In a couple of days, the FIDE World Fast and Blitz chess event shall be held in New York’s Wall Avenue. The occasion is not going to simply determine the world champions in speedy and blitz format. It is going to additionally find yourself deciding which participant will get the FIDE Circuit spot for the celebrated Candidates event.
The trail to Candidates event has one spot designated to the 2024 FIDE Circuit. There are two gamers within the race to win the spot: India’s Arjun Erigaisi and Fabiano Caruana. The American GM leads Arjun Erigaisi by a mere six factors with the FIDE World Fast and Blitz chess event being the ultimate event of 2024 to award Circuit factors.
Caruana raced to the lead within the 2024 FIDE Circuit race after rising victorious on the Saint Louis Masters. The win helped him get 16.39 factors which helped him leapfrog over Arjun Erigaisi on the leaderboard.
Arjun Erigaisi ended second on the Qatar Masters Open 2024. With each having accomplished seven tournaments counted in the direction of the 2024 FIDE Circuit closing standings, Fabiano Caruana maintain a six-point benefit over his fundamental rival.
Magnus Carlsen faces Arjun Erigaisi on the Tata Metal India Fast and Blitz chess event on Thursday on the Dhono Dhanyo Auditorium in Kolkata. (Categorical photograph by Partha Paul)
It have to be famous that Arjun Erigaisi is but to obtain his visa for USA to compete on the World Fast and Blitz event.
FIDE Circuit standings
The World Fast and Blitz Championship shall be held from December 26 to 31 in USA. There are 115 entries within the subject for the ladies’s speedy occasion and 113 within the ladies’s blitz occasion. Within the open part, there are 182 entries in speedy and 184 in blitz.
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