2015 in chess

Events in chess during the year 2015:

2015 tournaments

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 Magnus Carlsen Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Anish Giri 2015 Grenke Chess Classic 2–9 Feb 8 Magnus Carlsen Arkadij Naiditsch Michael Adams 2015 Zurich Chess Challenge 13–19 Feb 6 Hikaru Nakamura Viswanathan Anand Vladimir Kramnik FIDE Grand Prix 2014–15 Tbilisi 14–28 Feb 12 Evgeny Tomashevsky Dmitry Jakovenko Teimour Radjabov Women's World Chess Championship 2015 16 Mar – 7 Apr 64 Mariya Muzychuk Natalia Pogonina Dronavalli Harika Pia Cramling 2015 Aeroflot Open 27 Mar – 7 Apr 68 Ian Nepomniachtchi Daniil Dubov Ivan Bukavshin Shamkir Chess 2015 16–26 Apr 10 Magnus Carlsen Viswanathan Anand Wesley So FIDE Grand Prix 2014–15 Khanty-Mansiysk 14–26 May 12 Dmitry Jakovenko Hikaru Nakamura Fabiano Caruana Norway Chess 2015 15–26 Jun 10 Veselin Topalov Viswanathan Anand Hikaru Nakamura 2015 Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting 27 Jun – 5 Jul 8 Fabiano Caruana Wesley So Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu 2015 Biel Chess Festival 20–30 Jul 6 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Radosław Wojtaszek Michael Adams 2015 Sinquefield Cup 22 Aug – 3 Sept 10 Levon Aronian Magnus Carlsen Hikaru Nakamura Chess World Cup 2015 10 Sep – 5 Oct 128 Sergey Karjakin Peter Svidler Anish Giri Pavel Eljanov Millionaire Chess 2015 8–12 Oct Hikaru Nakamura Lê Quang Liêm Yu Yangyi 2015 World Rapid Chess Championship 10–12 Oct 158 Magnus Carlsen Ian Nepomniachtchi Teimour Radjabov 2015 World Blitz Chess Championship 13–14 Oct 188 Alexander Grischuk Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Vladimir Kramnik 2015 Bilbao Chess Masters Final 25 Oct – 1 Nov 4 Wesley So Anish Giri Viswanathan Anand Ding Liren 2015 London Chess Classic 4–13 Dec 10 Magnus Carlsen Anish Giri Maxime Vachier-Lagrave2015 Qatar Masters Open 20–29 Dec 132 Magnus Carlsen Yu Yangyi Vladimir Kramnik

Key dates 26 May: Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura clinch the top two positions in the FIDE Grand Prix 2014–15, securing their spots in the 2016 Candidates Tournament 5 October: Sergey Karjakin and Peter Svidler place first and second, respectively, in the Chess World Cup 2015, securing two spots in the 2016 Candidates Tournament 12 October: Magnus Carlsen defends the World Chess Rapid Championship title 14 October: Alexander Grischuck wins the World Chess Blitz Championship title

FIDE world rankings The FIDE World Rankings in December was

Rank Player Rating 1 Magnus Carlsen2834 2 Veselin Topalov2803 3–4 Viswanathan Anand2796 3–4 Vladimir Kramnik2796 5 Hikaru Nakamura2793 6 Levon Aronian2788 7 Fabiano Caruana2787 8 Anish Giri2784 9 Ding Liren2776 10 Wesley So2775 11 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave2773 12 Sergey Karjakin2766 13 Pavel Eljanov2763 14 Peter Svidler2751 15 Li Chao2750 16 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov2748 17 Alexander Grischuk2747 18 Evgeny Tomashevsky2744 19 Pentala Harikrishna2743 20–21 Michael Adams2737 20–21 Dmitry Jakovenko2737

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