The latest editions of Titled Tuesday events took place on 23rd April on Chess.com.
Hikaru Nakamura, fresh of completing the Candidates Chess Tournament, claimed both Early and Late Titled Tuesday to complete his first double victory since 14th Feb 2023, and his sixth overall.
Nakamura scored 10/11 points in both events, winning the Late TT alone, while in the Early TT he had better tiebreak than Alireza Firouzja.
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 738 players in the Early and 527 in the Late event.
In the Early TT Hikaru Nakamura started with 7 consecutive wins before drawing Magnus Carlsen and Alireza Firouzja. He proceeded with victories against Jan-Krzysztof Duda and Rudik Makarian.
Early Titled Tuesday top standings:
1-2. GM Hikaru Nakamura USA 3323 and GM Alireza Firouzja FRA 3114 – 10
3-4. GM Alexander Grischuk INT 3092 and GM Tuan Minh Le VIE 3085 – 9.5
5-8. GM Magnus Carlsen NOR 3231, IM Rudik Makarian INT 3035, GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda POL 3086 and GM Jose Martinez MEX 3106 – 9
9-19. GM Oleksandr Bortnyk USA 3127, GM Aleksei Sarana SRB 3163, GM Anton Demchenko SVN 2981, GM Andrew Hong USA 3045, GM Leinier Dominguez Perez USA 2938, GM Denis Lazavik BLR 3110, GM Jeffery Xiong USA 3108, GM Aleksandr Shimanov INT 3055, GM Rauf Mamedov UKR 3043, IM Kirill Klukin UAE 2869 and GM David Paravyan INT 2995 – 8.5
20-48. IM Nimrod Veinberg IOM 2836, IM Matvey Galchenko INT 2912, GM Dmitry Andreikin CPV 3080, GM Samvel Ter-Sahakyan ARM 2980, GM Hans Niemann USA 3227, FM Ivan Zemlyanskii RUS 2961, IM Bojan Maksimovic BIH 2931, GM Gata Kamsky USA 3017, IM Arad Nazari IRI 2745, FM Pawel Sowinski POL 2817, GM Mateusz Bartel POL 2864, GM Rodrigo Vasquez CHL 2880, IM Zou Chen INT 2815, GM Anish Giri NLD 3057, FM Ivan Yeletsky INT 2921, GM Maksim Chigaev ESP 2919, GM Matthias Bluebaum GER 3066, FM Aradhya Garg IND 2854, GM Sam Shankland USA 3050, FM Igor L. Vakhlamov INT 2865, GM Artem Omelja UKR 2719, GM Xu Yi CHN 2864 8, GM Vitaly Teterev BLR 2676, FM Roman Dehtiarov UKR 2803, GM Nils Grandelius SWE 2903, GM Dmitrij Kollars GER 3021, GM Velimir Ivic SRB 2962, IM Seo Jungmin SWE 2911 and CM Tomasz Jaskolka UGA 2577 – 8 etc
Harika Dronavalli was the top placed woman.
In the Late TT Nakamura again started with 7 consecutive wins before drawing Magnus Carlsen (again) and Nihal Sarin. Final victories against fellow streamers Jose Martinez and Oleksandr Bortnyk sealed the tournament. American GM Christopher Yoo surged to second place with 9,5 points, while Magnus Carlsen claimed third on superior tiebreaks.
Late Titled Tuesday top standings:
1 GM Hikaru Nakamura USA 3323 – 10
2 GM Christopher Woojin Yoo PNG 3038 – 9.5
3-7. GM Magnus Carlsen NOR 3231, GM Aleksei Sarana SRB 3163, GM Jose Martinez MEX 3106, GM Liem Le VIE 3072 and GM Bogdan Daniel Deac ROU 3054 – 9
8-13. GM Matthias Bluebaum GER 3066, GM Jeffery Xiong USA 3108, GM Oleksandr Bortnyk USA 3127, GM Sam Shankland USA 3050, GM Nihal Sarin BAR 3141 and GM Sergey Drygalov KOR 2950 – 8.5
14-29. GM Mikhail Panarin INT 2892, GM Giorgi Margvelashvili USA 2971, GM Daniel Naroditsky USA 2966, FM Gabriel Arteaga ESP 2896, FM Roman Yanchenko INT 2842, GM Gata Kamsky USA 3017, GM Vladimir Hamitevici MDA 2779, IM Nimrod Veinberg IOM 2836, GM Andrew Hong USA 3045, IM Enrique Tejedor Fuente ESP 2759, IM Dmitriy Kushko UKR 2851, CM Egor Baskakov INT 2927, GM Daniel Dardha BEL 2874, GM Nikita Matinian INT 2751, GM Aman Hambleton CAN 2725 and WGM Aleksandra Maltsevskaya POL 2676 – 8
30-41. IM Yahli Sokolovsky SWE 2795, GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda POL 3086, IM Filip Boe Olsen DEN 2741, GM David Paravyan INT 2995, IM Matvey Galchenko INT 2912, GM Alexander Rustemov INT 2844, GM Miguel Munoz ESP 2745, GM Jose Carlos Ibarra Jerez ESP 2971, FM Goltsev Dmitry INT 2760, FM Amir Hossein Doroodgar AZE 2635, IM Mark Timmermans NED 2770 and IM Nikoloz Petriashvili GEO 2723 – 7.5 etc
WGM Aleksandra Maltsevskaya was the top placed woman.
