2015 tournaments
This is a list of significant 2015 chess tournaments:
Events in chess during the year 2015:
This is a list of significant 2015 chess tournaments:
The FIDE World Rankings in December was [2]
| Rank | Player | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Magnus Carlsen | 2834 |
| 2 |  Veselin Topalov | 2803 |
| 3–4 |  Viswanathan Anand | 2796 |
| 3–4 |  Vladimir Kramnik | 2796 |
| 5 |  Hikaru Nakamura | 2793 |
| 6 |  Levon Aronian | 2788 |
| 7 | Fabiano Caruana | 2787 |
| 8 |  Anish Giri | 2784 |
| 9 |  Ding Liren | 2776 |
| 10 | Wesley So | 2775 |
| 11 |  Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 2773 |
| 12 | Sergey Karjakin | 2766 |
| 13 |  Pavel Eljanov | 2763 |
| 14 | Peter Svidler | 2751 |
| 15 | Li Chao | 2750 |
| 16 |  Shakhriyar Mamedyarov | 2748 |
| 17 | Alexander Grischuk | 2747 |
| 18 | Evgeny Tomashevsky | 2744 |
| 19 | Pentala Harikrishna | 2743 |
| 20–21 |  Michael Adams | 2737 |
| 20–21 | Dmitry Jakovenko | 2737 |
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