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

Rk.		Name	Rtg.	Nt.	Pts.	n	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	TB	Perf.
1		Van Foreest,J	2671		8.5	13		½	½	½	½	½	1	1	1	½	½	½	1	½	3.50	2839
2		Giri,A	2764		8.5	13	½		½	½	½	½	½	1	1	½	1	1	½	½	3.00	2832
3		Esipenko,A	2677		8.0	13	½	½		½	½	1	½	0	½	½	½	1	1	1	3.50	2815
4		Firouzja,A	2749		8.0	13	½	½	½		½	0	1	½	½	1	½	½	1	1	3.00	2810
5		Caruana,F	2823		8.0	13	½	½	½	½		½	½	½	½	½	1	1	½	1	3.00	2804
6		Carlsen,M	2862		7.5	13	½	½	0	1	½		½	½	1	½	1	½	½	½	3.00	2771
7		Harikrishna,P	2732		6.5	13	0	½	½	0	½	½		½	1	½	½	½	½	1	2.00	2724
8		Tari,A	2625		6.0	13	0	0	1	½	½	½	½		½	½	½	½	½	½	3.00	2703
9		Grandelius,N	2663		6.0	13	0	0	½	½	½	0	0	½		1	1	½	½	1	1.50	2700
10		Duda,J	2743		5.5	13	½	½	½	0	½	½	½	½	0		½	½	½	½	3.00	2666
11		Vachier-Lagrave,M	2784		5.0	13	½	0	½	½	0	0	½	½	0	½		½	½	1	2.00	2633
12		Wojtaszek,R	2705		5.0	13	½	0	0	½	0	½	½	½	½	½	½		½	½	2.00	2639
13		Anton Guijarro,D	2679		5.0	13	0	½	0	0	½	½	½	½	½	½	½	½		½	2.00	2641
14		Donchenko,A	2668		3.5	13	½	½	0	0	0	½	0	½	0	½	0	½	½		1.50	2554
TBs: Koya, Wins

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