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The World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships took place in Berlin 9th to 15th October 2015. Rapid 10th to 12th October and Blitz 13th to 14th October. World Champion Magnus Carlsen retained his rapid title ahead of Ian Nepomniachtchi and Teimour Radjabov. Carlsen was an early leader in the blitz too but a loss in the final game of day 1 to Karjakin started a poor run that was continued on day two. Carlsen got into contention again before losing to Ivanchuk in round 20. Alexander Grischuk won the blitz title for the third ahead of Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Vladimir Kramnik Carlsen finished 6th.

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World Rapid 2015 Berlin GER Fri 9th Oct 2015 - Thu 15th Oct 2015 Leading Final Round 15 Standings:
Rk	SNo	Name	FED	Rtg	Pts	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	1	Carlsen Magnus	NOR	2847	11.5	2723	130.5	0.0
2	8	Nepomniachtchi Ian	RUS	2789	10.5	2712	129.0	0.0
3	16	Radjabov Teimour	AZE	2741	10.5	2681	128.5	0.0
4	13	Dominguez Perez Leinier	CUB	2749	10.5	2673	126.0	0.0
5	89	Bocharov Dmitry	RUS	2577	10.0	2712	125.0	0.0
6	7	Kramnik Vladimir	RUS	2798	10.0	2696	128.5	0.0
7	38	Onischuk Vladimir	UKR	2692	10.0	2696	122.0	0.0
8	3	Ivanchuk Vassily	UKR	2835	10.0	2690	130.0	0.0
9	39	Kovalenko Igor	LAT	2687	10.0	2686	124.0	0.0
10	9	Mamedyarov Shakhriyar	AZE	2784	10.0	2676	130.0	0.0
11	11	Vachier-Lagrave Maxime	FRA	2756	10.0	2673	122.5	0.0
12	19	Inarkiev Ernesto	RUS	2733	10.0	2648	125.0	0.0
13	92	Khismatullin Denis	RUS	2574	9.5	2737	127.0	0.0
14	71	Kasimdzhanov Rustam	UZB	2619	9.5	2735	123.5	0.0
15	53	Malakhov Vladimir	RUS	2662	9.5	2733	128.0	0.0
16	36	Kryvoruchko Yuriy	UKR	2694	9.5	2722	133.5	0.0
17	51	Korobov Anton	UKR	2664	9.5	2706	126.5	0.0
18	34	Zhigalko Sergei	BLR	2698	9.5	2698	130.0	0.0
19	5	Karjakin Sergey	RUS	2805	9.5	2678	128.0	0.0
20	66	Salem A.R. Saleh	UAE	2631	9.5	2672	108.5	0.0
21	44	Fedoseev Vladimir	RUS	2681	9.5	2668	117.0	0.0
22	27	Wojtaszek Radoslaw	POL	2711	9.5	2659	123.5	0.0
23	45	Navara David	CZE	2673	9.5	2655	117.0	0.0
24	29	Guseinov Gadir	AZE	2705	9.5	2651	126.5	0.0
25	6	Anand Viswanathan	IND	2800	9.5	2646	117.5	0.0
26	108	Vidit Santosh Gujrathi	IND	2534	9.0	2737	120.5	0.0
27	72	Bogdanovich Stanislav	UKR	2619	9.0	2682	118.0	0.0
28	82	Adhiban Baskaran	IND	2590	9.0	2668	111.5	0.0
29	24	Riazantsev Alexander	RUS	2716	9.0	2653	123.0	0.0
30	52	Khairullin Ildar	RUS	2662	9.0	2652	108.0	0.0
31	12	Gelfand Boris	ISR	2751	9.0	2649	124.5	0.0
32	2	Grischuk Alexander	RUS	2846	9.0	2645	116.0	0.0
33	30	Matlakov Maxim	RUS	2705	9.0	2642	114.0	0.0
34	17	Svidler Peter	RUS	2735	9.0	2638	117.5	0.0
35	41	Akopian Vladimir	ARM	2684	9.0	2631	114.5	0.0
36	10	Rublevsky Sergei	RUS	2757	9.0	2618	108.0	0.0
37	37	Moiseenko Alexander	UKR	2692	9.0	2585	113.0	0.0
38	68	Ponkratov Pavel	RUS	2629	8.5	2719	121.5	0.0
39	69	Motylev Alexander	RUS	2627	8.5	2690	118.5	0.0
40	73	Perunovic Milos	SRB	2617	8.5	2681	118.0	0.0
41	75	Swiercz Dariusz	POL	2612	8.5	2666	109.5	0.0
42	20	Tomashevsky Evgeny	RUS	2731	8.5	2655	124.5	0.0
43	4	Aronian Levon	ARM	2830	8.5	2645	120.0	0.0
44	35	Savchenko Boris	RUS	2696	8.5	2644	120.0	0.0
45	83	Antipov Mikhail Al.	RUS	2590	8.5	2633	110.5	0.0
46	40	Meier Georg	GER	2686	8.5	2631	114.5	0.0
47	21	Andreikin Dmitry	RUS	2720	8.5	2627	112.5	0.0
48	99	Zhang Zhong	SIN	2547	8.5	2605	107.0	0.0
49	46	Vitiugov Nikita	RUS	2672	8.5	2583	107.0	0.0
50	49	Dubov Daniil	RUS	2667	8.0	2740	125.5	0.0
158 players

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World Blitz 2015 Berlin GER Fri 9th Oct 2015 - Thu 15th Oct 2015 Leading Final Round 21 Standings:
Rk	SNo	Name	FED	Rtg	Pts	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	5	Grischuk Alexander	RUS	2814	15.5	2699	241.0	0.0
2	2	Vachier-Lagrave Maxime	FRA	2854	15.0	2727	264.0	0.0
3	15	Kramnik Vladimir	RUS	2763	15.0	2705	245.0	0.0
4	10	Ivanchuk Vassily	UKR	2789	14.5	2691	243.0	0.0
5	3	Nepomniachtchi Ian	RUS	2831	14.5	2642	228.5	0.0
6	1	Carlsen Magnus	NOR	2914	14.0	2720	259.0	0.0
7	25	Svidler Peter	RUS	2726	14.0	2691	247.0	0.0
8	7	Navara David	CZE	2806	14.0	2646	225.5	0.0
9	113	Vovk Yuri	UKR	2566	13.5	2742	255.0	0.0
10	66	Kasimdzhanov Rustam	UZB	2641	13.5	2720	259.5	0.0
11	4	Aronian Levon	ARM	2817	13.5	2710	252.5	0.0
12	18	Gelfand Boris	ISR	2743	13.5	2700	247.0	0.0
13	28	Dominguez Perez Leinier	CUB	2717	13.5	2687	243.5	0.0
14	12	Mamedov Rauf	AZE	2777	13.5	2659	237.0	0.0
15	17	Mamedyarov Shakhriyar	AZE	2749	13.5	2648	234.0	0.0
16	54	Ponkratov Pavel	RUS	2666	13.5	2608	222.0	0.0
17	16	Karjakin Sergey	RUS	2759	13.0	2720	257.0	0.0
18	59	Vitiugov Nikita	RUS	2655	13.0	2711	243.5	0.0
19	37	Tomashevsky Evgeny	RUS	2694	13.0	2683	245.0	0.0
20	31	Korobov Anton	UKR	2705	13.0	2663	241.5	0.0
21	11	Andreikin Dmitry	RUS	2781	13.0	2663	232.0	0.0
22	9	Anand Viswanathan	IND	2791	13.0	2658	236.5	0.0
23	36	Fressinet Laurent	FRA	2699	13.0	2647	233.0	0.0
24	14	Fedoseev Vladimir	RUS	2765	13.0	2644	229.0	0.0
25	23	Alekseev Evgeny	RUS	2729	13.0	2633	229.5	0.0
26	30	Malakhov Vladimir	RUS	2707	13.0	2596	226.5	0.0
27	78	Petrosian Tigran L.	ARM	2630	12.5	2745	257.5	0.0
28	6	Radjabov Teimour	AZE	2808	12.5	2730	260.0	0.0
29	137	Gajewski Grzegorz	POL	2520	12.5	2704	242.5	0.0
30	121	Swiercz Dariusz	POL	2555	12.5	2666	229.0	0.0
31	33	Melkumyan Hrant	ARM	2701	12.5	2661	240.0	0.0
32	20	Onischuk Vladimir	UKR	2743	12.5	2651	242.5	0.0
33	38	Jones Gawain C B	ENG	2690	12.5	2646	230.0	0.0
34	21	Dreev Aleksey	RUS	2741	12.5	2641	233.0	0.0
35	13	Ponomariov Ruslan	UKR	2770	12.5	2635	229.5	0.0
36	35	Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo	VEN	2700	12.5	2632	226.5	0.0
37	43	Kovalenko Igor	LAT	2684	12.5	2618	223.0	0.0
38	83	Munoz Pantoja Miguel	ESP	2621	12.5	2593	214.0	0.0
39	85	Socko Bartosz	POL	2616	12.0	2746	255.0	0.0
40	65	Dubov Daniil	RUS	2642	12.0	2725	250.0	0.0
41	67	Kravtsiv Martyn	UKR	2640	12.0	2718	249.5	0.0
42	81	Perunovic Milos	SRB	2623	12.0	2704	244.5	0.0
43	97	Khairullin Ildar	RUS	2599	12.0	2673	234.5	0.0
44	76	Safarli Eltaj	AZE	2633	12.0	2669	232.0	0.0
45	86	Ivanisevic Ivan	SRB	2615	12.0	2656	234.0	0.0
46	57	Movsesian Sergei	ARM	2657	12.0	2645	233.0	0.0
47	41	Guseinov Gadir	AZE	2688	12.0	2637	233.0	0.0
48	8	Bogdanovich Stanislav	UKR	2804	12.0	2608	216.5	0.0
49	47	Harikrishna Pentala	IND	2680	12.0	2597	218.5	0.0
50	58	Ragger Markus	AUT	2656	12.0	2593	220.0	0.0
188 players

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