Magnus Carlsen dominates Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 2024, Praggnanandhaa second

by Shahid Ahmed - 15/11/2024

Magnus Carlsen (NOR) dominated the field when he won Tata Steel Chess India 2024 Rapid with a round to spare. The World no.1 defeated former World Rapid champion, Daniil Dubov to secure his title. Nodirbek Abdusattorov (UZB) got a great opportunity to create the only blemish in Carlsen's score at this event. However, he missed the opportunity and the Norwegian escaped with a draw. R Praggnanandhaa and Wesley So (USA) scored 5.5/9 each. They secured second and third place according to tie-breaks. Praggnanandhaa defeated S L Narayanan and Arjun Erigaisi, drew with So on the final day of Rapid. GM Aleksandra Goryachkina won the Women's event scoring 7.5/9. She also finished two points ahead of the rest.GM Nana Dzagnidze (GEO) secured second place 5.5/9, followed by IM Vantika Agrawal at third 5/9. Blitz Round 1 starts tomorrow at 2 p.m. IST. Photo: IA Vivek Sohani

Aleksandra Goryachkina also wins with a round to spare, Vantika Agrawal third

It's a Magnus Carlsen's world, and we are all living in it. Magnus drew the first two games, then he won the next six games in-a-row, scoring a double hat-trick, before saving a lost position to finish the event with a draw. He enjoyed the game against Arjun Erigaisi the most. Both champions scored an unbeaten 7.5/9, finished two points ahead of the field and won the event with a round to spare. It is definitely rare to see two champions having identical performances.

Women and Men champion - Aleksandra Goryachkina 7.5/9 and Magnus Carlsen (NOR) 7.5/9 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Tata Steel Chess India Rapid and Blitz 2024 logo | Photo: Official site

Round 7: Carlsen - Keymer: 1-0

It has been more than a year since Vincent Keymer (GER, 2642) defeated Magnus Carlsen (NOR, 2832) in a rated game. The 'Endgame god' once again displayed why he earned that moniker.

Position after 44.Nc5

Which pawn Black should save - a5 or e6? If you thought about saving the a5-pawn over e6, you are mistaken same as Keymer. Black needed to save the e6-pawn here. The simple reason is it prevent the d4-pawn from advancing.

Magnus Carlsen's skills put to maximum test by Vincent Keymer - Commentary by IM Sagar Shah | Video: ChessBase India

Vincent Keymer made Magnus Carlsen earn the full point | Photo: Amruta Mokal

Carlsen - Dubov, Round 8

Position after 38.Rb5

The former World Rapid champion, Daniil Dubov (2686) made the mistake of playing 38...f5? 39.c5 bxc5 40.Rxa5 and White went on to win the game.

The title clash - Magnus Carlsen vs Daniil Dubov, Commentary by IM Sagar Shah | Video: ChessBase India

Capacity audience enjoyed a thrilling battle between Magnus Carlsen and Daniil Dubov | Photo: Amruta Mokal

Abdusattorov - Carlsen, Round 9

Position after 28...c4?

28...c4? gave White a decisive advantage 29.Qxc4+- Rc8 30.Qd4 White lost the advantage in the next few moves and the game ended in a draw.

Ouch! That hurts! Nodirbek Abdusattorov vs Magnus Carlsen, Commentary by IM Sagar Shah | Video: ChessBase India

Nodirbek Abdusattorov realizing what a great opportunity he missed against the World no.1 | Photo: IA Vivek Sohani

Second Runner-up among Women - IM Vantika Agrawal 5/9 | Photo: IA Vivek Sohani

Photo Gallery

Vincent Keymer celebrating his 20th birthday by cutting a birthday cake | Photo: Amruta Mokal

Players are relaxing during the break | Photo: Amruta Mokal

The auditorium was packed to the brim from Round 7 onwards | Photo: Amruta Mokal

Arbiters' team (L to R): IA Debashis Barua, IA Juily Kulkarni-Deshpande, IM Gopakumar M S, IA R Anantharam and IA Asit Baran Choudhury | Photo: IA Vivek Sohani

IA Vivek Sohani (left) and Lennart Ootes (right) are taking some of the fantastic photographs | Photo: Amruta Mokal

IM Sagar Shah visited the ChessBase India stall | Photo: Amruta Mokal

Video Gallery

"The game against Arjun was certainly my most favorite one here" - Magnus Carlsen | Video: ChessBase India

Wesley So's secret prep, Vincent Keymer's 20th birthday | Video: ChessBase India

How do Pragg, Arjun, Divya & Nihal chill before the game? | Video: ChessBase India

How strong is 3-year-old Anish Sarkar - Talent Test | Video: ChessBase India

Venue tour | Video: ChessBase India

Format

There will be two tournaments: a men's and a women's event. The tournaments will be played in two formats - Rapid and Blitz. For the first time, both Men's and Women's event will take place simultaneously. Three rounds of Rapid games will be played on the first three days, followed by nine rounds of Blitz per day on the remaining two days of each event. The time control is 25 minutes for the entire game with an increment of 10 seconds from move no.1. For Blitz, the time control is 3 minutes with an increment of 2 seconds from move no.1.

Venue

Dhono Dhanyo Auditorium in Kolkata, West Bengal. The tournament is open to spectators. Tickets will not be sold; passes will be available at the venue on first-come-first-serve basis on the days of the tournament.

Replay Round 7-9 Open games

Replay Round 7-9 Women games

Round 7-9 results

Round 7 on 2024/11/15 at 02.00 PM
Bo.	No.	Rtg		White	Result		Black	Rtg	No.
1	4	2825	GM	Carlsen, Magnus	1 - 0	GM	Keymer, Vincent	2642	10
2	5	2686	GM	Dubov, Daniil	½ - ½	GM	Erigaisi, Arjun	2706	3
3	6	2742	GM	Abdusattorov, Nodirbek	0 - 1	GM	So, Wesley	2735	2
4	7	2676	GM	Praggnanandhaa, R	1 - 0	GM	Narayanan, S L	2579	1
5	8	2679	GM	Nihal, Sarin	1 - 0	GM	Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi	2661	9
Round 8 on 2024/11/15 at 03.30 PM
Bo.	No.	Rtg		White	Result		Black	Rtg	No.
1	10	2642	GM	Keymer, Vincent	1 - 0	GM	Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi	2661	9
2	1	2579	GM	Narayanan, S L	½ - ½	GM	Nihal, Sarin	2679	8
3	2	2735	GM	So, Wesley	½ - ½	GM	Praggnanandhaa, R	2676	7
4	3	2706	GM	Erigaisi, Arjun	1 - 0	GM	Abdusattorov, Nodirbek	2742	6
5	4	2825	GM	Carlsen, Magnus	1 - 0	GM	Dubov, Daniil	2686	5
Round 9 on 2024/11/15 at 05.00 PM
Bo.	No.	Rtg		White	Result		Black	Rtg	No.
1	5	2686	GM	Dubov, Daniil	0 - 1	GM	Keymer, Vincent	2642	10
2	6	2742	GM	Abdusattorov, Nodirbek	½ - ½	GM	Carlsen, Magnus	2825	4
3	7	2676	GM	Praggnanandhaa, R	1 - 0	GM	Erigaisi, Arjun	2706	3
4	8	2679	GM	Nihal, Sarin	½ - ½	GM	So, Wesley	2735	2
5	9	2661	GM	Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi	1 - 0	GM	Narayanan, S L	2579	1

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Final standings

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	RtgI	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	n	w	we	w-we	K	rtg+/-
1	4	GM	Carlsen, Magnus	NOR	2825	7,5	0	30,25	6	2	9	7,5	6,25	1,25	10	12,5
2	7	GM	Praggnanandhaa, R	IND	2676	5,5	0,5	22,50	3	0	9	5,5	4,28	1,22	10	12,2
3	2	GM	So, Wesley	USA	2735	5,5	0,5	21,75	3	1	9	5,5	5,08	0,42	10	4,2
4	6	GM	Abdusattorov, Nodirbek	UZB	2742	5	0	22,00	3	2	9	5	5,18	-0,18	10	-1,8
5	10	GM	Keymer, Vincent	GER	2642	4,5	0	17,75	3	1	9	4,5	3,80	0,70	10	7
6	8	GM	Nihal, Sarin	IND	2679	4	0	17,00	1	0	9	4	4,30	-0,30	10	-3
7	5	GM	Dubov, Daniil	RUS	2686	3,5	0,5	14,75	0	0	9	3,5	4,39	-0,89	10	-8,9
8	3	GM	Erigaisi, Arjun	IND	2706	3,5	0,5	14,00	1	0	9	3,5	4,68	-1,18	10	-11,8
9	9	GM	Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi	IND	2661	3	1	11,75	1	0	9	3	4,07	-1,07	10	-10,7
10	1	GM	Narayanan, S L	IND	2579	3	0	12,75	1	0	9	3	2,97	0,03	10	0,3

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Blitz Round 1 pairings

Bo.	No.	Rtg		White	Result		Black	Rtg	No.
1	1	2893	GM	Carlsen, Magnus		GM	Narayanan, S L	2645	10
2	2	2707	GM	Praggnanandhaa, R		GM	Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi	2650	9
3	3	2797	GM	So, Wesley		GM	Erigaisi, Arjun	2738	8
4	4	2715	GM	Abdusattorov, Nodirbek		GM	Dubov, Daniil	2806	7
5	5	2578	GM	Keymer, Vincent		GM	Nihal, Sarin	2711	6

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Round 7-9 Women results

Round 7 on 2024/11/15 at 1400 h
Bo.	No.	Rtg		White	Result		Black	Rtg	No.
1	4	2359	GM	Vaishali, Rameshbabu	1 - 0	GM	Dronavalli, Harika	2416	10
2	5	2436	GM	Lagno, Kateryna	½ - ½	IM	Vantika, Agrawal	2314	3
3	6	2451	GM	Koneru, Humpy	½ - ½	GM	Goryachkina, Aleksandra	2472	2
4	7	2401	IM	Divya, Deshmukh	0 - 1	GM	Dzagnidze, Nana	2427	1
5	8	2384	GM	Gunina, Valentina	0 - 1	GM	Kosteniuk, Alexandra	2508	9
Round 8 on 2024/11/15 at 1530 h
Bo.	No.	Rtg		White	Result		Black	Rtg	No.
1	10	2416	GM	Dronavalli, Harika	1 - 0	GM	Kosteniuk, Alexandra	2508	9
2	1	2427	GM	Dzagnidze, Nana	0 - 1	GM	Gunina, Valentina	2384	8
3	2	2472	GM	Goryachkina, Aleksandra	1 - 0	IM	Divya, Deshmukh	2401	7
4	3	2314	IM	Vantika, Agrawal	1 - 0	GM	Koneru, Humpy	2451	6
5	4	2359	GM	Vaishali, Rameshbabu	1 - 0	GM	Lagno, Kateryna	2436	5
Round 9 on 2024/11/15 at 1700 h
Bo.	No.	Rtg		White	Result		Black	Rtg	No.
1	5	2436	GM	Lagno, Kateryna	1 - 0	GM	Dronavalli, Harika	2416	10
2	6	2451	GM	Koneru, Humpy	½ - ½	GM	Vaishali, Rameshbabu	2359	4
3	7	2401	IM	Divya, Deshmukh	1 - 0	IM	Vantika, Agrawal	2314	3
4	8	2384	GM	Gunina, Valentina	0 - 1	GM	Goryachkina, Aleksandra	2472	2
5	9	2508	GM	Kosteniuk, Alexandra	½ - ½	GM	Dzagnidze, Nana	2427	1

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Final standings

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4
1	2	GM	Goryachkina, Aleksandra	FID	2472	7,5	0	31,00	6	2
2	1	GM	Dzagnidze, Nana	GEO	2427	5,5	0	22,50	3	1
3	3	IM	Vantika, Agrawal	IND	2314	5	0	20,00	3	0
4	5	GM	Lagno, Kateryna	FID	2436	4,5	2	19,25	2	0
5	10	GM	Dronavalli, Harika	IND	2416	4,5	0,5	19,75	2	0
6	8	GM	Gunina, Valentina	FID	2384	4,5	0,5	17,75	4	2
7	7	IM	Divya, Deshmukh	IND	2401	3,5	1,5	14,00	2	1
8	4	GM	Vaishali, Rameshbabu	IND	2359	3,5	1	14,00	2	0
9	9	GM	Kosteniuk, Alexandra	SUI	2508	3,5	0,5	15,25	1	1
10	6	GM	Koneru, Humpy	IND	2451	3	0	13,50	0	0

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Blitz Round 1 pairings

Bo.	No.	Rtg		White	Result		Black	Rtg	No.
1	1	2453	GM	Goryachkina, Aleksandra		GM	Koneru, Humpy	2423	10
2	2	2398	GM	Dzagnidze, Nana		GM	Kosteniuk, Alexandra	2473	9
3	3	2249	IM	Vantika, Agrawal		GM	Vaishali, Rameshbabu	2362	8
4	4	2430	GM	Lagno, Kateryna		IM	Divya, Deshmukh	2333	7
5	5	2411	GM	Dronavalli, Harika		GM	Gunina, Valentina	2360	6

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Schedule

Everyday round starts at 2 p.m. IST. The Rapid event will take place from 13th to 15th November, followed by the Blitz event on 16th and 17th November.

Tata Steel Chess India 2024 Men and Women Blitz schedule | Source: Official site

Prize

The total prize fund remains the same as the previous two editions - US$ 41500. The top three prizes in the Rapid are - $10000, $6000 and $3000. For Blitz they are - $7500, $4000 and $2500. Most importantly, the prizes remain equal in both Open and Womens events.

Links

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