Chess Blitz of the Day

Tournament = Tal Memorial blitz.

Anish Giri

In December 2014 he was runner-up of the first Qatar Masters Open with a score of 7 out of 9 (the champion was Yu Yangyi). In January of 2015 he was second in the 77th Tata Steel Tournament with 8½ of 13 points, the same as Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Wesley So and Ding Liren, and half a point of the winner and world champion, Magnus Carlsen. In July of that same year he revalidó again its position like champion of the Netherlands, with 5½ of 7 points, one more than the second classified, Loek Van Wely. Months later, in December, he was third in the London Chess Classic, which he led alongside Magnus Carlsen and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave with 5½ of 9 and lost the first round of the play-off playoff against Vachier-Lagrave by 1 to 2 Champion was Magnus Carlsen).

Viswanathan Anand

In 2015, Anand was able to return to the top several times. At the beginning of the year he won the classic part of the Zürich Chess Challenge. Composed of three tournaments (blitz, fast and classic) could not achieve the combined victory but tied in first place with Hikaru Nakamura. A few months later, he finished second at the Shamkir Chess in Azerbaijan behind Magnus Carlsen. The same result obtained in Norway Chess, where Veselin Topalov imposed its superiority.