Advancements in rank during February 2021:
| First Name | Last Name | City | State | New Rank |
| Bipul | Agarwal | Franklin | MA | Junior Master |
| Steve | Barbee | Guilford | CT | Junior Master |
| Susan | Bennett | East Hartford | CT | Junior Master |
| Virginia | Bride | Dedham | MA | Junior Master |
| Sara | Buckingham | Worcester | MA | Junior Master |
| Ron | Burr | Vernon | CT | Junior Master |
| Christopher | Dutton | Shelburne | VT | Junior Master |
| Sharon | Gillespie | Needham | MA | Junior Master |
| Heidi | Gold | Milford | CT | Junior Master |
| Pamela | Herring | New Canaan | CT | Junior Master |
| Teak | Hewitt | Marshfield | MA | Junior Master |
| Ranbir | Jaggi | Sudbury | MA | Junior Master |
| Ellen | Korpi | Wellesley | MA | Junior Master |
| Jay | Levine | Marlborough | MA | Junior Master |
| Roberta | Macdonald | S Burlington | VT | Junior Master |
| Bonnie | McKirdy | Branford | CT | Junior Master |
| Debra | Ouellette | Middletown | RI | Junior Master |
| Judith | Ranieri | Branford | CT | Junior Master |
| Leah | Rukeyser | Greenwich | CT | Junior Master |
| Susmita | Sangal | Andover | MA | Junior Master |
| Neena | Singh | Sudbury | MA | Junior Master |
| David | Smith | Ridgefield | CT | Junior Master |
| Marisa | Stern | New Haven | CT | Junior Master |
| Stan | Zhang | Cambridge | MA | Junior Master |
| Bertil | Agell | Barre | VT | Club Master |
| Af | Assur | Stamford | CT | Club Master |
| Donald | Balcom | S Burlington | VT | Club Master |
| Robert | Baylis | Darien | CT | Club Master |
| Linda | Bell | Woodbridge | CT | Club Master |
| John | Caldwell | Oak Bluffs | MA | Club Master |
| Katherine | Clark | Greenwich | CT | Club Master |
| Barbara | Davidson | Camden | ME | Club Master |
| Ann | Dutton | Shelburne | VT | Club Master |
| Pamela | Ellsworth | Brookline | MA | Club Master |
| Kevin | Freund | Burlington | VT | Club Master |
| Donna | Gibson | Branford | CT | Club Master |
| Mary | Hayes | Rockport | MA | Club Master |
| Kerry | Holmes | Madison | CT | Club Master |
| Marcie | Hunsaker | Wenham | MA | Club Master |
| Dennis | Huston | Keene | NH | Club Master |
| Barbara | John | New London | CT | Club Master |
| Ken | Ketover | Stamford | CT | Club Master |
| Bond | Koga | Old Greenwich | CT | Club Master |
| Sharone | Kornman | West Hartford | CT | Club Master |
| John | Libera Jr | Granby | MA | Club Master |
| Jane | Manopoli | Boston | MA | Club Master |
| John | McGrath | West Newton | MA | Club Master |
| Morlee | Miller | Wilton | CT | Club Master |
| Susan | O Brien | Narragansett | RI | Club Master |
| Suzanne | Peterson | Waitsfield | VT | Club Master |
| Laiah | Raphael | Greenwich | CT | Club Master |
| Charlotte | Robinson | Riverside | CT | Club Master |
| Paresh | Soni | Mystic | CT | Club Master |
| John | Stegeman | Falmouth | MA | Club Master |
| Suresh | Sundaram | Lexington | MA | Club Master |
| Vivian | Sweeney | New Canaan | CT | Club Master |
| Valerie | Thayer | Concord | MA | Club Master |
| Nancy | Torti | Lincoln | MA | Club Master |
| Kate | Tully | Needham | MA | Club Master |
| Usha | Upadhyay | Shrewsbury | MA | Club Master |
| Nancy | Wekselbaum | Bridgewater | CT | Club Master |
| Pierre | Wicker | Mystic | CT | Club Master |
| Dottie | Witham | Kittery | ME | Club Master |
| Robin | Zelle | Newton | MA | Club Master |
| Janet | Zilinski | Plymouth | MA | Club Master |
| Janice | Bazzani | Andover | CT | Sectional Master |
| Deborah | Butler | Lyme | CT | Sectional Master |
| Robert | Civiak | Enfield | NH | Sectional Master |
| Barbara | Conrad | Darien | CT | Sectional Master |
| Mary | Hurley | Medfield | MA | Sectional Master |
| Thomas | Lozen | S Burlington | VT | Sectional Master |
| Maureen | Mann | Deerfield | NH | Sectional Master |
| Cindy | Martin | West Hartford | CT | Sectional Master |
| Don | Ross | Newton | MA | Sectional Master |
| Milton | Weinstein | Grantham | NH | Sectional Master |
| Rhonda | Weinstein | Grantham | NH | Sectional Master |
| Carmen | Yon | Keene | NH | Sectional Master |
| Denise | Bahosh | Shrewsbury | MA | Regional Master |
| George | Dumas | Farmingdale | ME | Regional Master |
| Linda | Lebovitz | Westport | CT | Regional Master |
| John | Yavis Jr | Manchester | CT | Regional Master |
| Valerie | Del Padre | Cumberland | RI | NABC Master |
| Susan | Garthwaite | Stamford | CT | NABC Master |
| Joseph | Hurley | Willington | CT | NABC Master |
| William | Kleinhofer | Stamford | CT | NABC Master |
| Anita | Olson | Needham | MA | NABC Master |
| Christina | Powers | Greenwich | CT | NABC Master |
| Toni | Simonetti | Westport | CT | NABC Master |
| Fred | Wardwell Jr | Wellesley | MA | NABC Master |
| B | Willard | South Windham | CT | NABC Master |
| Jeff | Xiao | Shrewsbury | MA | NABC Master |
| Carol | Poirier | South Berwick | ME | Adv NABC Master |
| Lin | Li | Woodbridge | CT | Life Master |
| Denny | Lyster | Westfield | VT | Life Master |
| David | Offer | Hallowell | ME | Life Master |
| David | Rosnick | Jamaica Plain | MA | Life Master |
| Susan | Shechtman | West Hartford | CT | Life Master |
| Robert | Tellar | West Hartford | CT | Life Master |
| Rita | Vachani | Lexington | MA | Life Master |
| Barry | Gilbert | Lincoln | RI | Bronze Life Master |
| Douglas | Koltenuk | Framingham | MA | Bronze Life Master |
| Lin | Li | Woodbridge | CT | Bronze Life Master |
| Joan | Stone | Cos Cob | CT | Bronze Life Master |
| Shirley | Wagner | Fitchburg | MA | Bronze Life Master |
| Bruce | Adler | Wilton | CT | Silver Life Master |
| Gary | Cohen | Bloomfield | CT | Silver Life Master |
| Sandra | Gould | Newtown | CT | Silver Life Master |
| Peter | Griff | Randolph | MA | Silver Life Master |
| Jim | Walsh | Madison | CT | Silver Life Master |
| Norma | Augenstein | North Haven | CT | Ruby Life Master |
| Riva | Ko | Goshen | CT | Ruby Life Master |
| Barry | Black | Brookline | MA | Gold Life Master |
| Robert | Hughes | Manchester | CT | Gold Life Master |
| Laurie | Robbins | Windsor | CT | Sapphire Life Master |
| Phyllis | Fireman | Chestnut Hill | MA | Emerald Life Master |