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2015 in chess

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Events in chess during the year 2015:

2015 tournaments

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This is a list of significant 2015 chess tournaments:

Tournament Dates Players Winner Runner-up Third
2015 Tata Steel Chess Tournament 12–27 Jan 14 Norway Magnus Carlsen France Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Netherlands Anish Giri
2015 Grenke Chess Classic 2–9 Feb 8 Norway Magnus Carlsen Germany Arkadij Naiditsch England Michael Adams
2015 Zurich Chess Challenge 13–19 Feb 6 United States Hikaru Nakamura India Viswanathan Anand Russia Vladimir Kramnik
FIDE Grand Prix 2014–15 Tbilisi 14–28 Feb 12 Russia Evgeny Tomashevsky Russia Dmitry Jakovenko Azerbaijan Teimour Radjabov
Women's World Chess Championship 2015 16 Mar – 7 Apr 64 Ukraine Mariya Muzychuk Russia Natalia Pogonina India Dronavalli Harika
Sweden Pia Cramling
2015 Aeroflot Open 27 Mar – 7 Apr 68 Russia Ian Nepomniachtchi Russia Daniil Dubov Russia Ivan Bukavshin
Shamkir Chess 2015 16–26 Apr 10 Norway Magnus Carlsen India Viswanathan Anand United States Wesley So
FIDE Grand Prix 2014–15 Khanty-Mansiysk 14–26 May 12 Russia Dmitry Jakovenko United States Hikaru Nakamura Italy Fabiano Caruana
Norway Chess 2015 15–26 Jun 10 Bulgaria Veselin Topalov India Viswanathan Anand United States Hikaru Nakamura
2015 Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting 27 Jun – 5 Jul 8 United States Fabiano Caruana United States Wesley So Germany Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu
2015 Biel Chess Festival 20–30 Jul 6 France Maxime Vachier-Lagrave[1] Poland Radosław Wojtaszek England Michael Adams
2015 Sinquefield Cup 22 Aug – 3 Sept 10 Armenia Levon Aronian Norway Magnus Carlsen United States Hikaru Nakamura
Chess World Cup 2015 10 Sep – 5 Oct 128 Russia Sergey Karjakin Russia Peter Svidler Netherlands Anish Giri
Ukraine Pavel Eljanov
Millionaire Chess 2015 8–12 Oct United States Hikaru Nakamura Vietnam Lê Quang Liêm China Yu Yangyi
2015 World Rapid Chess Championship 10–12 Oct 158 Norway Magnus Carlsen Russia Ian Nepomniachtchi Azerbaijan Teimour Radjabov
2015 World Blitz Chess Championship 13–14 Oct 188 Russia Alexander Grischuk France Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Russia Vladimir Kramnik
2015 Bilbao Chess Masters Final 25 Oct – 1 Nov 4 United States Wesley So Netherlands Anish Giri India Viswanathan Anand
China Ding Liren
2015 London Chess Classic 4–13 Dec 10 Norway Magnus Carlsen Netherlands Anish Giri France Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
2015 Qatar Masters Open 20–29 Dec 132 Norway Magnus Carlsen China Yu Yangyi Russia Vladimir Kramnik

Key dates

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FIDE world rankings

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The FIDE World Rankings in December was[2]

Rank Player Rating
1 Norway Magnus Carlsen 2834
2 Bulgaria Veselin Topalov 2803
3–4 India Viswanathan Anand 2796
3–4 Russia Vladimir Kramnik 2796
5 United States Hikaru Nakamura 2793
6 Armenia Levon Aronian 2788
7 United States Fabiano Caruana 2787
8 Netherlands Anish Giri 2784
9 China Ding Liren 2776
10 United States Wesley So 2775
11 France Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 2773
12 Russia Sergey Karjakin 2766
13 Ukraine Pavel Eljanov 2763
14 Russia Peter Svidler 2751
15 China Li Chao 2750
16 Azerbaijan Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 2748
17 Russia Alexander Grischuk 2747
18 Russia Evgeny Tomashevsky 2744
19 India Pentala Harikrishna 2743
20–21 England Michael Adams 2737
20–21 Russia Dmitry Jakovenko 2737

References

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  1. ^ "Winners 2015 Biel International Chess Festival". Biel International Chess Festival. July 2015. Archived from the original on 25 October 2015. Retrieved 2 November 2015.
  2. ^ "FIDE: Top 100 Players".