GMs Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura received the July 9 editions of Titled Tuesday. It is the fourth time the world’s two greatest blitz chess gamers have every received one of many Tuesday occasions, however solely the primary time this 12 months, final occurring on December 19, 2023.
Carlsen received the early occasion on 10 factors after defeating GM Hans Niemann within the last spherical. Nakamura then blew away the late discipline with 10.5 factors. Moreover, IM Anna M. Sargsyan swept each ladies’s prizes.
Early Event
Within the discipline of 706 gamers, Carlsen and GM Andrey Esipenko each began on 7/7, however would draw their sport within the eighth spherical earlier than Carlsen drew and Esipenko misplaced in spherical 9. Now 5 gamers shared the lead, however solely two of them would win within the tenth spherical.
Carlsen was one in every of them, in fact, beating 13-year-old GM-elect Ivan Zemlyanskii in 37 strikes with the bizarre 3.Bc4 within the Sicilian.
The one participant to maintain up with Carlsen was Niemann, who did so with a win towards GM Aleksandar Indjic. It took Niemann a bit longer, 54 strikes, however once more the consequence was a White win on time with checkmate imminent.
And so the showdown between these two adversaries was set. Niemann had the benefit of transferring first and constructed up a stable middle, however Carlsen discovered 4 “solely strikes” in a stretch of 5 turns from 19-23, and coasted to victory from there. Niemann performed to the bitter finish and was checkmated on transfer 41.
Niemann nonetheless completed in third place however was leapfrogged by GM Denis Lazavik who, like Carlsen, received his final two video games. A single blunder on transfer 49 from 12-year-old FM Ethan Vaz dropped a pawn, deciding the sport as Lazavik completed an outright second place on 9.5 factors.
July 9 Titled Tuesday | Early | Last Standings (Prime 20)
| Quantity | Rk | Fed | Title | Username | Title | Ranking | Rating | Tiebreak 1 |
| 1 | 3 | GM | @MagnusCarlsen | Magnus Carlsen | 3201 | 10 | 72 | |
| 2 | 5 | GM | @DenLaz | Denis Lazavik | 3157 | 9.5 | 73.5 | |
| 3 | 6 | GM | @HansOnTwitch | Hans Niemann | 3140 | 9 | 74.5 | |
| 4 | 7 | GM | @Jospem | Jose Martinez | 3117 | 9 | 73 | |
| 5 | 36 | CM | @ChessFighter_2011 | Dau Khuong Duy | 2973 | 9 | 68.5 | |
| 6 | 2 | GM | @GHANDEEVAM2003 | Arjun Erigaisi | 3177 | 9 | 68 | |
| 7 | 98 | GM | @David_Arutinian | David Arutinian | 2865 | 9 | 65 | |
| 8 | 86 | IM | @MetiForce | Mahdi Gholami Orimi | 2890 | 9 | 63.5 | |
| 9 | 13 | GM | @champ2005 | Raunak Sadhwani | 3036 | 9 | 61 | |
| 10 | 24 | GM | @FGHSMN | Bharath Subramaniyam H. | 3008 | 8.5 | 69 | |
| 11 | 40 | GM | @Sychev_Klementy | Klementy Sychev | 2956 | 8.5 | 66.5 | |
| 12 | 114 | FM | @jumpingknight20 | Ethan Vaz | 2834 | 8.5 | 66.5 | |
| 13 | 8 | GM | @mishanick | Aleksei Sarana | 3113 | 8.5 | 66 | |
| 14 | 50 | GM | @eljanov | Pavel Eljanov | 2951 | 8.5 | 65 | |
| 15 | 45 | GM | @nrvisakh | Visakh NR | 2931 | 8.5 | 64 | |
| 16 | 51 | FM | @snowlord | Ivan Yeletsky | 2930 | 8.5 | 63 | |
| 17 | 46 | GM | @Fandorine | Maksim Chigaev | 2932 | 8.5 | 60.5 | |
| 18 | 70 | IM | @Seochesspie | Web optimization Jungmin | 2954 | 8.5 | 60.5 | |
| 19 | 16 | FM | @Prizant_academy | Ivan Zemlyanskii | 3003 | 8 | 74.5 | |
| 20 | 25 | GM | @Volodar_Murzin | Volodar Murzin | 3001 | 8 | 73.5 | |
| 37 | 201 | IM | @annasargsyan_m | Anna M. Sargsyan | 2696 | 8 | 54.5 |
(Full last standings right here.)
Carlsen received $1,000 for his efforts whereas Lazavik earned $750. Niemann claimed $350 in third place, GM Jose Martinez $200 in fourth, and 12-year-old CM Dau Khuong Duy $100 in fifth, whereas 4 different gamers on 9 factors missed out on the highest 5 by tiebreaks. Sargsyan received the $100 ladies’s prize by scoring eight factors.
Late Event
For Nakamura, his victory over a discipline of 520 gamers was his second straight late occasion win. After needing tiebreaks final week, this efficiency was much more dominant, with a sixth-round draw towards GM Christopher Yoo the one factor retaining Nakamura from his third excellent rating in Titled Tuesday. As an alternative, he “solely” earned his sixth 10.5-point Tuesday.
As a result of his draw got here considerably early, Nakamura did not take sole lead of the event till his eighth-round win over IM Luke Harmon-Vellotti. Regardless of having the second transfer, Nakamura received the sport moderately simply after Harmon-Vellotti determined to not play the standard 2.exd5 towards Nakamura’s Scandinavian Protection.
After that, it was easy crusing for Nakamura. He defeated GM Arjun Erigaisi in spherical 9 and GM David Anton in spherical 10, ballooning his result in a full level as the ultimate spherical started. GM Fabiano Caruana was his opponent, and had an opportunity to take a share of the lead.
The sport was a 61-move battle through which Caruana’s bold fifteenth transfer did not fairly repay. Nonetheless, Nakamura needed to win the sport 3 times in a difficult endgame. Caruana’s 53.Nf2 was the ultimate blow to his probabilities.
With the ultimate consequence, Caruana fell to sixth place, whereas Nakamura put collectively his fifteenth Titled Tuesday win of the 12 months and sixtieth of the two-a-day period.
July 9 Titled Tuesday | Late | Last Standings (Prime 20)
| Quantity | Rk | Fed | Title | Username | Title | Ranking | Rating | Tiebreak 1 |
| 1 | 1 | GM | @Hikaru | Hikaru Nakamura | 3236 | 10.5 | 69.5 | |
| 2 | 116 | IM | @vellottiwizard | Luke Harmon-Vellotti | 2796 | 9.5 | 79.5 | |
| 3 | 3 | GM | @GHANDEEVAM2003 | Arjun Erigaisi | 3180 | 9 | 76 | |
| 4 | 31 | GM | @Fandorine | Maksim Chigaev | 2949 | 9 | 71 | |
| 5 | 10 | GM | @Javokhir_Sindarov05 | Javokhir Sindarov | 3067 | 8.5 | 72.5 | |
| 6 | 2 | GM | @FabianoCaruana | Fabiano Caruana | 3173 | 8.5 | 72.5 | |
| 7 | 28 | GM | @ChessLover0108 | Mahammad Muradli | 2952 | 8.5 | 72 | |
| 8 | 19 | GM | @OparinGrigoriy | Grigoriy Oparin | 3024 | 8.5 | 69 | |
| 9 | 13 | GM | @champ2005 | Raunak Sadhwani | 3045 | 8.5 | 67.5 | |
| 10 | 8 | GM | @DanielNaroditsky | Daniel Naroditsky | 3122 | 8.5 | 64 | |
| 11 | 12 | GM | @Oleksandr_Bortnyk | Oleksandr Bortnyk | 3055 | 8.5 | 62.5 | |
| 12 | 26 | IM | @Seochesspie | Web optimization Jungmin | 2931 | 8.5 | 61.5 | |
| 13 | 24 | GM | @TigrVShlyape | Gata Kamsky | 2978 | 8.5 | 49.5 | |
| 14 | 4 | GM | @SpeedofLight0 | Andrew Hong | 3118 | 8 | 76.5 | |
| 15 | 44 | IM | @MetiForce | Mahdi Gholami Orimi | 2908 | 8 | 74 | |
| 16 | 14 | GM | @tptagain | David Anton Guijarro | 3040 | 8 | 73 | |
| 17 | 23 | GM | @VladimirKramnik | Vladimir Kramnik | 2985 | 8 | 68.5 | |
| 18 | 5 | GM | @Jospem | Jose Martinez | 3089 | 8 | 66 | |
| 19 | 41 | GM | @Igor_Janik | Igor Janik | 2888 | 8 | 65 | |
| 20 | 30 | FM | @Bauman_Guy | Konstantin Popov | 2927 | 8 | 64.5 | |
| 45 | 115 | IM | @annasargsyan_m | Anna M. Sargsyan | 2706 | 7.5 | 54.5 |
(Full last standings right here.)
Nakamura received the $1,000 first-place prize whereas Harmon-Vellotti claimed second place and $750. Arjun completed third for $350 and GM Maksim Chigaev fourth for $200. In a relative rarity, 8.5 factors was adequate for fifth place, which went to GM Javokhir Sindarov for $100. With 7.5 factors, Sargsyan received one other $100 ladies’s prize, for $200 on the day.
Titled Cup Standings
Nakamura is three extra 10.5-point performances from an unthinkable 200 factors within the Titled Cup standings, and given he has 5 already, he’s truly on tempo to tug it off. In the meantime we’re down to 5 factors of separation between first and fifth within the ladies’s standings, with just one level totally different between first-place GM Alexandra Kosteniuk and second-place GM Aleksandra Goryachkina. Regardless of her sweep this week, Sargsyan has solely performed 18 occasions to this point and presently ranks fifteenth.
Open
| # | Username | Rating | Participant |
| 1 | @Hikaru | 198.5 | GM Hikaru Nakamura |
| 2 | @Polish_fighter3000 | 185.0 | GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda |
| 3 | @mishanick | 184.5 | GM Alexey Sarana |
| 4 | @Jospem | 181.5 | GM Jose Martinez |
| 5 | @wonderfultime | 180.5 | GM Tuan Minh Le |
| 4 | @FairChess_on_YouTube | 180.5 | GM Dmitry Andreikin |
Girls
| # | Username | Rating | Participant |
| 1 | @ChessQueen | 139.5 | GM Alexandra Kosteniuk |
| 2 | @Goryachkina | 138.5 | GM Aleksandra Goryachkina |
| 3-t | @Meri-Arabidze | 136.5 | IM Meri Arabidze |
| 3-t | @Flawless_Fighter | 136.5 | IM Polina Shuvalova |
| 5 | @karinachess1 | 134.5 | IM Karina Ambartsumova |
Different Class Leaders
Juniors: GM Denis Lazavik (180.0 factors)
Seniors: GM Gata Kamsky (167.5 factors)
Ladies: WCM Veronika Shubenkova (113.5 factors)
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