World Blitz Chess Championship

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The World Blitz Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under blitz time controls. Since 2012, FIDE has held an annual joint rapid and blitz chess tournament and billed it as the World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championships. The current world blitz champion is the Norwegian Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen. Grandmaster Bibisara Assaubayeva from Kazakhstan is the current women's blitz world champion. Magnus Carlsen has held the title a record nine times.

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