The latest editions of Titled Tuesday events took place on 19th March on Chess.com.
Indian rising star Pranav V emerged clear winner of the Early Titled Tuesday with 10/11 points.
Magnus Carlsen won the Late Titled Tuesday with 9,5/11 points, but only after edging the Chinese GM Xu Xiangyu on second tiebreak.
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 656 players in the Early and 579 in the Late event.
In the Early TT Pranav V suffered his only loss in round 5, and then a series of six consecutive wins, include those against Hikaru Nakamura and Denis Lazavik, lifted him to the top of the table.
Early Titled Tuesday top standings:
- GM Pranav V 3092 – 10 71
- GM Luca Moroni Jr 2907 9.5 68.5
3-8. GM Denis Lazavik, GM Oleksandr Bortnyk 3075, GM Dmitry Andreikin 3147, GM Nihal Sarin 3178, GM Kirill Alekseenko 3062 and FM Sina Movahed 3104 – 9
9-17. GM Dmitrij Kollars 3101, GM Magnus Carlsen 3255, GM Alireza Firouzja 3100, GM Aleksei Sarana 3129, GM Gata Kamsky 2935, GM Aryan Tari 3024, GM Aleksandr Shimanov 3018, GM Jeffery Xiong 3095 and IM Joaquin Fiorito 2780 – 8.5 etc
Harika Dronavalli was the top placed woman.
In the Late TT, Magnus Carlsen, Xu Xiangyu and Arjun Erigaisi shared the first place with 9,5/11 points each. Erigaisi had the weakest first tiebreak ending up on the third place. However, Carlsen and Xu, who were neck to neck in almost entire tournament, had the same first tiebreak score, and only on the second tiebreak did Carlsen edge Xu by a narrowest margin of half a point.
Late Titled Tuesday top standings:
1-3. GM Magnus Carlsen 3263, GM Xu Xiangyu 3012 and GM Arjun Erigaisi 3072 – 9.5
4-10. GM Oleksandr Bortnyk 3095, GM Jeffery Xiong 3105, GM Harsha Bharathakoti 2973, GM Fabiano Caruana 3096, GM Jose Martinez 3070, GM Sanan Sjugirov 3028 and GM Andrew Hong 3073 – 9
11-15. GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda 3137, GM Mitrabha Guha 3104, GM Benjamin Bok 2982, GM Alexander Grischuk 3050 and GM Hikaru Nakamura 3259 – 8.5 etc
