<P> The World Rapid Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under rapid time controls . Prior to 2012 , the FIDE gave such recognition to a limited number of tournaments , with non-FIDE recognized tournaments annually naming a world rapid champion of their own . Since 2012 , FIDE has held an annual joint rapid and blitz chess tournament and billed it as the Word Rapid & Blitz Chess Championships . The current world rapid champion is Indian grandmaster Vishwanathan Anand , who won the title on 28 December 2017 . </P>
<P> The World Rapid Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under rapid time controls . Prior to 2012 , the FIDE gave such recognition to a limited number of tournaments , with non-FIDE recognized tournaments annually naming a world rapid champion of their own . Since 2012 , FIDE has held an annual joint rapid and blitz chess tournament and billed it as the Word Rapid & Blitz Chess Championships . The current world rapid champion is Indian grandmaster Vishwanathan Anand , who won the title on 28 December 2017 . </P>
who won the world rapid chess championship in riyadh in 2017
who won the world rapid chess championship in riyadh in 2017
Indian grandmaster Vishwanathan Anand
Indian grandmaster Vishwanathan Anand