12/09/2024
Amazing event on the way to NYC!
🔥 Get ready for an EPIC SPECTACLE this Christmas! 🔥
The FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships come to New York! 🗽 ♟️
💥 The most intensive global chess events, the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships, are coming to the 🇺🇸 Big Apple in the last week of December for the first time in history!
⚔️ Featuring top players from across the globe, the event will provide five days of non-stop chess excitement and spectacular matchups.
🗣️ "It has been a long dream of FIDE to have such a chess spectacle in New York. Not only will this championship be an absolutely top-notch sports event, but also a great festival of mind, art, brilliance, and a celebration of the magnificent beauty of chess," said Emil Sutovsky, CEO of FIDE.
🗣️ "Chess is an integral part of the culture of our company, and we are excited to support this event being held in New York, where we have been successfully listed for five years on the Nasdaq stock exchange... That is why we are happy to support FIDE's decision to hold the event here—where speed chess will meet in one of the most fast-paced cities in the world," stated Timur Turlov, CEO of Freedom Holding Corp.
