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Option 1 : Magnus Carlsen
The correct answer is Magnus Carlsen.
- Magnus Carlsen has won the FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship title in 2015.
- Alireza Firouzja, playing under the FIDE banner, clinched the silver medal sensationally, while Hikaru Nakamura took bronze.
- After beating Lei Tingjie of China in a blitz playoff, Humpy Koneru won the women's title.
- The bronze medal was won by Turkey's Ekaterina Atalik.
- The 2015 FIDE World Rapid Championship was held in the Bolle Meierei Ballroom in Berlin, Germany, from 10 to 12 October, with the participation of 130 GMs, including defending champion Magnus Carlsen, for the 15-round Swiss Open (for players ranked >2500).
- Viswanathan Anand is a former world chess champion and Indian chess grandmaster.
- In 1988, he became India's first grandmaster and is one of the few players to have crossed an Elo rating of 2800, a feat he first accomplished in 2006.
- Anand is a five-time champion of world chess.
- In a six-game series, he beat Alexei Shirov to win the 2000 FIDE World Chess Championship, a title which he retained until 2002.
- Teimour Radjabov is an Azerbaijani chess player, ranked in December 2020 as number 10 in the world.
- Fabiano Caruana is a chess player from Italy and America.
- A chess prodigy, at the age of 14 years, 11 months, and 20 days, he became a grandmaster, at the time the youngest grandmaster in the history of both Italy and the United States.
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