FIDE Grand Prix 2014-2015

The FIDE Grand Prix 2014-2015 was a series of chess tournaments with the participation of the world's best that took place from October 2014 to May 2015. The first two winners ( Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura ) qualified for the candidates' tournament for the 2016 World Chess Championship .

mode

The Grand Prix consisted of four tournaments with 12 players each. 16 top players from the world took part, each playing in three tournaments. The winner of each tournament received 170 points, the second 140 and the third 110. For 4th to 12th place there were 90, 80, ... to 10 points. Only the board points counted for the placement in each tournament; there was no fine evaluation . If players shared the placement, the total points were split.

The tournaments took place in Baku , Tashkent , Tbilisi and Khanty-Mansiysk . Tehran was originally planned for the third tournament , which met with criticism. As expressed Fabiano Caruana that he would not play in Tehran because it was not safe in Iran for US citizens. In mid-October 2014, FIDE changed the venue. The fourth tournament was originally supposed to take place in Moscow .

qualification

After the pre-qualified players Magnus Carlsen , Viswanathan Anand , Levon Aronjan , Wladimir Kramnik and Wesselin Topalow had not exercised their starting authorization, the following list of participants emerged:

Eight players based on the FIDE scoring list : Fabiano Caruana , Leinier Domínguez , Boris Gelfand , Alexander Grishchuk , Sergei Karjakin , Şəhriyar Məmmədyarov , Hikaru Nakamura , Peter Swidler
Three players based on their performance in the 2013 World Cup : Dmitri Andreikin , Evgeni Tomaschewski , Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Four nominees from the marketing company AGON: Baadur Dschobawa , Dmitri Jakowenko , Rustam Kasimjanov , Teymur Rəcəbov . The originally nominated Iranian Ehsan Ghaem Maghami lost his starting place to the Georgian Dschobawa when the host city Tehran was replaced by Tbilisi.
A player nominated by the FIDE President: Anish Giri

Results

Tournaments

Azerbaijan Baku October 1-15, 2014	1st – 2nd Caruana, Gelfand 6½ p .; 3rd-7th Grishchuk, Karjakin, Nakamura, Swidler, Tomaschewski 6 P .; 8. Rəcəbov 5½ p .; 9-10 Kasimjanov, Məmmədyarov 5 P .; 11. Andreikin 4½ p .; 12. Domínguez 3 p.
Uzbekistan Tashkent Oct 20 - Nov 3, 2014	1. Andreikin 7 p .; 2-3 Məmmədyarov, Nakamura 6½ p .; 4th-7th Caruana, Jobawa, Karjakin, Vachier-Lagrave 6 P .; 8. Rəcəbov 5½ p .; 9. Giri 5 p .; 10. Jakowenko 4½ p .; 11-12 Gelfand, Kasimjanov 3½ P.
Georgia Tbilisi Feb. 14-28, 2015	1. Tomaschewski 8 p .; 2. Jakowenko 6½ p .; 3. Rəcəbov 6 p .; 4th-7th Məmmədyarov, Kasimjanov, Giri, Domínguez 5½ p .; 8-10 Grishchuk, Jobawa, Vachier-Lagrave 5 P .; 11. Swidler 4½ p .; 12. Andreikin 4 p.
Russia Khanty-Mansiysk May 13-27, 2015	1st - 3rd Caruana, Nakamura, Jakowenko 6½ p .; 4th to 5th Gelfand, Domínguez 6 P .; 6-9 Karjakin, Grishchuk, Giri, Swidler 5½ p .; 10. Tomaschewski 5 p .; 11. Jobava 4 p .; 12. Vachier-Lagrave 3½ p.

Overall result

This resulted in the following distribution of points:

player	Elo rating *	Baku	Tashkent	Tbilisi	Khanty-Mansiysk	total
Italy Fabiano Caruana	2801	155	75	-	140	370
United States Hikaru Nakamura	2782	82	125	-	140	347
Russia Dmitri Yakovenko	2747	-	30th	140	140	310
Russia Yevgeny Tomaschewski	2701	82	-	170	30th	282
Israel Boris Gelfand	2748	155	15th	-	85	255
Azerbaijan Şəhriyar Məmmədyarov	2756	35	125	75	-	235
Russia Sergei Karjakin	2777	82	75	-	55	212
Azerbaijan Teymur Rəcəbov	2717	50	50	110	-	210
Russia Dmitri Andreikin	2722	20th	170	10	-	200
Russia Alexander Grishchuk	2789	82	-	40	55	177
Cuba Leinier Domínguez	2756	10	-	75	85	170
Netherlands Anish Giri	2758	-	40	75	55	170
Russia Peter Swidler	2732	82	-	20th	55	157
Georgia Baadur Jobava	2717	-	75	40	20th	135
Uzbekistan Rustam Kasimjanov	2706	35	15th	75	-	125
France Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	2768	-	75	40	10	125