2015 in chess

none 2015 chess sports July 2022 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 NOR Magnus Carlsen FRA Maxime Vachier-Lagrave NED Anish Giri 2015 Grenke Chess Classic 2–9 Feb 8 NOR Magnus Carlsen GER Arkadij Naiditsch ENG Michael Adams 2015 Zurich Chess Challenge 13–19 Feb 6 USA Hikaru Nakamura IND Viswanathan Anand RUS Vladimir Kramnik FIDE Grand Prix 2014–15 Tbilisi 14–28 Feb 12 RUS Evgeny Tomashevsky RUS Dmitry Jakovenko AZE Teimour Radjabov Women's World Chess Championship 2015 16 Mar – 7 Apr 64 UKR Mariya Muzychuk RUS Natalia Pogonina IND Dronavalli Harika SWE Pia Cramling 2015 Aeroflot Open 27 Mar – 7 Apr 68 RUS Ian Nepomniachtchi RUS Daniil Dubov RUS Ivan Bukavshin Shamkir Chess 2015 16–26 Apr 10 NOR Magnus Carlsen IND Viswanathan Anand USA Wesley So FIDE Grand Prix 2014–15 Khanty-Mansiysk 14–26 May 12 RUS Dmitry Jakovenko USA Hikaru Nakamura ITA Fabiano Caruana Norway Chess 2015 15–26 Jun 10 BUL Veselin Topalov IND Viswanathan Anand USA Hikaru Nakamura 2015 Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting 27 Jun – 5 Jul 8 USA Fabiano Caruana USA Wesley So GER Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu 2015 Biel Chess Festival 20–30 Jul 6 FRA Maxime Vachier-Lagravehttp://www.bielchessfestival.ch/en/home/ Winners 2015 Biel International Chess Festival July 2015 Biel International Chess Festival 2 November 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20151025060204/http://www.bielchessfestival.ch/en/home 25 October 2015 dead dmy-all POL Radosław Wojtaszek ENG Michael Adams 2015 Sinquefield Cup 22 Aug – 3 Sept 10 ARM Levon Aronian NOR Magnus Carlsen USA Hikaru Nakamura Chess World Cup 2015 10 Sep – 5 Oct 128 RUS Sergey Karjakin RUS Peter Svidler NED Anish Giri UKR Pavel Eljanov Millionaire Chess 2015 8–12 Oct USA Hikaru Nakamura VIE Lê Quang Liêm CHN Yu Yangyi 2015 World Rapid Chess Championship 10–12 Oct 158 NOR Magnus Carlsen RUS Ian Nepomniachtchi AZE Teimour Radjabov 2015 World Blitz Chess Championship 13–14 Oct 188 RUS Alexander Grischuk FRA Maxime Vachier-Lagrave RUS Vladimir Kramnik 2015 Bilbao Chess Masters Final 25 Oct – 1 Nov 4 USA Wesley So NED Anish Giri IND Viswanathan Anand CHN Ding Liren 2015 London Chess Classic 4–13 Dec 10 NOR Magnus Carlsen NED Anish Giri FRA Maxime Vachier-Lagrave2015 Qatar Masters Open 20–29 Dec 132 NOR Magnus Carlsen CHN Yu Yangyi RUS 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 washttp://ratings.fide.com/top.phtml?list=men FIDE: Top 100 Players Rank Player Rating 1 NOR Magnus Carlsen2834 2 BUL Veselin Topalov2803 3–4 IND Viswanathan Anand2796 3–4 RUS Vladimir Kramnik2796 5 USA Hikaru Nakamura2793 6 ARM Levon Aronian2788 7 USA Fabiano Caruana2787 8 NED Anish Giri2784 9 CHN Ding Liren2776 10 USA Wesley So2775 11 FRA Maxime Vachier-Lagrave2773 12 RUS Sergey Karjakin2766 13 UKR Pavel Eljanov2763 14 RUS Peter Svidler2751 15 CHN Li Chao2750 16 AZE Shakhriyar Mamedyarov2748 17 RUS Alexander Grischuk2747 18 RUS Evgeny Tomashevsky2744 19 IND Pentala Harikrishna2743 20–21 ENG Michael Adams2737 20–21 RUS Dmitry Jakovenko2737 References Category:21st century in chess Category:Chess by year