World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship 2012 will take place in Astana, Kazakhstan between July 1-10, 2012

World Rapid Chess Championship Qualification rounds Rapid : July 2-3 Final Rapid: July 6-8 16 players Round-robin system Time control: 15 minutes + 10 seconds additional time per move, starting from move 1. Karjakin is World Rapid Champion. Final Standings 1- Karjakin, Sergey RUS 11.5 2- Carlsen, Magnus NOR 10.5 3- Topalov, Veselin BUL 9.5 4- Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar AZE 9.5 5- Grischuk, Alexander RUS 9.0 6- Gelfand, Boris ISR 8.0 7- Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR 9 8- Svidler, Peter RUS 7.5 9- Radjabov, Teimour AZE 7.5 10- Dreev, Aleksey RUS 7.0 11- Morozevich, Alexander RUS 6.5 12 - Bologan, Viktor MDA 6.0 13- Kurnosov, Igor RUS 6.0 14- Kazhgaleyev, Murtas KAZ 6.0 15- Tkachiev, Vladislav FRA 4.5 16- Ismagambetov, Anuar KAZ 3.5

World Blitz Chess Championship Qualification rounds Blitz : July 4 Final Blitz: July 9-10 16 players Double Round-robin system Time control: 3 minutes + 2 seconds additional time per move, starting from move 1. Grischuk is World Blitz Chess Champion. Final standings 1- Grischuk, Alexander RUS 20.0 2- Carlsen, Magnus NOR 19.5 3- Karjakin, Sergey RUS 18.5 4- Morozevich, Alexander RUS 17.5 5- Andreikin, Dmitry RUS 17.0 6- Radjabov, Teimour AZE 17.0 7- Le, Quang Liem VIE 16.5 8- Svidler, Peter RUS 15.0 9- Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR 15.0 10- Gelfand, Boris ISR 13.5 11- Chadaev, Nikolai RUS 2580 13.5 12- Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar AZE 13.0 13- Topalov, Veselin BUL 13.0 14- Jumabayev, Rinat KAZ 12.0 15- Bologan, Viktor MDA 11.0 16- Kotsur, Pavel KAZ 8.0

World Rapid Championship - Final standings of the semi-final 1- Kurnosov, Igor 6,5 Qualified to the final 2- Dreev, Alexey 6 Qualified to the final 3- Tkachiev, Vladislav 6 Qualified to the final 4- Andreikin, Dmitry 6 5- Moiseenko, Alexander 6 6- Le, Quang Liem 5,5 7- Kuderinov, Kirill 5,5 8- Gagunashvili, Merab 5 9- Chadaev, Nikolai 5 10- Filippov, Anton 5 11- Kotsur, Pavel 5 12- Aleksandrov, Aleksei 4,5 13- Luldachev, Saidali 4,5 14- Neverov, Valeriy 4,5 15- Jumabayev, Rinat 4,5 16- Rychagov, Andrey 4 17- Saduakassova, Dinara 4 18- Papin, Vasily 3,5 19- Akkozov, Berik 3,5 20- Mankeyev, Rauan 3,5 21- Khusnutdinov, Rustam 3 22- Igambergenov, Alibek 3 23- Akhmetov, Ayan 3 24- Minko, Vladimir 1

World Blitz Championship - Final standings of the semi-final 1- Androak Dmitry 16,5 Qualified to the final 2- Le, Quang Liem 14,5 Qualified to the final 3- Chadaev, Nikolai 14,0Qualified to the final 4- Sadvakasov, Darmen 13,5 5- Moiseenko, Alexander 13,0 6- Dreev, Alexey 13,0 7- Tkachiev, Vladislav 12,5 8- Gagunashvili, Merab 12,5 9- Kurnosov, Igor 12,0 10- Khusnutdinov, Rustam 12,0 11- Kazhgaleyev, Murtas 11, 12- Aleksandrov, Aleksei 11,5 13- Papin, Vasily 11,5 14- Egorov, Evgeny 11,5 15- Ismagambetov, Anuar 11,5 16- Kuderinov, Kirill 10,5 17- Filippov, Anton 10,5 18- Luldachev, Saidali 10,5 19- Igambergenov, Alibek 10,0 20- Rychagov, Andrey 10,0 21- Akhmetov, Ayan 9,5 22- Saduakassova, Dinara 9,5 23- Minko, Vladimir 9,0 24- Akkozov, Berik 9,0 25- Mankeyev, Rauan 8,5 26- Neverov, Valeriy 8,5 27- Alaguzov, Maxat 6,5 28- Alexander 5,0

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