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GM Sam Shankland started Titled Tuesday with a 9/9 rating earlier than successful the early occasion with a rating of 10/11. In the late occasion, a six-way tie for first place on 9 factors was not utterly damaged, leaving GMs Alexey Sarana and Bogdan-Daniel Deac in equal first place. It was solely the second tie in Titled Tuesday this yr and, in an oddity, Deac has been concerned in each of them.
Early Tournament
With the continuing Fischer Random World Championship occupying GMs Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura, the sector of 417 gamers within the early event was nonetheless a robust one, together with GMs Fabiano Caruana, Alireza Firouzja, Dmitry Andreikin, Daniil Dubov, Jose Martinez, and Oleksandr Bortnyk. The final three all positioned within the prime 5, however Shankland outlasted everyone.
It was the second straight week with a participant beginning on 9/9. Like GM Tuan Minh Le final week, Shankland took a draw within the tenth spherical. Players usually look to lock up the event in that place, as an alternative of taking larger dangers to acquire an ideal rating.
Ultimately, the battle for first was determined within the sixth spherical, when Shankland met Martinez. Considering all of the loopy openings we have seen in Titled Tuesday within the earlier two weeks, the Classical Nimzo-Indian was a little bit of a reduction.
Two rounds later, Shankland contested one other vital endgame and this time outplayed Caruana. Perhaps a small measure of revenge for Caruana not too long ago successful the U.S. championship—his second one, which broke a tie with the 2018 champion Shankland.
Outside of his loss to Shankland, Martinez additionally crushed it, solely drawing one different recreation to complete in outright second place with 9.5/11. In the ultimate spherical, Martinez toppled Andreikin (who has gained extra Titled Tuesdays within the final couple of years than anybody apart from Nakamura) to clinch silver.
For Shankland, the event victory was notably welcome. He additionally introduced his Chess.com blitz score above 3000 for the primary time.
It felt so nice to win Titled Tuesday at this time. I’ve by no means been capable of convey my blitz to the identical degree as my classical chess, and after a ton of irritating outcomes, successful a prime event was such a reduction. pic.twitter.com/Uqs8rIKkcq
— Sam Shankland (@SamShankland) October 25, 2022
October 25 Titled Tuesday | Early | Final Standings (Top 20)
Number | Rk | Fed | Title | Username | Name | Rating | Score | SB |
1 | 16 | GM | @Shankland | Sam Shankland | 3004 | 10 | 69.25 | |
2 | 4 | GM | @Jospem | Jose Martinez | 3078 | 9.5 | 57.75 | |
3 | 8 | GM | @Oleksandr_Bortnyk | Oleksandr Bortnyk | 2996 | 9 | 61 | |
4 | 11 | GM | @OparinGrigoriy | Grigoriy Oparin | 3015 | 9 | 60.75 | |
5 | 13 | GM | @Duhless | Daniil Dubov | 2987 | 9 | 59.25 | |
6 | 3 | GM | @exoticprincess | Baadur Jobava | 3089 | 8.5 | 58.25 | |
7 | 15 | GM | @SantoBlue | Vahap Sanal | 2926 | 8.5 | 55.5 | |
8 | 6 | GM | @FabianoCaruana | Fabiano Caruana | 3038 | 8.5 | 54.25 | |
9 | 28 | GM | @Nemegejas | Paulius Pultinevičius | 2881 | 8.5 | 52.25 | |
10 | 81 | GM | @DanielDardha2005 | Daniel Dardha | 2829 | 8.5 | 51.5 | |
11 | 37 | GM | @frederiksvane | Frederik Svane | 2874 | 8.5 | 40.75 | |
12 | 14 | GM | @Parhamov | Parham Maghsoodloo | 2962 | 8 | 53 | |
13 | 20 | GM | @BillieKimbah | Maxim Matlakov | 2927 | 8 | 52.5 | |
14 | 7 | GM | @TruthfulChess_on_YouTube | Dmitry Andreikin | 3021 | 8 | 51.25 | |
15 | 91 | GM | @Evgeny81 | Evgeny Postny | 2782 | 8 | 50.5 | |
16 | 57 | IM | @Gareth-Bale11 | Mamikon Gharibyan | 2848 | 8 | 49.5 | |
16 | 53 | GM | @Genghis_K | Federico Perez Ponsa | 2836 | 8 | 49.5 | |
18 | 21 | GM | @TigrVShlyape | Gata Kamsky | 2906 | 8 | 48.25 | |
19 | 99 | FM | @Jalapeno_Tractor_Schuppen | 2746 | 8 | 48 | ||
20 | 2 | GM | @dropstoneDP | David Paravyan | 3055 | 8 | 44 | |
20 | 137 | GM | @Chernobay_Artem | Artem Chernobay | 2663 | 8 | 44 | |
56 | 116 | WGM | @Meri-Arabidze | Meri Arabidze | 2648 | 7 | 31.25 |
(Full last standings right here.)
Shankland gained $1,000 for his efforts with Martinez successful $750. Bortnyk took the $350 third-place prize and GM Grigoriy Oparin $200 for fourth. The $100 prizes went to Dubov in fifth place and WGM Meri Arabidze with the very best rating among the many girls who performed, 7/11.
Late Tournament
Shankland took a well-deserved break from the late event, leaving what turned out to be a scrum of a battle for first place in a subject of 349. When the primary and sixth gamers are on the identical rating, somebody (or “some ones”) fortunate goes to win a great amount of cash, and somebody unfortunate will get none.
In the state of affairs that had unfolded by the top of 10 rounds, it was taking attracts that immediately grew to become the dangerous technique. Firouzja and Kollars led the sector with 8.5 factors, simply forward of a whopping eight gamers on 8/10 and one other six on 7.5 factors. Although the leaders performed an actual recreation in opposition to one another, they may solely make a attract 68 strikes, and in the end ended up in fifth and sixth place.
The eventual co-winners Deac and Sarana defeated GM David Paravyan and Martinez, respectively. In an analogous theme to the early event, it was an endgame with White that produced Deac’s victory.
Sarana, in the meantime, defeated his opponent, Martinez, who was going for one more excessive podium end. In one other endgame, this time Black gained.
Third place in the end went to GM Daniel Naroditsky after his battle with one other well-known streamer, GM Eric Hansen. 75 strikes, this one lasted.
October 25 Titled Tuesday | Late | Final Standings (Top 20)
Number | Rk | Fed | Title | Username | Name | Rating | Score | SB |
1 | 11 | GM | @BogdanDeac | Bogdan Daniel Deac | 3026 | 9 | 58.5 | |
1 | 10 | GM | @mishanick | Alexey Sarana | 3032 | 9 | 58.5 | |
3 | 1 | GM | @DanielNaroditsky | Daniel Naroditsky | 3170 | 9 | 58 | |
4 | 24 | GM | @howitzer14 | David Howell | 2904 | 9 | 54.5 | |
5 | 3 | GM | @Firouzja2003 | Alireza Firouzja | 3111 | 9 | 50 | |
6 | 21 | GM | @GM_dmitrij | Dmitrij Kollars | 2954 | 9 | 48 | |
7 | 1 | GM | @champ2005 | Raunak Sadhwani | 2993 | 8.5 | 53 | |
8 | 13 | GM | @ChristopherYoo | Christopher Woojin Yoo | 2985 | 8.5 | 50.25 | |
9 | 4 | GM | @Jospem | Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara | 3078 | 8 | 55 | |
10 | 16 | GM | @jcibarra | José Carlos Ibarra Jerez | 2940 | 8 | 46 | |
11 | 33 | GM | @Zhigalko_Sergei | Sergei Zhigalko | 2877 | 8 | 45.5 | |
11 | 37 | GM | @Alexandr_Predke | Alexandr Predke | 2887 | 8 | 45.5 | |
13 | 27 | GM | @TigrVShlyape | Gata Kamsky | 2906 | 8 | 45 | |
14 | 12 | GM | @erichansen | Eric Hansen | 2977 | 8 | 44.5 | |
15 | 19 | GM | @Aleksey_Sorokin | Aleksey Sorokin | 2935 | 8 | 42.25 | |
16 | 79 | IM | @Jaaborok | Asylbek Abdyjapar | 2744 | 8 | 40.5 | |
17 | 2 | GM | @dropstoneDP | David Paravyan | 3055 | 8 | 35.5 | |
17 | 58 | IM | @Vuk2000 | Vuk Djordjevic | 2775 | 8 | 35.5 | |
19 | 6 | GM | @FabianoCaruana | Fabiano Caruana | 3038 | 7.5 | 43.75 | |
20 | 29 | FM | @snowlord | Ivan Yeletsky | 2870 | 7.5 | 42.25 | |
34 | 107 | IM | @AnotherGrumpy | Anna M Sargsyan | 2624 | 7 | 35.75 |
(Full last standings right here.)
Deac and Sarana every earned $875 atop the standings. Naroditsky took residence $350, GM David Howell $200, and Firouzja $100 whereas Kollars was out of luck. The $100 girls’s prize went to IM Anna M Sargsyan on 7/11.
Titled Tuesday is a Chess.com occasion held weekly for titled gamers. There are two 11-round Swiss tournaments each Tuesday, beginning at 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time/17:00 Central European and a couple of:00 p.m. Pacific Time/23:00 Central European.
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