Sunday, November 01, 2015

Major 2015 Tournaments

Carlsen won Wijk aan Zee.

Grand Prix:  Tomashevsky won Tbilisi.  Jakovenko, Nakamura and Caruana tied for 1st at Khanty-Mansiysk.  Taking into account all four GP tournaments, the two Candidates slots went to Caruana and Nakamura.

Nakamura won the US Championship.

Topalov won Norway Chess (Carlsen amazingly ended up at -2).

Yangyi Yu won the 50th Capablanca Memorial, 1.5 points ahead of Eljanov and Andreikin.

Caruana won Dortmund.

So won Bilbao on tiebreak over Giri.

Aronian won Sinquefield.