The Indian Qualifiers are a knockout event with 16 Players. The players will play a mini-match of four 15+10 games in each round. If that match is tied they will play a two game 5+3 match as a tiebreaker. If still tied they will play an Armageddon game. The winner will be invited to the Champions Chess Tour.

Pairings

Round of 16
IM Aronyak Ghosh 2440
GM Adhiban, B. 2660
GM Karthikeyan, Murali 2606
GM Praggnanandhaa R 2608
GM Aravindh, Chithambaram VR. 2641
GM Harika, Dronavalli 2515
GM Ganguly, Surya Shekhar 2625
GM Visakh N R 2516
GM Nihal Sarin 2620
GM Erigaisi Arjun 2567
GM Harsha Bharathakoti 2509
GM Sethuraman, S.P. 2644
GM Gupta, Abhijeet 2612
GM Gukesh D 2578
GM Sasikiran, Krishnan 2647
IM Mitrabha, Guha 2467

Schedule


Round of 16	May 7, 2021	9:30
Quarterfinals	May 8, 2021	9:30
Semifinals	May 9, 2021	9:30
Finals	May 10, 2021	9:30