“Fast chess” grants quarter-hour to every participant for all strikes (plus 10 seconds per transfer). “Blitz chess” grants every participant three minutes (plus 2 seconds per transfer).
Now CNN studies that five-time world chess champion Magnus Carlsen “gained each the World Fast and World Blitz chess titles in Almaty, Kazakhstan, within the newest landmark of his glittering profession.”
The 32-year-old Norwegian is now the holder of all three world chess championship titles — in Classical, Fast and Blitz — for the third time in his profession, whereas no different participant has ever gained each the Fast and Blitz titles in the identical 12 months.
“Gonna want extra palms quickly,” Carlsen joked on Twitter, posting a video of himself counting his now 15 world titles on his fingers.
It caps a triumphant finish to Carlsen’s exceptional decade-long reign because the classical world champion, as he has already introduced that he is not going to defend his title subsequent 12 months.
Chess24 studies that for his first three-minute match, Magnus Carlsen confirmed up two and a half minutes late — and beginning with simply 30 seconds left on his clock, nonetheless beat his opponent.
