Tata Steel 2021: Winners and Losers

But Carlsen remains the clear number in the world and with a live-rating of 2846.7 he is still 27.1 points ahead of Fabiano Caruana.

However, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is no longer among the world's top ten. After his disastrous result in Wijk he dropped a few places on the live-rating list, where he is currently number 15. But it is well-known that a bad dress rehearsal often leads to a good premiere, and for "MVL" this "premiere" would be the Candidates Tournament 2020-21, that is scheduled to finish in Spring 2021.

Currently, Vachier-Lagrave shares first place with Ian Nepomniachtchi (both have 4½/7) in the Candidates, and if he regains his form he can still hope to win the tournament to become Carlsen's next challenger.

The 17-year old Firouzja won 10 rating-points in Wijk and is now number 13 on the live-rating list, two places ahead of Vachier-Lagrave.

With their impressive performances in Wijk Van Foreest and Esipenko both managed to jump the +2700 mark and now belong to the small group of super grandmasters with a rating of more than 2700.

The closing ceremony

Live-rating list (the FIDE rating list from February 2021 did not take the results of Wijk into account)

Final standings Tata Steel Tournament 2021

Links

• Official site
• Round 1: Carlsen gambles, beats Firouzja
• Round 2: A second win for Grandelius
• Round 3: Five leaders as Harikrishna beats Grandelius
• Round 4: Missed opportunities
• Round 5: Grandelius beats MVL’s Najdorf, retakes the lead
• Round 6: Firouzja and Van Foreest score
• Round 7: Four leaders
• Round 8: Esipenko stuns Carlsen, Firouzja grabs the lead
• Round 9: Giri and Caruana join the lead
• Round 10: Giri sole leader
• Round 11: Caruana and Firouzja miss chances, draw
• Round 12: Almost there
• Round 13: Van Foreest beats Giri in Armageddon, wins Tata Steel Masters