The first day of the Tata Steel Chess India 2026 — Women’s Blitz in Kolkata has concluded. After ten rounds, Carissa Yip scored 5 wins and 2 draws and leads the tournament with 6 points. Carissa Yip is 0.5 points ahead of the runner-up Stavroula Tsolakidou.

The current standings are:

Place Player Score
1. 🇺🇸 IM Carissa Yip 6
2. 🇬🇷 IM Stavroula Tsolakidou 5.5
3. 🇷🇺 GM Aleksandra Goryachkina 5.5
4. 🇮🇳 GM Vaishali Rameshbabu 5.5
5. 🇮🇳 IM Vantika Agrawal 5
6. 🇮🇳 GM Divya Deshmukh 4.5
7. 🇮🇳 GM Harika Dronavalli 4
8. 🇷🇺 GM Kateryna Lagno 4
9. 🇬🇪 GM Nana Dzagnidze 3
10. 🇮🇳 WGM Rakshitta Ravi 2

The Tata Steel Chess India 2026 — Women’s Blitz takes place in Kolkata, India from January 10 to 11. The event features a $17,500 prize pool and uses 3+2 time control over two Round-Robin rounds between 10 players. In case of ties for first place, additional tiebreaks will be played on January 11.

Credit: Lennart Ootes