Editing Fast chess (section)

=== Champions tables for official events ===
{{see also|World Rapid Chess Championship|World Blitz Chess Championship}}
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|+World Rapid chess champions
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! # || Name || Year || Country
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| 1 || [[Anatoly Karpov]] || 1988<ref name="Rapid Chess"/> || {{USSR}}
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| 2 || [[Garry Kasparov]] || 2001<ref>[http://en.chessbase.com/post/cap-d-agde-world-rapid-championship The title isn't exactly a historic one, Kasparov's in 2001 was the first. ]</ref> || {{RUS}}
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| 3 || [[Viswanathan Anand]] || 2003<ref name="2003rapid">{{cite web |url=https://www.fide.com/component/content/article/4-tournaments/2696-1187-anand-is-world-rapid-chess-champion.html |title=FIDE announcement that Anand is World Rapid Champion |access-date=14 October 2015 |archive-date=1 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101093356/https://www.fide.com/component/content/article/4-tournaments/2696-1187-anand-is-world-rapid-chess-champion.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> || {{flag|India}}
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| 4 || [[Sergey Karjakin]] || 2012<ref name=worldrapid20101>{{cite web |url=http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/6282-world-rapid-and-blitz-championships-2012-karjakin-wins.html |title=World Rapid Championship 2012, Karjakin wins |access-date=15 October 2015 |archive-date=1 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101093401/https://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/6282-world-rapid-and-blitz-championships-2012-karjakin-wins.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> ||{{flag|Russia}}
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| 5 || [[Shakhriyar Mamedyarov]] || 2013<ref name="2013rapid">{{cite web | url=http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/7140-shakhriyar-mamedyarov-became-the-world-rapid-chess-champion.html | title=Shakhriyar Mamedyarov became the World Rapid Chess Champion | access-date=15 October 2015 | archive-date=1 January 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101093401/https://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/7140-shakhriyar-mamedyarov-became-the-world-rapid-chess-champion.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> ||{{flag|Azerbaijan}}
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| 6 || [[Magnus Carlsen]] || 2014<ref name="2014rapid">{{cite web | url=https://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/8083-magnus-carlsen-wins-fide-world-rapid-championship.html | title=Magnus Carlsen wins FIDE World Rapid Championship! | access-date=15 October 2015 | archive-date=8 October 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191008121428/https://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/8083-magnus-carlsen-wins-fide-world-rapid-championship.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> || {{NOR}}
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| 7 || [[Magnus Carlsen]] || 2015<ref name="2015rapid">{{cite web |url=https://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/9107-world-chess-rapid-and-blitz-championship-2015.html |title=Magnus Carlsen wins 2015 FIDE World Rapid Championship! |access-date=15 October 2015 |archive-date=1 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101093349/https://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/9107-world-chess-rapid-and-blitz-championship-2015.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> || {{NOR}}
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| 8 || [[Vasyl Ivanchuk]] || 2016<ref>{{cite web |url=http://en.chessbase.com/post/vassily-ivanchuk-is-new-world-champion-in-rapid-chess | title=Vassily Ivanchuk is new World Champion in Rapid Chess| date=28 December 2016}}</ref><ref name="2016rapid">{{cite web |url=http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/9975-fide-world-rapid-a-blitz-championships-winners-of-rapid.html |title=Double gold for Ukraine in FIDE World Rapid Championship |access-date=29 December 2016 |archive-date=1 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101093356/https://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/9975-fide-world-rapid-a-blitz-championships-winners-of-rapid.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> || {{UKR}}
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| 9 || [[Viswanathan Anand]] || 2017 || {{IND}}
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| 10 || [[Daniil Dubov]] || 2018<ref name="2018rapid"/> || {{RUS}}
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| 11 || [[Magnus Carlsen]] || 2019 || {{NOR}}
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| 12 || [[Nodirbek Abdusattorov]] || 2021 ||{{UZB}} 
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| 13 || [[Magnus Carlsen]] || 2022 || {{NOR}}
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| 14 || [[Magnus Carlsen]] || 2023 || {{NOR}}
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| 15 || [[Volodar Murzin]] || 2024 || {{flagicon image|FIDE flag icon.png}} [[FIDE]]<ref name="FIDE">Murzin, Nepomniachtchi, Bodnaruk and Gunina are Russians, but they competed under [[FIDE]] flag due to the organization's ban of the Russian and Belarusian flags as part of its response to the 2022 [[Russian invasion of Ukraine]].</ref>
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|+Women's World Rapid chess champions
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! # || Name || Year || Country
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| 1 || [[Susan Polgar|Zsuzsa Polgár]] || 1992<ref name="auto">{{cite web | url=https://chessdailynews.com/1992-womens-world-rapid-and-blitz-championship | title=1992 Women's World Rapid and Blitz Championship| date=23 June 2014}}</ref> || {{flag|Hungary}}
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| 2 || [[Antoaneta Stefanova]] || 2012<ref name="auto1">{{cite web|url=https://www.fide.com/index.php?option=com_fidecalendar&view=archiveview&aid=926 | title=FIDE Archive: Women's World Rapid and Blitz Championships 2012}}</ref> || {{flag|Bulgaria}}
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| 3 || [[Kateryna Lagno]] || 2014<ref name="women2014rapid">{{cite web |url=https://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/7917-kateryna-lagno-crowned-womens-world-rapid-champion.html |title=Kateryna Lagno crowned Women's World Rapid Champion |access-date=15 October 2015 |archive-date=23 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151023024101/http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/7917-kateryna-lagno-crowned-womens-world-rapid-champion.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> || {{flag|Ukraine}}
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| 4 || [[Anna Muzychuk]] || 2016<ref name="women2016rapid">{{cite web|url=http://chess-results.com/tnr255542.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=12&turdet=YES&flag=30&wi=984 | title=FIDE "Women" World Rapid Ch. 2016 Final Ranking after 12 Rounds  }}</ref><ref name="2016rapid"/> || {{UKR}}
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| 5 || [[Ju Wenjun]] || 2017 || {{CHN}}
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| 6 || [[Ju Wenjun]] || 2018<ref name="2018rapid">{{cite web |last1=ChessBase staff |url=https://en.chessbase.com/post/rapid-world-championship-2018-st-petersburg-live |title=FIDE World Rapid Champions: Dubov and Ju |publisher=ChessBase |access-date=28 December 2018 |date=28 December 2018}}</ref> || {{CHN}}
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| 7 || [[Koneru Humpy]] || 2019 || {{IND}}
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| 8 ||  [[Alexandra Kosteniuk]] || 2021 || {{flagicon image|CFR Russia chess simplified flag infobox.svg}} [[Chess Federation of Russia|CFR]]<ref name="CFR1">Kosteniuk is Russian, but competed under the [[Chess Federation of Russia]] flag, due to [[World Anti-Doping Agency|WADA]] sanctions against Russia.</ref>
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| 9 || [[Tan Zhongyi]] || 2022 || {{CHN}}
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| 10 || [[Anastasia Bodnaruk]] || 2023 || {{flagicon image|FIDE flag icon.png}} [[FIDE]]<ref name="FIDE"/>
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| 11 || [[Koneru Humpy]] || 2024 || {{IND}}
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|+World Blitz chess champions
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! # || Name || Year || Country
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| 1 || [[Bobby Fischer]] || 1970<ref name="1970blitz">{{cite web | url=https://worldchess.com/2016/12/25/a-brief-history-of-fast-chess/ | title=A Brief History of Fast Chess | access-date=21 February 2017 | archive-date=3 January 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170103172317/https://worldchess.com/2016/12/25/a-brief-history-of-fast-chess/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> || {{USA}}
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| 2 || [[Mikhail Tal]] || 1988<ref name="1988blitz">{{cite web | url=https://apnews.com/1ff9e812e7ddf3b78d47be70d0ec351e | title=World Champion Eliminated From Blitz Chess Tournament}}</ref> || {{USSR}}
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| 3 || [[Viswanathan Anand]] || 2000<ref name="Vishy2000" /> || {{IND}}
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| 4 || [[Alexander Grischuk]] || 2006<ref name="2006blitz">{{cite web|url=https://www.fide.com/index.php?option=com_fidecalendar&view=archiveview&aid=341 | title=FIDE Announcement of World Blitz Championship 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.ruschess.com/Archive/view.php?id=602 | title=FIDE World Blitz Championship}}</ref> || {{RUS}}
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| 5 || [[Vasyl Ivanchuk]] || 2007<ref name="2007blitz">{{cite web|url=https://www.fide.com/index.php?option=com_fidecalendar&view=archiveview&aid=456 | title=FIDE announcement of World Blitz Chess Championship 2007}}</ref>|| {{UKR}}
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| 6 || [[Leinier Domínguez]] || 2008<ref name="2008blitz">{{cite web | url=https://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/3493-dominquez-wins-world-blitz-championship.html | title=Dominquez wins World Blitz Championship! | access-date=15 October 2015 | archive-date=3 August 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803121740/https://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/3493-dominquez-wins-world-blitz-championship.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> || {{CUB}}
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| 7 || [[Magnus Carlsen]] || 2009<ref name="2009blitz">{{cite web | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-nov-29-la-ca-chess29-2009nov29-story.html | title=Magnus Carlsen wins blitz championship| website=[[Los Angeles Times]]| date=29 November 2009}}</ref> || {{NOR}}
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| 8 || [[Levon Aronian]] || 2010<ref name="fide.com"/> || {{ARM}}
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| 9 || [[Alexander Grischuk]] || 2012<ref name="2012blitz">{{cite web|url=http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/6289-world-blitz-championship-2012-grischuk-wins.html|title=World Blitz Championship 2012, Grischuk wins|publisher=FIDE|date=2012-07-09|access-date=15 October 2015|archive-date=24 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924012809/http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/6289-world-blitz-championship-2012-grischuk-wins.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> || {{RUS}}
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| 10 || [[Lê Quang Liêm]] || 2013<ref name="2013blitz">{{cite web | url=http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/7145-le-quang-liem-is-the-world-blitz-chess-champion.html | title=Le Quang Liem is the World Blitz Chess Champion | access-date=15 October 2015 | archive-date=6 September 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190906171337/https://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/7145-le-quang-liem-is-the-world-blitz-chess-champion.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> || {{VIE}}
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| 11 || [[Magnus Carlsen]] || 2014<ref name="2014blitz">{{cite web | url=https://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/8086-magnus-won-the-world-blitz-championship-2014.html | title=Magnus won the World Blitz Championship 2014 | access-date=15 October 2015 | archive-date=3 August 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803122502/https://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/8086-magnus-won-the-world-blitz-championship-2014.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> || {{NOR}}
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| 12 || [[Alexander Grischuk]] || 2015<ref name="2015blitz">{{cite web |url=https://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/9116-grischuk-world-blitz-chess-championship-2015.html |title=Alexander Grischuk is a new World Blitz Champion |access-date=15 October 2015 |archive-date=3 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803112350/https://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/9116-grischuk-world-blitz-chess-championship-2015.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> || {{RUS}}
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| 13 || [[Sergey Karjakin]] || 2016<ref name="2016blitz">{{cite web|url=http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/9975-the-winners-of-fide-world-rapid-a-blitz-championships.html|title=Karjakin wins FIDE World Blitz Championship, double gold for Anna Muzychuk|access-date=2 January 2017|archive-date=3 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803123702/https://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/9975-the-winners-of-fide-world-rapid-a-blitz-championships.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> || {{RUS}}
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| 14 || [[Magnus Carlsen]] || 2017 || {{NOR}}
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| 15 || [[Magnus Carlsen]] || 2018<ref name="2018blitz">{{cite news |last1=ChessBase staff |title=FIDE World Blitz Champions: Carlsen and Lagno |newspaper=Chess News |url=https://en.chessbase.com/post/blitz-world-championship-2018-st-petersburg-live |publisher=ChessBase |access-date=30 December 2018 |date=30 December 2018}}</ref> || {{NOR}}
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| 16 || [[Magnus Carlsen]] || 2019 || {{NOR}}
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| 17 || [[Maxime Vachier-Lagrave]]  || 2021 || {{FRA}}
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| 18 || [[Magnus Carlsen]] || 2022 || {{NOR}}
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| 19 || [[Magnus Carlsen]] || 2023 || {{NOR}}
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| 20 || [[Magnus Carlsen]]<br>[[Ian Nepomniachtchi]] || 2024 || {{NOR}}<br>{{flagicon image|FIDE flag icon.png}} [[FIDE]]<ref name="FIDE"/>
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|+Women's World Blitz chess champions
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! # || Name || Year || Country
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| 1 || [[Susan Polgar|Zsuzsa Polgár]] || 1992<ref name="auto"/> || {{HUN}}
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| 2 || [[Kateryna Lagno]] || 2010<ref name="women2010blitz">{{cite web |url=http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/4783-gm-kateryna-lahno-wins-the-womens-world-blitz-championship-2010.html |title=GM Kateryna Lahno wins the Women's World Blitz Championship 2010 |publisher=Fide.com |date=2010-09-18 |access-date=2013-12-08 |archive-date=25 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925175833/https://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/4783-gm-kateryna-lahno-wins-the-womens-world-blitz-championship-2010.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> || {{UKR}}
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| 3 || [[Valentina Gunina]] || 2012<ref name="auto1"/> || {{RUS}}
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| 4 || [[Anna Muzychuk]] || 2014<ref name="women2014blitz">{{cite web | url=https://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/7932-anna-muzychuk-is-womens-world-blitz-champion.html | title=Anna Muzychuk is Women's World Blitz Champion | access-date=15 October 2015 | archive-date=3 August 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803124504/https://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/7932-anna-muzychuk-is-womens-world-blitz-champion.html | url-status=dead }}</ref>|| {{SLO}}
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| 5 || [[Anna Muzychuk]] || 2016<ref name="2016blitz"/> || {{UKR}}
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| 6 || [[Nana Dzagnidze]] || 2017 || {{GEO}}
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| 7 || [[Kateryna Lagno]] || 2018<ref name="2018blitz"/> || {{RUS}}
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| 8 || [[Kateryna Lagno]] || 2019 || {{RUS}}
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| 9 || [[Bibisara Assaubayeva]] || 2021 || {{KAZ}}
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| 10 || [[Bibisara Assaubayeva]] || 2022 || {{KAZ}}
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| 11 || [[Valentina Gunina]] || 2023 || {{flagicon image|FIDE flag icon.png}} [[FIDE]]<ref name="FIDE"/>
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| 12 || [[Ju Wenjun]] || 2024 || {{CHN}}
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