The latest editions of Titled Tuesday events took place on 7th May on Chess.com.
The popular chess streamer GM Minh Le from Vietnam claimed a victory in the Early Titled Tuesday after edging Nihal Sarin and Jan-Krzysztof Duda on tie-breaks. The three players finished on 9.5/11 points each.
Magnus Carlsen was the sole winner of the Late Titled Tuesday with 9.5/11 points, leaving a huge group of players half a point behind.
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 717 players in the Early and 524 in the Late event.
In the Early TT Minh Le was leading throughout the event until the loss to Nihal Sarin in the penultimate round jeopardized his chances to claim the first prize.
However, in the last round Nihal was held to a draw Bogdan Daniel Deac, allowing Minh Le and Jan-Krzysztof Duda to catch up on the top. Minh Le had the best tiebreak among the three.
Early Titled Tuesday top standings:
1-3. GM Tuan Minh Le VIE 3070, GM Nihal Sarin IND 3159 and GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda POL 3098 – 9.5
4-10. GM Bogdan Daniel Deac ROU 3126, GM Daniel Naroditsky USA 3132, GM Grigoriy Oparin USA 2982, GM Velimir Ivic SRB 2968, GM Matthias Bluebaum GER 3055, GM Leinier Dominguez Perez USA 3017 and GM Federico Perez Ponsa ARG 2943 – 9
11-18. GM Hikaru Nakamura USA 3230, GM Jeffery Xiong USA 3091, GM Thomas Beerdsen NED 2981, GM Magnus Carlsen NOR 3217, GM Oleksandr Bortnyk USA 3062, GM Vugar Rasulov AZE 2985, GM Aleksei Sarana SRB 3068 and GM Rauf Mamedov UKR 3018 – 8.5
19-38. GM Alireza Firouzja FRA 3194, GM Nitzan Steinberg ISR 2947, FM Tykhon Cherniaiev UKR 2888, GM Etienne Bacrot FRA 2945, GM Benjamin Bok NED 3034, GM Xu Yi CHN 2890, GM Gata Kamsky USA 2947, IM Kacper Drozdowski POL 2921, GM Alexei Shirov ESP 2916, GM Dmitry Andreikin INT 3079, GM Jaime Santos Latasa ESP 3035, GM Aram Hakobyan ARM 3104, GM Sergei Zhigalko INT 2870, CM Arush Chitre IND 2689, GM Danyyil Dvirnyy ITA 2971, GM Leonardo Tristan ARG 2782, FM Viktor Shapiro INT 2660, GM Srinath Narayanan IND 2848, IM Milosz Szpar POL 2852 and GM Dennis Wagner GER 2790 – 8 etc
In the Late TT Magnus Carlsen abandoned the goofy Viih_Sou Gambit that he was trying in the Early edition and this immediately bore result. After a mid-event loss to Leinier Dominguez Perez and a draw with Luca Moroni, Carlsen picked up a pace and scored four consecutive victories, including a beautiful rook ending against his arch-rival Hikaru Nakamura in the final round.
Exactly this win vs Nakamura propelled Carlsen ahead of the American to claim a clear first place with 9,5 points. Second place is a huge tie of nine players with 9 points each, with Aleksei Sarana being 2nd on tiebreaks, and Hikaru Nakamura being third.
Late Titled Tuesday top standings:
1 GM Magnus Carlsen NOR 3217 – 9.5
2-10. GM Aleksei Sarana SRB 3068, GM Hikaru Nakamura USA 3230, GM Jaime Santos Latasa ESP 3035, GM Alireza Firouzja FRA 3194, GM Christopher Woojin Yoo USA 2991, FM Igor L. Vakhlamov INT 2923, GM Bogdan Daniel Deac ROU 3126, GM Dmitrij Kollars GER 3052 and GM Matthias Bluebaum GER 3055 – 9
11-30. GM Luca Moroni Jr ITA 2894, GM Dmitry Andreikin INT 3079, GM Valery Kazakouski LTU 2906, GM Etienne Bacrot FRA 2945, GM Alexei Shirov ESP 2916, GM Mahammad Muradli AZE 2971, GM Vasif Durarbayli AZE 2954 and GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov UZB 3138 – 8.5
19-30. GM Leinier Dominguez Perez USA 3017, GM Sanan Sjugirov HUN 3021, GM Vugar Rasulov AZE 2985, IM Ryo Chen USA 2821, IM Renato Terry PER 3050, GM Pouya Idani IRI 2864, GM Kayden Troff USA 2881, GM Andrey Gorovets USA 2854, GM Grzegorz Nasuta POL 2801, GM Pavel Eljanov UKR 2869, GM Tamas Banusz HUN 2906 and FM Dmitry Tatarinov INT 2781 – 8
31-47. GM Oleksandr Bortnyk USA 3062, GM Liem Le VIE 3052, GM Sergey Grigoriants HUN 2891, GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda POL 3098, GM Jose Carlos Ibarra Jerez ESP 2905, IM Adar Tarhan TUR 2751, GM Jeffery Xiong USA 3091, IM Mark Timmermans NED 2756, GM Rafael Leitao BRA 2745, IM Fiorito Joaquin ARG 2777, GM Markus Ragger AUT 2826, GM Oskar Wieczorek POL 2803, FM Alex Sahakyan ARM 2856, IM Dmitriy Kushko UKR 2838, FM Goltsev Dmitry INT 2756, IM Yaacov Norowitz USA 2846 and IM Kirill Klukin INT 2825 – 7.5 etc
