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The Qatar Masters Open took place 19th to 30th December 2015. World Champion Magnus Carlsen heads a stellar field. It is possible that this is the first appearance by a reigning World Champion in a Swiss Open at standard time controls since Boris Spassky played in Vancouver in 1971. Vladimir Kramnik, Anish Giri, Wesley So, Sergey Karjakin, Li Chao, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Evgeny Tomashevsky, Pentala Harikrishna, Dmitry Jakovenko Yu Yangyi, Wei Yi etc. 18 players rated over 2700 and 50 over 2600 compete. Magnus Carlsen won the event after defeating last year's champion Yu Yangyi 2-0 in a tie-break. They had tied on 7/9.

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Qatar Masters Open 2015 Doha QAT Sat 19th Dec 2015 - Wed 30th Dec 2015 Leading Final Round 9 Standings:
Rk	SNo	Name	FED	Rtg	Pts	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	1	Carlsen Magnus	NOR	2834	7.0	2887	44.5	48.0
2	11	Yu Yangyi	CHN	2736	7.0	2863	45.0	48.5
3	2	Kramnik Vladimir	RUS	2796	6.5	2833	47.5	51.5
4	5	Karjakin Sergey	RUS	2766	6.5	2793	44.5	46.5
5	33	Sjugirov Sanan	RUS	2646	6.5	2791	45.5	49.5
6	18	Ni Hua	CHN	2693	6.5	2762	42.5	45.0
7	16	Ivanchuk Vassily	UKR	2710	6.5	2700	39.0	42.5
8	3	Giri Anish	NED	2784	6.0	2815	47.0	51.5
9	79	Xu Yinglun	CHN	2470	6.0	2800	48.0	52.0
10	30	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	IND	2648	6.0	2743	42.5	45.5
11	9	Harikrishna P.	IND	2743	6.0	2736	44.5	48.0
12	17	Ponomariov Ruslan	UKR	2710	6.0	2720	42.5	46.5
13	29	Akopian Vladimir	ARM	2648	6.0	2713	38.5	42.0
14	25	Duda Jan-Krzysztof	POL	2663	6.0	2697	38.0	42.0
15	36	Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son	VIE	2642	6.0	2691	40.5	43.5
16	13	Vitiugov Nikita	RUS	2724	6.0	2687	43.0	47.0
17	37	Sethuraman S.P.	IND	2639	6.0	2634	38.0	40.0
18	4	So Wesley	USA	2775	5.5	2753	48.5	53.0
19	6	Li Chao B	CHN	2750	5.5	2750	48.0	53.0
20	7	Mamedyarov Shakhriyar	AZE	2748	5.5	2743	47.0	51.0
21	34	Swiercz Dariusz	POL	2646	5.5	2733	47.5	50.5
22	46	Zhang Zhong	SIN	2619	5.5	2730	43.5	45.5
23	14	Wojtaszek Radoslaw	POL	2723	5.5	2697	43.5	47.5
24	39	Piorun Kacper	POL	2637	5.5	2677	42.5	46.5
25	20	Howell David W L	ENG	2688	5.5	2676	42.0	46.0
26	45	Ipatov Alexander	TUR	2619	5.5	2675	40.0	43.5
27	41	Naroditsky Daniel	USA	2628	5.5	2670	40.0	41.5
28	21	Matlakov Maxim	RUS	2684	5.5	2666	40.5	45.0
29	10	Jakovenko Dmitry	RUS	2737	5.5	2663	42.0	45.5
30	40	Grandelius Nils	SWE	2632	5.5	2661	42.0	45.5
31	15	Korobov Anton	UKR	2713	5.5	2661	40.0	44.0
32	27	Bologan Viktor	MDA	2654	5.5	2649	40.0	44.5
33	57	Lin Chen	CHN	2532	5.5	2632	40.5	44.0
34	47	Lu Shanglei	CHN	2618	5.5	2617	36.5	39.0
35	35	Vidit Santosh Gujrathi	IND	2644	5.5	2615	40.5	44.0
36	24	Fedoseev Vladimir	RUS	2664	5.5	2614	39.0	41.5
37	28	Khismatullin Denis	RUS	2654	5.5	2605	38.0	41.0
38	22	Hou Yifan	CHN	2683	5.5	2591	39.5	43.5
39	38	Sasikiran Krishnan	IND	2638	5.5	2571	39.0	42.0
40	78	Gagare Shardul	IND	2470	5.0	2706	42.0	46.0
41	43	Salem A.R. Saleh	UAE	2622	5.0	2658	44.0	47.5
42	51	Bluebaum Matthias	GER	2590	5.0	2654	42.0	45.0
43	8	Tomashevsky Evgeny	RUS	2744	5.0	2626	41.0	45.5
44	75	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	IND	2486	5.0	2612	37.5	39.5
45	62	Al-Sayed Mohammed	QAT	2520	5.0	2606	41.5	45.5
46	42	Lenderman Aleksandr	USA	2626	5.0	2570	37.0	39.5
47	83	Ly Moulthun	AUS	2462	5.0	2569	38.0	40.5
48	44	Bartel Mateusz	POL	2620	5.0	2565	36.5	39.5
49	26	Dubov Daniil	RUS	2655	5.0	2562	40.0	43.0
50	19	Moiseenko Alexander	UKR	2689	5.0	2551	34.5	38.0
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Qatar Masters TB 2015 Doha QAT Sat 19th Dec 2015 - Wed 30th Dec 2015 Leading Final Round 2 Standings:
Rk	Name	Ti	FED	Rtg	1	2	Pts
1	Carlsen, Magnus	GM	NOR	2834	1	1	2
2	Yu, Yangyi	GM	CHN	2736	0	0	0
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