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October 13, 2015
Magnus Carlsen of Norway is the 2015 World Rapid Chess Champion
Photo: Magnus Carlsen is seen at the 2015 World Chess Rapid and Blitz Championship in Berlin on October 12, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Sebastian Reuter/Getty Images for World Chess by Agon Limited. © 2015 Getty Images).
Photo: Russian Grandmaster Vladimir Kramnik is seen at the 2015 World Chess Rapid and Blitz Championship in Berlin on October 12, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Sebastian Reuter/Getty Images for World Chess by Agon Limited. © 2015 Getty Images).
Photo: A player is seen at the 2015 World Chess Rapid and Blitz Championship in Berlin on October 12, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. Image provided by & © World Chess by Agon Limited.
Photo: Russian Grandmaster, Sergey Karjakin, is seen at the 2015 World Chess Rapid and Blitz Championship in Berlin on October 12, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. Image provided by & © World Chess by Agon Limited.
Photo: Former World Champion, Viswanathan Anand of India, is seen at the 2015 World Chess Rapid and Blitz Championship in Berlin on October 12, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. Image provided by & © World Chess by Agon Limited.
BERLIN, GERMANY — October 12, 2015 — Magnus Carlsen reasserted his dominance over the chess world today by winning the World Rapid Chess Championship here in Berlin.
The championship was organized by the World Chess Federation (FIDE) and Agon Limited, its commercial partner.
Each day, hundreds of spectators crowded into the playing hall to watch the games, and hundreds of thousands of people watched live video and streaming of the games.
The tournament had 15 rounds over three days and included nearly 160 grandmasters from 47 countries. Carlsen, a Norwegian, who is the reigning champion at regulation time controls, won the rapid championship last year as well. He thus became the first player to ever win back-to-back rapid championships.
Three players finished one point behind Carlsen: Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia, Leinier Dominguez Perez of Cuba and Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan.
Two pre-tournament favorites, Viswanathan Anand of India, a former rapid champion, and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France, had difficult starts, scoring just 2.5 points out of 5 in the first day. Mr. Anand, who is widely known as Vishy, lost to Daniil Dubov and Pavel Pankratov of Russia in the final 2 rounds of the day.
Following is the List of Players who competed in the World Chess Rapid Championship 2015:
- A.R. Saleh Salem — UAE
- Adhiban Baskaran — India
- Aleksandr Moiseenko — Ukraine
- Alexander Grischuk — Russia
- Alexander Huzman — Israel
- Alexander Morozevich — Russia
- Alexander Motylev — Russia
- Alexander Naumann — Germany
- Alexander Onischuk — USA
- Alexander Riazantsev — Russia
- Alexander Shabalov — USA
- Alexey Dreev — Russia
- Allan Stig Rasmussen — Denmark
- Anand, Viswanathan — India
- Andrei Shchekachev — France
- Andrei Volokitin — Ukraine
- Andrey Gutov — Russia
- Andrey Sumets — Ukraine
- Anton Korobov — Ukraine
- Aryan Tari — Norway
- Axel Bachmann — Paraguay
- Bartel Mateusz — Poland
- Benjamin Bok — Netherlands
- Bocharov Dmitry — Russia
- Boris Gelfand — Israel
- Boris Savchenko — Russia
- Brüdigam, Martin — Germany
- Christian Seel — Germany
- Daniel Hausrath — Germany
- Daniil Dubov — Russia
- Danilo Milanovic — Serbia
- Dariusz Świercz — Poland
- David Anton Guijarro — Spain
- David Navara — Czech Republic
- Demuth Adrien — France
- Denis Khismatullin — Russia
- Dennes Abel — Germany
- Dennis Wagner — Germany
- Dmitry Andreikin — Russia
- Duda Jan-Krzysztof — Poland
- Eduardo Iturrizaga Bonelli — Venezuela
- Ehsan Ghaem Maghami — Iran
- Eltaj Safarli — Azerbaijan
- Elvira Berend — Luxembourg
- Eric Hansen — Canada
- Ernesto Inarkiev — Russia
- Ernst Sipke — Netherlands
- Esteban Valderrama — Colombia
- Etienne Bacrot — France
- Evgenij Agrest — Sweden
- Evgeny Alekseev — Russia
- Evgeny Romanov — Russia
- Evgeny Tomashevsky — Russia
- Falko Bindrich — Germany
- Filiz Osmanodja — Germany
- Florian Handke — Germany
- Francisco Vallejo Pons — Spain
- Gadir Guseinov — Azerbaijan
- Gawain Cristopher B. Jones — England
- Georg Meier — Germany
- Giovanni Antonio Thornton — New Zealand
- Goran Cabrilo — Serbia
- Grzegorz Gajewski — Poland
- Hagen Poetsch — Germany
- Hannes Stefansson — Iceland
- Helgi Olafsson — Iceland
- Hilverda, Alexander — Germany
- Hirneise, Tobias — Germany
- Ian Nepomniachtchi — Russia
- Ido Ben Artzi — Israel
- Igor Kovalenko — Latvia
- Ildar Khairullin — Russia
- Ilja Schneider — Germany
- Ivan Ivanisevic — Serbia
- Jaan Ehlvest — USA
- Jacob Carstensen — Denmark
- Johann Hjartarson — Iceland
- Johannes Carow — Germany
- Jonathan Carlstedt — Germany
- José Camacho Collados — South Korea
- Jose Fernando Cuenca Jimenez — Spain
- Jure Borisek — Slovenia
- Kacper Piorun — Poland
- Kateryna Lagno — Russia
- Lars Thiede — Germany
- Lazaro Bruzon Batista — Cuba
- Leinier Dominguez — Cuba
- Leonardo Valdes Romero — Costa Rica
- Levon Aronian — Armenia
- Loek van Wely — The Netherlands
- Lorena Marisela Zepeda Wan Wely — El Salvador
- Magnus Carlsen — Norway
- Marco Aurelio Zaror Cordeiro — Brazil
- Margeir Petrusson — Iceland
- Markus Ragger — Austria
- Martyn Kravtsiv — Ukraine
- Matthias Bluebaum — Germany
- Maxim Dlugy — USA
- Maxim Matlakov — Russia
- Mazé Sebastien — France
- Mher Hovhannissyan — Belgium
- Michael Bezold — Germany
- Michael Richter — Germany
- Michele Godena — Italy
- Miguel Munoz Pantoja — Spain
- Mikhail Antipov — Russia
- Mikhail Demidov — Russia
- Milos Pavlovic — Serbia
- Milos Perunovic — Serbia
- Mohammed Al-Sayed — Qatar
- Namig Guliyev — Azerbaijan
- Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son — Vietnam
- Nikita Vitiugov — Russia
- Ottomar Ladva — Estonia
- Pavel Eljanov — Ukraine
- Pavel Ponkratov — Russia
- Peter Leko — Hungary
- Petr Svidler — Russia
- Polzin, Rainer — Germany
- Predrag Nikolic — Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Radoslaw Wojtaszek — Poland
- Ramil Hasangatin — Russia
- Rasmus Svane — Germany
- Rauf Mamedov — Azerbaijan
- Rene Stern — Germany
- Rinat Jumabayev — Kazakhstan
- Robert Rabiega — Germany
- Ruslan Ponomariov — Ukraine
- Rustam Kasimdzhanov — Uzbekistan
- Sasikiran Krishnan — India
- Sergey Grigoriants — Russia
- Sergey Karjakin — Russia
- Sergey Rublevsky — Russia
- Sethuraman P. Sethuraman — India
- Shakhriyar Mamedyarov — Azerbaijan
- Simen Agdestein — Norway
- Socko Bartosz — Poland
- Stanislav Bogdanovych — Ukraine
- Surya Sekhar Ganguly — India
- Teimour Radjabov — Azerbaijan
- Tigran Petrosyan — Armenia
- Tomas Krnan — Canada
- Vadim Zvjaginsev — Russia
- Vahap Sanal — Turkey
- Vasily Papin — Russia
- Vasyl Ivanchuk — Ukraine
- Victor Bologan — Moldova
- Victor Mikhalevski — Israel
- Vidit Santosh Gujrathi — India
- Vitaly Kunin — Germany
- Vladimir Akopian — Armenia
- Vladimir Belov — Russia
- Vladimir Dobrov — Russia
- Vladimir Fedoseev — Russia
- Vladimir Kramnik — Russia
- Vladimir Malakhov — Russia
- Vladimir Onischuk — Ukraine
- Vladislav Kovalev — Belarus
- Wojciech Przybylski — Poland
- Yasser Seirawan — USA
- Yuri Vovk — Ukraine
- Yuriy Kryvoruchko — Ukraine
- Zaur Mammadov — Azerbaijan
- Zhigalko Sergei — Belarus
- Zhong Zhang — Singapore
- Zoltan Almasi — Hungary
World Blitz Chess Championships
The 21-round World Blitz Chess Championships will be held Tuesday and Wednesday (October 13 & 14). Carlsen is the defending champion in that discipline as well. When reports last came in, French Grandmaster, Vachier-Lagrave Maxime, was leading with 9.5 points after Round 11.
UPDATE
Alexander Grischuk of Russia is the 2015 World Blitz Champion.
October 14, 2015 — Today the 5-day World Chess Rapid and Blitz Championships concluded in Berlin, with Russian grandmaster Alexander Grischuk claiming the World Blitz Champion’s title.
The winner scored 15.5 points in the 21-round tournament.
Alexander Grischuk becomes the first three-time Blitz World Champion. He previously won the titles in 2006 and 2012.
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