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The 2015 FIDE World Cup, held from 11 September - 5 October in Fairmont Hotel, Baku, Azerbaijan, featured 128 players in a series of knockout matches. The early rounds had two games each, plus tiebreak games if necessary. The final was a match of four games. The two finalists would qualify for the Candidates tournament next year. The prize fund was $1,600,000, with the winner taking home $120,000, minus 20% tax to FIDE. Players received 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 30 more minutes for the rest of the game, with 30 seconds added per move from move 1. The tiebreaks consisted of two 25 min + 10-sec increment Rapid games, then if necessary two 10+10 Rapid games, two 5+3 Blitz games, and an Armageddon game where White had 5 minutes to Black's 4, but a draw counted as a win for Black. Chief arbiter: Faig Gasanov. Deputy chief arbiter: Carlos Oliveira Dias. On way to the final, Sergey Karjakin eliminated Ermes Espinosa Veloz in Round 1, Alexander Onischuk in Round 2, Yu Yangyi in Round 3, Dmitry Andreikin in Round 4, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov in the quarterfinal, and Pavel Eljanov in the semifinal. Peter Svidler beat Emre Can in Round 1, Liviu Dieter Nisipeanu in Round 2, Teimour Radjabov in Round 3, Veselin Topalov in Round 4, Wei Yi in the quarterfinal, and Anish Giri in the semifinal. The final match started on 1 October. After 2-2 in the Classical games and 2-2 in the Rapid games, Karjakin won both Blitz games. Karjakin and Svidler both qualified for the World Championship Candidates (2016) tournament. Classic Rapid Blitz
Elo 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 5 6
Sergey Karjakin 2762 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 6
Peter Svidler 2727 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 4
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Year | Event/Locale | Opening |
| 1. R Phiri vs Nakamura |
 | 0-1 | 40 | 2015 | World Cup | E15 Queen's Indian |
| 2. Caruana vs A Zaibi |
| 1-0 | 26 | 2015 | World Cup | D15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav |
| 3. Aronian vs M Wiedenkeller |
| 1-0 | 33 | 2015 | World Cup | A18 English, Mikenas-Carls |
| 4. Mamedyarov vs P Idani |
| 1-0 | 31 | 2015 | World Cup | D05 Queen's Pawn Game |
| 5. Kasimdzhanov vs A Kovalyov |
| ½-½ | 32 | 2015 | World Cup | E15 Queen's Indian |
| 6. Q L Le vs V Durarbayli |
| ½-½ | 29 | 2015 | World Cup | E60 King's Indian Defense |
| 7. I Lysyj vs Lupulescu |
| ½-½ | 20 | 2015 | World Cup | D41 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch |
| 8. M Bartel vs G Sargissian |
| ½-½ | 21 | 2015 | World Cup | C45 Scotch Game |
| 9. R Leitao vs Y Hou |
| ½-½ | 27 | 2015 | World Cup | E46 Nimzo-Indian |
| 10. B Adhiban vs V Fedoseev |
| ½-½ | 15 | 2015 | World Cup | E15 Queen's Indian |
| 11. Motylev vs B Grachev |
| ½-½ | 22 | 2015 | World Cup | B33 Sicilian |
| 12. Vachier-Lagrave vs I R Ortiz Suarez |
| 1-0 | 35 | 2015 | World Cup | B90 Sicilian, Najdorf |
| 13. S Sjugirov vs S P Sethuraman |
| 0-1 | 24 | 2015 | World Cup | C65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense |
| 14. Topalov vs O Adu |
| 1-0 | 49 | 2015 | World Cup | D11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav |
| 15. So vs P Maghsoodloo |
| 1-0 | 43 | 2015 | World Cup | A30 English, Symmetrical |
| 16. D E Cori Tello vs Kramnik |
| 0-1 | 31 | 2015 | World Cup | D37 Queen's Gambit Declined |
| 17. I Iljiushenok vs Jakovenko |
| ½-½ | 37 | 2015 | World Cup | E46 Nimzo-Indian |
| 18. Z Rahman vs Tomashevsky |
| ½-½ | 43 | 2015 | World Cup | A45 Queen's Pawn Game |
| 19. Adams vs M Muzychuk |
| ½-½ | 41 | 2015 | World Cup | C80 Ruy Lopez, Open |
| 20. E Can vs Svidler |
| 0-1 | 34 | 2015 | World Cup | D43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav |
| 21. F Perez Ponsa vs L Dominguez Perez |
| 1-0 | 41 | 2015 | World Cup | B94 Sicilian, Najdorf |
| 22. B Lalith vs Wojtaszek |
| ½-½ | 39 | 2015 | World Cup | D39 Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin, Vienna Variation |
| 23. V Iordachescu vs Y Yu |
 | 0-1 | 42 | 2015 | World Cup | B33 Sicilian |
| 24. Leko vs A Goganov |
| 1-0 | 32 | 2015 | World Cup | C18 French, Winawer |
| 25. Fressinet vs A Brkic |
| ½-½ | 42 | 2015 | World Cup | D02 Queen's Pawn Game |
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Oct-05-15
 | | offramp: <Absentee: <offramp: So I believe Karjakin won. Is that correct?>
You mean whether it is correct that you believe Karjakin won? You should know.> Old Offramp looks out upon a troubled chess world. He sees pieces, white and black, moving against each other. There is a town called Brr... Black.. is is Blacka?? Backa? How about Baku? Those voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is the infinite of space: and swiftly, silently the soul is wafted over regions of cycles of generations that have lived. A region where grey twilight ever descends, never falls on wide sagegreen pasturefields, shedding her dusk, scattering a perennial dew of stars. She follows her mother with ungainly steps, a mare leading her fillyfoal. Twilight phantoms are they, yet moulded in prophetic grace of structure, slim shapely haunches, a supple tendonous neck, the meek apprehensive skull. They fade, sad phantoms: all is gone. Agendath is a waste land, a home of screechowls and the sandblind upupa. Netaim, the golden, is no more. And on the highway of the clouds they come, muttering thunder of rebellion, the ghosts of beasts. |
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| Oct-05-15 | | Gypsy: <jith1207: For all the talk about restricting only one finalist from World Cup into Candidates tournament, I think they fairly proved that they both deserve to be up there playing next spring than many of their colleagues in the world.> Svidler and Karjakin both 'proved' many times that they are WC candidate caliber. The point is different: World Cup, as competition, should stand on its own legs! It should not be viewed as an auxiliary event of World Championship, an Interzonal of sorts, but as a competition that stands on it's own merit! That said, I see giving a courtesy entrance into Candidates to the Cup Winner(!) as entirely appropriate. But qualifying top-n, where n is 2 or more, cheapens the World Cup as such. |
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Oct-05-15
 | | HeMateMe: great action--a fine tournament. |
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| Oct-05-15 | | schweigzwang: I was rooting for Svidler but congrats to Karjakin! Round 7 may not have been the greatest chess but in excitement and situations it was way beyond what I expected. No draws! No prisoners! |
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Oct-05-15
| | HeMateMe: Are they both in the Candidates because Karjakin was already in due to other accomplishments, and Svidler defaults to the top spot, or were the top two finishers here guaranteed a spot in the Candidates by rule? |
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| Oct-05-15 | | Absentee: <HeMateMe: Are they both in the Candidates because Karjakin was already in due to other accomplishments, and Svidler defaults to the top spot, or were the top two finishers here guaranteed a spot in the Candidates by rule?> The last one you said. |
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Oct-05-15
| | HeMateMe: oh, ok, thanks. I think one is better. Two much luck of the draw in this kind of chess to give two places away. Not to take anything away from this event, but mini matches shouldn't determine two places at the Candidates. Great time, though. |
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Oct-05-15
 | | Domdaniel: <THE RUSSIANS HAVE FIXED CHESS > That was nice of them. But who broke it? |
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| Oct-05-15 | | paavoh: Nah, Fischer meant: The Russians are fixated on chess. You know, "Every schoolboy in Russia knows.." and similar quotes. |
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Oct-05-15
| | HeMateMe: Well, Campomanes fixed it so that Karpov didn't suffer a humiliating match loss, after leading Kasparov 5 games to none, in 1985. That's as big a 'fix' as I've ever seen in professional chess, and the most important intrusion ever by a FIDE official. |
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| Oct-05-15 | | BOSTER: Studying the game Giri vs Svidler , where Svidler beat Giri, where "most decisions were made by Giri",where the cost of battle was very high, I made strange conclusion that it was Pyrrhic victory, ruining the victor. Listening Svidler's analysis you can feel much more than you see. It was very emotional battle, where black played risky line, where white had the fantastic pos. with tremendous possibilities , when defense was on the edge of the board. This victory impact on the nervous system and energy level. And game vs Karjakin show a devastating reaction on Svidler's games. Was it "winning the battle but losing the war"?
Not yet. |
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Oct-05-15
 | | keypusher: <Domdaniel: <THE RUSSIANS HAVE FIXED CHESS >
That was nice of them. But who broke it?>
I wish this site had a "Like" button. |
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| Oct-05-15 | | Petrosianic: Most embarrassing FIDE Lottery ever.
Well okay, 2nd worst. The time they crowned the World's #56 player as "World Champion" is still worse than this. But not by much. |
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Oct-05-15
 | | chancho: The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat:
http://en.chessbase.com/Portals/4/f... |
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Oct-05-15
 | | alexmagnus: Nothing lottery-esque here. Neither did an outsider win (in terms of seeding Karjakin's win equals that of Kamsky in 2007; in terms of the perception of the player Karjakin was actually one of the favourites). For both finalists it was the third time to reached semifinal or more (for Karjakin after 2007 and 2009, for Svidler after 2002 and 2011). As for the final itself: what does make it a lottery? Blunders in the quick phase? But there were blunders in the classical phase too. Massive blunders actually - had they happened in the quick phase, they would be attributed to the quickness. Svidler losing after 2-0 lead? Well - who said the one who gets advantage should be declared a winner beforehand? If it were so, why even bother playing to the end? I see neither something embarassing no something lottery-esque here. As for "#56" Kasimdzhanov: first, it was 51. Second, he was seeded 28. Third, he actually was 27 (Kramnik forfeited). Fourth, he single-handedly eliminated four top seeds. |
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Oct-05-15
| | alexmagnus: <to have reached> semi or more* |
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| Oct-05-15 | | Pawn Dillinger: <Oct-02-15 savagerules: Congrats to Svidler on winning the world cup. (Svidler isn't going to blow the last two games) And considering his play in these first two games it appears Karjakin is not ready for prime time - Svidler was pretty low on my list to win this but it shows being a long time veteran has its plusses.> I guess you lost your job reading tea leaves, prognosticating, and regaling the chess world with your insight on Karjakin. Next time you might want to wait until it's over to congratulate someone on victory. And I'm sure Karjakin gives a Frenchman's flatus that you don't think he's ready for prime time. Great tournament and an entertaining final. |
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| Oct-05-15 | | diceman: <fisayo123: This looks more pre-arranged than real> I doubt they'd prearrange that many blunders. |
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| Oct-05-15 | | dumbgai: It's not really a lottery if the stronger players are consistently beating the weaker ones, is it? By the third round even the weakest players were strong GMs. Most of the top seeds reached at least the 4th round. |
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| Oct-05-15 | | dumbgai: If it's only acceptable for a top-10 player to win, there are plenty of privately organized round-robin tournaments for that. At worst, the World Cup is a unique event and I thought it was fun to watch. |
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| Oct-05-15 | | thegoodanarchist: <Domdaniel: <THE RUSSIANS HAVE FIXED CHESS > That was nice of them. But who broke it?>
I am certain it was that clumsy guy, N.N. He is always screwing up somehow. |
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| Oct-05-15 | | thegoodanarchist: Besides, the whole World Cup is a sham!
Everyone knows that Alexander Khalifman is still the rightful champion. |
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| Oct-05-15 | | Everyone: <thegoodanarchist: <Everyone> knows that Alexander Khalifman is still the rightful champion.> Them's my sentiments exactly. |
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| Oct-05-15 | | nok: Saint Louis was a lottery, too. The next-to-last seed won. |
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| Oct-05-15 | | whiteshark: Svidler's final play was rather <self-destructive>. |
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