Two weeks after an ideal 11/11 rating and one week after ending in second place twice, GM Magnus Carlsen was again within the Titled Tuesday win column on August 20, taking the late occasion with 9.5 factors. Successful early was GM Jaime Santos, additionally on 9.5 factors, his first win ever in Titled Tuesday. On the similar time, GM Jeffery Xiong duplicated Carlsen’s feat from final week, ending runner-up in each occasions.
Early Event
Santos was nearly excellent within the 681-player area by way of 10 rounds, solely making a draw within the sixth spherical towards GM Dmitry Andreikin. He gained his different 9 video games, together with within the tenth spherical towards GM Tuan Minh Le, who had been the final excellent participant (after seven rounds).
Santos now had an opportunity to run away with the event by a large margin, however to do this, he needed to get by way of GM Hikaru Nakamura. Santos put up an enormous combat however finally fell in 92 strikes, lucky that tiebreaks nonetheless favored him. Santos efficiently traded off a number of items, and even after his remoted pawn fell, there have been solely three pawns left on the board. However Nakamura made them inform.
For Nakamura, the win introduced him into third place. In between him and Santos was Xiong, who was the one participant to not lose a sport. Nonetheless, three attracts from rounds 5 by way of eight finally squandered his possibilities at victory. Within the last spherical towards Andreikin, Xiong nonetheless secured a knight on c3 after which secured second place, when the knight was about to information a handed pawn to queening, and Andreikin as a substitute gave up a bit.
| Quantity | Rk | Fed | Title | Username | Title | Score | Rating | Tiebreak 1 |
| 1 | 21 | GM | @h4parah5 | Jaime Santos Latasa | 2970 | 9.5 | 72 | |
| 2 | 7 | GM | @jefferyx | Jeffery Xiong | 3142 | 9.5 | 70 | |
| 3 | 2 | GM | @Hikaru | Hikaru Nakamura | 3227 | 9.5 | 68.5 | |
| 4 | 6 | GM | @FairChess_on_YouTube | Dmitry Andreikin | 3147 | 9 | 77 | |
| 5 | 8 | GM | @Javokhir_Sindarov05 | Javokhir Sindarov | 3090 | 9 | 72.5 | |
| 6 | 41 | GM | @ViIIagra | Cristobal Henriquez | 2917 | 9 | 70.5 | |
| 7 | 20 | GM | @wonderfultime | Tuan Minh Le | 3000 | 9 | 69.5 | |
| 8 | 53 | GM | @Nitzan_Steinberg | Nitzan Steinberg | 2914 | 9 | 68 | |
| 9 | 49 | GM | @K_A_S_T_O_R | Rodrigo Vasquez | 2893 | 9 | 63 | |
| 10 | 4 | GM | @DenLaz | Denis Lazavik | 3097 | 8.5 | 68.5 | |
| 11 | 114 | GM | @Aygehovit1992 | Nikita Matinian | 2777 | 8.5 | 68 | |
| 12 | 190 | GM | @Ginger_GM | Simon Williams | 2687 | 8.5 | 62.5 | |
| 13 | 25 | IM | @Kirill_Klukin | Kirill Klukin | 2962 | 8.5 | 62.5 | |
| 14 | 14 | GM | @Anton_Demchenko | Anton Demchenko | 3016 | 8.5 | 60.5 | |
| 15 | 31 | IM | @scarabee43 | Marco Materia | 2933 | 8.5 | 58 | |
| 16 | 316 | FM | @agartha01 | Arda Çamlar | 2597 | 8.5 | 55.5 | |
| 17 | 37 | FM | @GoltsevDmitry2000 | Goltsev Dmitry | 2871 | 8.5 | 55 | |
| 18 | 159 | FM | @tuschessCM1 | Svyatoslav Bazakutsa | 2741 | 8 | 75.5 | |
| 19 | 101 | IM | @BakaPG | Blažo Kalezić | 2795 | 8 | 70.5 | |
| 20 | 47 | IM | @AlmasRakhmatullaev | Almas Rakhmatullaev | 2920 | 8 | 69.5 | |
| 92 | 585 | WCM | @bitter-cikolata | Dila Baloglu | 2525 | 7 | 32.5 |
(Full last standings right here.)
Santos gained $1,000 for his efforts, whereas Xiong settled for $750 and Nakamura for $350. Six gamers tied for fourth place, Andreikin having by far the most effective tiebreaks and thus incomes $200, whereas GM Javokhir Sindarov completed fifth for $100. WCM Dila Baloglu gained the ladies’s prize of $100.
Late Event
Roles had been reversed from final week, when Xiong gained late, with Carlsen ending second. Neither participant misplaced a sport within the area of 511, however Xiong put himself in an early gap with a draw within the very first spherical. Carlsen, in the meantime, began 6/6 after which alternated attracts and victories the remainder of the way in which. It was sufficient to win straight up with out tiebreaks, a rarity for a rating of 9.5 factors.
The decisive spherical was finally the tenth, which started with a three-way tie atop the standings and ended with simply Carlsen up there after he defeated Andreikin in an endgame that seemed all however drawn till Andreikin erred—imperceptibly to the newbie eye—and Carlsen labored his magic.
Xiong, in the meantime, defeated Nakamura way more bluntly in an… Advance French? (Some would say there isn’t any such factor as a complicated French Protection.)
After the mud had cleared, three gamers on eight factors had turn into Carlsen alone on 9. Xiong remained behind the proverbial eight-ball due to his early draw, however now he obtained a one-on-one showdown with Carlsen for an opportunity at taking the event.
However Magnus needing solely a draw with White—nobody in addition to Xiong was even a half-point again of him—is a troublesome scenario for any grandmaster to face. Regardless of castling on reverse sides, which regularly results in fireworks, Xiong was unable to get even the beginnings of an assault going, and a quiet 47-move repetition ended his possibilities.
August 20 Titled Tuesday | Late | Closing Standings (Prime 20)
| Quantity | Rk | Fed | Title | Username | Title | Score | Rating | Tiebreak 1 |
| 1 | 1 | GM | @MagnusCarlsen | Magnus Carlsen | 3266 | 9.5 | 76 | |
| 2 | 5 | GM | @jefferyx | Jeffery Xiong | 3142 | 9 | 77 | |
| 3 | 4 | GM | @FairChess_on_YouTube | Dmitry Andreikin | 3147 | 9 | 74.5 | |
| 4 | 3 | GM | @SpeedofLight0 | Andrew Hong | 3165 | 9 | 73 | |
| 5 | 2 | GM | @Hikaru | Hikaru Nakamura | 3227 | 9 | 73 | |
| 6 | 9 | GM | @Msb2 | Matthias Bluebaum | 3102 | 9 | 71.5 | |
| 7 | 84 | GM | @KNVB | Aman Hambleton | 2797 | 9 | 66 | |
| 8 | 8 | GM | @DanielNaroditsky | Daniel Naroditsky | 3146 | 9 | 64 | |
| 9 | 13 | GM | @ChristopherYoo | Christopher Woojin Yoo | 3025 | 8.5 | 74 | |
| 10 | 72 | IM | @DrKerfuffle | Nicolás Abarca | 2836 | 8.5 | 68 | |
| 11 | 38 | GM | @Durarbayli | Vasif Durarbayli | 2883 | 8.5 | 65.5 | |
| 12 | 11 | GM | @Jospem | Jose Martinez | 3085 | 8.5 | 63 | |
| 13 | 32 | FM | @ELECTRODYNAMIC_DRACULA | Havard Haug | 2917 | 8.5 | 62.5 | |
| 14 | 39 | GM | @GMKrikor | Krikor Sevag Mekhitarian | 2875 | 8.5 | 56.5 | |
| 15 | 16 | IM | @MITerryble | Renato Terry | 3018 | 8 | 77 | |
| 16 | 26 | GM | @DanielDardha2005 | Daniel Dardha | 2950 | 8 | 76.5 | |
| 17 | 40 | GM | @TigrVShlyape | Gata Kamsky | 2910 | 8 | 73.5 | |
| 18 | 12 | GM | @jcibarra | José Carlos Ibarra Jerez | 3034 | 8 | 73.5 | |
| 19 | 23 | GM | @sergiochess83 | Sergey Grigoriants | 2954 | 8 | 67.5 | |
| 20 | 21 | IM | @Kirill_Klukin | Kirill Klukin | 2962 | 8 | 67 | |
| 70 | 231 | WGM | @Atousa | Atousa Pourkashiyan | 2552 | 7 | 49.5 |
(Full last standings right here.)
Carlsen gained $1,000, recovering from a disappointing earlier displaying. Xiong took residence one other $750 for a complete of $1,500 on the day. Andreikin additionally returned to the highest 5, this time profitable $350 in third for an general $550 payday, whereas GM Andrew Hong completed fourth for $200. The $100 prizes had been a household affair: Nakamura completed fifth (totaling $450 in each tournaments), and WGM Atousa Pourkashiyan gained the ladies’s prize a number of weeks after their first marriage ceremony anniversary.
Titled Cup Standings
Carlsen grew to become the second participant to succeed in 190 factors within the standings, and it appears unlikely that anybody will be a part of him and Nakamura there. Xiong and Andreikin are lurking half some extent beneath fifth place. The ladies’s standings noticed no adjustments within the high 5 this week.
Open
| # | Username | Rating | Participant |
| 1 | @Hikaru | 198.5 | GM Hikaru Nakamura |
| 2 | @MagnusCarlsen | 190.0 | GM Magnus Carlsen |
| 3 | @Polish_fighter3000 | 185.5 | GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda |
| 4 | @mishanick | 185.0 | GM Alexey Sarana |
| 5 | @Jospem | 183.5 | GM Jose Martinez |
Ladies
| # | Username | Rating | Participant |
| 1 | @ChessQueen | 141.0 | GM Alexandra Kosteniuk |
| 2-t | @Goryachkina | 140.5 | GM Aleksandra Goryachkina |
| 2-t | @Flawless_Fighter | 140.5 | IM Polina Shuvalova |
| 4 | @Meri-Arabidze | 137.5 | IM Meri Arabidze |
| 5 | @karinachess1 | 135.5 | IM Karina Ambartsumova |
Different Class Leaders
Juniors: GM Denis Lazavik (182.0 factors)
Seniors: GM Gata Kamsky (169.0 factors)
Ladies: WCM Veronika Shubenkova (115.0 factors)
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