Qatar Masters Open 2015

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Qatar Masters Open 2015 is a strong tournament that will take place in Qatar from December 19 to December 30. This is the second edition of the competition; last year, Yu Yangyi won the tournament.

This year the competition will be even more fierce, where just the top 5 is comprised of GM Magnus Carlsen , GM Vladimir Kramnik, GM Anish Giri, GM Wesley So and GM Sergey Karjakin. Anish Giri and Vladimir Kramnik won second and third place in the 2014 Qatar Masters, respectively, and this year they will compete in a much more difficult field. Scroll down for the full list of participants.

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Prizes

The prize fund for the top 20 players of the Open is more than $100 000, with first place taking home $27000. Additional prizes based on best performance in 2300 -2600 ELO and others bring up the total prize fund to $130 000, a significant increase from last year’s tournament.

Tournament Venue

The ASPIRE Zone, the largest indoor sports dome in the world, has become the official tournament venue for Qatar Masters Open 2015. The tournament will be held at the Ladies Club of ASPIRE. This venue was used for Arab Games 2011 and its impressive 900 square meters playing area plus a dozen of additional meeting rooms and offices will help the organizers to provide participants of this prestigious Open with a comfortable play.

Full list of participants

Rank Name FED Rtg 1 GM Carlsen Magnus NOR 2834 2 GM Kramnik Vladimir RUS 2796 3 GM Giri Anish NED 2784 4 GM So Wesley USA 2775 5 GM Karjakin Sergey RUS 2766 6 GM Li Chao B CHN 2750 7 GM MamedyarovShakhriyar AZE 2748 8 GM Tomashevsky Evgeny RUS 2744 9 GM Harikrishna P. IND 2743 10 GM Jakovenko Dmitry RUS 2737 11 GM Yu Yangyi CHN 2736 12 GM Wei Yi CHN 2730 13 GM Radjabov Teimour AZE 2726 14 GM Vitiugov Nikita RUS 2724 15 GM Wojtaszek Radoslaw POL 2723 16 GM Korobov Anton UKR 2713 17 GM Ivanchuk Vassily UKR 2710 18 GM Ponomariov Ruslan UKR 2710 19 GM Ni Hua CHN 2693 20 GM Moiseenko Alexander UKR 2689 21 GM Howell David W L ENG 2688 22 GM Matlakov Maxim RUS 2684 23 GM Hou Yifan CHN 2683 24 GM Adhiban B. IND 2669 25 GM Fedoseev Vladimir RUS 2664 26 GM Duda Jan-Krzysztof POL 2663 27 GM Dubov Daniil RUS 2655 28 GM Bologan Viktor MDA 2654 29 GM Khismatullin Denis RUS 2654 30 GM Akopian Vladimir ARM 2648 31 GM Ganguly Surya Shekhar IND 2648 32 GM Khairullin Ildar RUS 2647 33 GM Shankland Samuel L USA 2646 34 GM Sjugirov Sanan RUS 2646 35 GM Swiercz Dariusz POL 2646 36 GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi IND 2644 37 GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son VIE 2642 38 GM Sethuraman S.P. IND 2639 39 GM Sasikiran Krishnan IND 2638 40 GM Piorun Kacper POL 2637 41 GM Grandelius Nils SWE 2632 42 GM Naroditsky Daniel USA 2628 43 GM Lenderman Aleksandr USA 2626 44 GM Salem A.R. Saleh UAE 2622 45 GM Bartel Mateusz POL 2620 46 GM Ipatov Alexander TUR 2619 47 GM Zhang Zhong SIN 2619 48 GM Lu Shanglei CHN 2618 49 GM Zhou Jianchao CHN 2606 50 GM Ghaem Maghami Ehsan IRI 2602 51 GM Hamdouchi Hicham FRA 2597 52 GM Vocaturo Daniele ITA 2597 53 GM Bok Benjamin NED 2594 54 GM Bluebaum Matthias GER 2590 55 GM Tregubov Pavel V. RUS 2589 56 GM Sandipan Chanda IND 2582 57 GM Esen Baris TUR 2562 58 GM Rambaldi Francesco ITA 2560 59 GM Dzagnidze Nana GEO 2559 60 GM Kosteniuk Alexandra RUS 2542 61 IM Lin Chen CHN 2532 62 IM Svane Rasmus GER 2529 63 GM Xu Jun CHN 2526 64 GM Bromberger Stefan GER 2521 65 GM Stefanova Antoaneta BUL 2521 66 GM Al-Sayed Mohammed QAT 2520 67 GM Harika Dronavalli IND 2513 68 GM Sundararajan Kidambi IND 2513 69 GM Schroeder Jan-Christian GER 2511 70 IM Yuffa Daniil RUS 2504 71 GM Darini Pouria IRI 2500 72 IM Batsiashvili Nino GEO 2498 73 GM Khotenashvili Bela GEO 2496 74 IM Sunilduth LynaNarayanan IND 2494 75 WGM GoryachkinaAleksandra RUS 2493 76 IM Ezat Mohamed EGY 2490 77 GM Shoker Samy EGY 2489 78 GM Zhukova Natalia UKR 2488 79 IM Sanal Vahap TUR 2487 80 GM AravindhChithambaram Vr. IND 2486 81 GM Haddouche Mohamed ALG 2486 82 IM Javakhishvili Lela GEO 2486 83 IM Fawzy Adham EGY 2484 84 IM Tabatabaei M.Amin IRI 2482 85 GM Neelotpal Das IND 2475 86 IM Gagare Shardul IND 2470 87 Xu Yinglun CHN 2470 88 GM Krush Irina USA 2468 89 FM Moroni Luca Jr ITA 2466 90 IM Ma Zhonghan CHN 2463 91 IM Ly Moulthun AUS 2462 92 IM Ali Marandi Cemil Can TUR 2454 93 IM LorparizangenehShahin IRI 2454 94 GM Venkatesh M.R. IND 2451 95 GM Ushenina Anna UKR 2450 96 IM Kashlinskaya Alina RUS 2448 97 IM Firat Burak TUR 2446 98 IM Puranik Abhimanyu IND 2442 99 IM Sagar Shah IND 2441 100 IM Vogel Roven GER 2439 101 IM Wang Yiye CHN 2438 102 FM Basso Pier Luigi ITA 2438 103 Fang Yuxiang CHN 2438 104 IM Padmini Rout IND 2437 105 IM Aryan Chopra IND 2436 106 GM Carlsson Pontus SWE 2433 107 FM Abdusattorov Nodirbek UZB 2429 108 FM Rohan Ahuja IND 2426 109 IM Nezad Husein Aziz QAT 2425 110 IM Seyb Alexander GER 2425 111 IM Vignesh N R IND 2422 112 FM Gholami Aryan IRI 2422 113 IM Al Qudaimi Basheer YEM 2419 114 FM Haria Ravi ENG 2416 115 Mohammad NubairshahShaikh IND 2414 116 WGM Saduakassova Dinara KAZ 2407 117 Siva Mahadevan IND 2400 118 FM El Adnani Mokliss MAR 2397 119 IM Saiyn Zhanat KAZ 2394 120 IM Abhishek Kelkar IND 2393 121 WGM Abdumalik Zhansaya KAZ 2390 122 FM Li Di CHN 2389 123 IM Slavin Alexey RUS 2388 124 IM Christiansen Johan-Sebastian NOR 2385 125 IM KhademalshariehSarasadat IRI 2380 126 IM Karavade Eesha IND 2379 127 IM Konguvel Ponnuswamy IND 2377 128 IM Li Ruofan SIN 2372 129 Roy Prantik IND 2370 130 IM Guramishvili Sopiko GEO 2368 131 IM Tania Sachdev IND 2357 132 WGM Hejazipour Mitra IRI 2357 133 IM Tissir Mohamed MAR 2346 134 FM Lomasov Semen RUS 2344 135 WIM Bivol Alina RUS 2344 136 Dai Changren CHN 2328 137 Raja Harshit IND 2325 138 WGM Pourkashiyan Atousa IRI 2322 139 IM Pham Le Thao Nguyen VIE 2319 140 WFM Vaishali R IND 2313 141 WIM Derakhshani Dorsa IRI 2307 142 IM Piasetski Leon CAN 2287 143 WGM Bartel Marta POL 2271 144 FM Salih Akar Ali Salih IRQ 2268 145 WIM Pratyusha Bodda IND 2260 146 WIM Derakhshani, Dorsa 2244