Prediction: Magnus, Hikaru, and Alireza are going to make it into the semifinals.
2025 Speed Chess Championship: Official Discussion Thread
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Rebaz-H wrote:
hi, how is it possible the ratings here above 3000 while the highest rating in history is "i think" 2800 sth , please? someone explain
These are online ratings and a different math formula than real life over the real board ratings. These are chess.com ratings and the 2882 that Magnus achieved in real classical tournaments is fide, that's the international chess federation.
1st The Magster. Again...... with his weird mustache.
2nd Alireza Firouzja
3rd Denis Lazavik
4th Hikaru Nakamura
Wow
Feb 9, 2026
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Magnus won with very excellent play. In my opinion I thought Hikaru was going to win against Alirezja. The real shocker was Hikaru losing to Dennis. Great instructive games though I very much enjoyed it 
Feb 9, 2026
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Feb 10, 2026
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#335
the definition of insanity is always doing the same thing and expecting different results. congrats Magnus!
Feb 21, 2026
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I bought a platinum ticket and attended the London speed chess championship on the Sunday. We had photos taken with the players but this was never sent to me. Do we know how we go about receiveing these? At the time they said they would email us on the email address used to buy the ticket.
Thanks Neil
Feb 21, 2026
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Neil_H wrote:
I bought a platinum ticket and attended the London speed chess championship on the Sunday. We had photos taken with the players but this was never sent to me. Do we know how we go about receiveing these? At the time they said they would email us on the email address used to buy the ticket.
Thanks Neil
Hi Neil, thank you for your comment! Please reach out at community@chess.com so our team can connect with you further on the matter. :)
Alireza he deserves to win a first scc champoin so go alireza!