The 4th day of the World Rapid and Blitz Teams Championship was for the Blitz portion of the event. Unlike the Rapid (which was held as a swiss) the Blitz saw the teams assigned to 4 pools of 12, with a RR played to determine who qualified for the KO finals (top 4 going through from each pool).
The Street Chess Canberra teams ended up in an interesting pool, with 3 teams that had played in the Rapid competition, and 4 teams who finished at the top end of the Rapid. Their final result of 9th (out of 12th) was a very good result, in part due to beating teams they probably should have won against in the Rapid.
But the real highlight was probably in a match they lost, where they took 2 points of the winners of the Rapid, Dragon Chilling. Their opponents wheeled out Ding Liren on Bd 1, and they had 5 GM's on the top 5 boards. Street Chess were outrated by 600 points on most if the boards, only losing 4-2 was a fantastic result. Wins for Matt Radisich and CM Ryan Lane delivered a result that was one of the big surprises on the tournament.
Lane,Ryan (1956) - Ju,Wenjun (2458) [B33]
FIDE WRBTC 2026, Hong Kong,(6.4), 20.06.2026
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