM | Sarana, Alexey | SRB | 2641 |
| 37 | 37 | GM | Keymer, Vincent | GER | 2640 |
| 38 | 38 | GM | Grandelius, Nils | SWE | 2639 |
| 39 | 39 | GM | Ponomariov, Ruslan | UKR | 2639 |
| 40 | 40 | GM | Martirosyan, Haik M. | ARM | 2635 |
| 41 | 41 | GM | Van Foreest, Jorden | NED | 2635 |
| 42 | 42 | GM | Ivanchuk, Vasyl | UKR | 2630 |
| 43 | 43 | GM | Safarli, Eltaj | AZE | 2626 |
| 44 | 44 | GM | Harikrishna, Pentala | IND | 2623 |
| 45 | 45 | GM | Salem, A.R. Saleh | UAE | 2621 |
| 46 | 46 | GM | Anton Guijarro, David | ESP | 2619 |
| 47 | 47 | GM | Svane, Rasmus | GER | 2619 |
| 48 | 48 | GM | Lu, Shanglei | CHN | 2616 |
| 49 | 49 | GM | Niemann, Hans Moke | USA | 2612 |
| 50 | 50 | GM | Alekseenko, Kirill | AUT | 2611 |
| 51 | 51 | GM | Sadhwani, Raunak | IND | 2611 |
| 52 | 52 | GM | Sargsyan, Shant | ARM | 2611 |
| 53 | 53 | GM | Mamedov, Rauf | AZE | 2610 |
| 54 | 54 | GM | Moussard, Jules | FRA | 2609 |
| 55 | 55 | GM | Iturrizaga Bonelli, Eduardo | ESP | 2605 |
| 56 | 56 | GM | Motylev, Alexander | ROU | 2603 |
| 57 | 57 | GM | Matlakov, Maxim | FID | 2602 |
| 58 | 58 | GM | Chigaev, Maksim | ESP | 2598 |
| 59 | 59 | GM | Pranav, V | IND | 2595 |
| 60 | 60 | GM | Amin, Bassem | EGY | 2593 |
| 61 | 61 | GM | Kozak, Adam | HUN | 2593 |
| 62 | 62 | GM | Dardha, Daniel | BEL | 2592 |
| 63 | 63 | GM | Aravindh, Chithambaram VR. | IND | 2590 |
| 64 | 64 | GM | Bu, Xiangzhi | CHN | 2587 |
| 65 | 65 | GM | Indjic, Aleksandar | SRB | 2587 |
| 66 | 66 | GM | Henriquez Villagra, Cristobal | CHI | 2586 |
| 67 | 67 | GM | Ganguly, Surya Shekhar | IND | 2585 |
| 68 | 68 | GM | Narayanan, S L | IND | 2582 |
| 69 | 69 | GM | Donchenko, Alexander | GER | 2581 |
| 70 | 70 | GM | Maksimovic, Bojan | BIH | 2581 |
| 71 | 71 | GM | Theodorou, Nikolas | GRE | 2581 |
| 72 | 72 | GM | Akobian, Varuzhan | USA | 2579 |
| 73 | 73 | GM | Tabatabaei, M. Amin | IRI | 2579 |
| 74 | 74 | GM | Pichot, Alan | ESP | 2577 |
| 75 | 75 | GM | Lazavik, Denis | FID | 2576 |
| 76 | 76 | GM | Naiditsch, Arkadij | BUL | 2574 |
| 77 | 77 | GM | Bai, Jinshi | CHN | 2571 |
| 78 | 78 | GM | Bjerre, Jonas Buhl | DEN | 2570 |
| 79 | 79 | GM | Paravyan, David | FID | 2570 |
| 80 | 80 | GM | Najer, Evgeniy | FID | 2560 |
| 81 | 81 | GM | Yilmaz, Mustafa | TUR | 2560 |
| 82 | 82 | GM | Abasov, Nijat | AZE | 2559 |
| 83 | 83 | GM | Quparadze, Giga | GEO | 2558 |
| 84 | 84 | GM | Yakubboev, Nodirbek | UZB | 2558 |
| 85 | 85 | GM | Hong, Andrew | USA | 2556 |
| 86 | 86 | GM | Idani, Pouya | IRI | 2556 |
| 87 | 87 | GM | Shimanov, Aleksandr | FID | 2554 |
| 88 | 88 | GM | Chanda, Sandipan | IND | 2553 |
| 89 | 89 | GM | Ibarra Jerez, Jose Carlos | ESP | 2553 |
| 90 | 90 | GM | Kadric, Denis | MNE | 2552 |
| 91 | 91 | GM | Volokitin, Andrei | UKR | 2551 |
| 92 | 92 | GM | Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son | VIE | 2550 |
| 93 | 93 | GM | Sasikiran, Krishnan | IND | 2548 |
| 94 | 94 | GM | Muradli, Mahammad | AZE | 2546 |
| 95 | 95 | GM | Gavrilescu, David | ROU | 2544 |
| 96 | 96 | GM | Jumabayev, Rinat | KAZ | 2543 |
| 97 | 97 | GM | Petrov, Nikita | MNE | 2543 |
| 98 | 98 | GM | Puranik, Abhimanyu | IND | 2542 |
| 99 | 99 | GM | Nesterov, Arseniy | FID | 2540 |
| 100 | 100 | GM | Hakobyan, Aram | ARM | 2539 |
| 101 | 101 | GM | Zemlyanskii, Ivan | FID | 2539 |
| 102 | 102 | GM | Nogerbek, Kazybek | KAZ | 2538 |
| 103 | 103 | IM | Droin, Augustin | FRA | 2538 |
| 104 | 104 | GM | Warmerdam, Max | NED | 2537 |
| 105 | 105 | GM | Vokhidov, Shamsiddin | UZB | 2536 |
| 106 | 106 | GM | Grebnev, Aleksey | FID | 2529 |
| 107 | 107 | GM | Makhnev, Denis | KAZ | 2529 |
| 108 | 108 | GM | Makarian, Rudik | FID | 2524 |
| 109 | 109 | IM | Sahidi, Samir | SVK | 2524 |
| 110 | 110 | GM | Rakhmanov, Aleksandr | FID | 2522 |
| 111 | 111 | GM | Can, Emre | TUR | 2521 |
| 112 | 112 | GM | Pranesh, M | IND | 2520 |
| 113 | 113 | GM | Kobalia, Mikhail | FID | 2518 |
| 114 | 114 | GM | Pantsulaia, Levan | GEO | 2518 |
| 115 | 115 | GM | Hovhannisyan, Robert | ARM | 2517 |
| 116 | 116 | GM | Le, Tuan Minh | VIE | 2516 |
| 117 | 117 | GM | Urkedal, Frode Olav Olsen | NOR | 2515 |
| 118 | 118 | GM | Ponkratov, Pavel | FID | 2511 |
| 119 | 119 | GM | Tin, Jingyao | SGP | 2510 |
| 120 | 120 | GM | Jacobson, Brandon | USA | 2507 |
| 121 | 121 | GM | Kosakowski, Jakub | POL | 2506 |
| 122 | 122 | GM | Sanal, Vahap | TUR | 2504 |
| 123 | 123 | GM | Adhiban, B. | IND | 2503 |
| 124 | 124 | GM | Gurel, Ediz | TUR | 2502 |
| 125 | 125 | GM | Alexakis, Dimitris | GRE | 2501 |
| 126 | 126 | GM | Lodici, Lorenzo | ITA | 2499 |
| 127 | 127 | GM | Daneshvar, Bardiya | IRI | 2498 |
| 128 | 128 | GM | Mendonca, Leon Luke | IND | 2498 |
| 129 | 129 | GM | Murshed, Niaz | BAN | 2496 |
| 130 | 130 | GM | Vakhidov, Jakhongir | UZB | 2494 |
| 131 | 131 | IM | Altini, Nicola | ITA | 2494 |
| 132 | 132 | GM | Zhang, Zhong | CHN | 2493 |
| 133 | 133 | GM | Halkias, Stelios | GRE | 2492 |
| 134 | 134 | IM | Materia, Marco | FRA | 2490 |
| 135 | 135 | GM | Drygalov, Sergey | FID | 2489 |
| 136 | 136 | IM | Oro, Faustino | ARG | 2489 |
| 137 | 137 | GM | Mitrabha, Guha | IND | 2487 |
| 138 | 138 | GM | Vetokhin, Savva | FID | 2486 |
| 139 | 139 | GM | Dudin, Gleb | HUN | 2483 |
| 140 | 140 | GM | Amar, Elham | NOR | 2482 |
| 141 | 141 | GM | Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn | CAN | 2478 |
| 142 | 142 | GM | Bharath, Subramaniyam H | IND | 2475 |
| 143 | 143 | IM | Peyrer, Konstantin | AUT | 2470 |
| 144 | 144 | GM | Christiansen, Johan-Sebastian | NOR | 2469 |
| 145 | 145 | IM | Samadov, Read | AZE | 2469 |
| 146 | 146 | GM | Karthik, Venkataraman | IND | 2467 |
| 147 | 147 | GM | Madaminov, Mukhiddin | UZB | 2465 |
| 148 | 148 | GM | Stefansson, Vignir Vatnar | ISL | 2463 |
| 149 | 149 | GM | Uskov, Artem | FID | 2463 |
| 150 | 150 | GM | Tsaruk, Maksim | FID | 2462 |
| 151 | 151 | GM | Gholami Orimi, Mahdi | IRI | 2461 |
| 152 | 152 | IM | Saraci, Nderim | KOS | 2460 |
| 153 | 153 | GM | Bilguun, Sumiya | MGL | 2456 |
| 154 | 154 | IM | Isanzhulov, Arystan | KAZ | 2456 |
| 155 | 155 | GM | Xiao, Tong(QD) | CHN | 2453 |
| 156 | 156 | GM | Lobanov, Sergei | FID | 2452 |
| 157 | 157 | GM | Iniyan, Pa | IND | 2450 |
| 158 | 158 | GM | Erdogmus, Yagiz Kaan | TUR | 2446 |
| 159 | 159 | GM | Samunenkov, Ihor | UKR | 2443 |
| 160 | 160 | GM | Salinas Herrera, Pablo | CHI | 2442 |
| 161 | 161 | GM | Aditya, Mittal | IND | 2440 |
| 162 | 162 | IM | Agmanov, Zhandos | KAZ | 2436 |
| 163 | 163 | IM | Begmuratov, Khumoyun | UZB | 2435 |
| 164 | 164 | IM | Gan-Erdene, Sugar | MGL | 2434 |
| 165 | 165 | GM | Suleymenov, Alisher | KAZ | 2432 |
| 166 | 166 | GM | Gokerkan, Cem Kaan | TUR | 2428 |
| 167 | 167 | GM | Raja, Rithvik R | IND | 2428 |
| 168 | 168 | IM | Chasin, Nico | USA | 2427 |
| 169 | 169 | GM | Sankalp, Gupta | IND | 2425 |
| 170 | 170 | FM | Haug, Havard | NOR | 2424 |
| 171 | 171 | IM | Davtyan, Artur | ARM | 2422 |
| 172 | 172 | GM | Pranav, Anand | IND | 2421 |
| 173 | 173 | IM | Klukin, Kirill | SRB | 2421 |
| 174 | 174 | IM | Khubukshanov, Erdem | FID | 2419 |
| 175 | 175 | IM | Galaviz Medina, Sion Radamantys | MEX | 2418 |
| 176 | 176 | GM | Gharibyan, Mamikon | ARM | 2414 |
| 177 | 177 | GM | Siddharth, Jagadeesh | SGP | 2413 |
| 178 | 178 | IM | Ibrahimli, Murad | AZE | 2411 |
| 179 | 179 | IM | Suyarov, Mukhammadzokhid | UZB | 2411 |
| 180 | 180 | GM | Nikitenko, Mihail | FID | 2407 |
| 181 | 181 | GM | Movahed, Sina | IRI | 2405 |
| 182 | 182 | IM | Orozbaev, Eldiyar | KGZ | 2405 |
| 183 | 183 | IM | Rakotomaharo, Fy Antenaina | MAD | 2404 |
| 184 | 184 | GM | Raja, Harshit | IND | 2396 |
| 185 | 185 | IM | Zverev, Lev | FID | 2394 |
| 186 | 186 | GM | Balakrishnan, Praveen | USA | 2393 |
| 187 | 187 | IM | Stribuk, Artiom | FID | 2393 |
| 188 | 188 | IM | Ansat, Aldiyar | KAZ | 2392 |
| 189 | 189 | IM | Goutham, Krishna H | IND | 2392 |
| 190 | 190 | IM | Shogdzhiev, Roman | FID | 2388 |
| 191 | 191 | FM | Averin, Nikolay | FID | 2387 |
| 192 | 192 | IM | Bai, Adelard | TPE | 2385 |
| 193 | 193 | GM | Ohanyan, Emin | ARM | 2384 |
| 194 | 194 | IM | Piliposyan, Robert | ARM | 2382 |
| 195 | 195 | IM | Grafl, Florian Dr. | GER | 2379 |
| 196 | 196 | IM | Morris, James | AUS | 2377 |
| 197 | 197 | IM | Sapenov, Daniyal | KAZ | 2375 |
| 198 | 198 | IM | Suleimen, Ergali | KAZ | 2372 |
| 199 | 199 | Nainys, Zanas | LTU | 2372 | |
| 200 | 200 | IM | Gaehwiler, Gabriel | SUI | 2365 |
| 201 | 201 | IM | Wafa, Hamed | EGY | 2365 |
| 202 | 202 | IM | Tran, Thanh Tu | JPN | 2364 |
| 203 | 203 | IM | Ezat, Mohamed | EGY | 2358 |
| 204 | 204 | IM | Krallis, Christos | GRE | 2355 |
| 205 | 205 | IM | Meng, Yihan | CHN | 2355 |
| 206 | 206 | IM | Nurgaliyev, Sauat | KAZ | 2350 |
| 207 | 207 | IM | Aziz, Husain | QAT | 2334 |
| 208 | 208 | IM | George Samir, David | EGY | 2334 |
| 209 | 209 | FM | Cunha, Lucas Aguiar | BRA | 2334 |
| 210 | 210 | IM | Dau, Khuong Duy | VIE | 2331 |
| 211 | 211 | FM | Fandi, Mazen. | SYR | 2326 |
| 212 | 212 | IM | Sharan, Rao | IND | 2320 |
| 213 | 213 | FM | Musovic, Armin | MNE | 2318 |
| 214 | 214 | IM | Tissir, Mohamed | MAR | 2310 |
| 215 | 215 | GM | Mamedov, Edgar | KAZ | 2302 |
| 216 | 216 | IM | Ahmad, Khagan | AZE | 2302 |
| 217 | 217 | GM | Harikrishnan.A.Ra, . | IND | 2293 |
| 218 | 218 | FM | Medhus, Vitus Bondo | DEN | 2283 |
| 219 | 219 | FM | Smirnov, Mark | KAZ | 2274 |
| 220 | 220 | IM | Berend, Fred | LUX | 2264 |
| 221 | 221 | IM | Abdilkhair, Abilmansur | KAZ | 2262 |
| 222 | 222 | FM | Ammar, Sedrani | UAE | 2237 |
| 223 | 223 | Muntean, Victor | SWE | 2229 | |
| 224 | 224 | FM | Assylov, Miras | KAZ | 2223 |
| 225 | 225 | FM | Kuandykuly, Danis | KAZ | 2219 |
| 226 | 226 | IM | Harshavardhan, G B | IND | 2216 |
| 227 | 227 | FM | Sklokin, Sergey | FID | 2187 |
| 228 | 228 | FM | Chekh Adm Khedr, Aram | SYR | 2177 |
| 229 | 229 | IM | Al Hosani, Omran | UAE | 2174 |
| 230 | 230 | Anwoir, Tarik | MAR | 2172 | |
| 231 | 231 | CM | Anand, Tsogtbileg | MGL | 2152 |
| 232 | 232 | Fates, Omer Salah | LBA | 2149 | |
| 233 | 233 | Boulrens, Ala Eddine | ALG | 2140 | |
| 234 | 234 | Phuyal, Aashish | NEP | 2117 | |
| 235 | 235 | FM | Alhassadi, Yousef A. | LBA | 2114 |
| 236 | 236 | FM | Alrehaili, Ahmed Abdullah S | KSA | 2107 |
| 237 | 237 | CM | Bodemar, Jonathan | THA | 2094 |
| 238 | 238 | Dinham, James | RSA | 2091 | |
| 239 | 239 | CM | Damaj, Mohammed | PLE | 2081 |
| 240 | 240 | FM | Al Mashikhi, Salim Aliyan | OMA | 2021 |
| 241 | 241 | CM | Dahal, Sushrut | NEP | 2019 |
| 242 | 242 | Blackwood, Ryan | CAY | 2019 | |
| 243 | 243 | FM | Ashwath, Kaushik | SGP | 2009 |
| 244 | 244 | Khayat, Emad | KSA | 1954 | |
| 245 | 245 | Rami, Talab | SYR | 1933 | |
| 246 | 246 | AIM | Alsaqer, Meshal | KUW | 1918 |
| 247 | 247 | Alkhuriji, Abdulaziz N | KSA | 1892 | |
| 248 | 248 | Aljamaat, Khaled | QAT | 1803 | |
| 249 | 249 | CM | Al-Kuwari, Hamad | QAT | 1777 |
| 250 | 250 | Al-Janahi, Ibrahim | QAT | 1722 |