Johan-Sebastian Christiansen wins Scottish Open with a perfect 9,0/9

Johan-Sebastian Christiansen won the Scottish Championship Open 2025 with a perfect 9,0/9! Johan-Sebastian Christiansen started as top seeded in the field and won every single game of the event, adding 8,5 elo along the way to cross the 2650 elo mark.

Johan-Sebastian Christiansen is currently 86th in the Top 100 players list and is the second highest rated Norwegian after Magnus Carlsen. Scoring 9,0/9 is a Norwegian tradition this year, after Carlsen scored 9,0/9 and scored a record at Grenke Chess.

Replay: All games from the Scottish Championship Open 2025

New Norwegian tradition this year: score 9,0/9 💥Magnus Carlsen 🇳🇴 did it in Grenke, now Johan-Sebastian Christiansen @GMJSChr 🇳🇴 does it in Scottish Open 2025https://t.co/6MHOWTGiR3

— Chessdom (@chessdom) July 14, 2025

Final standings

Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	TB1
1	GM	Christiansen, Johan-Sebastian	NOR	2642	9
2	IM	Greet, Andrew N	SCO	2396	7.5
3	WCM	Bhatia, Kanishka	SCO	1923	6
4		Bozinakis, Pavlos	GRE	2273	6
5		Blackford, Ross	SCO	2014	6
6	FM	Vijayakumar, Rishi	SCO	2333	6
7	IM	Mckay, Roderick M	SCO	2181	6
8	IM	Dunnington, Angus J	SCO	2217	5.5
9	FM	Carroll, Peter	IRL	2169	5.5
10		Spencer, Edwin A	SCO	2085	5.5
11		Sharma, Devesh	SCO	1906	5.5
12		Grant, Jonathan I M	SCO	2146	5.5
13		Savidge, Daniel	ENG	2141	5.5
14		Woods, Yannick	IRL	1995	5.5
15		Mccormack, Derek	SCO	1973	5.5
16	CM	Green, Andrew D	SCO	2131	5
17		Roger, Michael	SCO	1690	5
18		Ridge, Benjamin	SCO	1865	5
19		Arun, Nitish	IRL	2073	5
20		Mckay, Jonathan	SCO	2000	5
21		Tsang, Sai Kong	SCO	1874	5
22		Mcnaught, Jordan J	SCO	1825	4.5
23		Irving, Neil	SCO	1883	4.5
24		Ridge, Michael	SCO	1867	4.5
25		Srivastava, Aditya	SCO	1773	4.5
26		Mcclymont, Duncan	SCO	1731	4.5
27		Thompson, Connor	SCO	1824	4.5
28		Sykes, Chris	SCO	1917	4.5
29		Saxton, Gavin	SCO	1910	4.5
30		Clark, Eve	SCO	1734	4
31		Gera, Marvin	SCO	1830	4
32		Rath, Srinivas	SCO	1625	4
33		Patton, Zachary	SCO	1915	4
34		Mallick, Sai	SCO	1790	4
35		Prabhu, Aadith	SCO	1840	4
36		Vadalia, Jainill	SCO	2018	4
37		Kane, Robert	ENG	1853	4
38		Keenan, Alex	SCO	1767	4
39		Inbhan, B	IND	1620	4
40		Mcgillivray, Calum	SCO	1782	4
41		Pimentil, Stephen	SCO	1794	4
42		Railwani, Tavish	SCO	1700	4
43		Campbell, Alistair	SCO	1944	4
44		Mittal, Advik	SCO	1797	3.5
45		Heron, Donald	SCO	1852	3.5
46		Giulian, Rosemary A	SCO	1902	3.5
47		Munshi, Aryan	SCO	1981	3.5
48		Murray, Frankie	SCO	1709	3
49		Winter, Kevin	ENG	1756	3
50		Robertson, Jim	SCO	1574	2.5
51		Mcdonald, Angus	SCO	1742	2.5
52		Arun, Rahul	IRL	1652	2.5
53		Kikkawa, Kei	JPN	1736	2
54		Matthew, Ian G	ENG	1779	1.5