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Since 2018, the Indian company Tata Steel has also been organising an absolute top event in India, a combined rapid and blitz tournament, each with an open tournament and a women's tournament with ten players.
India is now the undisputed chess superpower, as winning gold in the Open section and in the Women's Tournament at the Chess Olympiad in Budapest amply demonstrated. While the women's team benefited from the fact that China did not field its top stars and instead sent a young team, the Indian men's team was the clear favourite.
At Tata Steel India, five top Indian men and five top Indian women will now face off against five top international men and five top international women.
The German chess community is delighted that Vincent Keymer, the best German player, has also been invited. The fourth-ranked junior in the world will take on the two players ahead of him in the rankings, Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Praggnanandhaa. Gukesh, the world's number one U-20 junior, will not be competing as he will soon be competing against Ding Liren for the World Championship in Singapore. However, Nihal Sarin, another young Indian grandmaster, will be playing. Arjun Erigaisi, 21, has just outgrown the junior category. Daniil Dubov, Vidit Gujrathi and S L Narayanan are already a little older, and Wesley So and Magnus Carlsen are effectively the seniors in this field.
Vincent Keymer and Wesley So
Magnus Carlsen, Vincent Keymer, Wesley So and Koneru Humpy are all warmed up with the simultaneous exhibition they participated in which was held at the Tata Centre.
— Tata Steel Chess India (@tschessindia) November 12, 2024
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The women's field is not quite as young. Divya Deshmukh, Vantikai Agrawal and Vaishali are still young players, but Koneru Humpy and Harika Dronavalli have been active for quite some time. Aleksandra Goryachkina is the youngest of the international players, while Kateryna Lagno, Alexsandra Kosteniuk, Nana Dzagnidze and Valentina Gunina are also experienced players.
On Monday, some of the players showed off their skills at simultaneous exhibitions and promoted the chess tournament.
Magnus Carlsen
Vincent Keymer
Tata Steel India Rapid and Blitz
Participants
| Open tournament Magnus Carlsen Daniil Dubov Nodirbek Abdusattorov Vincent Keymer Wesley So Vidit Gujrathi S L Narayanan R. Praggnanandhaa Nihal Sarin Arjun Erigaisi |
Women's tournament Aleksandra Goryachkina Kateryna Lagno Alexsandra Kosteniuk Nana Dzagnidze Valentina Gunina Koneru Humpy Harika Dronavalli Divya Deshmukh Vaishali R Vantika Agrawal |
Time control
Rapid: 25+10
Blitz: 3+2
Time: 14.00 local time = 9.30 CET =3.30 ET
13. November, Rapid
14:00 1. round
15:30 2. round
17:00 3. round
14. November, Rapid
14:00 4. round
15:30 5. round
17:00 6. round
15. November, Rapid
14:00 7. round
15:30 8. round
17:00 9. round
18:00 Tie-Break - if necessary
16. November, Blitz
14:00 1. round
14:20 2. round
14:40 3. round
15:00 4. round
15:20 5. round
15:40 6. round
16:00 7. round
16:20 8. round
16:40 9. round
17. November, Blitz
14:00 10. round
14:20 11. round
14:40 12. round
15:00 13. round
15:20 14. round
15:40 15. round
16:00 16. round
16:20 17. round
16:40 18. round
17:00 Tie-Break - if necessary
17:30 Prize-giving ceremony
Prizes Rapid
1. $ 10.000, 2. $ 6.000, 3. $ 3.000, 4. $ 2.000, 5. $ 1.500, 6. $ 1.000, 7. $ 500--
Prizes Blitz
1. $ 7.500-, 2. $ 4.000, 3. $ 2.500, 4. $ 1.500, 5. $ 1.000, 6. $ 750, 7. $ 250-
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