2015 in chess

Events in chess during the year 2015:

Years in chess

2015 in sports

2015 tournaments

This is a list of significant 2015 chess tournaments:

TournamentDatesPlayersWinnerRunner-upThird
2015 Tata Steel Chess Tournament12–27 Jan14 Magnus Carlsen Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Anish Giri
2015 Grenke Chess Classic2–9 Feb8 Magnus Carlsen Arkadij Naiditsch Michael Adams
2015 Zurich Chess Challenge13–19 Feb6 Hikaru Nakamura Viswanathan Anand Vladimir Kramnik
FIDE Grand Prix 2014–15 Tbilisi14–28 Feb12 Evgeny Tomashevsky Dmitry Jakovenko Teimour Radjabov
Women's World Chess Championship 201516 Mar – 7 Apr64 Mariya Muzychuk Natalia Pogonina Dronavalli Harika
Pia Cramling
2015 Aeroflot Open27 Mar – 7 Apr68 Ian Nepomniachtchi Daniil Dubov Ivan Bukavshin
Shamkir Chess 201516–26 Apr10 Magnus Carlsen Viswanathan Anand Wesley So
FIDE Grand Prix 2014–15 Khanty-Mansiysk14–26 May12 Dmitry Jakovenko Hikaru Nakamura Fabiano Caruana
Norway Chess 201515–26 Jun10 Veselin Topalov Viswanathan Anand Hikaru Nakamura
2015 Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting27 Jun – 5 Jul8 Fabiano Caruana Wesley So Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu
2015 Biel Chess Festival20–30 Jul6 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave[1] Radosław Wojtaszek Michael Adams
2015 Sinquefield Cup22 Aug – 3 Sept10 Levon Aronian Magnus Carlsen Hikaru Nakamura
Chess World Cup 201510 Sep – 5 Oct128 Sergey Karjakin Peter Svidler Anish Giri
Pavel Eljanov
Millionaire Chess 20158–12 Oct Hikaru Nakamura Lê Quang Liêm Yu Yangyi
2015 World Rapid Chess Championship10–12 Oct158 Magnus Carlsen Ian Nepomniachtchi Teimour Radjabov
2015 World Blitz Chess Championship13–14 Oct188 Alexander Grischuk Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Vladimir Kramnik
2015 Bilbao Chess Masters Final25 Oct – 1 Nov4 Wesley So Anish Giri Viswanathan Anand
Ding Liren
2015 London Chess Classic4–13 Dec10 Magnus Carlsen Anish Giri Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
2015 Qatar Masters Open20–29 Dec132 Magnus Carlsen Yu Yangyi Vladimir Kramnik

Key dates

FIDE world rankings

The FIDE World Rankings in December was[2]

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

References
  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".
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