Top three seeds finish in top 3
GM Abhijeet Gupta, GM Pengxiang Zhang (CHN) and GM Brandon Jacobson (USA) were in a three-way lead 6.5/8, heading into the final round. Abhijeet defeated Brandon, Pengxiang drew against GM Deep Sengupta. Abhijeet became a clear champion, Pengxiang second. GM Maxime Lagarde (FRA) won against IM Daniel Fischer (SUI) to share third place with eight other players including Deep.
A total of 102 players including 15 GMs, 11 IMs, 3 WGMs and 4 WIMs took part from 25 countries across the world in the Masters section. The nine-day nine-round Swiss League Rating tournament was organized by Hastings Committee at Horntye Park Sports Complex in Hastings, England from 28th December 2023 to 5th January 2024. The time control of the event was 40 moves in 100 minutes + 50 mins, 30 seconds increment from move no.1.
Final standings
| Rk. | SNo | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | n | w | we | w-we | K | rtg+/- | ||
| 1 | 2 | GM | Gupta, Abhijeet | IND | 2628 | 7 | 0 | 2594 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 7,35 | -0,35 | 10 | -3,5 | |
| 2 | 5 | GM | Liu, Yan | CHN | 2545 | 7 | 0 | 2584 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 5,48 | 1,52 | 10 | 15,2 | |
| 3 | 1 | GM | Bu, Xiangzhi | CHN | 2694 | 7 | 0 | 2581 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 7,28 | -0,28 | 10 | -2,8 | |
| 4 | 36 | IM | Ceres, Dragos | MDA | 2409 | 7 | 0 | 2543 | 5 | 8 | 6,5 | 3,82 | 2,68 | 10 | 26,8 | |
| 5 | 48 | Xiao, Tong(Qd) | CHN | 2316 | 7 | 0 | 2500 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 3,52 | 3,48 | 20 | 69,6 | ||
| 6 | 38 | Huang, Renjie | CHN | 2406 | 6,5 | 0 | 2578 | 4 | 9 | 6,5 | 3,36 | 3,14 | 10 | 31,4 | ||
| 7 | 3 | GM | Dardha, Daniel | BEL | 2619 | 6,5 | 0 | 2465 | 4 | 9 | 6,5 | 7,11 | -0,61 | 10 | -6,1 | |
| 8 | 14 | GM | Gorshtein, Ido | ISR | 2503 | 6,5 | 0 | 2440 | 5 | 9 | 6,5 | 5,99 | 0,51 | 10 | 5,1 | |
| 9 | 10 | GM | Lalit, Babu M R | IND | 2529 | 6,5 | 0 | 2440 | 4 | 9 | 6,5 | 6,15 | 0,35 | 10 | 3,5 | |
| 10 | 8 | GM | Stremavicius, Titas | LTU | 2540 | 6,5 | 0 | 2433 | 5 | 9 | 6,5 | 6,46 | 0,04 | 10 | 0,4 |
