The Early Titled Tuesday for 25th April gathered 531 participants. Titled Tuesday is Chess.com’s weekly 11-round Swiss tournament with blitz time control 3+1 for titled players, occurring twice each Tuesday at 17:00 CET and 23:00 CET.
In the exciting race Hikaru Nakamura and French star Alireza Firouzja shared the first place with 9,5/11 points each. They both lost in round 5, to GM Abhijeet Gupta and GM Robby Kevlishvili respectively, but since sailed smoothly until the end of the event.
Prize winners:
1st $1,000 – Hikaru Nakamura
2nd $750 – Alireza Firouzja
3rd $350 – Fabiano Caruana
4th $200 – Oleksandr Bortnyk
5th $100 – Bogdan Daniel Deac
Highest female player $100 – Polina Shuvalova
Total (tournament) $2,500
Total (week) $5,000
Final standings:
1-2. GM Hikaru Nakamura 3186 USA and GM Alireza Firouzja 3095 FRA – 9.5
3-8. GM Fabiano Caruana 3106 USA, GM Oleksandr Bortnyk 2990 UKR, GM Bogdan Daniel Deac 3044 ROU, GM Wesley So 3095 USA, GM Andrey Esipenko 2965 FID and GM Pavel Eljanov 2969 UKR – 9
9-15. GM Abhijeet Gupta 2974 IND, GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda 3044 POL, GM Harsha Bharathakoti 2889 IND, GM Anton Korobov 3025 UKR, GM Gukesh D 2928 IND, GM Frederik Svane 2941 GER and GM Gata Kamsky 2879 USA – 8.5
16-29. GM Aleksandr Shimanov 2974 FID, GM Daniel Naroditsky 3127 USA, GM Alexey Sarana 3078 SRB, IM Vuk Djordjevic 2788 SRB, GM Denis Lazavik 3029 BLR, GM Tuan Minh Le 3030 VIE, GM Yusnel Bacallao Alonso 2801 CUB, FM Lefong Hua 2713 CAN, GM Dmitry Andreikin 3061 INT, GM Vasif Durarbayli 2923 AZE, IM Kaan Kucuksari 2684 SWE, GM Alexander Rustemov 2785 FID, GM Krikor Sevag Mekhitarian 2823 BRA and NM Anton Osinenko 2648 USA – 8 etc
