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

The winner of the Chess World Cup 2013, Vladimir Kramnik, was defeated by Dmitry Andreikin in the third round.

Players had 90 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an addition of 30 seconds per move from the start of the game.

The format for the tie breaks was as follows: According to the regulations, and contrary to many elite tournaments even including the FIDE Grand Prix, all players had to pay their own expenses for travel.

[1] The qualified players[2] are seeded by their FIDE ratings of August 2015.