#Rapid

The inaugural memorial event for Daniel Naroditsky — held at Charlotte Chess Center, the institution he most closely identified with as a teacher and streamer.

Morocco's invitational rapid event with a historical-position twist — each game starts from a famous position from chess history rather than the standard opening setup.

Chess.com's flagship annual online tour — multiple legs of rapid and blitz tournaments across the year, culminating in a Tour Finals.

FIDE's annual end-of-year championship at rapid time control — 15-round Swiss, 200+ players, the strongest annual non-classical event in chess.

A new annual FIDE event combining a team rapid championship with a parallel team blitz, hosted in 2026 in Hong Kong as the inaugural edition.

The franchise-based team league — six city-named teams of six players each, played as a double round-robin of rapid matches with a playoff final.

The traditional Sinquefield Cup warm-up — combined rapid and blitz Grand Chess Tour leg held the week before the Sinquefield Cup.

Warsaw's opening leg of the 2026 Grand Chess Tour — nine rounds of rapid plus 18 of blitz, with Hans Niemann winning the combined event in his first GCT season.

Zagreb's annual Grand Chess Tour leg — the rapid-and-blitz combined event that has become the GCT's most-watched stop.

Kolkata's annual super-tournament — rapid and blitz over six days, hosted by the West Bengal Chess Association under the Tata Steel banner.

Kolkata's rapid-and-blitz festival — the second leg of the Tata Steel chess year, and India's chess capital for one weekend in November.