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The Tata Steel Chess India Chess Tournament is a chess tournament held in
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, India. It is held in the Rapid and Blitz formats. The venue for the event is
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Winners


2018

:Tata Steel Chess India 2018 was the inaugural event of the Tata Steel Chess India. Hikaru Nakamura won the rapid section of the tournament, while former World Champion Viswanathan Anand won the blitz section by winning the blitz playoffs against Nakamura after they finished joint first in the blitz double round robin. : :


2019

:The 2019 edition of Tata Steel India Rapid and Blitz was conducted as a part of the Grand Chess Tour 2019. The winner of the tournament was decided by the combination of rapid and blitz scores of the players with 2/1/0 points system for a win/draw/loss in rapid and 1/½/0 points system for a win/draw/loss in blitz. :World Champion
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won the overall event through a dominant performance in the rapid portion of the tournament and finishing joint first with
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