The Late Titled Tuesday for 25th April gathered 414 participants. Titled Tuesday is Chess.comโs 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.
After a strong finish Grandmasters Nihal Sarin, Alexey Sarana and Yuriy Kuzubov shared the first place with 9,5/11 points each. The penultimate round sole leader GM Jose Martinez Alcantara lost to Sarana and dropped to 4th place.
Prize winners:
1st $1,000 โ Nihal Sarin
2nd $750 โ Alexey Sarana
3rd $350 โ Yuriy Kuzubov
4th $200 โ Jose Martinez Alcantara
5th $100 โ Oleksandr Bortnyk
Highest female player $100 โ IM Eline Roebers
Total (tournament) $2,500
Total (week) $5,000
Final standings:
1-3. GM Nihal Sarin 3168 IND, GM Alexey Sarana 3099 SRB and GM Yuriy Kuzubov 2943 UKR – 9.5
4-8. GM Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara 3052 PER, GM Oleksandr Bortnyk 3022 UKR, NM Valery Sviridov 2839 FID, GM Sergey Grigoriants 2941 HUN and GM Aryan Tari 2899 NOR – 9.0
9-10. GM Dmitry Andreikin 3055 INT and IM Renato Terry 2974 PER – 8.5
11-23. GM Daniel Naroditsky 3116 USA, GM Yasser Quesada Perez 2853 CUB, IM Rudik Makarian 3001 FID, GM Matthias Bluebaum 3032 GER, GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda 3046 POL, GM Fabiano Caruana 3082 USA, GM Gata Kamsky 2909 USA, IM Piotr Sabuk 2724 POL, GM Bogdan Daniel Deac 3040 ROU, GM Sergei Zhigalko 2903 INT, GM Rasmus Svane 2960 GER, GM Eric Hansen 2884 CAN and GM Alexander Rustemov 2809 FID – 8.0
24-34. GM Denis Lazavik 3017 FID, GM Dmitrij Kollars 3008 GER, GM Andrey Esipenko 2984 FID, GM David Anton Guijarro 2895 ESP, artin10862 2757 IRN, GM Rafael Leitao 2759 BRA, GM Aman Hambleton 2800 CAN, GM Conrad Holt 2796 USA, GM Mateusz Bartel 2837 POL, CM Faustino Oro 2743 ARG and FM Olexiy Bilych 2740 UKR 7.5 etc