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Another Perfect Start Precedes Rare Tie

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Another Perfect Start Precedes Rare Tie

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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.

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

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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