Johan-Sebastian Christiansen won the Scottish Championship Open 2025 with a perfect 9,0/9! Johan-Sebastian Christiansen started as top seeded in the field and won every single game of the event, adding 8,5 elo along the way to cross the 2650 elo mark.
Johan-Sebastian Christiansen is currently 86th in the Top 100 players list and is the second highest rated Norwegian after Magnus Carlsen. Scoring 9,0/9 is a Norwegian tradition this year, after Carlsen scored 9,0/9 and scored a record at Grenke Chess.
Replay: All games from the Scottish Championship Open 2025
Final standings
Rk.
Name
FED
Rtg
TB1
1
GM
Christiansen, Johan-Sebastian
NOR
2642
9
2
IM
Greet, Andrew N
SCO
2396
7.5
3
WCM
Bhatia, Kanishka
SCO
1923
6
4
Bozinakis, Pavlos
GRE
2273
6
5
Blackford, Ross
SCO
2014
6
6
FM
Vijayakumar, Rishi
SCO
2333
6
7
IM
Mckay, Roderick M
SCO
2181
6
8
IM
Dunnington, Angus J
SCO
2217
5.5
9
FM
Carroll, Peter
IRL
2169
5.5
10
Spencer, Edwin A
SCO
2085
5.5
11
Sharma, Devesh
SCO
1906
5.5
12
Grant, Jonathan I M
SCO
2146
5.5
13
Savidge, Daniel
ENG
2141
5.5
14
Woods, Yannick
IRL
1995
5.5
15
Mccormack, Derek
SCO
1973
5.5
16
CM
Green, Andrew D
SCO
2131
5
17
Roger, Michael
SCO
1690
5
18
Ridge, Benjamin
SCO
1865
5
19
Arun, Nitish
IRL
2073
5
20
Mckay, Jonathan
SCO
2000
5
21
Tsang, Sai Kong
SCO
1874
5
22
Mcnaught, Jordan J
SCO
1825
4.5
23
Irving, Neil
SCO
1883
4.5
24
Ridge, Michael
SCO
1867
4.5
25
Srivastava, Aditya
SCO
1773
4.5
26
Mcclymont, Duncan
SCO
1731
4.5
27
Thompson, Connor
SCO
1824
4.5
28
Sykes, Chris
SCO
1917
4.5
29
Saxton, Gavin
SCO
1910
4.5
30
Clark, Eve
SCO
1734
4
31
Gera, Marvin
SCO
1830
4
32
Rath, Srinivas
SCO
1625
4
33
Patton, Zachary
SCO
1915
4
34
Mallick, Sai
SCO
1790
4
35
Prabhu, Aadith
SCO
1840
4
36
Vadalia, Jainill
SCO
2018
4
37
Kane, Robert
ENG
1853
4
38
Keenan, Alex
SCO
1767
4
39
Inbhan, B
IND
1620
4
40
Mcgillivray, Calum
SCO
1782
4
41
Pimentil, Stephen
SCO
1794
4
42
Railwani, Tavish
SCO
1700
4
43
Campbell, Alistair
SCO
1944
4
44
Mittal, Advik
SCO
1797
3.5
45
Heron, Donald
SCO
1852
3.5
46
Giulian, Rosemary A
SCO
1902
3.5
47
Munshi, Aryan
SCO
1981
3.5
48
Murray, Frankie
SCO
1709
3
49
Winter, Kevin
ENG
1756
3
50
Robertson, Jim
SCO
1574
2.5
51
Mcdonald, Angus
SCO
1742
2.5
52
Arun, Rahul
IRL
1652
2.5
53
Kikkawa, Kei
JPN
1736
2
54
Matthew, Ian G
ENG
1779
1.5

Magnus Carlsen
did it in Grenke, now Johan-Sebastian Christiansen