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Winner on tie-break: Markus Ragger
Ragger started the tournament with 5.0/5 but then slowed down and conceded his first draw in round six. After this draw followed a win against Jan Timman in round seven and three draws in the last three rounds. That was enough for shared first prize and best tie-break.
| Rg. | Name | Land | Elo | Pkt. | Wtg1 | Wtg2 | |
| 1 | GM | Ragger Markus | AUT | 2688 | 8.0 | 58.5 | 55.75 |
| 2 | GM | Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter | GER | 2654 | 8.0 | 56.5 | 54.00 |
| 3 | GM | Hammer Jon Ludvig | NOR | 2677 | 8.0 | 55.5 | 52.50 |
| 4 | GM | Fressinet Laurent | FRA | 2707 | 8.0 | 54.0 | 51.75 |
| 5 | GM | Hillarp Persson Tiger | SWE | 2563 | 8.0 | 53.5 | 50.50 |
| 6 | GM | Shankland Samuel L | USA | 2656 | 8.0 | 53.0 | 52.25 |
| 7 | GM | Maze Sebastien | FRA | 2575 | 8.0 | 52.5 | 50.75 |
| 8 | GM | Marin Mihail | ROU | 2579 | 8.0 | 51.0 | 50.25 |
| 9 | GM | Hansen Sune Berg | DEN | 2571 | 8.0 | 50.0 | 48.50 |
| 10 | GM | Kunin Vitaly | GER | 2576 | 8.0 | 49.0 | 48.25 |
| 11 | IM | Schroeder Jan-Christian | GER | 2461 | 7.5 | 57.5 | 51.50 |
| 12 | GM | Rakhmanov Aleksandr | RUS | 2626 | 7.5 | 55.5 | 48.00 |
| 13 | GM | Naroditsky Daniel | USA | 2622 | 7.5 | 55.0 | 49.50 |
| 14 | GM | Timman Jan H | NED | 2566 | 7.5 | 52.5 | 46.00 |
| 15 | GM | Grigoriants Sergey | RUS | 2594 | 7.5 | 51.0 | 46.75 |
| 16 | GM | Aagaard Jacob | DEN | 2506 | 7.5 | 50.0 | 46.25 |
| 17 | GM | Hector Jonny | SWE | 2485 | 7.5 | 48.5 | 43.75 |
| 18 | IM | Fernandez Daniel Howard | ENG | 2472 | 7.5 | 48.5 | 43.25 |
| 19 | GM | Jones Gawain C B | ENG | 2647 | 7.5 | 48.0 | 42.75 |
| 20 | IM | Delorme Axel | FRA | 2484 | 7.0 | 53.0 | 43.25 |
| 21 | GM | Schandorff Lars | DEN | 2520 | 7.0 | 53.0 | 42.75 |
| 22 | GM | Glud Jakob Vang | DEN | 2531 | 7.0 | 53.0 | 42.00 |
| 23 | GM | Brunello Sabino | ITA | 2539 | 7.0 | 52.5 | 43.50 |
| 24 | IM | Smith Axel | SWE | 2449 | 7.0 | 52.5 | 41.50 |
| 25 | GM | Hoi Carsten | DEN | 2383 | 7.0 | 51.0 | 42.50 |
| 26 | IM | Jepson Christian | SWE | 2428 | 7.0 | 51.0 | 41.75 |
| 27 | Risting Eivind Olav | NOR | 2190 | 7.0 | 51.0 | 40.25 | |
| 28 | Kollars Dmitrij | GER | 2437 | 7.0 | 50.5 | 41.75 | |
| 29 | IM | Sjodahl Pontus | SWE | 2425 | 7.0 | 50.5 | 41.50 |
| 30 | GM | Tarjan James E | USA | 2490 | 7.0 | 50.0 | 41.75 |
| 31 | Haria Ravi | ENG | 2261 | 7.0 | 50.0 | 41.50 | |
| 32 | IM | Tan Justin | AUS | 2417 | 7.0 | 50.0 | 40.50 |
| 33 | FM | Buchal Stephan | GER | 2267 | 7.0 | 49.0 | 40.00 |
| 34 | GM | Chabanon Jean-Luc | FRA | 2493 | 7.0 | 48.5 | 41.25 |
| 35 | Thorsbro Peter | DEN | 2216 | 7.0 | 47.5 | 39.25 | |
| 36 | GM | Rasmussen Allan Stig | DEN | 2507 | 7.0 | 47.0 | 41.50 |
| 37 | IM | Zude Erik Dr. | GER | 2398 | 7.0 | 47.0 | 38.50 |
| 38 | IM | Vuilleumier Alexandre | SUI | 2357 | 7.0 | 46.5 | 39.75 |
| 39 | Eriksson Christian | DEN | 2175 | 7.0 | 46.0 | 39.25 | |
| 40 | Thuesen Mogens | DEN | 2158 | 7.0 | 46.0 | 37.50 |
...431 participants
The best non-GM was the young German IM Jan-Christian Schröder. He won against grandmasters Laurent Fressinet and Mihail Marin and with a nice win against Julian Kramer in the final round Schröder secured a GM-norm.
The brilliancy-prize went to Norwegian GM Jon Ludvig Hammer:
With 8.0/10 Hammer was part of the leading ten and finished third on tie-break.
The Swedish IM Axel Smith also scored a GM-norm.
Axel Smith
GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu became second.
Nisipeanu became second in Helsingor but in the rating list from August 2015 Nisipeanu is Germany's new number one. Since April 2014 the grandmaster, who has a German mother and a Romanian father, plays for Germany. In July 2015 Arkadij Naiditsch, for a long time Germany's number one, decided to change federations and play for Azerbaijan. Germany now no longer has a +2700 player and Nisipeanu, who in 1999 made it to the semifinals of the FIDE World Championships in Las Vegas and became European Champion in 2005, is the new number one.
French GM Laurent Fressinet finished fourth.
ChessBase-Autor Mihail Marin scored 8.0/10 and finished equal first.
With 7.5/10 GM Gawain Jones had only half a point less than the leaders but 19th on tie-break.
Photos: Calle Erlandsson
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