Mitrabha and Aronyak perform identically
Tata Steel is known to organize various side events along with the main Masters event. The 2019 edition had Age group, Rapid and Blitz Open. This time they made the Rapid, a FIDE Rated All India event, whereas the Blitz was a non-rated All India Open tournament.
Champion GM Mitrabha Guha receives the beautiful champion's trophy and ₹10000 cash | Photo: Shahid Ahmed
Mitrabha's unbeaten championship run
Mitrabha's best game from the event according to him is the fourth round win against WIM Arpita Mukherjee.
Runner-up IM Aronyak Ghosh 6.5/7, received ₹6000 cash | Photo: Shahid Ahmed
3rd IM Srijit Paul 6.0/7 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed
4th IM Neelash Saha 6.0/7 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed
5th Kaustuv Kundu 6.0/7 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed
6th Praloy Sahoo 6.0/7 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed
7th IM Koustav Chatterjee 6.0/7 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed
8th Sanket Chakravarthy 5.5/7 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed
9th Akshath Sinha 5.5/7 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed
Best Woman - WIM Arpita Mukherjee 5.0/7 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed
Tata Steel Chess India 2021 Tournament Director Jeroen van den Berg inaugurated the tournament along with GM Dibyendu Barua | Photo: Shahid Ahmed
The huge tournament hall - Bhasha Bhavan at the National Library of India | Photo: Shahid Ahmed
Players eagerly waiting to move actual pieces on the board after a long time | Photo: Shahid Ahmed
Top boards | Photo: Shahid Ahmed
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Final Standings
| Rk. | SNo | Name | sex | FED | Rtg | Club/City | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | TB4 | TB5 | |
| 1 | 3 | IM | Mitrabha Guha | IND | 2334 | West Bengal | 6,5 | 30,5 | 34,0 | 30,75 | 6 | 0,0 | |
| 2 | 8 | IM | Aronyak Ghosh | IND | 2093 | West Bengal | 6,5 | 30,0 | 33,5 | 31,75 | 6 | 0,0 | |
| 3 | 9 | IM | Srijit Paul | IND | 2092 | West Bengal | 6,0 | 31,5 | 32,5 | 26,50 | 6 | 0,0 | |
| 4 | 10 | IM | Neelash Saha | IND | 2043 | West Bengal | 6,0 | 28,5 | 31,5 | 24,00 | 6 | 0,0 | |
| 5 | 6 | Kaustuv Kundu | IND | 2120 | West Bengal | 6,0 | 28,0 | 30,5 | 27,00 | 6 | 0,0 | ||
| 6 | 14 | Praloy Sahoo | IND | 1984 | West Bengal | 6,0 | 27,5 | 30,5 | 22,00 | 6 | 0,0 | ||
| 7 | 5 | IM | Koustav Chatterjee | IND | 2242 | West Bengal | 6,0 | 25,0 | 26,0 | 22,50 | 6 | 0,0 | |
| 8 | 17 | Sanket Chakravarty | IND | 1917 | West Bengal | 5,5 | 28,5 | 31,0 | 23,00 | 5 | 0,0 | ||
| 9 | 29 | Akshath Sinha | IND | 1580 | West Bengal | 5,5 | 23,5 | 24,5 | 18,25 | 5 | 0,0 | ||
| 10 | 32 | Supratim Ghosh | IND | 1545 | West Bengal | 5,5 | 23,5 | 24,5 | 17,75 | 5 | 0,0 | ||
| 11 | 2 | IM | Das Arghyadip | IND | 2382 | Railways | 5,0 | 31,5 | 35,0 | 23,75 | 4 | 0,0 | |
| 12 | 15 | IM | Shahil Dey | IND | 1974 | Assam | 5,0 | 30,5 | 33,5 | 21,00 | 5 | 0,0 | |
| 13 | 20 | Aditya Vikram Paul | IND | 1829 | West Bengal | 5,0 | 29,0 | 32,0 | 20,00 | 5 | 0,0 | ||
| 14 | 13 | Utsab Chatterjee | IND | 1998 | West Bengal | 5,0 | 28,0 | 31,0 | 22,25 | 4 | 0,0 | ||
| 15 | 70 | Agnivo Chakraborty | IND | 1200 | West Bengal | 5,0 | 28,0 | 31,0 | 21,50 | 5 | 0,0 | ||
| 16 | 16 | WIM | Arpita Mukherjee | w | IND | 1934 | West Bengal | 5,0 | 27,0 | 29,0 | 17,00 | 5 | 0,0 |
| 17 | 49 | Soureen Bhattacharya | IND | 1308 | West Bengal | 5,0 | 26,0 | 29,0 | 17,50 | 5 | 0,0 | ||
| 18 | 27 | Basak Bishal | IND | 1598 | West Bengal | 5,0 | 25,5 | 28,5 | 19,00 | 5 | 0,0 | ||
| 19 | 25 | Anubhab Gupta | IND | 1662 | West Bengal | 5,0 | 25,5 | 28,0 | 17,50 | 5 | 0,0 | ||
| 20 | 84 | AFM | Parambrata Sarkar | IND | 0 | West Bengal | 5,0 | 25,5 | 27,0 | 14,00 | 5 | 0,0 |
