Norway’s World Champion Magnus Carlsen emerged as the runaway winner of the 2015 Shamkir Chess tournament, which concluded on Sunday. In the ninth and final round, Carlsen defeated Azerbaijan’s Rauf Mamedov in 35 moves after Mamedov committed a blunder in the 34th move. Carlsen has thus retained the title he won in the inaugural edition of the tournament in 2014. The Norwegian finished the tournament undefeated. India’s Viswanathan Anand, who also finished undefeated in the tournament, had to settle for the second place after his draw with Italy's Fabiano Caruna