At the chess World Championship in Rapid and Blitz, which is hosted by Doha (Qatar), was fixed a sensational result. The author of this result was the member of the Georgian national team Levan Pantsulaia (2662), who won over the current world champion Magnus Carlsen (2906) in the second round of rapid.

In the first round, Pantsulaia played draw with Ian Nepomniachtchi (2822, Russia) and in the next rounds won over Dmitry Jakovenko (2699, Russia) and Evgeny Tomashevsky (2710, Russia) and played draw with Vladislav Artemiev.

After five rounds, Pantsulaia has 4 points and shares 4^th-9^th places with six chess players.

As for the other Georgian chess players, Baadur Jobava is in the 35^th place with 3.0 points, Kuparadze is 70^th with 2 points and Mikheil Mchedlishvili 86^th with 1.5 points.

Among Georgian women, Nino Batsiashvili (2417) and Lela Javakhishvili (2461) have the best result, who earned 2.5-2.5 points after 4 rounds and are in the 6^th and 9^th places. Nana Dzagnidze (2549) is in the 19^th place, Sopo Gvetadze (2326) is 24^th with 1.5 points, Maka Purtseladze (2359) is 29^th with 1 point and Meri Arabidze (2395) is 32th with 0.5 points.