The latest editions of Titled Tuesday events took place on 16th April on Chess.com.
Hans Niemann emerged winner of the Early Titled Tuesday with 9,5/11 points.
Hikaru Nakamura cruised through the Late Titled Tuesday to convincingly win it with 10,5/11 points.
Titled Tuesday (TT) is Chess.com’s weekly 11-round Swiss tournament for titled players, occurring twice each Tuesday at 8 a.m. PT and 2 p.m. PT. The time control is 3 min + 1 sec.
The total prize fund for the day is USD 5000, with USD 1000 dedicated to the winner of each event.
The participation was massive, with 660 players in the Early and 500 in the Late event.
Even the World Championship Candidates Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, Vidit and Alireza Firouzja used the tournament rest day to compete in Titled Tuesday.
In the Early TT Hans Niemann edged Salem AR Saleh and Hikaru Nakamura on superior tiebreak after all three players finished on 9,5 points.
German GM Frederik Svane was the convincing leader with 8/8 points heading into the second technical break, but two consecutive losses pushed him down to 4th place. Svane beat all three co-winners.
Early Titled Tuesday top standings:
1-3. GM Hans Niemann USA 3137, GM Salem AR Saleh UAE 3051 and GM Hikaru Nakamura USA 3289 – 9.5
4-11. GM Frederik Svane GER 3068, GM Dmitry Andreikin CPV 3078, GM Oleksandr Bortnyk USA 3055, GM Yuniesky Quesada USA 2962, IM Milosz Szpar POL 2898, IM Rudik Makarian INT 3002, GM Jaime Santos Latasa ESP 3045 and FM Aradhya Garg IND 2822 – 9
12-16. GM Iniyan P IND 2924, GM Anish Giri NED 3058, GM Denis Lazavik BLR 3116, GM Tuan Minh Le VIE 3004 and IM Ilamparthi A R IND 2854 – 8.5
17-37. GM Liem Le VIE 3062, GM Aleksandr Shimanov INT 3028, GM Vasif Durarbayli AZE 2912, GM Sergei Zhigalko INT 2919, GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda POL 3098, GM Andrew Hong USA 3038, GM Srinath Narayanan IND 2845, FM Artin Ashraf IRI 2939, FM Mukhammadzokhid Suyarov UZB 2944, IM Almas Rakhmatullaev UZB 2902, GM Gata Kamsky USA 2942, GM Nitzan Steinberg ISR 2916, GM Leinier Dominguez Perez USA 2936, IM Ramil Faizrakhmanov INT 2854, FM Ivan Yeletsky INT 2968, GM Bharath Subramaniyam IND 2901, IM Marco Materia FRA 2840, GM Ihor Samunenkov UKR 2823, FM Sathvik Adiga IND 2628, GM Jose Martinez MEX 3094 and GM Nikita Matinian INT 2799 – 8 etc
In the Late TT Hikaru Nakamura crashed through to win the tournament convincingly with 10,5 points, a full point ahead of the fellow Candidate Fabiano Caruana. Sam Shankland emerged third on best tiebreak score.
Late Titled Tuesday top standings:
- GM Hikaru Nakamura USA 3289 – 10.5
- GM Fabiano Caruana USA 3095 – 9.5
3-7. GM Sam Shankland USA 2967, GM Daniel Naroditsky USA 3106, GM Denis Lazavik BLR 3116, GM Liem Le VIE 3062 and GM Jaime Santos Latasa ESP 3045 – 9
8-14. GM Vasif Durarbayli AZE 2912, GM Oleksandr Bortnyk USA 3055, GM Alireza Firouzja FRA 3046, GM Thomas Beerdsen NED 2914, GM Matthias Bluebaum GER 3022, GM Jose Martinez MEX 3094 and GM Gata Kamsky USA 2942 – 8.5
15-30. GM Jose Carlos Ibarra Jerez ESP 2935, IM Milosz Szpar POL 2898, FM Artin Ashraf IRI 2939, GM Bogdan Daniel Deac ROU 2994, FM Artem Galaktionov INT 2887, GM Sergey Grigoriants HUN 2958, GM Ido Gorshtein ISR 2854, IM Bojan Maksimovic BIH 2959, GM Andrew Hong USA 3038, GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda POL 3098, GM Sergei Zhigalko INT 2919, GM Anton Demchenko SLO 2967, FM Marco Dobrikov GER 2641, IM Ameet Ghasi GBR 2809, GM Dmitry Andreikin CPV 3078 and FM Zachary Tanenbaum USA 2700 – 8
31-42. GM Hans Niemann USA 3137, GM Conrad Holt USA 2911, IM Levy Rozman USA 2713, IM Nimrod Veinberg IMN 2744, GM Aleksei Sarana SRB 3054, IM Eray Kilic TUR 2891, IM Dmitriy Kushko UKR 2829, GM Sanan Sjugirov HUN 3003, NM Qingyu Yuan CHN 2813, CM Artem Bardyk INT 2829, GM David Paravyan INT 3029 and GM Pablo Salinas Herrera CHL 2821 – 7.5 etc
