Tuesday 20 October 2015

Chess World Cup 2015 was won by whom?

Chess World Cup 2015 was won by whom?

Options

1) Sergey Karjakin

2) vladimir kramnik

3) veselin topalov

4) magnus carlsen

answer

1) Sergey Karjakin

Other details

The Chess World Cup 2015 was a 128-player single-elimination chess tournament held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 10 September to 5 October 2015.

Sergey Karjakin won the competition on tie-breaks after a four-game final against Peter Svidler.

Sergey Alexandrovich Karjakin  is a Ukrainian-born Russian chess grandmaster.

 He was a chess prodigy and holds the record for the world's youngest Grandmaster, at the age of 12 years and 7 months.

 Karjakin won the 2012 World Rapid Chess Championship and the Chess World Cup 2015.

He also won the Norway Chess Tournament twice (2013, 2014) and the Corus Chess Tournament in 2009.

He has competed in six Chess Olympiads, three times for Ukraine and three times for Russia, winning three gold medals, two silver and a bronze.

 He was a member of the gold medal-winning Russian team at the World Team Chess Championship in Antalya in 2013.

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