World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships will be held in Astana

World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships will be held on July 6-10, 2012 in Astana, Kazakhstan. Armchess.am informs about this.

16 grandmasters will take part in each of the tournaments.

Among the participants are Carlsen, Gelfand, Topalov, Grischuk, Ivanchuk, Svidler, Radjabov, Morozevich.