World Blitz Cup 2025

Gomokuworld's Online World Blitz Cup (WBC) is a championship in one-minute gomoku and open to everyone. One-minute gomoku means swap2 gomoku games with the time control 1 minute per player and game and is a highly involving kind of sport enjoyed by many gomoku players. To excel in it, one has to possess a whole bunch of various skills and abilities – the ability to think very fast and accurately, intuition, time management, emotion control, a lot of learned gomoku shapes, and fine motor skills. It is a highly intellectually demanding activity that causes strong adrenaline rushes.  

This time, once again, the individual edition of World Blitz Cup is organized. The tournament will determine who is currently the best on the planet at one-minute gomoku, as well as help popularise gomoku in general and let many people fulfil their competitive instinct and experience strong emotions to spice up their lives. All further details are explained in the rules below.

In the previous edition of the WBC, 68 players from 17 countries competed. The championship was won by Zoltán László from Hungary, followed by Gergő Tóth from Hungary and Michał Zajk from Poland.

Summary of the most essential rules (i.e., those that every participant must know): 

    English: file WBC2025-ENG-SHORT.PDF below

    Polish: file WBC2025-POL-SHORT.PDF below

    Hungarian: file WBC2025-HUN-SHORT.PDF below

    Czech: file WBC2025-CZE-SHORT.PDF below

    Russian: file WBC2025-RUS-SHORT.PDF below

    Vietnamese: file WBC2025-VNM-SHORT.PDF below
    Chinese: file WBC2025-CHN-SHORT.PDF below

Full version of the rules: file WBC-2025-ENG.PDF below