viswanathan anand won the women's world rapid chess championship in riyadh in 2017.
viswanathan anand won the women's world rapid chess championship in riyadh in 2017.
who won the women's world rapid chess championship in riyadh in 2017?
viswanathan anand
the world rapid chess championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under rapid time controls. prior to 2012, the fide gave such recognition to a limited number of tournaments, with non-fide recognized tournaments annually naming a world rapid champion of their own. since 2012, fide has held an annual joint rapid and blitz chess tournament and billed it as the word rapid & blitz chess championships. fide also holds the women's word rapid & blitz chess championship. the 2018 world rapid champion is the russian grandmaster daniil dubov. ju wenjun from china is the 2018 women's world rapid champion.
world rapid chess championship
bullet::::- 2002 eurotel (combined rapid plus classical), prague 1st









































bullet::::- 2003 fide world rapid chess championship, beat kramnik 1.5-0.5









































bullet::::- 2007 frankfurt mainz world rapid chess championship, mainz 1st









































bullet::::- 2008 frankfurt/mainz world rapid chess championship, mainz 1st









































bullet::::- 2011 botvinnik memorial, moscow, 1st









































bullet::::- 2011 corsica masters knockout (rapid), corsica 1st









































bullet::::- 2014 world rapid chess championship (rapid), dubai 3rd









































bullet::::- 2016 st. louis champions tournament, st. louis 1st









































bullet::::- 2017 world rapid chess championship, riyadh 1st









































bullet::::- 2017 world blitz chess championship, riyadh 3rd









































bullet::::- 2018 11th tal memorial rapid, moscow 1st
viswanathan anand