Prague International Chess Festival 2021 concluded yesterday, the historically third winner of the Masters tournament is the American grandmaster Sam Shankland. In the other round-robin - Futures tournament the first place goes to Jakub Vojta and the narrowest possible victory (number of black pieces being the last tiebreak) in Open goes to the Polish GM Marcin Krzyzanowski.

(chief arbiter IA Pavel Votruba, silver Jan-Krzysztof Duda, victorious Sam Shankland, bronze Radek Wojtaszek, tournament director Petr Boleslav, Futures tournament manager Petr Pisk)

This year was the first when the Award of Grandmaster Luboš Kaválek for the best game of the festival was awarded - to the victorious Sam Shankland for his second round win over GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda.

(chief arbiter IA Pavel Votruba, tournament director Petr Boleslav, silver Kamil Warchol, victorious Jakub Vojta, bronze Matouš Hlavina, Futures tournament manager Petr Pisk)

(Futures tournament manager Petr Pisk, chief arbiter IA Pavel Votruba, tournament director Petr Boleslav, silver Felix Blohberger, winner of the Open Marcin Krzyzanowski, bronze Grzegorz Nasuta, Open tournament manager Jiří Petružálek)