World Rapid Chess Championship

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World Rapid Chess Championship - annual chess tournament. This event is the 6959^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events. Article “World Rapid Chess Championship” in English Wikipedia has 72.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 67 references and 14 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 6959^th most popular in events.

In June 2025 the article “World Rapid Chess Championship” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “World Rapid Chess Championship”, its content was written by 77 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 190 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

World Rapid Chess Championship is on the 6959^th place in global ranking of events on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 1288 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1654 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1651 in December 2021
• Global: #4877 in December 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5527 in December 2021
• Global: #12338 in December 2021

There are 11 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) World Rapid Chess Championship		72.2054
2	German (de) Weltmeister im Schnellschach		42.4923
3	Lithuanian (lt) Pasaulio greitųjų šachmatų čempionatas		40.9953
4	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по рапиду		33.1976
5	French (fr) Championnat du monde d'échecs de parties rapides		32.5933
6	Arabic (ar) بطولة العالم للشطرنج السريع		25.9364
7	Hungarian (hu) Rapidsakk-világbajnokság		21.9695
8	Italian (it) Campionato del mondo di scacchi rapidi		21.8075
9	Persian (fa) قهرمانی شطرنج سریع جهان		18.8149
10	Norwegian (no) VM i hurtig- og lynsjakk		13.27

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) World Rapid Chess Championship		917 627
2	German (de) Weltmeister im Schnellschach		94 202
3	Norwegian (no) VM i hurtig- og lynsjakk		46 757
4	French (fr) Championnat du monde d'échecs de parties rapides		37 190
5	Italian (it) Campionato del mondo di scacchi rapidi		21 587
6	Arabic (ar) بطولة العالم للشطرنج السريع		13 218
7	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по рапиду		8 456
8	Persian (fa) قهرمانی شطرنج سریع جهان		533
9	Lithuanian (lt) Pasaulio greitųjų šachmatų čempionatas		372
10	Turkish (tr) Dünya Hızlı Satranç Şampiyonası		358

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) World Rapid Chess Championship		17 448
2	French (fr) Championnat du monde d'échecs de parties rapides		452
3	German (de) Weltmeister im Schnellschach		321
4	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по рапиду		309
5	Arabic (ar) بطولة العالم للشطرنج السريع		187
6	Italian (it) Campionato del mondo di scacchi rapidi		167
7	Turkish (tr) Dünya Hızlı Satranç Şampiyonası		73
8	Norwegian (no) VM i hurtig- og lynsjakk		57
9	Persian (fa) قهرمانی شطرنج سریع جهان		34
10	Lithuanian (lt) Pasaulio greitųjų šachmatų čempionatas		31

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) World Rapid Chess Championship		77
2	German (de) Weltmeister im Schnellschach		53
3	Norwegian (no) VM i hurtig- og lynsjakk		15
4	Italian (it) Campionato del mondo di scacchi rapidi		13
5	French (fr) Championnat du monde d'échecs de parties rapides		12
6	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по рапиду		7
7	Hungarian (hu) Rapidsakk-világbajnokság		5
8	Arabic (ar) بطولة العالم للشطرنج السريع		2
9	Persian (fa) قهرمانی شطرنج سریع جهان		2
10	Lithuanian (lt) Pasaulio greitųjų šachmatų čempionatas		2

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) World Rapid Chess Championship		1
2	Arabic (ar) بطولة العالم للشطرنج السريع		0
3	German (de) Weltmeister im Schnellschach		0
4	Persian (fa) قهرمانی شطرنج سریع جهان		0
5	French (fr) Championnat du monde d'échecs de parties rapides		0
6	Hungarian (hu) Rapidsakk-világbajnokság		0
7	Italian (it) Campionato del mondo di scacchi rapidi		0
8	Lithuanian (lt) Pasaulio greitųjų šachmatų čempionatas		0
9	Norwegian (no) VM i hurtig- og lynsjakk		0
10	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по рапиду		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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