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18-06-2025
- Sport
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Anish Giri hilariously trolls Ian Nepomniachtchi after controversy at World Blitz Team Championship: 'The good thing with Ian is'
The 2025 FIDE World Blitz Team Championship ended with WR Chess lifting the title, but not without controversy. Anish Giri has now trolled Ian Nepomniachtchi online after confronting him at the venue during the event. read more The 2025 edition of the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Team Championships recently wrapped up in London, where Team MGD1 won the rapid title and WR Chess ended up winning the blitz title. However, the tournament didn't end without its fair share of controversy that happened after the WR Chess team got a chance to replay their quarter-final match , which they had originally lost. The original loss came after WR players, including Alireza Firouzja, Ian Nepomniachtchi, and Hikaru Nakamura, arrived late to their games against Germany and Friends due to alleged confusion over round timings. Vincent Keymer's team handed a 4-2 defeat to WR Chess, following which the latter protested and got a re-match arranged. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD The match was replayed and WR Chess won 4.5-1.5 and 4-2. They then defeated Hexamind Chess Team in the semi-finals and KazChess in the final to win the FIDE World Blitz Team Championship 2025. However, Hexamind's Anish Giri wasn't happy with how things went and exchanged words with WR players, including Nakamura and Nepomniachtchi. Giri mocked by Nepo and Nakamura In a video shared by ChessBase India, Giri was seen confronting the WR players, repeatedly asking, 'Would you have replayed the match if you had won?' That triggered a heated exchange with Nepomniachtchi, who hit back by saying things like, 'Big expert in law, Anish. Since when? Next FIDE president. Anish seems so smart, but whenever he opens his mouth… it's already questionable.' Nakamura was heard saying, 'Why does he care so much?' Giri takes fresh jibe at Nepomniachtchi Meanwhile, American GM Hans Niemann joined in on X, joking: 'I think Anish and Nepo should settle things on the chess board. Happy to sponsor a match on Endgame!' Giri has now fired back at Nepomniachtchi with a fresh jibe referencing a previous World Blitz Championship where the Russian GM and five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen agreed to share the title after multiple draws. 'The good thing with Ian is, one doesn't even need to beat him. Just hang in there long enough and he will probably accept to share the title. What do you think, Ian?" The good thing with Ian is, one doesn't even need to beat him. Just hang in there long enough and he will probably accept to share the title.🙈 What do you think @lachesisq?😅 — Anish Giri (@anishgiri) June 16, 2025 STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD
Indian Express
16-06-2025
- Sport
- Indian Express
WR Chess claim FIDE World Blitz Team Championship title after controversial replay of lost quarter-final match
After controversially making it to the title round, WR Chess claimed their second title at the FIDE World Blitz Team Championship on Sunday after edging past KazChess in both matches with 4:2 scoreline. This is the team's second blitz crown since the competition began in 2023. Rating favourites Team WR Chess beat KazChess in a tight final, with Alireza Firouzja, Hikaru Nakamura and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave scoring crucial wins in the final match to secure the crown. There was some controversy in the way WR Chess had claimed the title. In the quarter-finals, WR Chess had been handed a 2-4 defeat by Germany and Friends in the first match. WR's top stars like Ian Nepomniachtchi, Nakamura and Firouzja lost their games. But WR then lodged an appeal claiming that they were not informed by the organisers of the exact time when the round was going to start. The team claimed that this made them reach the playing venue two minutes late for the blitz game. After this complaint, the match was replayed, with some reluctantance from Germany and Friends. WR Chess won the replayed match 4.5:1.5 and then claimed a 4:2 victory with colours reversed to enter the semi-finals. India-based Team MGD1 had claimed the FIDE World Rapid Team Championship title earlier in London after starting the event as the sixth seeds. MGD1 had racked up 10 wins from 12 rounds played over three days to be crowned champions following an intense battle for supremacy with Team Hexamind. From 53 teams that started the FIDE World Blitz Team Championship on Saturday, 16 made it to the knockout stage (where teams played a round of 16, quarterfinals, semifinals and the final). In each knockout pairing, teams played at least two blitz matches, where colours were reversed after the first game. If the score was level after two matches, additional games were played until a winner emerged. Third place in the FIDE World Blitz Team Championship went to the Hexamind Chess Club, who defeated the Uzbekistan team in both matches with 3.5:2.5. The winners of this year's rapid tournament, MGD1, defeated Freedom in the duel for fifth place. In the round of 16 stage, the WR Chess Team had claimed wins in both matches, as had Freedom and MGD1 Team. Meanwhile, Uzbekistan had one victory and one draw. (With inputs from FIDE)
