GMs Alexey Sarana and Oleksandr Bortnyk scored 10 factors every within the early and late Titled Tuesdays of June 4, respectively, incomes Sarana his second victory of the yr and Bortnyk his first. Neither required tiebreaks, each successful outright.
Early Event
For the second straight week, Titled Tuesday misplaced a few of its strongest regulars to the Norway Chess match, but it surely nonetheless introduced in a wholesome participant depend of 727.
Sarana sprinted to a 7/7 begin, ending that preliminary run towards 15-year-old Turkish phenom GM Ediz Gurel, outplaying him in an endgame to win with Black.
Veteran GM Levon Aronian (who was the world’s seventh-ranked participant when Gurel was born) lastly held Sarana to a draw, however Sarana got here proper again with two straight wins. Sarana thus entered the ultimate spherical with a half-point match lead over GM Daniel Naroditsky, who reached that place with six straight wins from rounds 5 by way of 10, finishing that streak towards GM Ramil Hasangatin.
And so the ultimate spherical was the not-so-unusual scenario of 1 participant within the lead needing a draw to carry the match, whereas a win for the opponent would swap the standings. The sport was considerably anticlimactic, nonetheless, as Sarana performed White and simply traded down right into a useless bishop ending.
Extra attention-grabbing was the sport that earned GM Jakhongir Vakhidov third place, as a collection of blows beginning on transfer 37 towards GM Jose Martinez produced an awesome materials benefit.
Rounding out the highest 5 had been two acquainted names, GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi and Dmitry Andreikin, with the very best tiebreaks for the gamers on 9 factors.
June 4 Titled Tuesday | Early | Last Standings (High 20)
| Quantity | Rk | Fed | Title | Username | Title | Ranking | Rating | Tiebreak 1 |
| 1 | 8 | GM | @mishanick | Aleksei Sarana | 3095 | 10 | 69 | |
| 2 | 5 | GM | @DanielNaroditsky | Daniel Naroditsky | 3084 | 9.5 | 75.5 | |
| 3 | 48 | GM | @Jakhongir-Vakhidov | Jakhongir Vakhidov | 2966 | 9.5 | 73.5 | |
| 4 | 13 | GM | @lachesisQ | Ian Nepomniachtchi | 3048 | 9 | 70 | |
| 5 | 4 | GM | @FairChess_on_YouTube | Dmitry Andreikin | 3083 | 9 | 69 | |
| 6 | 31 | IM | @Szparu | Miłosz Szpar | 2987 | 9 | 66 | |
| 7 | 16 | GM | @Oleksandr_Bortnyk | Oleksandr Bortnyk | 3031 | 9 | 65 | |
| 8 | 18 | GM | @vi_pranav | Pranav V | 3012 | 9 | 63 | |
| 9 | 35 | GM | @Durarbayli | Vasif Durarbayli | 2945 | 9 | 56 | |
| 10 | 15 | GM | @Jospem | Jose Martinez | 3040 | 8.5 | 74.5 | |
| 11 | 14 | GM | @BogdanDeac | Bogdan Daniel Deac | 3040 | 8.5 | 70 | |
| 12 | 76 | IM | @scarabee43 | Marco Materia | 2863 | 8.5 | 68.5 | |
| 13 | 55 | GM | @Zhigalko_Sergei | Sergei Zhigalko | 2918 | 8.5 | 68 | |
| 14 | 32 | GM | @dropstoneDP | David Paravyan | 2966 | 8.5 | 65.5 | |
| 15 | 28 | GM | @Sanan_Sjugirov | Sanan Sjugirov | 2960 | 8.5 | 63.5 | |
| 16 | 6 | GM | @wonderfultime | Tuan Minh Le | 3055 | 8.5 | 61 | |
| 17 | 87 | IM | @Legendinunknown | Harshavardhan GB | 2842 | 8.5 | 61 | |
| 18 | 7 | GM | @viditchess | Vidit Gujrathi | 3055 | 8.5 | 60 | |
| 19 | 70 | FM | @Aradhya2000 | Aradhya Garg | 2876 | 8 | 75 | |
| 20 | 175 | GM | @Hasangatin_Ramil | Ramil Hasangatin | 2740 | 8 | 73 | |
| 56 | 339 | IM | @annasargsyan_m | Anna M. Sargsyan | 2581 | 7.5 | 59 |
(Full closing standings right here.)
Sarana gained $1,000 for his efforts, whereas Naroditsky took house $750 and Vakhidov $350, with $200 going to Nepomniachtchi and $100 to Andreikin. The $100 girls’s prize went to IM Anna M. Sargsyan.
Late Event
Within the subject of 525, Bortnyk made his first attract simply the fifth recreation, whereas the longest length of perfection was the primary eight video games from GM Pavel Eljanov. Who stopped this streak however Bortnyk, after all, who gained on time with a place the engine deemed barely higher however was trying drawish… if Bortnyk didn’t nonetheless have 42 seconds when Eljanov’s clock hit zeroes.
Sadly for Eljanov, he spiraled from there, however to be honest, he needed to take care of Nepomniachtchi and Andreikin in these final two video games.
With a spherical left, Bortnyk held a full-point lead on 4 gamers tied for second. Like Sarana, a draw was sufficient for Bortnyk to clinch, and like Sarana, Bortnyk did. The ultimate place, towards GM Daniil Dubov, was a relatively amusing stalemate.
I gained TT!
— Oleksandr Bortnyk (@BortnykChess) June 4, 2024
The actual battle of the final word spherical was the wild slugfest between Andreikin and Martinez, with the winner prone to take second place. Andreikin emerged in an outright second place, because the final participant who entered on 8.5 factors, GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda, misplaced to GM Hans Niemann. In the end, neither of these two completed within the high 5.
The late match additionally noticed one of many strongest girls’s prize winners in a while, with GM Zhu Jiner ending in nineteenth place on eight factors after successful relatively simply with Black within the closing spherical towards GM Vladimir Onischuk.
June 4 Titled Tuesday | Late | Last Standings (High 20)
| Quantity | Rk | Fed | Title | Username | Title | Ranking | Rating | Tiebreak 1 |
| 1 | 13 | GM | @Oleksandr_Bortnyk | Oleksandr Bortnyk | 3062 | 10 | 77.5 | |
| 2 | 6 | GM | @FairChess_on_YouTube | Dmitry Andreikin | 3094 | 9.5 | 62.5 | |
| 3 | 27 | FM | @rezamahdavi2008 | Reza Mahdavi | 2970 | 9 | 81 | |
| 4 | 4 | GM | @Duhless | Daniil Dubov | 3114 | 9 | 77.5 | |
| 5 | 14 | IM | @MITerryble | Renato Terry | 3038 | 9 | 71.5 | |
| 6 | 5 | GM | @jefferyx | Jeffery Xiong | 3091 | 9 | 68 | |
| 7 | 10 | GM | @lachesisQ | Ian Nepomniachtchi | 3047 | 9 | 66.5 | |
| 8 | 3 | GM | @HansOnTwitch | Hans Niemann | 3144 | 9 | 64 | |
| 9 | 39 | GM | @Kiborg95 | Denis Kadric | 2928 | 8.5 | 77 | |
| 10 | 7 | GM | @Polish_fighter3000 | Jan-Krzysztof Duda | 3076 | 8.5 | 73 | |
| 11 | 11 | GM | @Jospem | Jose Martinez | 3036 | 8.5 | 69 | |
| 12 | 1 | GM | @nihalsarin | Nihal Sarin | 3218 | 8.5 | 67 | |
| 13 | 32 | GM | @jcibarra | José Carlos Ibarra Jerez | 2927 | 8.5 | 60.5 | |
| 14 | 33 | GM | @Zhigalko_Sergei | Sergei Zhigalko | 2928 | 8.5 | 60 | |
| 15 | 34 | GM | @eljanov | Pavel Eljanov | 2938 | 8 | 79 | |
| 16 | 45 | GM | @TigrVShlyape | Gata Kamsky | 2919 | 8 | 74.5 | |
| 17 | 59 | GM | @JSPrepz | Johan-Sebastian Christiansen | 2850 | 8 | 72 | |
| 18 | 12 | GM | @Msb2 | Matthias Bluebaum | 3030 | 8 | 70.5 | |
| 19 | 131 | GM | @jinbojinbo | Jiner Zhu | 2719 | 8 | 70 | |
| 20 | 48 | GM | @frederiksvane | Frederik Svane | 2905 | 8 | 69.5 |
(Full closing standings right here.)
Bortnyk gained the $1,000 first-place prize whereas Andreikin earned the $750 for second. Half of the six gamers on 9 factors had the tiebreaks to enter the highest 5, with FM Reza Mahdavi claiming $350 in third, Andreikin $200 in fourth, and IM Renato Terry $100 in fifth. Zhu additionally gained $100 for her top-20 efficiency.
Titled Cup Standings
Sarana inched nearer to Duda for second place within the Titled Cup standings as GMÂ Hikaru Nakamura‘s lead stays completely protected. Within the girls’s standings, 7.5 factors at the moment are the distinction between first (nonetheless GM Alexandra Kosteniuk) and fourth (IM Karina Ambartsumova) place. And we’ll let you recognize if GM Denis Lazavik, GM Gata Kamsky, and WCM Veronika Shubenkova ever lose their grip on first place for juniors, seniors, and ladies.
Open
| # | Username | Rating | Participant |
| 1 | @Hikaru | 194.5 | GM Hikaru Nakamura |
| 2 | @Polish_fighter3000 | 184.5 | GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda |
| 3 | @mishanick | 182.0 | GM Alexey Sarana |
| 4 | @Jospem | 180.5 | GM Jose Martinez |
| 5-t | @jefferyx | 177.0 | GM Jeffery Xiong |
| 5-t | @wonderfultime | 177.0 | GM Minh Le |
Ladies
| # | Username | Rating | Participant |
| 1 | @ChessQueen | 139.5 | GM Alexandra Kosteniuk |
| 2 | @Goryachkina | 136.0 | GM Aleksandra Goryachkina |
| 3 | @Meri-Arabidze | 134.0 | IM Meri Arabidze |
| 4 | @karinachess1 | 132.0 | IM Karina Ambartsumova |
| 5 | @Fh2411 | 123.5 | IM Le Thao Nguyen Pham |
Different Class Leaders
Juniors: GM Denis Lazavik (174.5 factors)
Seniors: GM Gata Kamsky (164.5 factors)
Ladies: WCM Veronika Shubenkova (108.5 factors)
The Titled Cup fantasy recreation Chess Prophet continues as effectively. Present standings could be discovered right here. (Login required.)
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