The Ecuadorian chess player Carla Heredia begins her participation in the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship today, Sunday, December 26 at 09:00.
The Ecuadorian chess player Carla Heredia will play the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship, which will be held from Sunday 26 to Thursday 30 December in Warsaw, Poland.
Heredia, who holds the title of Grand Master (WGM), announced her participation in the World Championship of Rapid and Blitz Chess (also known as lightning) on social networks.
✌️ Let’s go Ecuador ????????! I come from a country where we dream a lot, we work twice as hard and we leave our lives at every opportunity
↗️I will be playing two World Cups: rapid and blitz in Poland????. I take them with me, Ecuador ????????, to play in the BIG LEAGUES ????
????In this thread I will tell you everything pic.twitter.com/3VF1gHuFUH
– Carla Heredia (@HerediaCarla) December 24, 2021
These are the most prestigious tournaments of these sports science modalities. Unlike classical chess competitions, where the games take place with a time of 120 minutes for each player, the fast paced championship unfolds in 15 minutes plus 10 seconds added up for each play, and in that of lightning chess you compete with 3 minutes plus 2 seconds by movement.
‘Lady’s Gambit’, the Netflix series, through the Ecuadorian Carla Heredia, International Chess Grandmaster
The rapid chess World Cup will begin on December 26 and end on December 28, while the blitz chess will be held on December 29 and 30. Carla Heredia will participate in the female category of both championships.
Rules and schedule
Both championships are played under the Swiss competition system, which consists of matching players of a similar level on each day.
The Open World Rapid Championship will have 13 rounds, and the Blitz World Championship will have 21 rounds; the Women’s Rapid World Cup will have 11 rounds, and the Blitz World Cup will have 17 rounds. Competitors receive 1 point for each victory, 0.5 for each tie, and 0 points for each loss.
The player who obtains the most points at the end of the tournament will become the world champion in their respective category..
The Great Teacher Carla Heredia will make its debut at 09:00 (Ecuador time) in the first round of the World Rapid Championship.
Where the games can be seen
The games of the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship will be broadcast via the Chess.com and Chess 24 YouTube channels.
The Chess.com and Chess24 web pages will also show the live development of each of the games that will be played in the open and female category of the Rapid and Blitz World Cups.
The confrontations are known minutes before each round. According to the official results page of the Women’s Rapid World Cup, Carla Heredia will face in the first round the Bulgarian Grand Master (GM) Antoaneta Stefanova, who was world chess champion in 2004.
Carla Heredia is one of the 4 Latin Americans who will compete in these world chess championships. (D)
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